Reposted by Dr NeutopiaMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 1hthe tech industry is about to invent books 24977761581
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaNick @nickehbee.bsky.social · 7hThe way these people view university is so dispiriting. Half of, if not more than, the point of going to university is growing, meeting new people, finding out what you like! It can be totally worth it even if your degree isn't directly useful for your future career! 13510
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 312858623
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 7hThis but greyhounds instead of candles 28522
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 7hJeffrey Archer realising he will win a lot of money but only by watching a weird old judge continually bonk himself with his horny gavel.static.klipy.comLarry David's Indecisive 'I Don't Know' ExpressionAlt: Larry David's Indecisive 'I Don't Know' Expression 030
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 11hRIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time 1619263
Reposted by Dr Neutopiaelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10hi remember there was a point in college where i had finally learned enough of the basics of the philosophies the nazis appropriated to be like "ooooh, wait, nazi ideology is just a dog's breakfast of stupid bullshit" which helped me understand "yeah, that's the point!" 315117
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 7h"She was privately educated, boarding at her mother's old school in Dorset from the age of ten, and then attending St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith for sixth form." The cost to educate her to 18 years old was roughly £450K in 2026 terms. 0183
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7hArcher’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999. 23886282
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaDerek Hollingsworth @derekholly7.bsky.social · 12hThe legends of the werewolves of Ossory emerged from an Ireland where wolves roamed & wilderness boundaried civilisation. Ireland was seen as a place on the edge of the world. 🌳 🐺 My latest article 'The Wolf, the Werewolf, & the Wilderness in Medieval Ireland'. Link in comments. 23013
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaSamhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 7hAt the cinema to see The Social Reckoning, which is almost certainly the only film I’ll see this year about a prominent Waterford resident and his litany of weird opinions 1183
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 8hNorway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05arstechnica.visitlink.meAI glasses face their first major government crackdownNorway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders. 19633203
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJason Roche @jasonroche.bsky.social · 8hI'm hoping this is the catalyst for the pivot to satanic death metal. 072
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 8hAn IT grad I know was at the Graduate Jobs Fair at the RDS today, and there are basically no IT jobs at it. In the last few days, two colleagues with decades in the industry had their Jobseekers run out. 0174
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11hReform UK’s Councillor Thomas Murray is Mayor of Scarborough and Chair of Scarborough Town Council. This is the sort of stuff he’s posting on social. 219047
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous. 1266098
Reposted by Dr Neutopiajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12hi’m still chuckling about this. imagine being a pair of professional shitstains and then crying like this in public about a joke at your expense 1434055252
Reposted by Dr Neutopiazenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup. 271801441
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15hTaking solace in the new George Smiley casting with the idea that maybe one day I, a similarly tubby and unprepossessing character, might one day be played by the handsome and urbane Matthew Macfadyen. 36614
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026In 2010, I sat in on a patrol brief for a BCT in eastern Afghanistan that claimed “pashtunwali revenge” was responsible for why they faced so much violence. When I asked him to remind me why we were in Afghanistan in the first place, the colonel got frustrated and asked me to wait for them outside. 49824
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaAndrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You see Joshua, they have a “tribal” culture where honor is important. So when you bust through their front door at night in full battle rattle and line up their family against the wall, they become angry. 2222
Reposted by Dr Neutopiadpa news agency @dpa-intl.com · 16h#BREAKING August Hanning, the former head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence service, has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, sources tell dpa 713857
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSAtheguardian.comAccept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam AltmanBoss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver 262034790
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaNaadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 05/10/2026And if I were the former right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party disgusted with antisemitism then I would not take up a role as Senior Vice President at Palantir, but I'm simple of mind incapable of sensible thought processes that justify this. 03011
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Establishment democrats are laser focused on doing the absolute least they can get away with, and that's why they're such a frustrating party to have to rely on. 4407
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 17hOh it's great that not only has my salary being reduced by 2/3rds this year due to the AIpocalypse, but the government also thinks I'm too poor to need help. 2205
Reposted by Dr Neutopiaflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Put it this way: if the Greens, Kneecap and Gary Lineker are prompting enraged all-channels screaming fury but e.g. an army seizing, depopulating and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon of its racially undesirable populace doesn’t make anyone blink, then I am going to conclude - bullshit 329059
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaLF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We've had a run of sad losses lately, so it's good of Jeffrey Archer to cheer us up. 38813
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not only was Jeffrey Archer a perjurer, insider trader, thief, plagiariser, coup financer and racist, it’s important to remember he was also a shit novelist Read all about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...en.wikipedia.orgJeffrey Archer - Wikipedia 1324248
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaEuan @euan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the German Greens didn’t even support a ceasefire in Gaza btw 4669
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it. 171756405
Reposted by Dr Neutopiaflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18hFor clarity: I think this was an obviously bad and stupid idea but on the other, we do actually need to face up to what successive governments have done and continue to do, and the public should not have to put up with a media class filled with hate who lie, defame and destroy as a matter of course. 814328
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026a play in four acts 24872118
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He'd quoted Gladstone as saying "whenever the Irish question looks like it's going to be solved... the Irish change the question." A boy called Slater raised his hand and politely pointed out that it wasn't Gladstone but a line from 1066 and All That and Archer completely and embarrassingly lost it 642046
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 17hA mystery why Draghi is pushing a billionaire techbro agenda. 086
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 18hAll these people slept like babies when their then pleader agreed that a war crime could be inflicted on Palestinian civilians. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...ihl-databases.icrc.org 000
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 18hAll these people slept like babies when their then leader agreed that a war crime could be inflicted on Palestinian civilians. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...ihl-databases.icrc.org 031
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/courthousenews.comLula seeks probe into possible US election interferenceLula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court. 441195597
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There’s a male loneliness crisis - god forbid a man has hobbies! (of setting off a bomb in a residential area) 0468
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1911840694
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 05/10/2026Let's not linger on past suicides. Our best suicides are in front of us. 315149
Reposted by Dr Neutopiaflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Shameful: Britain is no longer worthy of helping the American government commit the most serious war crimes. How can we prove to (checks notes) uh, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth that we can be trusted to (squints at notes) assist in the commission of crimes against humanity 2220059
Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Interesting thread on DevelEire about Stripe; seems to be an absolutely toxic place to work. www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/...reddit.comFrom the DevelEire community on RedditExplore this post and more from the DevelEire community 4176
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026you ever see a take that just blanks your entire consciousness for a second 1621120
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaGil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...nytimes.comInside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates. 2351473396
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10388862778
Reposted by Dr NeutopiaMatt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just imagining someone going into one of those restaurants that use AI-generated pictures of the food and accusing them of false advertising. "Excuse me, I ordered the pus-filled boils with worms, this is just a regular hamburger." 1101