jon w
@jnthnxiv.bsky.social
Arts funding is a public good but BIIIIIIIIG side eye for some of these claims.
The biggest "profit" for the Irish economy was that it made the recipients about €80 million happier.
The biggest "profit" for the Irish economy was that it made the recipients about €80 million happier.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Arts funding is a public good but BIIIIIIIIG side eye for some of these claims.
The biggest "profit" for the Irish economy was that it made the recipients about €80 million happier.
The biggest "profit" for the Irish economy was that it made the recipients about €80 million happier.
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I don't have any opinions about anything any more. All I want is for everyone to stop talking like fucking morons.
Extraordinary moment on Sky News as Peter Kyle hits out at criticism of the Online Safety Act:
“If people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he’d be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side"
Told that Zia Yusuf will be responding shortly on the programme
“If people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he’d be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side"
Told that Zia Yusuf will be responding shortly on the programme
July 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I don't have any opinions about anything any more. All I want is for everyone to stop talking like fucking morons.
Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint"
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth
Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint"
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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It's up: this week's Ersatz Thursday Quiz. thursdayquiz.glitch.me/quiz-2025-06...
I've just got to redo the score table because MrsTim posted a late score.
cc @katarazzi.bsky.social @markosp.bsky.social
I've just got to redo the score table because MrsTim posted a late score.
cc @katarazzi.bsky.social @markosp.bsky.social
From Bears, Betteridge & Bezos to Venice, Vilnius & Vostok - take the Ersatz Thursday Quiz
thursdayquiz.glitch.me
June 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It's up: this week's Ersatz Thursday Quiz. thursdayquiz.glitch.me/quiz-2025-06...
I've just got to redo the score table because MrsTim posted a late score.
cc @katarazzi.bsky.social @markosp.bsky.social
I've just got to redo the score table because MrsTim posted a late score.
cc @katarazzi.bsky.social @markosp.bsky.social
If you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh
June 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh
Week 2 without the Guardian Thursday Quiz. I'm trying to stay calm but the panic is rising.
June 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Week 2 without the Guardian Thursday Quiz. I'm trying to stay calm but the panic is rising.
Remembering that time in 2007 when I invented the beard.
May 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Remembering that time in 2007 when I invented the beard.
What can we learn about Leo XIV from looking at his namesake predecessors? Well, here are two Leo XIII "facts" (disclaimer: they're from a brief look at Wikipedia).
1. He was concerned with social justice issues
2. He enjoyed "the cocaine-infused wine tonic Vin Mariani"
#wokepope #cokepope
1. He was concerned with social justice issues
2. He enjoyed "the cocaine-infused wine tonic Vin Mariani"
#wokepope #cokepope
May 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Very happy that I have, once again, been elected as the new Pope.
May 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Very happy that I have, once again, been elected as the new Pope.
This 160 Madness bootleg by POLO LILLI... What a time to be alive. soundcloud.com/polo-lilli/2...
2-Step Beyond (Madness Bootleg)
2 ---- STEP ---- BEYOOOOOOOND
FREE DL
Bandcamp for the g8 h8rs: https://polo-lilli.bandcamp.com/track/2-step-beyond
soundcloud.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This 160 Madness bootleg by POLO LILLI... What a time to be alive. soundcloud.com/polo-lilli/2...
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Went for a walk, wrote about it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: A fishing reel, digital noise … the grasshopper warbler is a bird for every age | Richard Smyth
Whitley Bay, North Tyneside: Denied the chance of seeing this elusive bird for centuries, we’ve had to make do with analysing its extraordinary call
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Went for a walk, wrote about it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Go read (or listen to) some of what Richard wrote. He's very good at it.
For no good reason except that another tax year has gone by and I'm still here, doing this, I thought I'd post some of the stuff I did in 2024-25. Some of it was pretty good, you know.
April 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Go read (or listen to) some of what Richard wrote. He's very good at it.
two donuts is not enough. three donuts is too many.
March 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
two donuts is not enough. three donuts is too many.
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don't forget
March 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
don't forget
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I don’t wish to alarm anyone but if you draw glasses on Masaccio’s Virgin and Child it’s Michael Caine holding a tiny Chris Evans being serenaded by the Proclaimers
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I don’t wish to alarm anyone but if you draw glasses on Masaccio’s Virgin and Child it’s Michael Caine holding a tiny Chris Evans being serenaded by the Proclaimers
A reminder that music is good. You should listen to some.
March 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A reminder that music is good. You should listen to some.
Enjoying this old mill 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒
‘Isn’t it grand, boys? To be bloody well dead / Let’s not have a sniffle / Let’s have a bloody good cry / And always remember: the longer you live / The sooner you bloody well die’
‘Isn’t it grand, boys? To be bloody well dead / Let’s not have a sniffle / Let’s have a bloody good cry / And always remember: the longer you live / The sooner you bloody well die’
Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures
Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Enjoying this old mill 𝓋𝒾𝒷𝑒
‘Isn’t it grand, boys? To be bloody well dead / Let’s not have a sniffle / Let’s have a bloody good cry / And always remember: the longer you live / The sooner you bloody well die’
‘Isn’t it grand, boys? To be bloody well dead / Let’s not have a sniffle / Let’s have a bloody good cry / And always remember: the longer you live / The sooner you bloody well die’
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I will always love you, Kabosu. I don't care that you were co-opted by the biggest losers on the internet. It was not your fault.
February 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I will always love you, Kabosu. I don't care that you were co-opted by the biggest losers on the internet. It was not your fault.
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That poor dog. She deserves to be remembered better than she will be in the long run.
February 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
That poor dog. She deserves to be remembered better than she will be in the long run.
I'll never forgive them for the dirty they've done to doge.
On this day 15 years ago, Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.
February 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'll never forgive them for the dirty they've done to doge.
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Fuck this for a game of soldiers.
February 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Fuck this for a game of soldiers.