Joe Poser
@jposer.bsky.social
Occasional moaning about cloud engineering but mostly cats.
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The concept of emotional labour (or at least how it is often used) it a pretty negative one.
Commodatising being a normal, and decent, human
Commodatising being a normal, and decent, human
Recently I've seen a lot of "I don't owe you my emotional labor to chat about the weather or ask if you found everything you're looking for" complaints.And yes, small talk requires emotional labor. That you aren't being compensated for. Except in social currency,and we really do need social currency
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The concept of emotional labour (or at least how it is often used) it a pretty negative one.
Commodatising being a normal, and decent, human
Commodatising being a normal, and decent, human
The smart thing that Elon Musk has figured out is that engagement algorithm driven social is a radicalisation engine and turned it up to 11.
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The smart thing that Elon Musk has figured out is that engagement algorithm driven social is a radicalisation engine and turned it up to 11.
Maybe it’s because I’ve entirely swallowed “neoliberal” ideological hegemony but it seems incredibly obvious that there are millions of centre right voters on the table for a party that wants to win them.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Maybe it’s because I’ve entirely swallowed “neoliberal” ideological hegemony but it seems incredibly obvious that there are millions of centre right voters on the table for a party that wants to win them.
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It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc.
A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.
A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.
The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large.
Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.
Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.
I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc.
A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.
A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.
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We should also ignore the media and MPs should get a grip and realise they wag the fucking dog.
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We should also ignore the media and MPs should get a grip and realise they wag the fucking dog.
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"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
The thing I don’t understand about Labour’s political strategy is its policy is wildly left wing by modern standards but it spends all it’s communication efforts trying to appeal to Reform voters.
Ok I do understand it, it’s just obviously stupid and failing on its own terms.
Ok I do understand it, it’s just obviously stupid and failing on its own terms.
“There is a progressive majority available that can defeat Reform and Farage ... But I think the moral of the story is that until people feel change, and feel that we are delivering change with Labour values, [they] will not turn out and support us” - Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Sunday Times
![Last week’s result in Caerphilly brought its own grim record for Labour: a vote share of just 11 per cent, lower than even the most downbeat prediction. Streeting said the “stark message and warning” from the voters was to be bolder, and the worst thing the party could do would be to disrespect them by dismissing it.
“There is a progressive majority available that can defeat Reform and Farage,” he said. “The Labour Party needs to show, through our actions, not just through our words, that we are going to deliver the change people voted for. There are many examples of things moving in the right direction. But I think the moral of the story is that until people feel change, and feel that we are delivering change with Labour values, [they] will not turn out and support us.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreieuliucwc6dyxmfuygoxgurxeclrmkjcve2fi7qdbkn2us6fbzqg4@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The thing I don’t understand about Labour’s political strategy is its policy is wildly left wing by modern standards but it spends all it’s communication efforts trying to appeal to Reform voters.
Ok I do understand it, it’s just obviously stupid and failing on its own terms.
Ok I do understand it, it’s just obviously stupid and failing on its own terms.
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Give us a couple of $20-$40M Star Wars movies by cool directors every year. Let them bend canon and utilize all the Lucasfilm prop, costume and set designers. Unionize the VFX artists and train them to direct too. Intro the new characters in shorts before the other movies. Play w/ genre and tone.
give us a character driven, medium budget Kylo / Ben movie that marries andor style writing with the mythic qualities of the jedi
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Give us a couple of $20-$40M Star Wars movies by cool directors every year. Let them bend canon and utilize all the Lucasfilm prop, costume and set designers. Unionize the VFX artists and train them to direct too. Intro the new characters in shorts before the other movies. Play w/ genre and tone.
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YOUR SUPPORT WENT TO PLAID - THE LEFT OF CENTRE OPTION - YOU ABSOLUTE DING DONGS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT STANDING UP *AGAINST* FARAGE. You’ve just been handed proof you have more to lose from losing your base than to gain from pursuing Reform voters!!
October 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
YOUR SUPPORT WENT TO PLAID - THE LEFT OF CENTRE OPTION - YOU ABSOLUTE DING DONGS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT STANDING UP *AGAINST* FARAGE. You’ve just been handed proof you have more to lose from losing your base than to gain from pursuing Reform voters!!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Caerphilly, Senedd constituency by-election result:
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I think this article is way too soft on the phone manufacturers, 33 percent of the market complaining about the size of phones isn't a small minority.
