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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 14/09/2026

QOTD: What's the perfect 4-car garage from one manufacturer the year you graduated high school? Actually a whopping 3 models when I did So 993 convertible for summer 993 GT2 for my funeral 928 GTS for long distance 968 Club Sport for daily duties

Photo of a yellow Porsche 968 Club Sport

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/09/2026

Maybe it’s a sign of older age, but is it unreasonable to expect a product talking about electrical safety, that you should feel like the guy doing the instructions actually saw the product… The layout at least looks right on the plug, but the earth should be shorter not equal length to the live

Socket diagram showing cables taking equal paths into the socket, when in reality the cables take much longer paths. The cutting guide suggests earth cable should be the same length as the live when in reality it’s half the length

Photo of back of socket which at least has the correct cable path, but repeats the error of the neutral cable being the shortest instead of joint longest cable

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 29/08/2026

The saga continues, got my money, but the final bill is so ****ed up, someones managed to transpose day/night figures on the meter for the last bill and they've applied it retrospectively all the way back to when we started with them. Years of billing. Will be here months figuring this bugger out

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/08/2026

100 miles driving a relatives 4th gen CRV today. I mean it’s done the job of shifting some stuff about, but a useful reference point sometimes to remind yourself what an utter rocket the 125 is. The CRV wasn’t troubling anything, and we didn’t even have the slower eco button or AC buttons pressed

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 26/08/2026

One of those drives over the peaks yesterday. Late, quiet, van making progress still slowed and indicated to let me pass, caught up with a few cars, wasn't worth the overtake, till it turned out slow S-max in the middle is on an utter mission guy, which now made the overtake possible. Good drive!

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 10/08/2026

Today was one of those days where you drive for an hour for a day out / lunch at an NT property only to find having paid to park they’ve no water and everything’s shutting. So you drive an hour to try somewhere else and by now it’s mad busy. Net result 2.5hrs 100 miles lunch 10mins/10miles from home

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/08/2026

This weeks packet of Lidl Choc (fake) Hobnobs are different to normal. Thicker, darker, more caramelised, better. Is it a one off?* More research (eating) is required. Maybe even a Stewards Enquiry @petrolblog.bsky.social *we hope not!

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 05/08/2026

3 car dream garage, but all 3 must be from the same make. Nobody stipulated street legal, and I figured at least one shouldn't be red...

Photo of a red Ferrari F40 LM in racing livery

Photo of a road going Ferrari F40 in blue

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 03/08/2026

@octopus.energy All shiny & light, till you try and leave and you want your credit back, proof of readings sent, currently sitting on a non small amount of money which you're currently refusing to refund.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 31/07/2026

Cheeky run out to Skegness for the day as it’s been an age since we’ve had fish & chips + ice cream by the seaside* *Oh alright it was only last week at Hornsea, but what the hell

Photo of a sandy beach and a glorious blue sky with a bright sun and no clouds

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/07/2026

This is why even over a decade ago I switched to clipping websites into Evernote, and then because Evernote went shitty clipping to DevonThink A) they’re searchable, so much easier to find content B) they’re saved, and websites just keep disappearing

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 27/07/2026

I've had this photo/title combo in my head for a few weeks, but today seems to be the right day to post it - The Funky Gibbon - jonbradbury.com/2026/07/the-...

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The Funky Gibbon - Jon Bradbury

The Funky Gibbon Yorkshire Wildlife Park Canon EOS R6 & Canon RF800mm IS STM

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 23/07/2026

Which is odd as every time a human encounters a chat bot it goes a bit like… Agent Human Human please Just let me talk to a ****ing person

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 20/07/2026

QOTD, what was the first racing game you ever played? Probably the same, this, in glorious green screen on the Amstrad 464

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 19/07/2026

Jack's Smirking Revenge - Two Polar Bears fighting at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. A group of school kids clearly not aware of the rules marched past shouting “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!” #photography #canonuk #wildlifeuk

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Jack's Smirking Revenge - Jon Bradbury

Two Polar Bears fighting at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. A group of school kids clearly not aware of the rules marched […]

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 15/07/2026

One of the OG #weirdcarbluesky quite literally landing today....

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 13/07/2026

QOTD: Post a rain car from your camera roll.

Photo of an Audi A2 parked in a car park but due to very heavy rain is now flooded

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 09/07/2026

So much this. I don’t want an app for every blooming web page. It’s called a browser. I don’t even want an app for every reward card they’re all in AnycodeWallet. The meerkat site annoyed this year because I had to install an app to claim a voucher which previously you just did via the website

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 04/07/2026

Glad I had the dashcam yesterday, but I'm still head scratching today, I think more research is required @joehallenbeck.bsky.social can a Volvo fly if you bolt the wings on?...

Photo of a silver Volvo 850 estate car with what appears to be a small light aircraft, maybe a glider with the wings removed strapped to the roof.

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 25/06/2026

After the last batch of heat, read all the reviews, bought one of those new smart circulating fans. Yes it’s clever, yes it’s quieter till it’s on max speeds. But, whilst its one of the better ones for airflow at 938m3/hr, the basic Philips 2000 we bought last year does 2562m3/hr and it bloody shows

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 25/06/2026

A similar joke always goes through my head to the “Heavy Plant Crossing” signs

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 20/06/2026

Stuff like this is why you should never run any machines as an admin user. Unfortunately about 98% of home users do

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 06/06/2026

The anodised MacBooks are great and all that, but if you put stickers on them sometimes the sticker fades areas of the anodisation Fitting a replacement screen and removing the plethora of stickers the previous owner stuck on, of all the ones to fade the anodisation….

Photo of a space grey MacBook, you can clearly see where a sticker has previous been fitted that read DON’T BE A DICK

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 22/05/2026

Fab run out to the coast today before the bank holiday rush. On the way back went along a freshly chipped road, several miles later, middle of nowhere stopped at a junction and it turns out a stone drops into the brake guard. This could have been an utter ****er as the car doesn’t have a jack etc

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 20/05/2026

So we're now giving money to Ukraine to protect them, and money to Russia to bomb them. Slow hand clap Labour, slow hand clap... cc @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 19/05/2026

To be fair, all the tracking you everywhere around the internet means I’ve long swapped to a different search engine. Google has just been sub optimal for a good few years now

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 19/05/2026

Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car. And following up from earlier discussions of some quarters being dismissive of older cameras. Shot on the Canon D30 (yes D first) with its whopping 3mp, 3 focus points & 11 shot buffer (in jpeg)

Photo of a rally spec Subaru Impreza car on a dusty tarmac rally stage, plumes of dust that its kicked up give the left of the shot a hazy feel

Oh and it cuts right through this, as the car is bright yellow

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 17/05/2026

It’s morbid stuff, but a bunch of these things you don’t legally have access too if a partner dies without previously granting access. There’s also an emergency file in case one of us is struck down tomorrow the other is aware of what utilities/contracts etc we need to manage.

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NCSC UK @ncsc.gov.uk · 15/05/2026

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 15/05/2026

As Gail says, I’ve been in this position a while, and the NI status is a particular cluster****

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 10/05/2026

I’d forgotten about this. Put a new series on tonight, saw the opening shot of the Passat. Damn you to hell @joehallenbeck.bsky.social I recognise this car, now I’m just watching the bloody car

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 10/05/2026

I’m glad I moved my sites away from recaptcha a while ago A) it was utterly crap to the end user B) it didn’t stop actually stop the bots C) shitty behaviour like this from Google

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 09/05/2026

The worst era is the software you bought in a box, you think you still own it, the activation servers have been turned off! I've still got a box of boxes I can't face throwing away because I own them, and feel they could be useful, and yet at the same time I know nobody can do utterly nothing with

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 08/05/2026

So much this I did for a while just use “justtellingmeyour@fuckingpostageprices.com” to get past the sites that wouldn’t tell you postage up front but you soon stop bothering as soon work out it isn’t worth it. Just let me buy stuff, be upfront on prices or we’ll go elsewhere

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 08/05/2026

Passing the local funfair at the weekend, you could hear they will still regularly banging out songs from the 70s and 80s, which is rather shocking when you think about it. It would have been like them playing Glen Miller after shouting “scream if you want to go faster” when we went in the 80s…

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 04/05/2026

Drop your favorite Star Wars character. Wrong answers only.

Photo of a very depressed robot waving his hand

For clarification this is the original Marvin the Paranoid Android and not the fake from the much later film

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Jon Bradbury @jonbradbury.com · 03/05/2026

Super Copter/Cobra Played many many many hours of this

Picture of a Super Copter handheld game from the early 80s

Handheld is used loosely, more of a knee top as it was quite bulky

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