Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cities I can cope with - rural UK just seems to have lost so many that the remaining ones no longer need to compete. 100
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Doesn’t work so well in the UK when a lot are owner/drivers. 000
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m not sure driverless taxis could cope with Devon roads ! Tourists never can. 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He once stayed with my wife’s grandparents for a period whilst researching the then new East/West border. Being my favourite author I asked her grandmother about him, she replied ‘Oh, he was a dreadful bore - going through his catholic phase at the time‘, then refused to discuss him any further ! 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks - eventually and grudgingly (and was told I had to be on time - like a naughty schoolkid). Got home to water pouring through the ceiling after a 24 hour no sleep trip back from Bangkok, not quite how I envisaged the afternoon going! 130
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I live in an area with no Uber - currently have a bit of an emergency going on and need a taxi. Every single firm I’ve called doesn’t seem to want to do the job because it’s a bit too difficult to drive five miles. Sincerely hope they all go out of business. 6512
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I got this. Which is reassuring and also didn’t require 200+ questions. 031
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s been a bugbear of mine ever since I had to look for one for my dad. If I end up in one like that I hope I still have enough gumption to burn the fucker down. 120
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerGary @shamrocknroll84.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Outstanding show of solidarity from Turkish side Konyaspor in their friendly against the Palestinian national team. They showered the pitch in teddies to be donated to children and suspended the match at 89:59 with a message stating 'Until Palestine is free, the match has been postponed'. 14422
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This was my first ever record I think - on ‘Helen’s Hit Parade’. Still have it. 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Now thats what I call a custom paint job. 170
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Invigorating to hear this belted out full blast by a group of Italian, British, French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Belgian and Spanish comrades tonight. We might have our differences but we all agreed on who we despise. youtu.be/s6jw3u9cbEQ?...youtu.beBella Ciao (Canzone Antifascista Italiana)YouTube video by Release - Topic 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did he cut ‘HOPE’ into his forearm with a bottle? I’m in. 051
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026None of which are likely to be valid, purely based on his choice of friend and jacket (in that order). 000
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m not sure that you can steal something that someone has left in the street and has no intention of returning to. Even if you can this man is simply an angry fascist of the highest order and perhaps should note what the Italians used their lampposts for. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I could take Mrs Robinson for a spin in that. 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I love an anarchist event - fave moment was sitting in pub next to Conway Hall after an anarchist meeting when some of the attendees came in - “That was a bloody shambles” said one angry bloke, “absolutely no-one in charge…” 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As long as you want to get rid of plastic pollution I’m your man! Everything else is above my pay grade. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No! I’ve seen one and never again. Here for work tho - I am your rep at the UN this week (god help us). 110
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From London to Bangkok - where it is absolutely pissing down. Still better than the day job. 160
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What are Skrewdriver doing these days ? 000
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Kenney Jones is still going - sadly none of the others are. But it’s the house that inspired ‘Lazy Sunday’ by all accounts, if that doesn’t deserve a plaque for contribution to human happiness then I don’t know what does! 140
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Went for a walk to where the Small Faces used to live all together in Pimlico last night - disappointingly no huge blue plaque. But Battersea Power Station looked impressive on the way back. 2182
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/20265 days - that’s terrible! I’d probably go with the ‘take the day off and go to a spa’ option at that point. 110
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerSylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#TwoTierPolicing 10448219
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerYoungy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic. 514565
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Battersea Bardot come down to the station… 020
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerVic Spanner @vic-spanner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Jail this motherfucker 161
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Courage (in a French accent…) ! I spent a week in Amsterdam and only came home with three, the restraint was almost painful. 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I absolutely did - looking like a landlocked Beach Boy who’d dropped in after a weekend shopping in Italy. At least that’s how I remember it…. 120
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just dropped by Tate Britain for an hour or so - they’ve got a Scopitone showing Agnes Varda films of 50’s Cuba! Thats 3 unexpected delights in one. So much better than the Whistler exhibition. 0101
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He didn’t, factually or objectively. Now fuck off. 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The suede jacket was a mistake. It’s bloody well summer again. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Glorious blue skies, suede jacket getting an outing, mist hanging in in the fields, so it must be autumn. Appropriately enough on the train to London listening to Railcard playing this - feeling very happy with the world just for a few moments. youtu.be/lnDH3L5CoHo?...youtu.beSlow TrainYouTube video by Railcard - Topic 120
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Did much the same on the basis of If You Want Me - it’s a great album and has been stuck on the turntable for three weeks now. 110
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerMillions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover 31995332
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Only a matter of time before going full double white denim! 220
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Always on the juke box in The Angel - don’t remember shouting it in there, not that anyone would have noticed. 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sometimes I forget just how damn funky the Commodores could be when they cut loose youtu.be/-5EmnQp3V48?...youtu.beThe Commodores - Brick HouseYouTube video by steelydan1979 100
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I mean, if he’s not digging your set it goes a long way to explaining why their music sounds like it has all the soul sucked out of it. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fair few people I know well above retirement age who may or may not live Kneecap but stand for all the things they do. That’s why they keep getting arrested as terrorists. 011
Reposted by Absolute BeginnerPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There is no middle ground with the kind of people who attack the RNLI. We don’t need to ‘listen’ to them. We need to tell them where to go. 751935432