Luca Neukom
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Luca Neukom
@padpalon.ch
Musician, software engineer, metalhead, gamer (video and tabletop)

https://linktr.ee/padpalon
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Hi, I'm Pad. I'm a musician (metal and synthesizers mostly) and professional software engineer.

I'm also interested in:
- Lefty politics
- All kinds of tabletop games
- Building and painting tabletop minis
- Video games, playing and developing
- Concerts
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Die Kampagne gegen UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese ist absurd. Diese Regierung versuchen ihre Mitschuld an Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermord zu kaschieren. Darum gehts.👇
Amnesty International verurteilt die Angriffe auf Uno-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese durch die Aussenminister*innen von Österreich, Deutschland, Frankreich, Tschechien und Italien.
Wir fordern diese auf, ihre fehlgeleiteten Kommentare zurückzuziehen.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
European states must retract outrageous attacks on Francesca Albanese
They should publicly apologize and retract calls for her resignation
www.amnesty.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Shouldn't have slept on Ender Lilies so long. Genuinely beautiful visuals and music. I love the personification of your abilities. Beat the true ending earlier today. Can't wait to get my mitts on Ender Magnolia next 🤌
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
jfc I keep taking psychic damage whenever I get exposed to Musks "iNtElLiGeNcE"

this mf shit for brains asshole keeps singlehandedly proving that wealth and influence is VERY MUCH not tied to competency
The owner of xAI predicts a future where machine learning operates in binary directly, strikingly similar to how it did in 1959 when it was invented and routinely thereafter.
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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For my MA, I want to enquire about unnecessary, annoying, and maybe even hostile design choices you have encountered in your life as a person living in a digital age.
Please give me your 5 minute insight:

forms.gle/x9bQhL8jLeZF...
Unnecessary digital design / unnötiges digitales Design
Hello and thanks for taking part in this short (5 min) assessment. My name is Rosina and I‘m currently studying for my MA in Digital Ideation. For my thesis, I want to enquire about unnecessary, annoy...
forms.gle
February 12, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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I am pro worker, pro union, pro maker, pro artist. I am anti boss, anti Nazi, anti fascist, anti billionaire, anti oligarch. I believe in reading, writing, education. I don’t believe in a robot voice coaxing you to kill yourself. So yeah, I guess I don’t want ChatGPT to write a fucking email for me
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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If you're going to talk about "AI hype" as an actual position that might be right or wrong you have to be specific about what you think "AI hype" is, which claims you think may or may not be valid. Because the people hyping AI are often engaged in a rhetorical running battle.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
A competent military IT decision, in this country?

I am genuinely astonished!
I didn't that was a thing we could do!
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today
Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
www.newscase.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Ever seen a GenAI chatbot tap its foot when you stop feeding it inputs? Exactly

That's because those horrid things do not have souls
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Sure there's alternatives, but if less than 100% of my friend group make the jump it's just gonna be that little bit harder to keep in touch with people.
February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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This post is going viral, but this isn't walking back. It's reiterating the initial press release. There's no new information in this post, aside from them saying they're using a different ID partner (which doesn't solve that problem) and the Reddit joke. Everything else is the same. Keep pushing.
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
First blog post of the year! Have a look at some videos I liked in the last few months

padpalon.github.io/favourites/2...
New Year, New Videos
Surely it hasn’t been three months since the last post. Surely we haven’t entered a whole new year already. Well, at least I have plenty of videos to share with you!
padpalon.github.io
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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A therapist once told me I have an “overdeveloped sense of justice” and lemme tell ya, not a great era to have maxed out that character stat
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.
Hasbro and Warner Bros. Discovery have signed a multi-year deal starting in 2027 to produce Harry Potter film and television series dolls, role play, action figures, collectibles, interactive plush, board games, and more to be revealed later this year - bwnews.pr/45UKdKL
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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It's my birthday so by law you have to at least visit the shop and go "wow what a good girl you did this all by yourself" & some local bylaws demand a purchase. I don't make these laws!

Thanks for all your support, younger me would be SO HYPED for today me <3

www.badsquiddogames.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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the chairs on voyager look like the among us guy. thank you
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
No clue how I ended up nestled up in here, and I know no one near me, but a cool project nevertheless!
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Whoa Black Betty
February 8, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Never Forget
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM