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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RentaThugs are cheap to hire, and there are - let's say - a number of interest groups willing to hire them.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wondering how many of these people are British and how many are visitors from certain other countries.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There's still the choice of *what* to work on. And why. The threshold will likely be when machines start making those choices and following their own research schedules. Having specific micro-problems solved remains useful but less interesting.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@jesseduquette.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The BoD are essentially Tories (etc) who happen to be Jewish, not vice versa.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"Why and how is this happening to someone like me?"

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And who's playing Epstein's role today.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

He's always been a wrong-un in business, so not surprised it's also true of his personal life. I was more surprised when Melinda married him.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Plot twist: they did it deliberately because they needed to go up a gear.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It doesn't make the headlines because the people who own the headlines don't want to legitimise "The President is nuts" as a narrative. The worst thing about this presidency isn't Trump. It's the way media owners are collaborating to normalise the horror of it all.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It's classic oppositional left - perpetually protesting and being against something or other, salami-slicing factional purity, and being hopeless at organising collaborative action. Solidarity isn't just a word. It's supposed to mean something practical.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It's not even his idea. It's been knocking around in fiction since at least the 2000s.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The point is to tank Labour support and give Farage the keys to Number 10. When that's more or less guaranteed, Starmer will resign and call a snap election. Pundits like you will be terribly, terribly surprised by this.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Superconductingplay Taylor Superluminal Meghan Thee Laminarflowion

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

If he wanted to fix the problem he would bring the BBC to heel, and stop legitimising Farage talking points. He's on board with the project. He was trojan-horsed into the remains of Labour to do exactly this, and he showed his colours almost from Day 0. There's no point expecting better.

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Jack Churchill's Arrow @churchillsarrow.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Techbro capitalism has turned into an approximation of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Diseased of mind, utterly immoral, barely coherent and entirely consumed by malice.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The West is being run with Soviet levels of media gaslighting and narrative engineering. To an extent it always has been, but being able to track media narratives as they're created and promoted makes it more obvious than it used to be.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

You don't attract the Trump voters. You make them so disgusted and disappointed with their own side they stay at home. Right now, that is very, very easy in the US.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It's not just $15tn, it's the political, economic, and ecological costs and distortions that go with that... the power games, the sociopathy, the violence, lies, and the reek of corruption.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Some do. Most don't care. There are very few authors and artists making a "good living" in general. All of the people I know who are doing it with AI were already doing it successfully without AI. AI has made it easier and faster, but it is very much *not* about single-shotting a novel.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I know authors who are making a good living from AI-generated books, although mostly - not always - with some hand-editing. I know artists who are making a good living selling AI art. It's not top-quality work. But it isn't trying to be, and doesn't need to be.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Tom Clancy's The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The people who brought everyone Brexit own the media and most of the politicians. They're being promoted because they want everyone in the country cowering in terror of a fascist government wile corporate interests steal everything that isn't nailed down.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

2030 *at the absolute latest*.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

You mean it never conquered the commanding heights of the UK's non-dom billionaire-owned fascist media, which includes faux-pogressive outlets like the Guardian. Shall we try to guess why they didn't want to pay more tax and give the little people more money? It's a mystery, isn't it?

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The current "madness" reflects the attitudes of the billionaires and aristocrats who are funding and promoting the far right. They want no taxes, and both economic and racial hierarchy. It's only "madness" if you ignore that these people have always been like this, throughout British history.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A key trick of right-wing grift is framing issues as "protect your kids from people not like you." It's not about facts. It's about framing scientists as condescending, corrupt, and dangerous, and anti-vaxxers as brave freedom fighters - identity politics amplified by powerful emotional triggers.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I've always believed the Halting Problem is just a trust issue.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Even more about the people who own British politicians.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It's been a huge success for the 0.1% of the population who run the country as their personal plantation.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

That's because they act as if they forget everyone else is human too. How many people were sobbing in private because of the PIP debacle ? Do they matter less because they're not famous and on TV?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Your child is deeply realistic. It's going to be a complete shitshow. But education in the US has been cooked for decades. China is turning out hordes of competent PhDs, while the US is reverting to pre-literacy.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's plain old identity politics mixed with conman charm, promoted by cynically manipulative mainstream media. Starmer, Corbyn, and Polanski are all too earnest to be charming. It only works on some working class voters - but enough to be dangerous.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's the "Would enjoy a drink with" test. Superficial and stupid, but it does the job.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's almost as if the plan is to keep people permanently powerless and angry because it makes it easier to distract them and exploit them.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Starmer's job is to destroy Labour and hand over the keys of No 10 to Farage. Expelling the Left. Quoting Enoch Powell, twice. Crossing the floor to shake hands with Farage. Writing for the Sun. Giving exclusives to GB News. How many more clues do people need?

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Starmer's Labour are seat warmers normalising far-right policies and attitudes towards immigrants, the poor, and the sick. Starmer will call a snap election long before it's due, and the Tory media will fall over themselves to anoint Farage as the true voice of Britain.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I am so afraid he's not unusual in that.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

That everything will be worth next to nothing - like the decaying remains of a rust belt town, but nationally. The oligarch gigabrains think they'll own everything as it is now, while it's still (sort of...) thriving. Spoilers: no.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Conservatives use any excuse & rhetoric to promote and maintain hierarchy which privileges them. Whether it's economic, religious, legal, nationalistic, moral, or anything else, it's the only thing they're completely consistent about. They only care about advantage, not "enduring principles."

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This isn't econ, this is politics. Specifically small-town mob boss politics. Trump has a 💯 consistent history of stiffing suppliers by declaring bankruptcy. He's going to do the same at scale to the US. Because that's who/what he is. Result: loss of reserve currency status + hyperinflation.

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

[Holds up a sign that says "Anti-vax pandemic plagues" and taps it.]

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2025

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

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Richard Lyonn @rilyonn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Selling out. It's not complicated.

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