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

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Luca Neukom @padpalon.ch · Nov 10
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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cedricwermuth.bsky.social
Die Kampagne gegen UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese ist absurd. Diese Regierung versuchen ihre Mitschuld an Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermord zu kaschieren. Darum gehts.👇
schweiz.amnesty.ch Amnesty Schweiz @schweiz.amnesty.ch · 9h
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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kennylogins.bsky.social
Kendra "Kenny" The Kid @kendrawcandraw Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh oouuuuwwwwaaaaaa ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah 3:52 PM • 2022-02-27
December 8, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
They taught Al how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the Al was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren't
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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eppofrog.bsky.social
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
padpalon.ch
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
bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 1d
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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brosina91.bsky.social
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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danaterrace.bsky.social
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.
The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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sadmazov.bsky.social
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
polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d
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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chas.bsky.social
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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transnews.network
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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brunodias.bsky.social
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
padpalon.ch
A competent military IT decision, in this country?

I am genuinely astonished!
I didn't that was a thing we could do!
eddwilson.bsky.social Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 3d
"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
padpalon.ch
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
jonbois.bsky.social Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3d
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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eppofrog.bsky.social
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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tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social
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.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 4d
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)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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katzish.bsky.social
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”
lataco.bsky.social L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 4d
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
padpalon.ch
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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marykgames.com
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
weeder.bsky.social weeder @weeder.bsky.social · Aug 8
*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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lilahsturges.com
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.
preternia.com preternia @ toy fair @preternia.com · 4d
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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badsquiddogames.bsky.social
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
flyer for bad squiddo games - five minis of different eras or genres, web link (www.badsquiddogames.com) "passionate and specialist manufacturers of 28mm femme miniatures" minis all by bad squiddo, sculpted by Shane Hoyle and Alan Marsh. Painted by John Morris, Andrew Taylor and Paul Cubbin Backdrop by Handiwork Games
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
the chairs on voyager look like the among us guy. thank you
a chair from star trek voyager. looks like the among us guy
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
padpalon.ch
No clue how I ended up nestled up in here, and I know no one near me, but a cool project nevertheless!
A screenshot of https://bluesky-map.theo.io/, showing the position of my account
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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theo.io
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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drstevenhobbs.bsky.social
Whoa Black Betty
Two contestants names Randle and Lamb
February 8, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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joadsprocket.bsky.social
Never Forget
A tweet from @ futurevictim_ that reads "the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard"
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM