Rhys Needham
@rhysneedham.bsky.social
Je Suis Marxiste, Tendance Harpo (...movie star, movie star...)
Mostly Harmless. Panicking optional.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Ex-Douglas Bader Meinhof Gang.
Yasser (Arafat), I can boogie all night long.
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Mostly Harmless. Panicking optional.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Ex-Douglas Bader Meinhof Gang.
Yasser (Arafat), I can boogie all night long.
Views pilfered from everyone else's
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[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
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I actually beg journalists to stop acting like Trump is an intelligent human being instead of an old man with a clearly barely functioning brain.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I actually beg journalists to stop acting like Trump is an intelligent human being instead of an old man with a clearly barely functioning brain.
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Big news to all the multi-ethnic and multi-religious states that do in fact exist there.
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Big news to all the multi-ethnic and multi-religious states that do in fact exist there.
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The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
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Absolutely solid rave from the children, just like this Maurice Sendak story! www.openculture.com/2015/09/maur...
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Absolutely solid rave from the children, just like this Maurice Sendak story! www.openculture.com/2015/09/maur...
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One sees things like this, and one is drawn to the historical recollection of the vile things the vain rich were driven to stuff into themselves, a century ago. Monkey glands, goat testicles, you name it... Nothing changes...
www.isfp-fertility.org/scientific-t...
www.isfp-fertility.org/scientific-t...
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
One sees things like this, and one is drawn to the historical recollection of the vile things the vain rich were driven to stuff into themselves, a century ago. Monkey glands, goat testicles, you name it... Nothing changes...
www.isfp-fertility.org/scientific-t...
www.isfp-fertility.org/scientific-t...
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I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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i like how the one example we have of mass scale homeschooling was the pandemic and it was a complete disaster that burnt out every parent on earth and resulted in half a generation being socially and intellectually stunted forever
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
i like how the one example we have of mass scale homeschooling was the pandemic and it was a complete disaster that burnt out every parent on earth and resulted in half a generation being socially and intellectually stunted forever
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Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
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the takeaway is that the entire media was so delighted at a lie by a serial fabulist who fucked her way through all of her sources and editors to get where she was that they ignored anything even vaguely revealing a public responsibility
i'm just hung up on "the entire media let itself get dogwalked into stabbing Democracy to death by a lady who was just doing it because she was hung up on RFK Jr.'s piss and breeding kinks", it's genuinely unbelievable to me
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
the takeaway is that the entire media was so delighted at a lie by a serial fabulist who fucked her way through all of her sources and editors to get where she was that they ignored anything even vaguely revealing a public responsibility
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every single person in this story is a monster but the only one I have seen sustained defenses of is Nuzzi and I think everyone doing so needs to sit with the fact that her absolute mockery of the entire concept of journalism has a large and growing body count
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
every single person in this story is a monster but the only one I have seen sustained defenses of is Nuzzi and I think everyone doing so needs to sit with the fact that her absolute mockery of the entire concept of journalism has a large and growing body count
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One of Keir Starmer’s tragedies is that his political instincts are much better than his hiring ones, which is why so many stories have the form of “Starmer [wanted to do something they obviously had to do]. But his chancellor and his chief aide convinced him they should hold out, fruitlessly”.
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One of Keir Starmer’s tragedies is that his political instincts are much better than his hiring ones, which is why so many stories have the form of “Starmer [wanted to do something they obviously had to do]. But his chancellor and his chief aide convinced him they should hold out, fruitlessly”.
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Lizza doling this story out in a series of paywalled posts to drum up subscribers to his newsletter is just so utterly brazen, so spectacularly shameless, so quintessentially 2025 ... it's breathtaking. You gotta tip your hat.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lizza doling this story out in a series of paywalled posts to drum up subscribers to his newsletter is just so utterly brazen, so spectacularly shameless, so quintessentially 2025 ... it's breathtaking. You gotta tip your hat.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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Disagree. The media failed to adequately cover Trump and they especially failed to cover Kennedy with the heft, seriousness, and alarm he warranted.
The fact that a major journalist was a hornball pervert for one of the worst actors in 2024 (RFK), who may have been the difference maker, matters.
The fact that a major journalist was a hornball pervert for one of the worst actors in 2024 (RFK), who may have been the difference maker, matters.
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Disagree. The media failed to adequately cover Trump and they especially failed to cover Kennedy with the heft, seriousness, and alarm he warranted.
The fact that a major journalist was a hornball pervert for one of the worst actors in 2024 (RFK), who may have been the difference maker, matters.
The fact that a major journalist was a hornball pervert for one of the worst actors in 2024 (RFK), who may have been the difference maker, matters.
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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i am morbidly curious about which of these is more profitable
also, it seems to be an accepted journalistic practice to know things of vital public interest and not to publish them until it is too late for the public to act on them; the way Lizza is an outlier is that he wasn't holding onto it for a book but for a substack trashing his ex
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
i am morbidly curious about which of these is more profitable
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Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World’s Largest City, UN Report Says
The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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Heading into 2026 like this
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heading into 2026 like this
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Australia developed the first HPV vaccine and led the world in making it universal, first for girls and later for kids of all genders. Now we are reaping the rewards of good health policy.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines work.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Australia developed the first HPV vaccine and led the world in making it universal, first for girls and later for kids of all genders. Now we are reaping the rewards of good health policy.
Vaccines work.
Vaccines work.
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to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
The feds repeatedly lied and misled the public during Chicago's immigration crackdown, a federal judge ruled in a scathing opinion. blockclubchi.co/3JVoFWJ
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities