Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 23hWell now. Something else completely random to worry about. 000 0
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 16/10/2026How do you order a review into a crowd that wasn't there? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...bbc.co.ukSouth Africa vs Australia: Low Test crowds prompt reviewA senior South African cricket official pledges to order a review into the low crowd which attended the first Test against Australia in Durban. 000 0
Reposted by Random GeezerRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Good morning from the Jubilee line 635044 350
Reposted by Random GeezerRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Increasingly, after reading about the latest oligarch or billionaire tech-bros travesty, I find myself idly researching the cultural and social history of guillotines. 1012519 125
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I'm finding these revelations that Reform is chock-full of racists and Farage is a foul-mouthed bigot hilarious. What the fuck did people think they were like? 000 0
Reposted by Random GeezerDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A painter covers only half a frame, matching color, light and brushwork to the scene behind it, and from the right angle the real landscape and the painting blur into one 311487255 1.5K
Reposted by Random GeezerOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026More of this please 221252387 1.3K
Reposted by Random GeezerHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Hang it in the Louvre. 665176483344 17.6K
Reposted by Random GeezerMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 11/10/2026First time attending Surbiton Ski Sunday, where people strap blocks of ice to their feet and compete to ski down a soaped street. I love this country. 716542 165
Reposted by Random GeezerOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick 6336771016 3.7K
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One week to go until International #Repair Day. See here: repairday.org I probably get more pleasure from fixing, restoring or fettling something than I do from making something. Recently restored a ratchet screwdriver I remember my dad buying when I was about 5 years old. Deeply rewarding.repairday.orgInternational Repair Day - Repair Day 000 0
Reposted by Random GeezerDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Each pendulum swings at its own period and sings its own note, turning simple harmonic motion into a melody that rewrites itself every cycle before snapping back into sync. 29395101 395
Reposted by Random GeezerDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This three-in-one slate hammer splits roofing stone with a single perfect strike, and watching it never gets old. 4561289 612
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My general mood markedly deteriorates over the winter so of late I've been chasing the slightest hint of sun like some reverse vampire in an effort to boost the Vitamin D before it all becomes too grim. Roll on Summer 🌞. #wellbeing #mentalhealth ps. Too early? 010 1
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Some new #publicart round my way. I was as impressed by the tidy #welding of all those individual plates as I was by the finished piece. 010 1
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Latest effort with pastels. Still getting the hang of them. #art #stlllife #pastels. 030 3
Reposted by Random Geezermimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Don’t ever tell me that the BBC doesn’t favour Reform UK. This was on their feed yesterday? 36505131 505
Reposted by Random GeezerThe London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's now just two parliamentary by-election wins in 26 attempts for Reform - and in this one they couldn't even beat the Tories and only just got their deposit back. 27931 79
Reposted by Random GeezerAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The more Reform spew hate the more British people show empathy, kindness, generosity You can donate at rnli.org/support-us/g... meme via Truth Against Hate 13227103 227
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Why don't they hang him from a crane in a public square, or is that too on the nose? 000 0
Reposted by Random GeezerJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...theguardian.com‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already leftTaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus 23358137 358
Reposted by Random GeezerStephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years. 19386216 386
Reposted by Random GeezerRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Building a distributed, privacy-preserving way of doing this - stewarded by an internal team, not defaulting to single massive suppliers - would be hard but not impossible and super interesting. It would be amazing if Burnham could invest a bit of bravery in this. 5318 31
Reposted by Random GeezerRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 231397504 1.4K
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Slip one a Palestinian flag or some Extinction Rebellion literature to wave around - soon get 'em banged up. 011 1
Reposted by Random GeezerDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This mans' imagination is next level 893121786 3.1K
Reposted by Random GeezerPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Anyone wondering what ‘two tier policing’ was? Now we know. 819946 199
Random Geezer @jb-58.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My forty year old got the hump 'cos I said four was too many. 000 0
Reposted by Random GeezerMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When your friend who ordered cocktails, the steak supplement and a whiskey instead of coffee suggests “Shall we just split the bill between all of us?” 21149 114
Reposted by Random GeezerPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.theguardian.comBritain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby HinsliffThe issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff 77706372 706
Reposted by Random GeezerParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules. 901613449 1.6K
Reposted by Random GeezerMike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂 1231940318 1.9K
Reposted by Random GeezerAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving? 5253372722 3.4K
Reposted by Random GeezerZoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it. 15749189 749
Reposted by Random GeezerAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565 1.7K
Reposted by Random GeezerNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141136481 14.1K
Reposted by Random GeezerShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.cnn.comThe humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN BusinessTouchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers. 271014288 1K
Reposted by Random GeezerPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns. 201782453 1.8K
Reposted by Random GeezerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 204101612135 10.2K