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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 03/10/2026

Not convinced about Man City's new kit for this season tbh

Guy in a traditional striped prison outfit

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 13/09/2026

"AI will kill us all!"

Sarah Connor from the Terminator films looks into the distance. Underneath are the words "there's a storm coming" but storm has been crossed out and replaced with IPO.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 06/09/2026

As the internet tradition demands: "Banana for scale" (Love a good house spider - what should I name her?)

A photo of a house spider with a banana half next to it for scale. The house spider is about a third the length of the banana.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 26/06/2026

Quoting AI at me? Really? When discussing definitions of words I prefer the source rather than the randomised regurgitation. In this case, Merriam Webster.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 24/05/2026

Insensitive given cousin Sven's financial difficulties following the collapse of his fizzy drinks empire

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 29/04/2026

Okay folks. You know how this works. Is it blue and black or white and gold?

A mannequin dressed in a horizontal red and white striped dress reminiscent of the internet famed blue and black dress that some people saw as white and gold.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 03/04/2026

I don't have any particularly wild claims about creating 50 apps before breakfast with my hoard of AI agents, but I do seem to be doing okay by coordinating the fingers on my left and right hands. Coding is not my day job anymore, so this GitHub chart is just my spare time.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 22/03/2026

I got me one of those too

A black cat is peering through a small hole in the back of a cabinet where the wires go through. The hole is the size of his head and all we can see is the top of his head and his eyes

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 22/03/2026

Demon appliance? Just call it a cat like everyone else does.

A black and white tuxedo cat wearing a merry Christmas scarf is looking up hoping for treats

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 24/12/2025

Schrödi says Merry Christmas!

A black and white tuxedo cat is sitting back and looking up at us from the floor. He's wearing a black and white striped neck scarf which has Merry Christmas on it in white lettering with a picture of Santa below the lettering. He obviously expects treats for being such a very good boy.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 09/12/2025

Took my kid Charlie to Cambridge for an interview at Trinity College. It's like going back in time to an era where everyone wore hats and scarves, and bicycles were a thing.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 09/12/2025

Schrödi loves Christmas

A black and white tuxedo cat sticking his head out half way up an as yet undecorated Christmas tree.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 08/12/2025

We got an advent calendar for the cats this year with all sorts of cat toys in. One of them was a decorative collar. Schrödi was very interested in it so we put it on him. He definitely knew he looked good in it and proudly posed for photos. He's so vain. (We didn't leave it on for safety reasons)

A black and white tuxedo cat sits on a wood laminate floor with a small Christmas for tree decoration behind him. He's looking at the camera and is wearing a decorative collar with a gold chain fastening and blue beads around the circumference. A shiny blue spherical bell is hanging from the gold chain.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 01/11/2025

Them: You live in an age where AI knows everything about you, can predict your inner thoughts and anticipate your needs! Also them:

A notification from Amazon Fashion with the text "Recommended for you. We thought you'd like a new handbag."
It pictures two handbags, one cream and one pale green.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 25/10/2025

Politicians today just seem to want to divide society and set us against each other What we need is a new kind of politics that unites us around something on which we can all agree. That's why, on Monday I'll be launching the "Cats are obviously better than dogs" party. Onwards together!

A black and white tuxedo cat in a Halloween costume featuring a large splayed orange collar tied on with a red ribbon looks up at the camera.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 12/10/2025

I've seen that look before...

A helmeted soldier stares blankly past us. In the background are scenes of war.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 03/10/2025

My cat comes with launch sound effects:

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 14/07/2025

Someone objected to the victorian viaduct that traverses that Yorkshire valley. Now it's a cherished feature of the landscape.

An atmospheric photograph of the viaduct traversing the Ribble valley with the sun setting on the horizon.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 11/07/2025

Just now in my garden, a raptor reading it's kill. Harris hawk?

A hunting bird on the lawn of a domestic garden eating a small bird.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 04/07/2025

Boom! Shake, shake, shake the room Tic, tic, tic, tic...

