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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Research shows that one in four people would walk more if pavements were less cluttered. Related: I will never not be impressed by how Mancunians made their feelings known about unwanted pavement clutter:

A utilities cabinet on a pavement in Manchester has a bill posted to it which reads

"Fuck these stupid boxes"

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lucy Grossmith painted this. I like it.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A red traffic light means stop. Or, you know, don't.

The exterior wall of a bowling alley located next to a road junction, with a newly-formed aperture in the wall. The hole just happens to be the exact size and shape of a badly-driven BMW.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that is a very good line. And here - with no spraydeck in sight - is my canoe:

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There really must be a brainfart in the algorithm if I'm getting American soccer served up to me.

Me, blocking an American soccer bluesky account.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm a massive fan of Ortlieb, and I'm fortunate to own loads of their products, but when they're asking £70 for a simple dry bag rucksack, I'm afraid Decathlon are getting my business. And my £30.

A pale green 30 litre dry bag with shoulder straps from Decathlon.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who's canoeing in his new Hou canoe today? You know who.

Some old guy paddling an open canoe on Windermere, in the English Lake District.

As the saying goes, if you're lucky enough to be canoeing, you're lucky enough.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dee Nickerson painted this. I like it.

Painting of a windswept beach, with lots of people - mostly couples - walking their dogs

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In yet another Green by-election win, the @greenparty.org.uk have gained Queen's Park in Brighton from Labour. Huge congratulations to @ibikebrighton.bsky.social, who is Queen's Park's new councillor.

Bar chart of Queen’s Park (Brighton) election results: Green leads with 50.13%, Labour 35.3%, Reform 7.04%, Conservatives 4.2%, and Lib Dems 3.2%. Green gain from Labour.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you cake. Our neighbours from down the way, Hattie and Lorenzo, have an escapologist of a terrier. She escaped the other day, so we tempted her over with biscuits, and repatriated her. Hattie just dropped this off to say thank you. Nom nom nom.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who's got a new Hou canoe? You know who.

Some old guy paddling a red open canoe on Windermere. Photo taken near Ferry Nab looking north, so the central fells are visible in the distance.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unlike the team at The Telegraph, I am intensely relaxed about this.

A headline in the Telegraph reads:

Burnham refuses to rule out rejoining EU

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Second breakfast prep. aka 'mise en place'

A plate on a kitchen table with two white baps prepped with brown sauce. Also visible: a Vote Green mug.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The lonely leaf. @juliew67.bsky.social took this photograph. I like it.

A photo looking directly down onto a white painted stone window sill yesterday at Salts Mill Saltaire.
The off white white paint is unevenly painted with brush marks visible.
The uneven texture is a bit dirty and there is a coffee stain at the top.
A single small brown leaf from a nearby plant is on the sill with a shadow from it falling onto the sill

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"And that track, I'm contractually obliged to say, was the new single from Probably Liberal Democrats. "If, unlike me, you didn't find that somewhat underwhelming, you might like to know that Ed & Co. will be playing The Wheat Sheaf in Winchester next Wednesday."

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We're turning yesterday's sky shine into today's near-zero electricity bill, oh yes we are.

An app that shows in real time what our solar PV array is generating, what our battery is doing (charging, discharging), and how much we're importing from/exporting to the grid.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Lib Dem MP: "We should crack down on barber shops run by the wrong sort of people, you know the sort *winks*" Bluesky, not having it:

Screenshot from Father Ted, where a parishioner appears over a wall, saying:

"I hear you're a racist now, father."

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Holding people who use the same mode of transport as someone who has committed an antisocial act responsible for that individual's behaviour is a clear logical fallacy. That we don't apply this standard to car drivers, but regularly do to people who ride cycles makes this textbook #motonormativity.

A photo of an inconsiderately parked hire bike with the comment:

"I’m all in favour of hire bikes in principle but idiot cyclists who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense …"

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear collars. When MyAmazingWife's favourite baseball cap got blown off her head into the River Kent this afternoon, Bramble The Spaniel jumped in to retrieve it. Good dog. 🐕 That's worth a couple of biscuits.

A wet black spaniel sitting triumphantly next to the baseball cap she retrieved from the river. Good dog.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gord Follett took this photograph. I like it.

Three huts overlook the sea in Newfoundland

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Most Britons see Reform UK as untrustworthy, extreme, incompetent, and serving their own interests.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This apple, what just fell off a tree in our orchard*, is bigger than a dog. *two tiny trees, and the world's laziest espalier

An apple that's bigger than a dog. Dog included for scale.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, my wife is away. How did you guess?

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In a disorienting time, it's nice that you can rely on The Telegraph to have consistently terrible takes

Telegraph article:

Bankrupt council to spend %2.6m removing flags from streets

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"At the bus stop, a man was lying on the ground with a chest injury. I was calling to a policeman standing in the road, asking him to get an ambulance, when these two mounted police bore down on me. A man pulled me out of the way just as one of them took a full swipe at my head with his truncheon.."

A police officer on horseback takes a swing at Lesley Boulton with his truncheon at the Battle of Orgreave, 18 June 1984

Photograph: John Harris

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses

BBC news reporting on the Far-Right blockade of Dover in which Kent Police call the activity a 'spontaneous protest'

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Man Of The People, candid portrait with oysters, Verbatim Investigations, 2026.

Just some thin-skinned xenophobic populist grifter, filmed eating oysters

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dee Nickerson painted this. I like it.

Woman with long white hair sitting by the ocean with her dog.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"There's no malice in mountains." I'm learning about soldier, writer, wild woman, and Britain's first female mountain guide, Gwen Moffat. Inspirational.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sometimes, the Reply Guys are just so fucking tedious.

Replying to a post of mine which relates to e-bikes, some motonormative gobshite says

"Warm in winter too?"

And my entire thesis falls apart.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anyone pitching a vision of a future transport system that doesn't underline the necessity for us to *drive less* is pitching a seductive but dangerous discourse of climate delay, and one unsupported by the best evidence. Illustration: @pudseypedaller.bsky.social

A spoof traffic sign, which reads:

Traffic levels up 35 per cent in 20 years. Expect delays.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"And this is where we keep case studies where building roads has decreased congestion."

An adult shows children an empty book shelf, whilst saying:

"This is where we keep case studies where building roads has decreased congestion."

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

just one more lane bro please one more lane it’ll solve the traffic problem bro I swear

Twenty-odd lanes of traffic congestion clusterfuck.

Spoiler: One more lane *never* fixes it. Ever.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some days, I am The Bringer of Bad News. Today is one of those days. #FettlingBikes #SpannerTime

A message from me to someone whose lovely old steel road bike wasn't shifting, in which I tell them I think they need to spend £80 on a new brake lever/shifter, known sometimes as a 'brifter'

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Even on a cloudy day, we're exporting to the grid and helping keep Britain's kettles boiling. You're welcome.

An app that gives real time info about how much our solar PV is generating, how full our storage battery is, how much the battery is either charging or discharging, how much electricity we are using, and how much is being exported to/imported from the grid.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Conservatives: Tough on children's lung health, tough on the causes of children's lung growth.

James Cleverley, in the Telegraph, saying that he'll "end Khan's war on motorists" if he gets elected as London's mayor, and that he'd launch a full review of the city's ULEZ

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Quite something for Cleverley to go with this as his pitch just 12 days after the publication of a landmark study from @qmul.bsky.social which found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. shorturl.at/Jx86o

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have you heard of the equation.. X = N + 1 ..where X is the ideal number of bikes, and N is the number you currently own? Well, it applies to canoes too. I've bought another canoe. A Hou. With a nod to that famous Irn Bru ad, it's made in Attleborough, from nurdles.

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