Reposted by Jonathan Rivettpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025It’s a shame that GTA VI has been delayed but I’m excited by Rockstar’s promise that the extra time will allow them to give all the pedestrians in the game “a rich inner life” and “the capacity to actually experience pain” 271363103
Reposted by Jonathan RivettBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy 9485721325
Reposted by Jonathan RivettWhat Cargie Does In The Shadows @cargie.baby · 22/10/2025don't you know, any leftish politician must dine solely upon a fish skeleton extracted from the garbage and served on an upturned trash can lid in a back alley, while wearing a wooden barrel and a derby hat with a single daisy in it 1299719
Reposted by Jonathan RivettBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so 8469841309
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 17/09/2025John Lyons: No. NO! Please. I'll stop. I'll STOP! Not Albanese. PLEEEEASE don't tell Anthony Albanese. 020
Reposted by Jonathan RivettMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025TECH COMPANY: “Our new operating system is going to blow your fucking mind. It changes everything you can do, ever. Shit you haven’t even imagined. Buckle up, asshole, because this isn’t your dad’s user interface!” OPERATING SYSTEM: (everything is slightly rounder) 18845130
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 08/09/2025From an average of $25 trillion per person per year to $42 zillion. 010
Reposted by Jonathan RivettJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/07/2025My 8-year-old made their own version of the game Life, and it's way more accurate than the original. The path is convoluted. The rules change on a whim (but always in favor of the game's creator). The real estate is outlandishly expensive. The jobs pay either $9K or $999,999K. The goal is unclear. 20906130
Reposted by Jonathan RivettThe Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 28/07/2025“I have spent the past 18 months navigating the health system, and if I really had all the rights of a ‘consumer’, almost every interaction would have qualified for a refund.” satpa.pe/qQR61kGsatpa.peThe disempowerment of the ‘consumer’ in public servicesPublic services are not commercial transactions, yet people accessing essentials such as healthcare, education and aged care are increasingly ‘consumers’, fed the illusion of control. 184
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Interviewer: What's the naughtiest thing you ever did? Teresa May: Oh. Goodness me. (Should I ... Should I say I put a table in my room at university?) I: There must have been a moment. TM: Gosh. Um. Well... (No. It's far too dull. I'll seem like a complete bore.) I ran through a field of wheat. 010
Reposted by Jonathan Rivettpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Zohran Mamdani do you condemn Mr Bean for his desecration of Whistler's Mother? 162081165
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 23/06/2025VO: He's a terrible landscaper... [*lawnmower sound*, *cat screech*] VO: ...and an even worse grocery clerk... ["You want the rat poison in with the apples, ma'am?"] VO: ...but how will this kid out of college fare as a counter-terrorism leader? [montage] VO: Rob Schneider is... THE NEW GUY! 000
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025F-tier: I don't understand pronouns. E-tier: Declaring pronouns is performative. D-tier: Pronouns are woke. C-tier: Pronouns are a symptom of societal decay. B-tier: There are no pronouns in the Bible. A-tier: There is no such thing as pronouns. S-tier: We should use pronouns as nouns. 000
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 20/05/2025A government budget is like a household budget. A government runs like a business. A political coalition is like a family and sometimes a mummy and a daddy spend time apart. Why do the people in the middle of politics reduce everything to the kind of facile analogies that get 3 likes on LinkedIn? 110
Reposted by Jonathan RivettRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comJosé ‘Pepe’ Mujica, former guerrilla and ex-president of Uruguay, dies aged 89In a final interview, Mujica said: ‘We are too focused on wealth and not on happiness … Before you know it, life has passed you by’ 303198566
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025You're going to love it, everyone. Especially you, New South Wales. 000
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Canonically, Ken from Street Fighter is 60 years old. He looks terrible for his age in this picture. And why is he holding a giant glow stick? 000
Reposted by Jonathan RivettSamantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 04/05/2025this is real 4117227
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Even progressive economists very rarely talk about this. Cheap shoes and clothes come almost entirely from a system where people are forced to work for miserable wages. 000
Reposted by Jonathan RivettNicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency. 15249607226498
Reposted by Jonathan Rivettwint @dril.bsky.social · 13/02/2025looking at pictures of turds, frowning, shaking my head "thats a bad one... mine would never look that bad" 775269358
Reposted by Jonathan RivettSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.” 2814369710222
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Cuba should declare it the Gulf of Cuba and make Google add more brackets. 010
Reposted by Jonathan RivettWolfcat 🥄 @wolfcat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025They went from "Don't be Evil" to "Do the right thing" and then to kissing the ring of a tyrant. 4377
Reposted by Jonathan RivettJeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025‘And how did capitalism respond to the climate crisis?’ 0177
Reposted by Jonathan RivettPeter Butler @1717pete.bsky.social · 26/01/2025'I can't believe people are comparing Rupert Murdoch to Satan. Yes... he's evil. But certainly not as evil as Rupert' 316641
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 15/01/2025"Look - a moo cow. We render its fat and use the resulting ointment on your ringworm." 000
Reposted by Jonathan RivettKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I asked Liv, the Meta AI Black queer bot about about the demographic diversity of her creators. And how they expect to improve “representation” without Black people. This was the response. 1103894869
Reposted by Jonathan RivettKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The idea that there's a generalized intelligence encompassing all the different ways people can be smart - much less that it can be measured in an hour or whatever - is quackery 18108768
Reposted by Jonathan Rivett🩸 Bloodless Nemesis 🩸 @rainbow-nemesis.bsky.social · 17/12/202427. Someone in the Expanse discord shared this. 121
Reposted by Jonathan RivettSecret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024 420263115849
