jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Arts 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. 120
Reposted by jon wRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I don't have any opinions about anything any more. All I want is for everyone to stop talking like fucking morons. 1154
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint" 🙄 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...theguardian.comEd Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truthAbstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny 211
Reposted by jon w🌧 @1000kindsofrain.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It'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.socialthursdayquiz.glitch.meFrom Bears, Betteridge & Bezos to Venice, Vilnius & Vostok - take the Ersatz Thursday Quiz 321
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 26/06/2025If you see this post an image you saved because it made you laugh 000
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Week 2 without the Guardian Thursday Quiz. I'm trying to stay calm but the panic is rising. 3122
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025What 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 142
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Very happy that I have, once again, been elected as the new Pope. 110
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025This 160 Madness bootleg by POLO LILLI... What a time to be alive. soundcloud.com/polo-lilli/2...soundcloud.com2-Step Beyond (Madness Bootleg)2 ---- STEP ---- BEYOOOOOOOND FREE DL Bandcamp for the g8 h8rs: https://polo-lilli.bandcamp.com/track/2-step-beyond 120
Reposted by jon wRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Went for a walk, wrote about it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comCountry diary: A fishing reel, digital noise … the grasshopper warbler is a bird for every age | Richard SmythWhitley Bay, North Tyneside: Denied the chance of seeing this elusive bird for centuries, we’ve had to make do with analysing its extraordinary call 44813
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Go read (or listen to) some of what Richard wrote. He's very good at it. 110
Reposted by jon wOlaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I 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 23646180
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 12/03/2025A reminder that music is good. You should listen to some. 110
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Enjoying 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’theguardian.comLoom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in picturesAmid 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 110
Reposted by jon w @3motion3ngin3.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I 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. 0434
Reposted by jon wIsland of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 16/02/2025That poor dog. She deserves to be remembered better than she will be in the long run. 0441
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I'll never forgive them for the dirty they've done to doge. 031
Reposted by jon wRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Fuck this for a game of soldiers. 081
Reposted by jon wUniversity of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The @universityofleeds.bsky.social is the first Russell Group Uni to quit X! 🎉 🎉 Read more👇 tinyurl.com/2h3tyjfx @lsjleeds.bsky.social #Yorkshire #Leeds #Academia #AcademicSky #HigherEd #LawSkytinyurl.comLeeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X - Research Professional NewsLeeds says Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values” 923785
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 23/01/2025"On social media, it’s relatively easy to find breadwinners cosplaying as homemakers."marketingbrew.comThe business of tradwives—and why brands keep working with themCompanies working with influencers depicting blissful domestic life “have to understand the cultural undertones there,” one expert said. 000
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 14/01/2025"Unfortunately, several things happen all the time in the Universe..." 000
Reposted by jon wAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025If you’re in the Leeds area this is a great comics shop with staff that really know their stuff. 314819
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · 11/01/2025First run of '25. The challenge at the moment is how to keep my hands warm...strava.app.link 000
