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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently I'm not being helpful with my daughter's English Language workbook when I define "bard" as "something a sheep did"

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Hah, I see what you did there.

Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 7d

New trick to mitigate the stress and tension of watching a penalty shootout: Sit in row A, seat 99 at Adams Park. Sorted.

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 8d

They'd be even more expensive without renewables in the mix.

Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 22d

Welcome to Deal, courtesy of Network Rail

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 23d

The UK is so suffocatingly expensive. And yet people are tying flags to lampposts as if it's refugees who are ripping them off for food, transport, entertainment, rent...

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · 23d

That feeling when you're accustomed to all public transport being 25 pence, and then you come to London on holiday and pay over twenty quid just to get your family from zone 5 to zone 1.

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 29

Only regret was not getting to Melbourne. Just too bloody expensive with a trip to the UK coming up. But yep, was magic.

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 21

Wait did someone leave Baker Mayfield with two minutes and a one-score deficit again?

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 20

Just checking in on the progressive left in the United Kingd... Oh fucksocks

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 16

I was a "fan from afar"... fell for them after seeing the famous game where Eric Metcalf ran back two punts to beat the Steelers. Waited out the lost years, didn't mind the crapness, loved some of the characters, especially Baker.
But Watson? Fuck that. It killed them for me.

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 16

Very few things in sport give me more satisfaction than seeing Baker Mayfield absolutely thriving, while his former employers, who dropped him to bet the entire farm on an unrepentant sexual predator, flail around in the wilderness.

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure about this framing, @australia.theguardian.com

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Aug 28

Southern Water: "We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

#dealkent

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Queensland media on Net Zero:
"Is Net Zero going to bankrupt this nation with the most abundant renewable energy on the planet? We talk with a fossil fuel executive, and for balance we also talk to a fossil fuel executive who was in a different class at Churchie"

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Where are you going to place your penalty, Lucy Bronze?"

a woman says honestly i don 't know in a netflix ad

ALT: a woman says honestly i don 't know in a netflix ad

media.tenor.com

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Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Jun 18

(Image is a screenshot of this article: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...)

Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list

Speaking to Guardian Australia, the environment minister said the report had been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

www.theguardian.com

Jon @ormondroyd.bsky.social · Jun 18

When I was campaigning for Australian Greens in the recent election, we were up against Labor telling everyone that the only party of meaningful environment action was themselves. “Action, not outrage!”, the guy kept shouting over my conversations at the polling station.
That “action”: