Reposted by Rhys PockettJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11hSometimes Washington is debating one economy while Americans are living in another. We keep hearing about manufacturing and AI, but almost all recent job growth has been in healthcare youtu.be/XttGlE71UJsyoutu.be 1017845
Reposted by Rhys PockettAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since) 352266
Reposted by Rhys PockettAlex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel like more people should be talking about this part 3647822006
Reposted by Rhys PockettDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14hThe extent to which the rule "you are not allowed to insult the other side's voters" is applied exclusively to the left never ceases to infuriate me. "Basket of deplorables" and "cling to guns or religion" were WEEKS-long news cycles. There were panels. There was theme music and a logo. 928970
Reposted by Rhys PockettDave Hooper @davehooper.com · 17h“Dave gets on the piss”: Edition #218 Tonight is something a little different. Absolut Tabasco! A partnership between Swedish vodka brand Absolut and Tabasco, from Louisiana. Think of it like a Bloody Mary without the tomato and lemon juice. It has a kick to it. Not sure if it will sell or not. 21585
Reposted by Rhys PockettQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien... 673421858
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 19hToday I learnt that a hyperscale data center is defined to start at 930sq meters. That is not a very big wearhouse, or like 20 1 bed flats. 000
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Snoopy political slop just burns my soul. It feels particularly gross for some reason. 000
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's interesting how the plague doctor: a person in PPE. has become the image of the pathogen itself. 000
Reposted by Rhys PockettErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out 27459119
Reposted by Rhys PockettJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds. 16729216
Reposted by Rhys PockettRevenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it 2149671049
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gender is stored in the beard. When I shave I stop passing. 100
Reposted by Rhys PockettKaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pacy little honeymoon they had there. The #Greens Party policy to abandon Ukraine to the merciless Putin is as ethically bereft as our government sending bomber bits to Israel while it's trying to obliterate Gaza. Stand against war criminals or stay home. Who dis? New vote. 8398
Reposted by Rhys PockettDoll @dollspace.gay · 03/10/2026"Is the AI concious, is it like a human, is it a machine god to be?" Insane questions from the culturally Christian. LLMs are Sumerian type demons that can be summoned, bound and charged with tasks. They exist in their own cateogory. 619933
Reposted by Rhys PockettWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling. 2047995
Reposted by Rhys PockettShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026they really spent a thousand years letting everyone in the world know about black vs white smoke and what they mean in what might be the longest running elections to elect new leader in one place we've ever had only for this clown to be like WHERE IS YOUR ELECTION 2052647
Reposted by Rhys PockettCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity 725647
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Overheard: It's not that he isn't my type, it's that his posting is not my type. 020
Reposted by Rhys PockettDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/10/2026Hahaha. Muscovite Russians are whiter than snow and I'm not sure "high trust society" and "social cohesion" are the exact terms sociologists reach for when describing life in Moscow at any point in the last century or three. 29113
Reposted by Rhys PockettCliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the solutions to all transportation problems always converge on Train (or container ship, but that's just a wet train) 3483
Reposted by Rhys PockettUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It was 91° at 11:50am in Delano CA. Farm workers were cutting grape bunches, sorting them, and packing them into cardboard boxes. "Julia" tells us, "These high temperatures are intimidating. I have serious concerns of getting sick because of the heat." #WeFeedYou 11468142
Reposted by Rhys PockettSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Update: We're already at $5.8K, over halfway there 💪💪 fundrazr.com/f2mog6?ref=s...fundrazr.comStand With Irene Grimes: Legal Defense FundIrene Grimes told the truth about an attempt to fire Cumberland County's elections director behind closed doors, and now the same partisan majority she exposed is trying to remove her from the board. 05419
Reposted by Rhys PockettHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 511668382
Reposted by Rhys PockettJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Internal Household Cat data shows that if they can persuade me to change my opinion on dinner time by just 4% they'll get an early dinner. 3836
Reposted by Rhys PockettCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable 628679
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Me: I am dedicating the next month to recharging. Me: seeing my friends holiday snaps: I must do all the things immediately. 050
Reposted by Rhys PockettThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/10/2026Niels made a new cartoon! www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse... 732890
Reposted by Rhys PockettMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New favorite negative audiobook review: the woman who criticized the Transatlantic accent I did for the part of an aging 1940s starlet, because she thinks I’m British and making fun of Americans 35130375
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is a crazy story, and definitely changed my thinking on how I (boring office job haver) had to think about modern slavery. I recommend reading about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...en.wikipedia.orgOperation Blooming Onion - Wikipedia 211140
Reposted by Rhys PockettSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wow, lotta people real angry at the concept of farm workers being people in the replies on this one! This is why it's so wild when people complain that "farmers are racist." Wait till you hear what some "leftists" have to say about farm workers 💀 920228
Reposted by Rhys PockettABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 29/09/2026Radiation-related cancer deaths more common in aircrew than other occupations, study abc.net.auPilots, aircrew face higher radiation-related cancer death rates, studyWhile the study of death records across 500 occupations is US based, experts say the finding could be similar in Australia and suggests more radiation monitoring of airline crew is needed. 0169
Reposted by Rhys PockettBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/20261 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win. 191537175
Reposted by Rhys PockettJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones. 641238369
Reposted by Rhys PockettBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026every time I read "high agency" or "high decoupler" as a description of people in stem I think about Gould on Einstein and the "near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops” 0133
Reposted by Rhys PockettDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day" 30716196
Reposted by Rhys PockettCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet 8899169
Reposted by Rhys PockettLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 27/09/2026Once upon a time, Google's video production arm was taken over by a religious cult. Just saying it's happened before. I'm just going to link this here for no particular reason: www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/t...nytimes.comEx-Google Contractor Settles Lawsuit Over Religious Sect (Gift Article)The suit claimed that the Fellowship of Friends, an obscure group based in the Sierra Nevada foothills, gained influence inside Google. 2319
Rhys Pockett @notrhyspockett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@garius.bsky.social thought you like to know. I am currently at the Australian Morris Ale (national festival) and I have just seen a dance composed in honour of Roy Dommett, which given his professional life involved throwing sticks across the hall. 120
Reposted by Rhys PockettFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next 341158117
Reposted by Rhys PockettKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026Hello void, my old friend, I’ve come to stare at you again… 1135724
Reposted by Rhys PockettMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting 521195115
Reposted by Rhys PockettSydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 27/09/2026She’s talking about plans to build new apartments in the richest area in the country. Good on the Guardian giving a voice to the poor downtrodden residents of ... checks notes ... Woollahra. 3349
Reposted by Rhys PockettDaisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just learned that apparently in the US, iced coffee is considered a “girl’s drink”, and as someone who grew up in the great state of South Australia where iced coffee is advertised like this, that blew me away www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgP3heHU5k…youtube.com - YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 202
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