Dr Neil & Mr Price
@drneil.bsky.social
From the banks of the Ōreti to the mighty Yarra.
Surgeon for little people. Educator for big people. Inventor of the elder-flower martini. Standing in authentic wonder...
He/Him.
Some of these bleets don’t even reflect my own opinions...
Surgeon for little people. Educator for big people. Inventor of the elder-flower martini. Standing in authentic wonder...
He/Him.
Some of these bleets don’t even reflect my own opinions...
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Dr Neil & Mr Price
@drneil.bsky.social
· Sep 25
“Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.”
-John Donne
For I am involved in mankind.”
-John Donne
There once was a project, Manhattan
The nerds made a bomb big as Saturn
When they saw the big blast
They stood there, aghast
The bed of humanity they had shat in
The nerds made a bomb big as Saturn
When they saw the big blast
They stood there, aghast
The bed of humanity they had shat in
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There once was a project, Manhattan
The nerds made a bomb big as Saturn
When they saw the big blast
They stood there, aghast
The bed of humanity they had shat in
The nerds made a bomb big as Saturn
When they saw the big blast
They stood there, aghast
The bed of humanity they had shat in
Plethora
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Plethora
The crazy thing is it’s been 9 years since the first one and the main characters don’t look to have aged a day!
about to see Zootopia 2
I have not seen Zootopia 1
lessgo
I have not seen Zootopia 1
lessgo
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The crazy thing is it’s been 9 years since the first one and the main characters don’t look to have aged a day!
I could be writing or, hear me out, I could plan my December/advent Christmas movie watching with matched cocktails…
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I could be writing or, hear me out, I could plan my December/advent Christmas movie watching with matched cocktails…
but at least he's paying a lot of tax, right?
<anakin padme meme>
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It’s hard to imagine the vast fortune that is Elon’s net worth currently estimated at $476.4billion or £360billion. If it helps, someone on an average salary who wanted to save up this much would have to had started saving in the Miocene epoch 12 million years ago. (assuming they saved every penny)
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
but at least he's paying a lot of tax, right?
<anakin padme meme>
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The use of technology to perpetrate violence against women is a rapidly growing problem, Australian research shows.
Amanda's husband seemed able to read her mind. Then she learned why
Amanda's husband always seemed to just know things. When fiddling around with her social media settings, she discovered how he had been using technology to gaslight her.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The use of technology to perpetrate violence against women is a rapidly growing problem, Australian research shows.
Who not up squandering they potential?
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Who not up squandering they potential?
Pluribus (2025)
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Pluribus (2025)
It’s the factor fexcectorn that’ll get you in the end, no-one can escape it
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s the factor fexcectorn that’ll get you in the end, no-one can escape it
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen (heard? attended?):
Dartz
Markdown
Epsom Girls Grammar Orchestra
Northcote Kindergarten (Xmas special)
Sydney Primary Schools Combined Choir (at the Sydney Opera house)
Dartz
Markdown
Epsom Girls Grammar Orchestra
Northcote Kindergarten (Xmas special)
Sydney Primary Schools Combined Choir (at the Sydney Opera house)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Bic Runga
Neil Finn, Eddie Veder, Johnny Marr etc (7 worlds collide)
Robbie Williams and Duran Duran
Incubus and Creed
Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil
Bic Runga
Neil Finn, Eddie Veder, Johnny Marr etc (7 worlds collide)
Robbie Williams and Duran Duran
Incubus and Creed
Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Stone Roses
Pixies
New Order
Prodigy
Super Furry Animals
Stone Roses
Pixies
New Order
Prodigy
Super Furry Animals
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen (heard? attended?):
Dartz
Markdown
Epsom Girls Grammar Orchestra
Northcote Kindergarten (Xmas special)
Sydney Primary Schools Combined Choir (at the Sydney Opera house)
Dartz
Markdown
Epsom Girls Grammar Orchestra
Northcote Kindergarten (Xmas special)
Sydney Primary Schools Combined Choir (at the Sydney Opera house)
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They're not evangelists, they are certainly not experts, they're nothing but the increasingly standard blend of con men and dodgy salesmen.
So why do we afford them so much uncritical coverage, why do we allow them to lobby and advise governments, and why do we let them write their own policies?
So why do we afford them so much uncritical coverage, why do we allow them to lobby and advise governments, and why do we let them write their own policies?
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
They're not evangelists, they are certainly not experts, they're nothing but the increasingly standard blend of con men and dodgy salesmen.
So why do we afford them so much uncritical coverage, why do we allow them to lobby and advise governments, and why do we let them write their own policies?
So why do we afford them so much uncritical coverage, why do we allow them to lobby and advise governments, and why do we let them write their own policies?
Some of you may be surprised to learn this is now a Muppets original. I recommend you check out the OG by Piero Umiliani on your favourite streaming service
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Some of you may be surprised to learn this is now a Muppets original. I recommend you check out the OG by Piero Umiliani on your favourite streaming service
Thank god it’s a US holiday no news will happen and I might be able to get something done!
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thank god it’s a US holiday no news will happen and I might be able to get something done!
Personally I don’t think should air dirty laundry at all (wash it, please) but if you have to I really think it should be done in private
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Personally I don’t think should air dirty laundry at all (wash it, please) but if you have to I really think it should be done in private
Update bio
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Update bio
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When I grow up, I’d like to be as smart & considered as Dame Anne Salmond.
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...
Anne Salmond: We're reforming the wrong part of government
Coalition Govt ministers insist their reform of regional councils is 'not a power grab' - but all the evidence suggests the opposite, to democracy's detriment
newsroom.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When I grow up, I’d like to be as smart & considered as Dame Anne Salmond.
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...
The cool think about Bluesky is that if you post something serious someone will riff of it and (try) to make an hilarious joke, but if you shit post someone will treat it like you’ve nailed your Theses on a cathedral door
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The cool think about Bluesky is that if you post something serious someone will riff of it and (try) to make an hilarious joke, but if you shit post someone will treat it like you’ve nailed your Theses on a cathedral door
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
CW: Christmas
4 weeks to go!
4 weeks to go!
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
CW: Christmas
4 weeks to go!
4 weeks to go!
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
So, she’s an evil zealot rather than an evil grifter…I had wondered.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
So, she’s an evil zealot rather than an evil grifter…I had wondered.
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
I so often think these people must be just doing a bit… please tell me they are just doing a bit…
….please
….please
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I so often think these people must be just doing a bit… please tell me they are just doing a bit…
….please
….please