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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have a modest proposal, or five. 1] ban all donations to central political party funds. 2] only allow donations to local party funds if 3] you are a proven elector in the constituency where you're donating 4] have demonstrably lived - not owned a property - lived: for more than five years.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Customer Friction 1010: Send me an email telling me to log in to your customer portal to read the message you want me to read about your message delivery system. Fail 1010.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

To my more techie folks: do you know of a UK only or British only open source software license? If so, where might I find a copy. I am NOT interested in the Crown Open Giovernment License or anything remotely equivalent. TIA.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind. I've been called a nazi appeaser for saying that Substack should not be boycotted just because they allow some nasty people to publish there. Isn't it strange how the tactics of Der Sturmer are now being used by the Anti-Nazi vox populi.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am currently working on the design of a piece of platform-neutral software which I am currently calling "The Self Record" - it's intended as a tool to help patients in their interactions with clinical staff: GPs, practice nurses, hospital clinics and the like.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You've won or inherited a vast sum of money £/$ circa 200 million or more. Your own and immediate family's needs are taken care of forever. There's still a very significant sum left over. What will you do with it? Postcards below please.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“.. Despite all this government backing, Oracle’s stock price has been on a wild round trip to nowhere .. “.. S&P Global Ratings downgraded the .. debt to one level above junk, and the threat of a Moody’s Ratings cut looms.” @markgongloff.bsky.social $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trump wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino to become the next UN secretary-general, the NYP reports. He believes Infantino's global reputation and experience leading FIFA make him a strong candidate to replace António Guterres.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Can we stop now. The better team won despite all attempts to prevent that happening. So now the US part in proceedings can end and we can all ignore Trance interventions.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is it time for the UK FA to leave FIFA?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In the UK, a top figure in the decision to award a massive contract to Peter Thiel's Palantir had an undisclosed history of working for Palantir. Inquiries have now established this as a consistent pattern surrounding Palantir's public contracts. Corruption is the company's operating mode.

ft.com

Top official recuses herself from NHS Palantir contract decision after business links

MPs had raised concerns over Samantha Jones’s previous consulting work

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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Don't know what's the deeper ponder - that the BBC has been on longwave for over a hundred years, or that I've been listening for comfortably more than half of that.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How different thinking about batteries is undermining all the major EV brands outside China. substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

Why BYD never gave up on the battery everyone wrote off

A 20-year bet that now runs the company

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That’s how you do it! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @MayorofLondon

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I recently had an email from @octopus.energy claiming that "As a company we pride ourselves on outrageously good service" Their customer service is complete useless; it's dysfunctional and actively damaging. As a business they have also defamed me to third parties and attempted to commit fraud.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is one of the most catastrophically stupid proposals I've seen since BoJo "floated" the Garden Bridge idea at a significant cost to Londoners. Please do register your objections wherever and whenever you can. Please do share widely. www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-bui...

greaterlondon.co

How to build a street bridge

Could London's bridges pay for themselves?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2026

In case you missed this... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Neil deGrasse Tyson: Give Us the Aliens

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is UK specific. If you were offered an app for your phone/tablet/desktop to help you record and manage your health status and assist with your interactions with clinical staff what would you want that app to do? What should it record? What should it ignore? What functions should it have?

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Jeep Doy. Deer idiot @octopus.energy - you've notified a debt collection agency of a debt you've fraudulently claimed from me. If I discover that you have also notified any credit reference agencies then - to use an old expression - you're up shit creek without a paddle.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@octopus.energy Your mail servers are rejecting inbound email. Checking MX servers listed for hello@octopus.energy. Connecting to eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com [91.220.42.201] on port 25.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The King's Speech is a curate's egg. Water companies not taken into public ownership. NHS single patient record proposal badly flawed. Digital ID badly flawed. No mention of SMR/MSR R&D and/or support for development. No mention of advanced materials research such as borophene and/or silconene.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

More than 45 years ago a friend who had been a local councillor in Peterborough complained bitterly that central Government was building trouble for itself and the nation by failing to take note of local authorities which felt swamped by EU labour arriving to do jobs that Brits wouldn't do.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Octopussyness - or; how an energy supplier can fuck you over. For reasons I was unable to have a smart energy meter fitted to our gas supply until quite recently. Thus over the last few years we have had to give Octopus a manual reading every month or so. 1/6

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Do you carry any kind of medical alert card or device or wristband to inform clinicians of your treatments allergies and intolerances in the event of a medical emergency where you can't speak for yourself?

