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Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

It’s gonna be hilarious when they’re racing to cash out again…

A two panel meme. In the top panel, a man reacts joyously to the headline, “SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion.” In the bottom panel, that same man is visibly bothered by the article text that SoftBank is investing $22.5 billion in OpenAI.

November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Neurodivergent people joining the boycott like…

Jennifer Aniston as Joanna in “Office Space” enthusiastically expressing herself in response to Chotchkie's mandatory flair policy.

November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Oh hey, I’ve seen this one before…

Skeet from Unusual Whales: “BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.”

Skeet from Unusual Whales: “BREAKING: Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centers, per Bloomber[g].

“It’s looking at options including shorting a basket of AI-related stocks and buying default protection via synthetic risk transfers.”

Steve Carell as Mark Baum in “The Big Short” realising that the reason Wall Street was being reckless with America’s housing market and financial system was because they knew the government would save them while millions of ordinary people paid—literally and figuratively.

November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Just give me a minute

A corner of a room covered in splatter from fake blood. On the bottom, text reads, “Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent.”

October 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

It’s Declaration of Independence posting hours. #NoKings

Text of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, **Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it**, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that **Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes**; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. **But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.**”

October 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

lol

lmfao

Screenshot from Clearsky showing that the White House’s Bluesky account has been blocked by 16,576 users within two hours of joining the site.

Screenshot from Clearsky showing that the White House’s Bluesky account has been indirectly blocked by 231,000 users from lists.

October 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Trump is a dictator crushing our civil liberties, and I won’t tolerate it! I can do that on my own, thank you very much 😡”

Screenshot from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s BlueSky post decrying Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Illinois to quash protests. This post is juxtaposed with footage of Illinois State Police forcefully shutting down a protest near an ICE facility.

October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Me: I’m feeling out of spoons.

Australia: Sounds like a “You” problem, mate.

A stylised map of Australia with collectable teaspoons hanging from each significant population centre or tourist attraction that matches the artwork on the teaspoons’ handles or bowls.

October 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

It's such a mystery!

Two panel meme. On the top, a goose stares warily at an off-panel ne'er-do-well asking, "Why are tensions rising?"

On the bottom, the goose is giving chase to the fiend, asking, "WHY ARE TENSIONS RISING, MOTHERFUCKER?!"

October 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Reminder in the face of legacy media's wilful ignorance that the core of fascism is the union of capitalism and authoritarianism to protect and enrich the elite.

That's why Mussolini called it "corporatism" and Hitler sidelined/murdered all the socialists when and after he took over the Nazi Party.

Screenshot of a passage from NPR article, "Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum," that reads:

On Monday, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal warned that Trump is "imitating [the] Chinese Communist Party" and transforming the U.S. economy into something resembling China's government-controlled "state capitalism."

It's a mounting worry shared by other business experts. "It is a huge concern," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who regularly speaks with CEOs.

"This 'Marxist MAGA' movement keeps expanding more and more, taking control without the resistance of private-sector decision-making," he added. "So that means we have winners and losers based on cronyism."

October 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Never forget 😔🙏🏻

A lone excavator works to rescue what was left of the global economy in early 2021 as it tries to free a ship stuck in the Suez Canal.

October 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

I feel like this actually describes every Alt-Right/Nazi influencer...

Screenshot of a passage from "Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, published August 1941, which reads:

"I think young D over there is the only born Nazi in the room. Young D is the spoiled only son of a doting mother. He has never been crossed in his life. He spends his time at the game of seeing what he can get away with. He is constantly arrested for speeding and his mother pays the fines. He has been ruthless toward two wives and his mother pays the alimony. His life is spent in sensation-seeking and theatricality. He is utterly inconsiderate of everybody. He is very good-looking, in a vacuous, cavalier way, and inordinately vain. He would certainly fancy himself in a uniform that gave him a chance to swagger and lord it over others."

October 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

This was the first piece I commissioned of Pyke, and one that I think remains among the best at capturing his general vibe.

Sadly, none of my previous sonas ever got art :(

🎨 Porogi (FA)

An anthropomorphic mountain lion relaxes by a campfire as night settles over the mountains.

October 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Evergreen

September 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

Kiddo will be annoyed, but we're done.

Screenshot from the subscription cancellation screen for Disney+, "Please tell us why you cancelled. By the way, this is optional." The option selected is, "Other," with the descriptive text, "You bent the knee to fascism."

September 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

...Is this what it looks like as the multiverse collapses into a singularity? Because that's the vibe I'm getting.

September 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM

Pyke Redrock

@pykeredrock.bsky.social

What I love most about AI is that when you tell it it's wrong it will go, "Sorry about that. Here's some other stuff I made up just now. Is that any better?"