Jeff Pickthall
@jeffpickthall.bsky.social
Possessor of opinions. Crate digger. Likes a pint. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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Jeff Pickthall
@jeffpickthall.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Clear & bright small pack photographs for UK Brewers and Beer Sellers - Bottle and Can Studio
Sample photographs of bottles and cans
bottleandcanstudio.co.uk
Beer folk: this is my side hustle. I would like to elevate it to main hustle. bottleandcanstudio.co.uk
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
Do the Germans have a word for the pain of yearning for the downfall of Elon Musk? If not, they need to work on it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Do the Germans have a word for the pain of yearning for the downfall of Elon Musk? If not, they need to work on it.
Hypocrisy is invisible to authoritarians.
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hypocrisy is invisible to authoritarians.
Do the Germans have a word for the urge to hang on to an empty container as it may become useful? If they don’t, they need to work on it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Do the Germans have a word for the urge to hang on to an empty container as it may become useful? If they don’t, they need to work on it.
Dear everyone: please don’t buy me the new Piers Morgan book for Christmas.
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Dear everyone: please don’t buy me the new Piers Morgan book for Christmas.
I've just spent the last 90 minutes thinking today is Saturday.
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I've just spent the last 90 minutes thinking today is Saturday.
Journalists: please stop using “exponential growth” to mean “large growth”. You remember doing compound interest at school? That is exactly what exponential growth is.
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Journalists: please stop using “exponential growth” to mean “large growth”. You remember doing compound interest at school? That is exactly what exponential growth is.
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Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Final Version:
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right
Text & signatories here -
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
A confused Daily Mail reader writes…
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A confused Daily Mail reader writes…
Carter had to give up his peanut farm.
October 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Carter had to give up his peanut farm.
I really want to enjoy “Blue Lights” but the production is so dark it looks like every scene is lit by candles. I’m starting to find this very irritating.
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I really want to enjoy “Blue Lights” but the production is so dark it looks like every scene is lit by candles. I’m starting to find this very irritating.
This is an attack on the rule of law.
"We weed out the bad judges and defend the good ones."
Shadow Justice Sec. Robert Jenrick tells @maitlis.bsky.social he wants to "undo the constitutional vandalism" Blair inflicted on the UK judicial system...
Shadow Justice Sec. Robert Jenrick tells @maitlis.bsky.social he wants to "undo the constitutional vandalism" Blair inflicted on the UK judicial system...
October 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is an attack on the rule of law.
Shameful that BBC World at One presenter uses “problem judges”.
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Shameful that BBC World at One presenter uses “problem judges”.
I am pleased to live in a multicultural neighbourhood where I never see a Jenrick.
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I am pleased to live in a multicultural neighbourhood where I never see a Jenrick.
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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
October 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).
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Has Labour woken up? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analysing how Starmer’s Labour seems to be taking a firmer line with Reform and Brexitism, rattling Farage, but many ambiguities and contradictions remain:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...
October 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Has Labour woken up? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analysing how Starmer’s Labour seems to be taking a firmer line with Reform and Brexitism, rattling Farage, but many ambiguities and contradictions remain:
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...
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It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.
It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.
October 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It is a source of great satisfaction that this sort of shite has largely died out.
I got a text from an unknown number. I couldn’t resist.
September 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I got a text from an unknown number. I couldn’t resist.
A good turnout for the anti-far right rally in Newcastle today. About 3x the numbers the far right knuckle-draggers got last weekend.
September 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A good turnout for the anti-far right rally in Newcastle today. About 3x the numbers the far right knuckle-draggers got last weekend.
Still brilliant. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... @timbassett.bsky.social
Screen Two - The Firm
Drama about Bex, an estate agent with a seemingly respectable family life who is also a football hooligan leading a vicious 'firm' of thugs.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Still brilliant. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... @timbassett.bsky.social
I’ll be furious that twat Thiel and his Palantirvhave anything to do with this.
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme
The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’ll be furious that twat Thiel and his Palantirvhave anything to do with this.
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...