Sign in

Citizen

@cjf169.bsky.social
626 followers 1K following 437 posts

Chris Fry. Grandad, Dad, Husband, LFC, Cook, Socialist, Stroudie, Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter with The Peekies. No Influencer or Subject. #WFMU #MDANT#YNWA

PostsRepliesMedia
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
All kicking off here ❤️
020
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s been a long hot day. I’ve walked a lot, shopped at The Market, played music to a big, busy room; also had a very tasty kebab and drank a fairly strong and smashing cold bespoke IPA. Wanted to say, however, I’m never, ever, going to forgive this man his stupidity here.
150
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I spent some years in the military. I have a lay person’s knowledge of the workings of government, alliances and factional interests. This use of the RAF, in the Middle East is wrong. Service people will do their duties unfailingly. If people from Britain perish, I’ll feel that sadness personally😞
030
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Twywn, a place where food goes to die😐
150
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Bit o’ Salad for tea 🌹
010
Reposted by Citizen
Jack dart @jackdart.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is a media ecosystem that confuses provocation for importance and controversy for relevance.
061
Reposted by Citizen
Jack dart @jackdart.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
He is handed microphone after microphone, given hours of airtime under the guise of "balance." But what is being balanced here? When you consistently platform hate, you don’t just reflect public discourse, you shape it.
172
Reposted by Citizen
Jack dart @jackdart.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Reform UK receives disproportionate media coverage compared to its actual political presence. Nigel Farage, despite leading a party with no elected MPs, is granted more exposure than leaders of the Greens or the Liberal Democrats.
1156
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Done well the last two days with our grub🌹 Yesterday, Sausage & Mash and tonight, a little Salad 🌹
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Remarkable 😐
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I’ve been over Abergavenny way for a few days in the Cara. I’m delighted to say I climbed a small mountain whilst I was there. Supported in no small manner by my bestie ❤️
040
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Here’s us, howling it out at our own VE80 bash. It was bloody windy indeed.
030
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A few well-fed faces here. Don’t spose (like my dad) they had to go through 27 military tribunals for a war pension for extreme disability. It’s an unequal society when the great & good live in luxury whilst every day people grub around making end’s meet. I believe we need to change that somehow.
160
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Says the former President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
041
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I shouldn’t really but you know…..😎
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"Take the world in a love embrace”
040
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is as close to my relationship with my mum as you could see in a comic strip. Made me emotional to look at it. Mary Fry 13 years over the rainbow 🌈
030
Reposted by Citizen
Benita Johnson Music @benitajohnsonmusic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hello Blue Sky community! I have just got here :) Please introduce yourselves - I might know a few of you already. I'm a gigging musician so that's my main interest. If you are too, or are a venue / promoter, then maybe this is a good place to all hook up for all our benefits... :)
223
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This show. Not broadcasting now but still in the archives of WFMU.org. It goes back to 2001 and ends in 2022. Each show 3 hours. Freeform Roots music, folk, avant garde, old country, blues and world genres. I’ve listened to every one of them. Took 18 months, learnt masses 🌹 www.wfmu.org/playlists/SP
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
How very typical of these people. Tell us everything we need to know. Shameful😞
000
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Crooks😐
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Back when, as a military fella, I knew these contraptions pretty well. Made in the early 50’s they were still in use in the late 60’s. Unreliable, contrary and, in some cases, plain dangerous😐 I guess we got the best out of um with some skill hopefully.
010
Reposted by Citizen
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The EU has told Donald Trump it won't cut ties with China and it won't let the USA's criminally low standard food in. Well done.
601407246
Reposted by Citizen
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”
209107064386
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hendrix set up at Woodstock 69 🎸
010
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Easter Innit and someone’s getting into a festive spirit 🥚 🐰
110
Reposted by Citizen
Stephen Law @stephenlaw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
You probably 'remember' that Corbyn was Putin's stooge, when in fact, as Peter Oborne points out (former Telegraph journo), 'no politician has been more consistent or more prescient about Putin than Corbyn'. An example of how history and memory is rewritten by the centre and right.
065
Reposted by Citizen
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This sounds EXACTLY like the Brexiters – right before the EU starting cutting the UK out of its supply chains. #MAGAmerica 😂
1210735
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Like many secondary school boys who bombed the 11plus, I learnt to use a small Myford in Metalwork class. Nothing like this magnificence mind. Precision forged by skilled hand, where metal meets mastery. The manual machinist’s world: no shortcuts, just pure craftsmanship.
030
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Just love the embroidery of a guitar pedal circuit 🎸
050
Reposted by Citizen
John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Man Who Built Titanic Stan Fraser lived in Inverness & was fascinated by the sea & particularly boats. All sorts of sea-going craft. But his favourite was Titanic. So Stan decided to build one, only a scale model of course. Titanic was 880 ft (270m) long. So Stan settled for 1/10 scale. 1/15
22714
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is Aleida March, She was Che Guevara’s wife🌹
161
Reposted by Citizen
Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
because you asked nicely, here’s my latest work in progress song, “context clues”
2124640422
Reposted by Citizen
Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
2230235388952
Reposted by Citizen
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The MD guide to the top 20 bedsit albums. In order. Number 20
1015317
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Supremes, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles and The Temptations all in one picture. Motown Tour, England 1965. I imagine the tour bus was a very interesting place indeed🌹
051
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Cam Selected four speed planetary gear box made from Meccano. Larry McEwan ⚒️ 🧰 🛠️
020
Reposted by Citizen
Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/04/2025
North Sea oil and gas is like a toxic ex - best left in the past. Britain needs to focus on its future, which is green and full of growth. Where to start: lowering bills for working people.
311331
Reposted by Citizen
Leah *will be mostly offline till 24 October due to travel 😊 @styx-and-stones3.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Always 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
20957658
Reposted by Citizen
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Privatisation hasn't failed, it is Profitisation. Taking something owned by you, transferring it to them, and then robbing you forever. It should all be taken back from the thieves with no compensation.
723373
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I saw this and was taken immediately back into the world of Woolf Barnato and Bernard Rubin. My imagination running riot as to what it might be like to sit behind such a steering wheel 🛞
000
Reposted by Citizen
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Lady in black, "Our water bill is to go up while the Welsh Water CEO has made £800,000 in just one year" "How much longer will politicians allow water companies to pollute our waters and our rivers, prioritising profits of wealthy shareholders?" #BBCQT
19748146
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m off North of the Border with this one tomorrow. Walking, scoffing and experiencing the scenery around Loch Lomond. Excited don’t cover it.
030
Reposted by Citizen
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 02/04/2025
After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
42158298010780
Reposted by Citizen
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper in 1938 and declaring “peace for our time”. He said
“This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine [shows paper to crowd]. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you…blah blah blah”
12110
Reposted by Citizen
Jina Langu 🌈🎵🎶🌹👨‍🦯🦮🎸🎻 @jinalangu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t learn nothing, cause hey, it’s not your fault, it’s his fault, over there. That is the hardest thing of all. That’s a grown-up. You’ve gotta grow up in this world.” Joe Strummer
A black and white portrait of Joe Strummer, standing in front of a wall.
The photo is cropped to show Joe from the belt line up.
His arms are loosely folded, he looks relaxed as he looks straight into the camera with a slight smile. He holds a pair of sunglasses in his right hand and is wearing a Harrington jacket, unzipped and white tee-shirt under.
121
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"Do you have a moment to talk about communism?"
000
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Me and my bestie warmed up for a great folk artist this afternoon at Tetbury Goods Shed. Carrie Martin the star of the show. Peekies in support. Sound was magic and we nailed the tunes. Bravo🌹
020
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As you’ll see from my bio above, I call myself a cook. I screwed up a little pan making semolina a couple of days ago very royally. Its unlike me tbf but I’ve never made this gloopy stuff before. An hour boil on the stove with Bio washing powder in the water restored my old milk pan. Made 1980 btw😎
020
Citizen @cjf169.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A whole lotta bits to play a tune huh?
020