Reposted by Richard ARichard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Caligula: crazy name, crazy Gaius 001
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 10/07/2026What, you mean he's just been pretending to be deaf? The little bastard! 1448370
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The man who manages the incredible feat of being both the worst Piers *and* the worst Corbyn. 151
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Surely too good to be true, I thought. But no. She was real. 130
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Steven Moffat once wrote an entire column in #DoctorWho Magazine all about the day he met me 000
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The Guardian is doing a poll of the 100 best novels in the English language. Rather than seeing how many I've read, I want to see what's the highest-ranked book I've never heard of. I expect it'll be something in the high 40s. Today is numbers 100-81. So far, number 81, Buddenbrooks <blank look>theguardian.comThe 100 best novels of all timeA countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read? 220
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Trump refused to admit that he didn't win an election. It should come as no surprise that he doesn't admit that he isn't winning a war. 010
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Top 15 TV shows, no second guesses The Sandbaggers The Wire Detectorists Band of Brothers Slow Horses Edge of Darkness The Monocled Mutineer Brideshead Revisited The Day Today Doctor Who ('63-'89) Race Across The World A Very Peculiar Practice Fortunes of War Breaking Bad The Death of Yugoslavia 000
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Donna Summer - I Feel Love The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea Jaco - Show Some Love Pulp - Common People Suede - The 2 Of Us The Temptations - Get Ready Rammstein -Du Hast The Sisters If Mercy - Afterhours New Order - The Perfect Kiss Roxy Music - Street Life 110
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Rare shot from the first #Orbital show at Glastonbury 040
Reposted by Richard ARobert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Philip Larkin’s (unpublished) poem on the plight of the librarian. 111026
Reposted by Richard AMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 03/03/2026this photo leaves little to the imagination 331458232
Reposted by Richard AAlex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 27/02/2026So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class". 181778362
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Speaking as a qualified plumber married to an immigrant, get it right up yer, Goodwin, you tosser. 082
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 18/01/2026"The trouble with London is there's too many immigrants now" London was literally founded by immigrants, two thousand years ago. 000
Reposted by Richard ACarl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..." 8044851340
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The woman at the hot drinks counter did that think of making a heart shape in the froth on my hot chocolate, but then I held the cup in my left hand and it just made me think of Buster Gonad. @vizcomic.bsky.social 010
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 10/01/2026No TV programme ever frightened me more. Delicious stuff. 010
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A lovely thread about one person's experience with cochlear implants. A genuinely life-changing, life-enhancing invention. All praise forever to Professor Graeme Clark. It was a wonderful day when my implanted kids got to meet him. And hooray for the NHS. We never received a bill. 032
Reposted by Richard AViz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz351bs 123938
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 07/01/2026By electing Donald Trump the good people of the USA have allowed Putin to blackmail NATO into oblivion, thus overturning the result of the Cold War. The 2024 American presidential election was the greatest victory in Russian history. 000
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 05/01/2026America is behaving like it knows it's too late (or not worth the trouble) to do anything about global environmental collapse, and is preparing for what it thinks will follow in its wake. 010
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Sam looks like an update of the smarmy yuppie type who's a wrong 'un but not actually the murderer in 80% of episodes of Inspector Morse. #Traitors 050
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Hugo quoting Sun Tzu is the least surprising thing that has ever happened anywhere in the world, ever. #Traitors 091
Reposted by Richard ARuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵 351369699
Reposted by Richard APaul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 01/01/20262026 is the year of the what? (🐎) 161570672
Reposted by Richard ATom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/12/2025What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them. 4754177
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Nirvana's last release on Sub Pop, and their last before Smells Like Teen Spirit, was about the witch from Rentaghost. 031
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 31/12/2025youtu.be/W3q8Od5qJio?...youtu.beRammstein - Du Hast (Official 4K Video)YouTube video by Rammstein Official 220
Reposted by Richard APaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth. 7647341854
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 30/12/2025A representative sample of 'punk PR' guru Alan Edwards' indescribably tedious collection of rock'n'roll war non-stories 'I Was There', which really ought to be subtitled 'But I May As Well Not Have Been'. It's like this all the way through. 010
Reposted by Richard AAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Good news everyone! Sweden’s Gävlebocken didn’t burn down this year. Instead it blew over in a storm.svt.seHär blåser Gävlebocken omkull under stormen JohannesGävlebocken har mött ett nytt öde. I stormen Johannes framfart, med kraftiga vindar, blåste bocken omkull under lördagen. Många människor samlades runt bocken för att bevittna händelsen. – Jag tyckte ... 37519
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Myrrh again. "You're so hard to buy presents for!" Fuck's sake. 140
Reposted by Richard AChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 25/12/2025My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day: Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu 18707154
Reposted by Richard Abadly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 24/12/2025He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it. 713003740
Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Christmas Eve 1977. When Cromer was, briefly, the most happening place in the World. You do have to question Malcolm McLaren's chops as a manager, innit. 010
