Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 25/09/2026Cycle to school week is imminent. As a parent who already cycles the sprog to school, I hope that week involves less cars overtaking too close, opening doors on me, overtaking on a blind bend and adults crossing the road without looking. Unfortunately all 4 happened to me TODAY. 010 1
Reposted by Xan ManningAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Vibe coding replaces the interesting bit - writing code to solve a problem - and replaces it with the boring bit - reviewing someone else's code to see if they've done it right. It's a shit swap. 1018520 185
Reposted by Xan ManningAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Superdry is both the name of a clothing store and the effect their clothes have on the partners of middle-aged men who insist on shopping there. 1013910 139
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 31/07/2026Never been to a dedicated EV service station before. Clean, calm, well organised. Probably won’t last once EVs become more the norm. 010 1
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 27/07/2026A seemingly random farm with a shop and a café with beefy chargers in Norfolk. Not a bad place to find yourself needing to top up ☕️⚡️🐄 000 0
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The Mail are attacking someone for a 'man of the people' act and somehow it isn't the privately educated city trader who became a career politician and receives £5 million gifts and £2m in side hussles, but likes to pose with pints of beer he never drinks. 74801200 801
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going... 26738227 738
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 24/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Rammstein Placebo InMe Static-X Lacuna Coil System of a Down Serj Tankian Gojira Newton Faulkner George Ezra 100 1
Reposted by Xan ManningLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026Immigration make Britain brilliant 511139274208 13.9K
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 11/05/2026My grandmother-in-law. It’s mysteriously got worse now my car has just changed colour as well. 000 0
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 23/04/2026Let’s start the countdown again. Cables replaced in Mackworth, how long until the drooling knuckle draggers return to Nick the cables? I think last time it was 9 days? 000 0
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 30/01/2026The charger cables in Mackworth, Derby have been replaced yesterday by BP Pulse after having the cables cut by knuckle dragging, mouth breathers. How long will they stay this time? Got to beat the record of 4 weeks… 100 1
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 05/01/2026The summer of effectively free electricity, heating and car fuel is over and we’re now deep into the (at present) -4°c winter. Happy to report we’re still toasty warm inside. I’m collating the data for cost saving over the year. 010 1
Reposted by Xan ManningYear Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.00% 201337593 1.3K
Reposted by Xan ManningLBC @lbc.co.uk · 27/11/2025- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'. 31596243 596
Reposted by Xan Manningfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I hate it when my kids buy me something with 'World's Best Dad' on it. Because it's so blatantly not true, and makes me realise what a failure of a father I've been. 292056 205
Reposted by Xan ManningLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025Farage: epic grifter 25386754718 8.7K
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 25/10/2025Parked up at a hotel and every time I open my boot I am ambushed by swans and geese. Is this normal?! 110 1
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife. 381253697 1.3K
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 24/09/2025Today I Vibe Coded for the first time in Go. Yes I’m ashamed, but I was in a rush, the company pays for GitHub copilot and it was a simple problem I just didn’t have head space to solve myself. The code works, it’s an internal utility, harmless right? 😅 000 0
Reposted by Xan ManningRobert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I love this. Can't remember where I found it but so glad I kept a copy. 611112 111
Reposted by Xan ManningAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025ECHR offers protection against unfair dismissal from work, protects pension rights, maternity leave rights and protects women getting divorced. People who think it's a good idea to leave should be ridiculed like flat-earthers. The ignorance is astounding. 1547697 476
Reposted by Xan ManningMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Pre-ECHR, rights were almost completely at the whims of the current parliament - which doesn't always represent public majority. The Bill of Rights of 1689 could be very easily abolished by parliamentary majority. The ECHR created a set of rights that have an external guarantor. That's the point.eastangliabylines.co.ukLeaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politiciansThe myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy 9338129 338
Reposted by Xan ManningDave Thornley @dht6000.bsky.social · 29/08/2025This is bloody great and should be read by everyone in the UK 14621 46
Reposted by Xan ManningS L ∆ P P Y @sstringer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Litter picking Food bank volunteering Checking in on vulnerable neighbours Just three thing off the top of my head you can do that are more valuable to your community than painting flags on stuff. 284 8
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 02/08/2025In honour of my Twitter profile’s pinned tweet about people who like bitter coffee… 000 0
Reposted by Xan ManningMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025the room next door - When Donald Trump was Called Out 22848273 848
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 21/06/2025It’s getting a bit warm folks… showyourstripes.info/b/europe/uni...showyourstripes.infoShow Your StripesVisualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe 000 0
Reposted by Xan ManningMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/06/2025See how quickly that escalated… We put fragile, emotionally underdeveloped narcissists in power …and then we wonder how wars start. 712657403 2.7K
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government. 631611309 1.6K
Reposted by Xan ManningMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Reform civil war and now Musk Vs Trump… Monsieur, with these right-wing bells, you are really spoiling us. 3351645 516
Reposted by Xan ManningThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 27/05/202547 people were injured in Liverpool. Four of them were children. And the far-right’s first instinct? Blame brown people. When the facts didn’t fit, they pivoted - because outrage is the point. On narrative control, culture wars, and what this tells us about the populist playbook:bearlypolitics.co.ukWhat the Liverpool Attack Tells Us About the New Culture WarThe populist right's response wasn’t about victims - it was about narrative control. And it’s becoming their only move. 1119346 193
Reposted by Xan ManningAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Age of Empires II and its expansion - The Conquerors - was peak perfection when it comes to real-time strategy games. After Microsoft made the dumb decision to shut down Ensemble Studios, the franchise went completely downhill from there. AOE2-style games need to make a comeback. 6531 53
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Today we remember those who fought and died to save us from people like this. #VEDay80 9616133 616
Reposted by Xan ManningMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Tory MP IT Supportyoutu.beTory MP IT SupportYouTube video by Michael Spicer 43693246 693
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I really hope the last words Pope Francis heard weren't "Do you even own a suit?" 31795108 795
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 19/04/2025Travelling back from down south, input home into satnav. Car: you’ll get home with 6% battery Me: cool, I can do that or better *slightly lead footed out of a hunction* Car: nope! You need to charge at the services, I’ve started preheating the battery rapidly eating into your 6% buffer (TBC) 100 1
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 18/04/2025After sleeping on the floor for half the night trying get my son to sleep, then on the sofa due to ridiculous hay fever for the remainder of last night, I decided tonight to have a stupidly hot shower to fix my aches. Anyone who says heat pumps don’t work are mistaken! 020 2
Reposted by Xan ManningParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Former Tory MP, Craig Williams, and 14 others, charged with gambling offences over the 2024 election. I’m surprised, as he doesn’t look like the sort of smug, entitled Tory prick that would think the rules didn’t apply to him. 46885140 885
Xan Manning @rantomatic.com · 11/04/2025I was already a bit of an AI sceptic, used correctly I appreciate it can be revolutionary but I’ve always been concerned about its misuse. I too often see it as an excuse to stop thinking (eg. “Vibe coding”) but the potential impact under capitalism is terrifying. youtu.be/ChX_ms5Nhm0?...youtu.beWhy AI Is Scarier Than You ThinkYouTube video by Our Changing Climate 000 0