Aston Martin with the number plate 800M (boom)

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 11/06/2025

By my reckoning (based on the Business Evolution Map) carbon capture as an industry is worth in the order of £10bn. Paying £264bn for that is utter insanity (even if it worked - which it doesn't)

A map made up of coloured hexagons intended to show the UK economy in terms of value. Each hexagon represents £1 billion and the positioning of the industry sectors demonstrates their relationship to each other. At the centre is an open space labelled "Carbon capture" suggesting a future sector. Around are the established sectors, Electricity Generation, Electricity Distribution, Gas Distribution, Water and Waste.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 11/06/2025

Free will is an illusion

Windows shutdown menu showing multiple options:

Sign out
Sleep
Update and shut down (estimate 5 min)
Shut down
Update and restart (estimate 5 min)
Restart

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 02/06/2025

Bold choice or accidental partridge? You decide.

White BMW with the number plate JU57 CUK

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 30/03/2025

Um... The slack logo is the Severance desks! Literally four desks with four people sitting at them. 🤯

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 24/03/2025

Schrödi says "feel free to insert negativity in the receptacle below"

Black and white tuxedo cat standing on a hooded litter tray.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 09/03/2025

Little fren helping with the brushing up. Making sure I'm doing it right. Blessed.

Close up of a red breasted robin sitting on a bark chip covered border in front of a hedge looking up at the camera.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 18/02/2025

Your outie codes in Java because they know Python is just Gen Z BASIC

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 12/02/2025

Update. Got my single layer neocortex model to control a simulated robotic arm with just 8 neurons. Very happy about this indeed!! Very initial test but you can see the moment the network learns to control the arm and track the red square.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 09/02/2025

This is not just a void. This is a Marks and Spencers maximum cuteness void. "If I fits, I sits"

Black cat sitting in a green Marks and Spencer shopping bag

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 21/12/2024

Louie also has a festive scarf

A small black cat is standing on a round red Christmas rug under a Christmas tree. He's wearing a red scarf with white trim and is looking up at the baubles.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 21/12/2024

Bribing the cat to wear his Christmas cape

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 15/12/2024

The void loves the soft.

A black cat lies on a soft brown rug with his chin pushed down into the pile.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 15/12/2024

Spiky lads (and lasses and fawns) ftw!

Garden lit with multi coloured Christmas lights, white LED reindeer and polar bears and LED "berry" trees.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 11/12/2024

I'm missing a corn cob spike. There's supposed to be eight.

Seven corn cob spikes laid out in the four panel comic layout popularly known as loss.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 10/12/2024

He has measured your soul for the afterlife and you have been found wanting. Do better. Give more treats.

A tuxedo cat (black and white) resting on a red blanket with his paws tucked underneath his chest stares intently into the camera.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 06/12/2024

The shiny! Does it taste good?

A small black cat partially lying on his side under a Christmas tree reaches up with his mouth open. A blue LED is in his open jaws lighting up his mouth. He looks like he's about to eat it.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 30/11/2024

Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.

The three droids from the film "Silent Running", Huey, Dewey and Louie.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 26/11/2024

That's the problem with GenAI. All the people look the same. Oh.

A news article with the headline "New publisher aims to disrupt industry by using AI to publish 8000 books in 2025". Beneath the headline is a photo of the four founders who look almost identical with their beards, moustaches, short hairstyles, pale skin tone and black t-shirts.

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Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 25/11/2024

Here's hoping they find a way to do it that doesn't damage the longevity of the platform. The fact that no-one has managed it previously, however, doesn't bode well. Like it or not, the dominant revenue stream for social media has proved to be advertising.

A four panel photo story featuring a man with a moustache and a blonde women.
Him: They tried to get revenue by offering beneficial services for a subscription and believed they could do it without allowing the worst people to dominate there platform.
Her: Well, did it work for those people?
Him: No it never does. These people somehow deluded themselves into thinking it might but...
Him: ...but it might work for us

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