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jonstump
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Cycling round Wiltshire and feeding the ducks (and playing records and building little aeroplanes).
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catmachine.com
Just as relevant this morning. Do some minimal research FFS. This is policy based on vibes. And bad vibes at that.
catmachine.com Chris Limb @catmachine.com · Mar 17
Don’t make me tap the graph.

#Streeting #Overdiagnosed
Graph of rate of left handedness among Americans by year of birth from 1880 to 2000 starting from 5% dipping to 3% at 1900 then curving up to 12% and staying stable from 1960 onwards. Title is “The history of left handedness”.
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
jonstump.bsky.social
Start your day with Stereolab
youtu.be/XiIQAxfDSKo?...
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I was right he did need a top hat.
A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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ninawils.bsky.social
Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Let's see if we can weather the first over... #TheCricket
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
jonstump.bsky.social
Hang on lads, I've got an idea...
News article headline: Cats scream louder at men and it's probably the men's fault A black and white cat giving am unimpressed look athe camera person, who is holding a sound level meter at the cat.
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mthrjo.bsky.social
I love carols, but I would rather never sing one again than let the narrative take hold that only White English ways of celebrating Christmas are acceptable, or that Our Lord belongs to the fash.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
dorianlynskey.bsky.social Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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leftoutside.bsky.social
It brings me no pleasure to say so but Chris Mason must now resign. His position is untenable.

BBC News - Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official
Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
*Muppets theme tune plays*
ups Hi, Lev Parikian It's time to get your parcel! Your action is required.
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
jesawyer.bsky.social Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 3d
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
James Garner in a navy blue uniform and white turtleneck in The Great Escape
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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darrenhayman.bsky.social
It’s my birthday.

The best thing you could do for me is buy my lovely new book, ‘Birds Painted on Beer Mats’

That would be great for both of us I think.

darrenhaymanart.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
"I'm helping"
A black cat investigating an illuminated Christmas tree, which has been up for all of two minutes.
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Aerial photography's often fascinating, but this oblique view of Swindon and 1920 is a particular peach.

historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
EPW000937 - Aerial Photo | Historic England
Explore the aerial photo collection
historicengland.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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hedleythorne.bsky.social
Uffington White Horse charging towards the hillfort. It is lovely at this time of year. #neolithic
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Headline from The Onion: Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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public-history.bsky.social
I bought this hand coloured copy of the 18th century engraving of Cherhill White Horse some time back. It was inexpensive because someone started recolouring it in the 60s judging by the paint applied to the traveller's coat left.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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wiglet1981.bsky.social
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Anybody want to go and work for Vickers at South Marston (currently a massive speculative industrial estate, formerly Honda)?
The front cover of Flight And Aircraft Engineer (official organ of the Royal Aero Club), 25 May 1956. A dramatic painted image of a De Havilland Vampire with two pilots side by side in the cockpit firing missiles at a beach A stylistic advert for Martin Baker ejector seats A very stylish advert for Bristol, seeking draughtsmen and technicians Situations vacant, including a position at Vickers in South Marston
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
#NowPlaying Al Green, I Want To Hold Your Hand
A record playing on a turntable. There's no sleeve propped up behind today. A close up of the corner of the sleeve.
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Had a bit of a tidy while listening to the football. What do we think was occupying the minds of Practical Motorists in June 1958?

Oh...
The colourful front cover of Practical Motorist & Motor Cyclist (The leading journal for do it yourself motorists), June 1958. A man in a light brown jacket has the rear offside wheel off a green Morris Minor Traveller. THE BUDGET BLUNDER Once again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has seen fit to pass by the legitimate claim of the motor industry and its customers and users for a considerable reduction of the punitive taxation to which motorists and Whilst the Chancellor on one hand made mild makers have been subject for so many years. There is a 60 per cent. purchase tax, or 12s. in the pound, on every new car, and there is, moreover, a further tax of 2s. 6d. on every gallon of petrol. The petrol tax alone contributes £360,000,000 to the total national revenue and purchase tax on cars, £115,000,000, or about one quarter of the total purchase tax revenue. tax concessions on cosmetics, certain domestic equipment
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
jonstump.bsky.social
Have some of that. Shame Walsall got a winner at Bromley, but second in the table's ok for now (and all you can do is win, right?).
Hope Holloway doesn't mind me enjoying things...
Chesterfield 1 - 2 Swindon
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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riffraff1971.bsky.social
ADRIAAAAANNN!!
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
jonstump.bsky.social
Tufted ducks down the lake lads
Several ducks swimming around. Some of them are black and white with little tufts on their heads, because they're tufted ducks
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM