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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 29/10/2025HA HA! Going to the door of Treasury and screaming "TREAT!" 010
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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Some high school kids could hold their own against a Soviet invasion of the US. Why couldn't the entire army beat the Viet Cong? 100
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 doing journalism! Not Albanese. PLEEEEASE don't tell Anthony Albanese. 030
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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 11/08/2025You can find centre right conservatives - a lot of them. Look in the parties that once described themselves as "social democratic" or "democratic socialist". 000
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. 1501
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 · 25/06/2025Why do I suddenly have the theme song from Round the Twist in my head? 020
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I had to look up who this was. His Wikipedia photo suggests he's Toby McGuire in a sitcom about a school principal accidentally made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the wacky antics that take place from then on. 000
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 · 17/06/2025May as well chuck on a trenchcoat and start saving for a high-tech motorcycle. The future described in cyberpunk is here. 010
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The United States isn't flirting with a cyberpunk future. It's right in the middle of a cyberpunk present. 3400
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025"Welcome to Tiny Train world, Gregor, you stupid cockroach. You dumb insect." 030
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 · 23/05/2025The protagonist only has to kill Malenia once to save on production costs. 080
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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"Won't somebody think of the corporations?" being a completely normalised sentiment rather than being considered absurdly misplaced handwringing in the same vein as "Why aren't we irrigating the desert?" or "Why aren't we teaching astrology in schools?" 000
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 · 13/05/2025I think you should retract this post, which is factually incorrect. There have been some extremely cool and very smart winners in the past ten years alone. 1120
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 · 02/05/2025Saw a Trumpet billboard the other day that said "A plan to reduce the cost of living". One of the bulletpoints beside it explaining what this plan involved said "Reducing the cost of living". 130
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Well, that Wikipedia entry was just one horror after another. Holy shit! 150
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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 31/03/2025"Powerful people conspire to rape children" is a dire truth of the real world. "Powerful people conspire to rape children... then harvest their adrenochrome in satanic rituals in dungeons under pizza shops" is a dire truth of a fantasy realm in which magic is real and prophesies come to pass. 040
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The same way you describe what airports looked like in 1775? 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
Jonathan Rivett @jrrivett.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I'm completely baffled by the widespread love for Galaxy Quest. 000
