Reposted by RhysThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-… 263114469
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches.” Doubt this will do anything to the incredible valuations of his companies but one can always hope 0491
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What’s going on at x? Oh nltimes.nl/2026/09/04/p...nltimes.nlPM Rob Jetten has received 2,293 homophobic responses to his X posts in 6 monthsIn the six months that he has been Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten posted on X via the Prime Minister’s official account 323 times. He received 45,860 responses to those tweets. One in t... 010
Reposted by RhysHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A humanities problematisation of the anthropomorphising of AI 2204
Reposted by RhysJohn Cutting @fortunasaga.com · 13/07/2026On Bluesky An odd regression. Ancient memes Find new expression. Burma-shave. 1165
Reposted by RhysDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Living in the 1760s in London, you may have asked yourself: Why not buy a "Remarkable Tame Panther" that you "may play with it as they may with a Dog"? Or a "SEA-MONSTER"? Or both? What could possibly go wrong with a panther and a sea-monster in your house? I have so many questions. 15502138
Reposted by Rhysfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 17/05/2026As a teen In the 90s I loved Rage against the machine. I bought a Tshirt with the lyrics "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" on it and my mom made me take it back for a refund. So I did exactly what she told me. 2883266
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Unnamed child strikes me as the oddest name, although not by much 0201
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Thou shalt not start a war to distract from the Epstein files 2516
Reposted by RhysJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder. 11135481022
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Can you BELIEVE their names? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...theguardian.comRowe and Payne: finish line in sight for aptly named British duo rowing nonstop from Peru to AustraliaAfter about 8,300 nautical miles Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne can’t wait to share their ‘tales of the high seas’ when they land in Cairns, Queensland 010
Reposted by RhysAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor." 16538125325615
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The scary thing about this is it feels plausible 021
Reposted by RhysAndrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Marine heatwave off W.A appears to have severely impacted Ningaloo coral reef: www.smh.com.au/national/wes...smh.com.au‘Like an underwater bushfire:’ Shocking images as heatwave bleaches NingalooAdvocates are calling this a “red alert” moment for the usually resilient reef, as a marine heatwave already linked to a fish kill and cyclone intensification moves south. 22921
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025For me the most insightful thread yet on DeepSeek 000
Reposted by RhysTim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 22/01/2025This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.theguardian.com‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study findsMore than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease 718591
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025As someone who has worked in fintech (not crypto) for some time, every time I meet someone in the space, they seem to be 1) a wide-eyed optimist who (sometimes genuinely) believe that crypto is going to better the world, 2) a shameless money-grabbing opportunist, or 3) transitioning from 1 to 2. 1131
Reposted by RhysCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/01/2025(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d... 2291812716
Reposted by RhysNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/01/2025My 3 y/o was reading Meta’s new community standards when she turned to me, gravely, and asked: “Daddy, why don’t people like the nice tech bro man with the fro and the bling?” And when I told her “because woke America has been neutered of its masculine energy,” she started crying. 664476386
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Yeah the lack of vision and imagination and complete stagnation of creativity is really messed up for a company that was arguably the first social media giant. Feels like they ran out of ideas a decade or so ago now.. 6561
Reposted by RhysAlex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 13/02/2021I've been thinking for a long time about how we got to this moment of planetary ecological emergency, and, conversely, what the world might look like had we taken a different path. I enjoy good retro-futuristic ecotopian visions,... 131
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Impressive foresight from 100 years ago www.theguardian.com/science/2024...theguardian.comScientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostlyProf Low anticipated home speakers and gender neutral clothing, but missed his mark on herb-based street lighting 010
Reposted by RhysDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Crypto operates like a pyramid scheme, where new entrants enrich early adopters, hoping to pass the bag to the next wave. The issue? Deep pockets are needed to deliver returns for BlackRock, Fidelity ETFs, and underwater crypto startups. The solution? US taxpayers as the bagholders of last resort 1224571
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024SoftBank, famous for investing in wework, and uber during its peak www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comTrump announces SoftBank plans to invest $100bn in US projectsPresident-elect vows investment will result in 100,000 new jobs despite history of jobs plans not panning out 030
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024So much respect for people like this who can make calm and collected arguments under pressure when engaging with bad faith actors. Hopefully he opened some eyes among the viewers. 0817
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024If it's more or less acknowledged that the story "broke" here in terms of global social media, this will further strengthen the network effect of BS and undermine twitter for anyone remaining there who still cares about real-time news. 0242
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024How to live a healthy life according to Robert F. Kennedy, presumptive US Sec. of Health. 1. Eat unprocessed food. ✅ 2. Don't drink water with fluoride. 😬 3. Don't drink pasteurised milk. 🤮 4. Don't get vaccinated. 🚑 5. Take heroin to help you concentrate when studying. 🤯 040
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Imagine this clown in charge of your health system. 030
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024…and the airstrip needs to be removed so the area can be rewilded…..right? Right? 3546
Reposted by RhysGod @thegodshow.com · 30/11/2024Thou shalt not groove to the YMCA while marginalizing the communities that made the song iconic. 181135301849
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Every time i see his latest tweets screen shotted here I have to do a double take and ask myself if it’s real 2672
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Incredible amount of wishful thinking a d fantasists in this group of voters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comTrump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they wantTrump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choices 000
Reposted by RhysGod @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀 147811399016338
Reposted by RhysNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The US is now selling weapons and military jet fuel to a wanted war criminal 522190
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Wow. Thats presumably a lot of zombie accounts on threads. Also demonstrates why user base is a vanity metric unless the users are verified in some consistent way, and combined with clearly defined usage metrics. 042
Rhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Salient point: "Bluesky is 20x smaller in terms of the # of people on the platform," he says. "If you search for people [on Google], you will find Bluesky 10x less often than you will find X. "But," he says, "it's 10x more important to Google today for factual info" news.sky.com/story/the-x-...news.sky.comThe X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?Even Google appears to trust X less, with one expert telling Sky News the search engine treats X competitor Bluesky as 10 times more important than Elon Musk's platform. 041
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024A diet of steroids, processed food, petty grievances, and fake tan never hurt anyone. 1421
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Fascinating to watch: - reverse network effects in full swing - completely ruined business model - desperate attempts to launch new products and reassure users everything is fine All play out in real time 132
Reposted by RhysRhys @thecontentflywheel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024 I believe “geriatric millennials” is the accurate nomenclature. I know. My false teeth nearly fell out when I heard that term too. 001