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Jon Potter

@rettopnoj.bsky.social
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Australia, UK and USA politics. Mostly bollocks sorry. I killed my Xitter account and you can too.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 8h
all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 16h
It's more about the cumulative effects of Brexit. Every additional layer of friction increases the likelihood people will see a return to the EU as desirable.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 17h
ETIAS will really drive it home if/when that ever starts.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 21h
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 21h
At the very least the UK gov will try to get back the old deal with all its opt-outs, hard to see them not at least trying. That should be good for wasting a few years.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 21h
Still full steam ahead with AUKUS for Marles and Albo though, nothing to see here...
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 23h
AI brain rot is real. People who use it are apparently incapable of seeing how shit it is.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wait until you see the breakfast cereal !
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Australia would never have signed up to the ICC in the first place under the Albo government.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rest assured neoliberal governments the world over will find a way to dismiss this evidence.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I recently discovered that garlic crushers work just as well if you don't peel the cloves first.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They hate Trump but they'd love his voters.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What debate is she talking about? There was no debate, just a pack of lies that were inadequately refuted.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You can't really split the vote with ranked choice voting.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you ever wanted proof that two wrongs don't make a right this is it
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wonder if there are any other countries where half the population hates the other half quite so vehemently as the US.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So in that case there's really only one road 😭
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"fucking hell, not Liz Truss"
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The daily joy of firstiniitiallastname@gmail.com 😞
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think America doesn't really do subtle humour so anyone who realised later that it was meant to be a joke is more likely to blame the jokester for making a bad one.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not a war if only one side is fighting.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Proving that even a broken clock can be right sometimes 🙃
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like it's possible the sun will rise in the east tomorrow
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Surely the answer is "yes, it makes the art bad". How can they even ask that?
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A change in rhetoric would always have to be the first step though.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I at least believe that Burnham genuinely would like the UK to rejoin, which I didn't feel was ever the case with Starmer.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the years I've been following him I've never known Niall to not put himself in the EU's shoes 😂
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No one seems more obsessed with where people come from than the English, so on that basis alone Suella qualifies handsomely.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The manifesto for the next election will be make or break. I don't expect anything substantial to change before that.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Niall isn't talking about the UK joining EFTA, but that there may be the possibility of a bespoke SM deal with EEA as a precedent.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The UK at least is still a democracy
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SCOTUS firing up its rubber stamp
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His comment about maybe going "all the way" was made in an interview after the Conference speech.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surely they can get him some black market Ozempic
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The brain is the first thing that rusts
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which means he didn't mention dropping them...
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could all be a waste of time if it's not done before the next election
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...
broligarchy.substack.com
Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson
A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And Newsweek is set to gullibly report it as if it will actually happen.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"rebuke" yeah that'll show him
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brexit was only necessary because the EU refused to acknowledge how exceptional the UK is 🫠
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Juicin cherry
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's apparently a Labour Party red line to do anything to prevent the slow slide into fascism.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"OpenAI meddled with US government agencies"
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's in the standard lexicon along with "only democracy in the middle east" and "most moral army", there's nothing that can be done I'm sorry
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So where did the wine fridges go!? Surely all Iceland will be discussing this soon 😄
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Radium/cocaine/bols genever concoction
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