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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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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Bangladesh's exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and her niece, the British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to four years in connection with two cases involving a government township project.
Bangladesh’s ex-leader Hasina and her UK lawmaker niece sentenced in graft case
Bangladesh's exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and her niece, the British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to four years in connection with two cases involving a government township project.
bit.ly
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Bangladesh's exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and her niece, the British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to four years in connection with two cases involving a government township project.
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Part 234 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
A 19th century CE snake bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, in England, which allowed the towpath to cross the canal without the horse being unhitched from the narrowboat it was pulling
A 19th century CE snake bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, in England, which allowed the towpath to cross the canal without the horse being unhitched from the narrowboat it was pulling
February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Part 234 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
A 19th century CE snake bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, in England, which allowed the towpath to cross the canal without the horse being unhitched from the narrowboat it was pulling
A 19th century CE snake bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, in England, which allowed the towpath to cross the canal without the horse being unhitched from the narrowboat it was pulling
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🚨BREAKING - Gordon Brown says he has asked the Cabinet Secretary "to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Mandelson
Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
🚨BREAKING - Gordon Brown says he has asked the Cabinet Secretary "to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Mandelson
Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.
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Just so we’re clear this isn’t Brown emailing Epstein it’s Mandelson leaking cabinet communications to Epstein to undermine his own government. He was trying to get Jamie Dimon to threaten Darling.
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Just so we’re clear this isn’t Brown emailing Epstein it’s Mandelson leaking cabinet communications to Epstein to undermine his own government. He was trying to get Jamie Dimon to threaten Darling.
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This does open up questions too over Mandelson's links to other powerbrokers in and around financial markets
BREAKING on ft website:
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM
This does open up questions too over Mandelson's links to other powerbrokers in and around financial markets
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It’s odd to me how people on both left and right refuse to believe that some random nutjob can off an important person despite it happening quite often in history
Guys the government didn’t kill MLK. Plenty of elements in the government wanted him dead but they couldn’t risk it.
February 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It’s odd to me how people on both left and right refuse to believe that some random nutjob can off an important person despite it happening quite often in history
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February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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An interesting but I think important feature of a lot of modern politics, maybe particularly on the right, is not only how addicted to the internet they are, but how that addiction is based on narcissism. It’s so massively unhealthy.
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
An interesting but I think important feature of a lot of modern politics, maybe particularly on the right, is not only how addicted to the internet they are, but how that addiction is based on narcissism. It’s so massively unhealthy.
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The thing that bothers me the most about the election doomering is that people are really overindexed on the the heavy boot stuff like “troops at polling places” that I’m not sure would actually suppress turnout and underindexed on the GOP just refusing to seat everyone.
i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The thing that bothers me the most about the election doomering is that people are really overindexed on the the heavy boot stuff like “troops at polling places” that I’m not sure would actually suppress turnout and underindexed on the GOP just refusing to seat everyone.
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A technology called X that slowly drives people crazy and makes them believe friends and colleagues have become part of a secret cult-like organisation called The Blob sounds like the plot of a high amphetamine consumption era Philip K Dick story rather than our current reality
February 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A technology called X that slowly drives people crazy and makes them believe friends and colleagues have become part of a secret cult-like organisation called The Blob sounds like the plot of a high amphetamine consumption era Philip K Dick story rather than our current reality
(Joke): The Guess Who's self-parody of 'Clap for the Wolfman', 'Clap for the Jeb Bush', was sued by the estate of John Cage for another instance of plagiarism of 4'33".
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
(Joke): The Guess Who's self-parody of 'Clap for the Wolfman', 'Clap for the Jeb Bush', was sued by the estate of John Cage for another instance of plagiarism of 4'33".
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There have been 5 major times when when 75% of all species have vanished within a geologically short period of time and jellyfish have come out laughing on the other side of every attempt, mass extinction vs jellyfish is the CIA vs Castro of Life.
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
There have been 5 major times when when 75% of all species have vanished within a geologically short period of time and jellyfish have come out laughing on the other side of every attempt, mass extinction vs jellyfish is the CIA vs Castro of Life.
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The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Elon Musk claims Christopher Nolan has lost ‘integrity’ over The Odyssey casting
Lupita Nyong’o is reportedly set to play Helen of Troy in Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem
www.independent.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
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House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer
PM believes ex-Labour minister should not be member of House of Lords or use title, No 10 spokesperson says
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM
House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Setting aside the deeply wacky window dressing, Qanon essentially just mislabeled the pedophile elites as "the left" instead of...themselves.
Reactionaries projecting their dreams onto their enemies like an 8K IMAX theater.
Reactionaries projecting their dreams onto their enemies like an 8K IMAX theater.
Imagine we’ve all been laughing at conspiracy theorists for years but it turns out a massive paedophile ring *is* running the world, actually, and the “elites” are all part of it. Next you’ll be telling me they’re lizards
Newly released documents show British Labour peer Peter Mandelson kept sex trafficking paedophile Jeffrey Epstein informed about the campaign against Kevin Rudd's proposed mining tax.
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Setting aside the deeply wacky window dressing, Qanon essentially just mislabeled the pedophile elites as "the left" instead of...themselves.
Reactionaries projecting their dreams onto their enemies like an 8K IMAX theater.
Reactionaries projecting their dreams onto their enemies like an 8K IMAX theater.
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A cantaloupe farmer named John is offering a course on fruit farming for older single ladies.
John's Cougar Melon Camp
John's Cougar Melon Camp
February 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
A cantaloupe farmer named John is offering a course on fruit farming for older single ladies.
John's Cougar Melon Camp
John's Cougar Melon Camp
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I do think CS Lewis was on to something when he wrote about the lure of being in the Inner Ring. (“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”)
www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
The Inner Ring - CS Lewis Society of California
www.lewissociety.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I do think CS Lewis was on to something when he wrote about the lure of being in the Inner Ring. (“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”)
www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
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It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.
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“MY servants shouldn’t be well paid” is the logical conclusion of a certain kind of bourgois leftism/liberalism that is more about personal branding than politics. The whole limousine liberal caricature in the 90s would not have worked without some basis in fact
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 AM
“MY servants shouldn’t be well paid” is the logical conclusion of a certain kind of bourgois leftism/liberalism that is more about personal branding than politics. The whole limousine liberal caricature in the 90s would not have worked without some basis in fact