Random Geezer
@jb-58.bsky.social
🇬🇧 Gentleman of a certain age (316 ppm).💚💙💜
Random Interests: Art, crafts, reading, writing, cooking, photography, naturism, sex/body positivity, ageing well, green stuff, tech scepticism, big ideas.
Pics and art except reposts mine and ©.
Bella ciao!
Random Interests: Art, crafts, reading, writing, cooking, photography, naturism, sex/body positivity, ageing well, green stuff, tech scepticism, big ideas.
Pics and art except reposts mine and ©.
Bella ciao!
Labour Party latest communications plan.
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Labour Party latest communications plan.
Virginia Woolf, 'How Should One Read a Book?'
The sentence finishes...'the greatest of novelists have had to face.'
Putting this here for all those people who 'consume' books or boast about how many they've read in the last whenever.
#reading
The sentence finishes...'the greatest of novelists have had to face.'
Putting this here for all those people who 'consume' books or boast about how many they've read in the last whenever.
#reading
February 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Virginia Woolf, 'How Should One Read a Book?'
The sentence finishes...'the greatest of novelists have had to face.'
Putting this here for all those people who 'consume' books or boast about how many they've read in the last whenever.
#reading
The sentence finishes...'the greatest of novelists have had to face.'
Putting this here for all those people who 'consume' books or boast about how many they've read in the last whenever.
#reading
This is who runs this account.
You have a 1 in 4 chance.
You have a 1 in 4 chance.
February 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is who runs this account.
You have a 1 in 4 chance.
You have a 1 in 4 chance.
Who needs your triple espresso hand ground beans picked from the southern slope of the mountain at the vernal equinox when you have....
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Who needs your triple espresso hand ground beans picked from the southern slope of the mountain at the vernal equinox when you have....
QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?
January 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
QOTD: What car do you want most, but know would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?
Lebensraum, US style.
And what was Lebensraum other than 'Manifest Destiny', Nazi style?
#historyrhymes
And what was Lebensraum other than 'Manifest Destiny', Nazi style?
#historyrhymes
January 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Lebensraum, US style.
And what was Lebensraum other than 'Manifest Destiny', Nazi style?
#historyrhymes
And what was Lebensraum other than 'Manifest Destiny', Nazi style?
#historyrhymes
The other 10% are BBC political journalists.
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The other 10% are BBC political journalists.
No idea why people ruin a perfectly good cauliflower cheese by adding a roast dinner.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
No idea why people ruin a perfectly good cauliflower cheese by adding a roast dinner.
You have to admit, the Despicable Tosspot class has a certain ring to it.
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
You have to admit, the Despicable Tosspot class has a certain ring to it.
I make them all the time. This one lemon curd and creme fraiche.
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I make them all the time. This one lemon curd and creme fraiche.
My compound German nouns are a little rusty but I think the word I'm looking for is something like Anticharismascheisskopf.
#streeting
#streeting
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
My compound German nouns are a little rusty but I think the word I'm looking for is something like Anticharismascheisskopf.
#streeting
#streeting
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that a technology boosted entirely by horse shit traders should itself trade in horse shit.
#AI
#AI
December 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that a technology boosted entirely by horse shit traders should itself trade in horse shit.
#AI
#AI
Bought this at charity shop earlier.
Published in 2019, to talk of surveillance capitalism seems slightly quaint given the way AI froth has come to dominate nearly all digital discourse in the meantime (it seems), but two pages in and I'm hooked.
#surveillance #capitalism #tech
Published in 2019, to talk of surveillance capitalism seems slightly quaint given the way AI froth has come to dominate nearly all digital discourse in the meantime (it seems), but two pages in and I'm hooked.
#surveillance #capitalism #tech
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Bought this at charity shop earlier.
Published in 2019, to talk of surveillance capitalism seems slightly quaint given the way AI froth has come to dominate nearly all digital discourse in the meantime (it seems), but two pages in and I'm hooked.
#surveillance #capitalism #tech
Published in 2019, to talk of surveillance capitalism seems slightly quaint given the way AI froth has come to dominate nearly all digital discourse in the meantime (it seems), but two pages in and I'm hooked.
#surveillance #capitalism #tech
I see those true patriots of the Reform party are extending their repertoire as an American right-wing tribute act.
The only authentic thing about these people is the dark Russian and American money paying them to sow division in our country.
The only authentic thing about these people is the dark Russian and American money paying them to sow division in our country.
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I see those true patriots of the Reform party are extending their repertoire as an American right-wing tribute act.
The only authentic thing about these people is the dark Russian and American money paying them to sow division in our country.
The only authentic thing about these people is the dark Russian and American money paying them to sow division in our country.
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter today.
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter today.
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking...
I believe they were discussing the cultural impact of Blue Oyster Cult's cover art at that moment.
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I believe they were discussing the cultural impact of Blue Oyster Cult's cover art at that moment.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Imagine there's no heaven...
It's easy if you try.
It's easy if you try.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Imagine there's no heaven...
It's easy if you try.
It's easy if you try.
There's part of me thinks the release of this picture is some 4d-chess way of undermining #Mamdani with his supporters. Another wonders if New Yorkers have been stitched up.
Another reckons it will get shown endlessly in about 30 years time at his inauguration.
First draft of #history etc
Another reckons it will get shown endlessly in about 30 years time at his inauguration.
First draft of #history etc
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I was bored so...
Freshly made lemon curd and mascapone swiss roll.
Freshly made lemon curd and mascapone swiss roll.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I was bored so...
Freshly made lemon curd and mascapone swiss roll.
Freshly made lemon curd and mascapone swiss roll.