Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 16hI love it when the Daily Mail threatens me with a good time. "Most Left-wing speech by a PM since 1970s" "National Care Service" "Closer ties with EU" "voting reform that could lock Right out of power" 2533668
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy Marks and Spencer Day to all who celebrate. (Image from M&S archive) 121
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A blast from the past for Oxford folk. Found in the back of a cupboard, presumably from their closing-down sale. Betcha we still have that crêpe de Chine somewhere. 110
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026my evening is now ruined as my horrified brain desperately tries to mimic this 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bloody hell Royal Mail, why must I install your app to change delivery options? I already have a browser. THAT'S WHAT WEB PAGES ARE FOR. Enough of this everything-needs-a-different-app bullshit. 110
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, that serves me right for being a cheapskate and buying supermarket own-brand chopped tomatoes. Far too much time wasted fishing bits of skin out of the soup. 100
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A gossamer-thin excuse to post this again: Q: Why do outdoor workers like to spread golden syrup on their bright yellow jackets in the winter? A: To make high-vis cossetty. Sorry not sorry. 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Bloody immigrants, coming over here and taking are A-levels. 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New mint flavour Ferrero Rocher just dropped. This is the airport gift size variant. 030
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@parkinsons.org.uk @cureparkinsons.org.uk Popcorn and Kleenex order duly placed for 7 Nov delivery. 030
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'll take that as a good omen for the day. Loconundrum #178 ⬜⬜⬜ 🚂 🟩🟩🟩 h/t @oldenoughtosay.com for the hint about this little game, which is a delight for UK transport nerds and also has an interesting tech nerd story behind it at aaronc.cc/2026/03/29/l... 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer. PDP8-L in the undergraduate physics lab, running multi-user FOCAL (interpreted BASIC-like language) on five Teletype terminals. 8K 12-bit words core, and a drum for something like 250K of semi-fast store for larger arrays. 020
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My life has been Docker-free and broadly happy for over seven decades, but I had considered caving in to the demands of innumerable tools that claim to need it. This discussion does nothing to ease my reluctance. 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026At our next Parkinson's group meeting, one of our members will talk about his research on Paragalago (small bush babies). Mostly it's about their diverse calls, but he has two slides on IDENTIFICATION BY WILLY SHAPE. I am unsure how this will play with our largely mature and respectable membership. 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Verily the end times are upon us. It's the first sodding week of sodding September, FFS. @katebevan.com why the hell are you not yet world ruler so you could put a stop to This Kind Of Thing? 200
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Popped into @morethanadodo.bsky.social yesterday to see the 34 Minerals exhibit. It'll be quiet, thinks I, first day of term. Hadn't reckoned with schools' INSET day, so it was busy and jolly. My, that place is such a honeypot for curious youngsters. 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Idly musing on what Pete Hegseth would make of the Edinburgh Tattoo. 120
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026What I REALLY want to know is: who did they find to set the questions for her Mastermind specialist subject? 110
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Not now, ancient Fenland supervolcano. (BBC news item) 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026For a nasty moment I thought maybe Lozza's been on the rampage again. 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026OK, let's do novels now. Make a novel smaller. The Lion, the Witch and the Bedside Table 110
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Revealed in the beech hedge as leaves begin to shrivel: a stunning wasp nest, about 35cm top to bottom and about 25cm diameter at its widest, supported by being enmeshed in the beech twigs so it's really secure. Still somewhat active. An amazing structure. 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I have finally exorcised my earworm, a remarkably accurate recollection of the Davenport's Beer at Home jingle from fifty-odd years ago. I will find no peace until you all have suffered along with me, so please revel in this short clip. share.google/in7CP0d2FSbP... 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026OMG, Sewing Bee has Spandex and GUSSETS. <shudders in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again> 020
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dinosaur footprints across the arid desert of @morethanadodo.bsky.social front "lawn" 100
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Proposal: for every quote that uses "suicidal empathy", re-post verbatim except replacing that phrase with "not being a selfish dick". 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I have cheerfully put up with Bluesky's self-satisfied smugness because the good bits outweighed it. Today, though, hot takes on a government alert and an academic tragedy leave me wanting to punch the wall and chuck my phone in the bin. Get outta your own arses, people. 110
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Pond at the NE corner of the University Parks looks like something out of a David Attenborough "year in Africa" documentary. 000
Reposted by Jonathan BromleyJonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026With negligible modesty I present to you my boss level eclipse-watching setup. DIY projecting telescope, glass of cold rosé, decent sightline to the west. 121
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Clips in ascending order of coolness: - paper - bulldog - tie - ammo - e 100
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026With negligible modesty I present to you my boss level eclipse-watching setup. DIY projecting telescope, glass of cold rosé, decent sightline to the west. 121
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Anyone have any ideas why these suggestions are in single quotes? Are they perhaps excerpts from a press release by Big Compost? 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here's someone showing their youth and innocence through their choice of examples of "obsolete technology". C'mon, where is the loom weight? Quern? Semaphore flag? 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Clarion seems to be fairly angry about this. I think they have a point. 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026IT IS RAINING. In the South-East of England. Oh, it's stopped again. As you were. In other news, if anyone sees my big spirit level - half a metre long, bright yellow - could you please let me know as I can't find the damn thing anywhere. 020
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A few days ago we took in a parcel delivery for some lovely neighbours who were away. Today, in over-generous retaliation, they've given us two really fancy artisan-bakery muffins. We are now in a terrifying arms race of kindness that can only end in mutual bankruptcy. 020
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 01/08/2026REFLECTING POOL CASE DROPPED ha ha hah and breathe ha ha hah 020
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026An un-funny remake of the Shrine to Beauty scene from "Flushed Away". 010
Reposted by Jonathan BromleyLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Walkers should start producing small bags with exactly eight Quavers in them called Semibreve send tweet 2434674
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If the World Cup and the anti-World Cup were ever to collide, would they then vanish in a burst of gamma radiation? 000
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026whoah, paging @oddthisday.bsky.social so we can celebrate the anniversary each year 100
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Oof. Frightening and horrible for everyone affected. Like so many others, I have happy memories of summer holidays on those endless Atlantic beaches when our daughters were kids 30+ years ago. The forests are well managed, with proper fire breaks, but you can't defeat dry+wind+fire. Heartbreaking. 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Was there a white dove in the sky bearing a blade of green grass to mark the first rain after forty dry days? Was there buggery. It obviously won't last. 010
Jonathan Bromley @bromleyj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Hope for: Jakob Bronowski Deserve: Dr Bunsen Honeydew Will actually get: Alan Partridge 010