Random Geezer
@jb-58.bsky.social
🇬🇧 Gentleman of a certain age (316 ppm).💚💙💜
Art, buildings, books, poetry, photography, printmaking, life-drawing, textiles, naturism, sex/body positivity, wellness, ageing are my lightly-held bags.
Pics and art except reposts all mine and ©.
Bella ciao!
Art, buildings, books, poetry, photography, printmaking, life-drawing, textiles, naturism, sex/body positivity, wellness, ageing are my lightly-held bags.
Pics and art except reposts all mine and ©.
Bella ciao!
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Feisty cockatoo.
Reminds me of when the kids were teenagers
Reminds me of when the kids were teenagers
Arguing with a parrot that's something you don't see everyday 😅
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Feisty cockatoo.
Reminds me of when the kids were teenagers
Reminds me of when the kids were teenagers
There is something quite disgustingly disingenuous about #TikTok advertising itself by drawing on what appears to be people's experience of a parent with dementia.
*Of course* such experiences are entirely what its business model was founded on.
*Of course* such experiences are entirely what its business model was founded on.
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There is something quite disgustingly disingenuous about #TikTok advertising itself by drawing on what appears to be people's experience of a parent with dementia.
*Of course* such experiences are entirely what its business model was founded on.
*Of course* such experiences are entirely what its business model was founded on.
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Social media was a mistake and now we're stuck with a dumbass president and every person who uses it suffering from some type of mental health condition.
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Social media was a mistake and now we're stuck with a dumbass president and every person who uses it suffering from some type of mental health condition.
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Some companies are waiting for a new technology to unlock an imaginary innovation when everything required to build a company the size of Google was available 20 years ago.
December 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Some companies are waiting for a new technology to unlock an imaginary innovation when everything required to build a company the size of Google was available 20 years ago.
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Trump: "Why don't we take people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark"?
Uh...all of these are countries with universal healthcare, free college, a high quality of life, and high happiness. Why the fuck would they want to come to the US?
Uh...all of these are countries with universal healthcare, free college, a high quality of life, and high happiness. Why the fuck would they want to come to the US?
December 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Trump: "Why don't we take people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark"?
Uh...all of these are countries with universal healthcare, free college, a high quality of life, and high happiness. Why the fuck would they want to come to the US?
Uh...all of these are countries with universal healthcare, free college, a high quality of life, and high happiness. Why the fuck would they want to come to the US?
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Pause for a moment, and read...
• Seamus Heaney •
• Seamus Heaney •
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pause for a moment, and read...
• Seamus Heaney •
• Seamus Heaney •
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I don't understand why so many people have been seduced by the idea of technology doing all the work for them. Is it because they're only interested in the output and not the process? How did we get to a point where so many people are so attracted to what is effectively being lazy?
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I don't understand why so many people have been seduced by the idea of technology doing all the work for them. Is it because they're only interested in the output and not the process? How did we get to a point where so many people are so attracted to what is effectively being lazy?
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter today.
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter today.
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I have a subscription to Private Eye. I never read the thing; I just consider it my charitable duty to help to prop up pretty much the only news-related publication which occasionally prints truthful items rather than the blatant lies which fill all other "news" publications.
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I have a subscription to Private Eye. I never read the thing; I just consider it my charitable duty to help to prop up pretty much the only news-related publication which occasionally prints truthful items rather than the blatant lies which fill all other "news" publications.
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Bloody Net Zero, leaving us with no energy bills to pay for at least a decade.
'The future of British housing': 113-home development becomes 'world's largest' Zero Bills neighbourhood
Housing Secretary unveils Epping Forest development, featuring first community microgrid that will guarantee residents no home energy bills for at least a decade
www.businessgreen.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Bloody Net Zero, leaving us with no energy bills to pay for at least a decade.
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Alan Parry (British, b.1940)
"Red and Black," 2020
Acrylic on board
52 x 61 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Red and Black," 2020
Acrylic on board
52 x 61 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Alan Parry (British, b.1940)
"Red and Black," 2020
Acrylic on board
52 x 61 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Red and Black," 2020
Acrylic on board
52 x 61 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Never trust a chicken
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Never trust a chicken
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The public isn't buying the AI hype – even if CEOs are going all-in qz.com/ai-safety-jo...
The public isn’t buying the AI hype, even if CEOs are
Big spending on AI hasn’t won over the public, who worry about safety, jobs, and who really benefits from the tech boom
qz.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The public isn't buying the AI hype – even if CEOs are going all-in qz.com/ai-safety-jo...
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Wholesale UK Electricity is 35% cheaper than the same period in 2024, Gas is 28% cheaper.
What about YOUR bills?
What about YOUR bills?
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Wholesale UK Electricity is 35% cheaper than the same period in 2024, Gas is 28% cheaper.
What about YOUR bills?
What about YOUR bills?
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Excuse me what..??!! This man is such a hopeless human and idiot (which is why he thinks ChatGPT is a ’genius level at everything intelligence waiting to unravel the mysterious of humanity’). This entire project is motivated by men who are unable & unwilling to manage basic human relationships.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Excuse me what..??!! This man is such a hopeless human and idiot (which is why he thinks ChatGPT is a ’genius level at everything intelligence waiting to unravel the mysterious of humanity’). This entire project is motivated by men who are unable & unwilling to manage basic human relationships.
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“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
This is good news yet, I think this is right, our energy prices are dictated by the cost of gas.
#energy
#energy
The UK is running on 60.2% renewable electricity. Fossils just 17%
Thank you storm Bram 🌬️
Thank you storm Bram 🌬️
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is good news yet, I think this is right, our energy prices are dictated by the cost of gas.
#energy
#energy
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Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/ref...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/ref...
Reform UK’s energy plans crumble under scrutiny
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/ref...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/ref...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Free speech has always had parameters, has always had consequences - this case is a reminder of that."
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Free speech has always had parameters, has always had consequences - this case is a reminder of that."
Not that I want to suppress anyone but 'Freedom of Speech' should be properly understood as a peculiarly American fetish and not the basis for foreign policy interventions.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Not that I want to suppress anyone but 'Freedom of Speech' should be properly understood as a peculiarly American fetish and not the basis for foreign policy interventions.
Set this to something in Dorian and you're on your way to a Roger Waters song.
"Your hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics will be rejected."
Labour MP slaps down Farage over his comments about Glasgow schoolchildren
"Your hissing snake oil Putinist fifth column politics will be rejected."
leftfootforward.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Set this to something in Dorian and you're on your way to a Roger Waters song.
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Enough to power 23 million homes!
U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...