Tim Lyons
@picketer.bsky.social
Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
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The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...
February 14, 2026 at 8:39 AM
The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...
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"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.
February 13, 2026 at 9:52 AM
"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.
The best bit is some absolute little twerp in the 70's got in the shit from his mum for having a dirty book in his room.
can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover
February 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
The best bit is some absolute little twerp in the 70's got in the shit from his mum for having a dirty book in his room.
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‘My family emigrated from South Africa’
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
No no no see you have to know the exact year a given Croatian family arrived here
February 14, 2026 at 6:38 AM
‘My family emigrated from South Africa’
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
[the entire barbecue falls silent while everyone waits to hear what year]
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my favorite stolen art restored story is when an Orthodox bishop was watching a documentary on Boy George and spotted an interesting icon on his back wall. He investigated and found the icon had been stolen by Turkish troops and BG had unknowingly bought it in 1985. BG immediately returned it.
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
my favorite stolen art restored story is when an Orthodox bishop was watching a documentary on Boy George and spotted an interesting icon on his back wall. He investigated and found the icon had been stolen by Turkish troops and BG had unknowingly bought it in 1985. BG immediately returned it.
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Not zero but ballpark - and its current market cap is USD 3 trillion and true most of that reflects the licences for white collar slobs so the lols of him saying this are very large.
Who is going to buy Microsoft Office 365 Licences then?
Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0
Like, if this is true, Microsoft is worth $0
Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.
www.businessinsider.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Not zero but ballpark - and its current market cap is USD 3 trillion and true most of that reflects the licences for white collar slobs so the lols of him saying this are very large.
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So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
February 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
So The Age has churned out "special series" on exclusive men's clubs, then private golf clubs, now restaurant tycoons. All suitably fawning over supposed powerful elites. Tell you what, why not just save time and do one called "Rich arseholes, and why we suck up to them".🙄
Through union work I met someone who had worked as a sexual health nurse practitioner at an Olympic village and they said it was "an entire career compressed into a month"
10K condoms for 17 days for 3K athletes in the prime of their physical lives = one encounter every 5 days or so.
By comparison, the Paris Olympics provided enough condoms (300K) for every athlete to have sex twice a day.
Are Italians really that chaste? 🤭
By comparison, the Paris Olympics provided enough condoms (300K) for every athlete to have sex twice a day.
Are Italians really that chaste? 🤭
The Winter Olympics village ran out of condoms after just 3 days. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Through union work I met someone who had worked as a sexual health nurse practitioner at an Olympic village and they said it was "an entire career compressed into a month"
This would’ve ruled
49 years ago today
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
February 14, 2026 at 5:18 AM
This would’ve ruled
@economeager.bsky.social here we go mate - the 90s are back baby!
February 14, 2026 at 4:46 AM
@economeager.bsky.social here we go mate - the 90s are back baby!
The premise was simple: kys
February 14, 2026 at 2:54 AM
The premise was simple: kys
A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?
February 14, 2026 at 1:54 AM
A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?
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off topic but the “opinion-haver has opinion” headline template is almost always a sign that what follows is not worth reading if you are at all interested in whatever the subject of the opinion is
rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
off topic but the “opinion-haver has opinion” headline template is almost always a sign that what follows is not worth reading if you are at all interested in whatever the subject of the opinion is
Formula 1 to see some terrible LBW and run out decisions?
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Formula 1 to see some terrible LBW and run out decisions?
I like the idea of an anarchist collective stealing Disney IP
Donald Duck poster for CNT toy shop in Barcelona during Civil War, part of the wider collectivised wood industry which controlled everything from forests in Girona, to workshops and shops in the capital, often cited as among most successful of anarchist collectives
February 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I like the idea of an anarchist collective stealing Disney IP
Are you really a "strong media performer" if your signature policy had to be dumped because people hated it and you called a key voter group foreign "spies" and you then try on this nonsense at your first outing in a new gig?
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Are you really a "strong media performer" if your signature policy had to be dumped because people hated it and you called a key voter group foreign "spies" and you then try on this nonsense at your first outing in a new gig?
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Are the Dutch sustainable?
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Are the Dutch sustainable?
Ah yes, the "sinister French."
February 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Ah yes, the "sinister French."
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This is a real sentence in a new NYT article about how the US has changed since Trump, lol.
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 AM
This is a real sentence in a new NYT article about how the US has changed since Trump, lol.
Tone on ABC730 hELPiNg by raising the Caliphate and Shariah Law and how responsible PHON is these days.
February 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Tone on ABC730 hELPiNg by raising the Caliphate and Shariah Law and how responsible PHON is these days.
He looks like the management consultant the boss hired who has no idea what you do and turns up for a week and recommends making you and most of your mates redundant because ......... that is exactly what he was before parliament.
February 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
He looks like the management consultant the boss hired who has no idea what you do and turns up for a week and recommends making you and most of your mates redundant because ......... that is exactly what he was before parliament.
CBP: Consanguinity Unit
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 AM
CBP: Consanguinity Unit