It's a huge market segment that is not being catered to and the excuses I hear for it are rubbish.
www.ft.com/content/6332...
It's a huge market segment that is not being catered to and the excuses I hear for it are rubbish.
www.ft.com/content/6332...
Why can’t I buy a small smartphone?
Capitalism is not giving me what I want, but I’m not behaving like a good free market consumer myself
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I think this article is way too soft on the phone manufacturers, 33 percent of the market complaining about the size of phones isn't a small minority.
It's a huge market segment that is not being catered to and the excuses I hear for it are rubbish.
www.ft.com/content/6332...
It's a huge market segment that is not being catered to and the excuses I hear for it are rubbish.
www.ft.com/content/6332...
Still have no idea why you would run anything out of us-east-1 and even then it goes down way less often than it used to.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Still have no idea why you would run anything out of us-east-1 and even then it goes down way less often than it used to.
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Honestly reading this does make me think that I could quite easily be the Labour Party's leading intellectual cos A) I am better at thinking than this and B) I am better at writing than this. I am neither good at thinking nor writing, tbc.
This 'anonymous memo' has Glassman and Walney's fingerprints all over it and is laden with swivel-eyed conspiracism and paranoiac blade-sharpening. If this is what passes for political insight in the Labour Party, they are beyond saving.
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Honestly reading this does make me think that I could quite easily be the Labour Party's leading intellectual cos A) I am better at thinking than this and B) I am better at writing than this. I am neither good at thinking nor writing, tbc.
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Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.
*wanking motion*
September 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.
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These people absolutely exist and they’re nuts, and I can even understand doing a story on them, but it’s really quite pathetic to frame it as “Wow, just like 2020!” when it’s a bunch of random people online and not, like, *the candidate themselves and the overwhelming majority of elected officials*
After Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, Republicans used dubious arguments to say he had been cheated. Now the left is dabbling in some of those same questionable theories to claim that Kamala Harris really won last year’s election, @dgraham.bsky.social argues.
The People Who Are Still Convinced Kamala Won
The left is dabbling in 2024-election-fraud theories.
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These people absolutely exist and they’re nuts, and I can even understand doing a story on them, but it’s really quite pathetic to frame it as “Wow, just like 2020!” when it’s a bunch of random people online and not, like, *the candidate themselves and the overwhelming majority of elected officials*
Why is nobody calling Reform the Turquoise Tories yet?
September 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Why is nobody calling Reform the Turquoise Tories yet?
Can we hammer him on this one please. Please?
Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
September 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Can we hammer him on this one please. Please?
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September 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This man is responsible for some terrible financial decisions.
on.ft.com/4ndDu5i How James Hoffmann became king of the coffee nerds
on.ft.com/4ndDu5i How James Hoffmann became king of the coffee nerds
How James Hoffmann became king of the coffee nerds
Speciality coffee connoisseurs are suddenly everywhere. ‘Daddy Hoff’ is to blame
on.ft.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This man is responsible for some terrible financial decisions.
on.ft.com/4ndDu5i How James Hoffmann became king of the coffee nerds
on.ft.com/4ndDu5i How James Hoffmann became king of the coffee nerds
Reece James crosses Chalobah scores.
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reece James crosses Chalobah scores.
Garnacho on, 60th minute.
Make it so.
Make it so.
September 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Garnacho on, 60th minute.
Make it so.
Make it so.
Baffling that Sanchez is still Chelsea’s number 1 when it’s been obvious he’s a dud for multiple seasons.
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Baffling that Sanchez is still Chelsea’s number 1 when it’s been obvious he’s a dud for multiple seasons.
Great to see all the amazing clips from the new EA Skate game.
I was cautiously optimistic about it and I think it has problems but they nailed core mechanics that made that game fun.
I was cautiously optimistic about it and I think it has problems but they nailed core mechanics that made that game fun.
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Great to see all the amazing clips from the new EA Skate game.
I was cautiously optimistic about it and I think it has problems but they nailed core mechanics that made that game fun.
I was cautiously optimistic about it and I think it has problems but they nailed core mechanics that made that game fun.
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