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We're calling on all plant-lovers to take images of wonderful wildflowers this summer & enter them in our Botanical Photographer of the Year competition! There are 5 categories and (new for 2026) we are introducing a separate award for young photographers. Find out more: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

A child, silhouetted against the late afternoon sun in Cambridgeshire, blows seed of Great Reedmace into the air. Image by Edward Burden

A single flower of Grass-of-Parnassus is seen in a black and white close-up shot. Image taken in Morayshire by Catriona Matheson

A botanist wades into a loch in Aberdeenshire to survey aquatic plants such as water-lilies. He is holding an orange bathyscope to help him see plants underwater. Image taken by Ian Strachan.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

One of the seminal science fiction novels of the late twentieth century was Marge Piercy's "Body of Glass". It prefgures issues that are now coming into sharp focus. I haven't read it again since the mid 1990s. I wanted to read it. It's not in digital format and appears to be out of print.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If the European allies - the Coalition of the Willing - decided to block the Sea of Marmara and the Denmark Straits to all Russian shipping what do we suppose the fallout might be? And why have we not already done this?

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

@cstross.bsky.social I suspect this one's right up your street.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I suspect that there are Constituency Labour Parties who are fed up with central office control, especially the parachuting in of unwanted candidates to oust preferred locals. I would not be surprised to find Constituency Parties resigning the Labour Party and putting their own candidates forward.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Legislative Proposal: that all "smart" glasses must by law display a sign on the outside of their lenses. "I am a dork and these are filming you!"

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What will you do and how well will you survive when the AI Bubble explodes and global stock markets crash?

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Here's a suggestion for BlueSky. Use AI to tell us which post{s} a person liked well enough to follow us.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Someone in another place said "My religion is science and facts!" I replied "That's not science and that's not how facts [data] work. That's scientism!" And got told in reply that I was belittling and demeaning the author and their statement. By an author who has no science training. Ah well!

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Gender issues seem to me to generate vast amounts of toxic anger and near violence as well as triggering cancel type responses. I wonder to what extent we might reduce the anger and threat by reintroducing terms into English that were abandoned centuries ago; terms like bæddel and bædling

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Crucifiction time is here again. Roll out the barrel of fertiliser. Let's all have some fun. Passs this on. Make sure the companies get hit with every single bit of bad publicity we can muster. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

UK's biggest environmental pollution claim reaches High Court

One of the UK's largest chicken producers and a water company accused of polluting three rivers including the River Wye

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@EDF really are a wunch of bankers. I switched supplier at end December. Closing balance from EDF arrived in late March. I paid shortly thereafter. But EDF had closed the account and thus they "lost" my payment. So now they are insisting that I still owe them money.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

BREAKING 132 Leading Public Figures Risk Terrorism Charges with Letter to the Court of Appeal. The letter is now open for public signatories via the Defend Our Juries website. View & Sign the letter here: www.defendourjuries.net/open-letter Press Release: defendourjuries.net/press-releas...

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Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sir Oliver “Olly” Robbins is a clever, well-informed person. He’s also ambitious & diligent. Sir Keir Starmer & his team now have a potentially highly dangerous enemy. Not because Sir Oliver wants revenge (though he might) but because of the facts of the Mandelson case. A long 🧵. Have a cuppa! /1.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Well done BS, yet again your chosen age verifier service [KWS] has "lost" or mislaid all of my emails about bad coding and poor security in their online age checking process. But of _course_ this isn't your fault or your responsibility. No, I can't verify my age yet. Upfucks by wuckfits.

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Robert Neuschul @rneuschul.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I think it's time we all joined a naval blockade campaign. We want US aid to block the Denmark Straits and the Sea of Marmara to all Russian vessels but, since the US is busy elsewhere, we'll start on our own and wait for the US to catch up. As usual.

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