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Jon Naylor

@jonnaylor.bsky.social
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Teacher, drummer, dog parent, occasional cruciverbalist.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had a great time on Sunday playing our debut gig. Having loads of fun playing metal once again. Big thanks to Joshfest for booking us and the Fulford Arms for looking after us.
Jon plays drums in the background, while Jack, one of Mystica's guitarists, plays in the foreground on a stage lit by blue and red spotlights.
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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Beautifully put together and fun. It's a birdsong recognition game, but the clever bit is the historical element: each round is set in a time and place, and invites you to imagine what the soundscape might have been" @levparikian.bsky.social bird-times.lovable.app #Birdsong #IndieDev #GameDev
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Had a fun time last night bumping into some old friends who know me as a folk music enthusiast and revealing to them that I have joined a metal band! Mystica's debut gig is happening 20th Sep at Fulford Arms, York as part of the Joshfest 3 all-dayer. We're on at 2pm.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Does enjoying #ItsASuperpower count as a diagnosis?
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Worth a brag, aye! Shame about that last one though. www.maptap.gg August 16 98🎯 99🎯 99🎯 96🔥 93🏆 Final score: 962
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk · 14/08/2026
In the metaphor where Nigel Farage is a 4 year-old told he has to sit on the naughty step for stealing sweets … he’s already screamed that he hates his mum and is leaving home … and now he’s standing at the end of his road, crying with a Peppa Pig rucksack full of breadsticks wondering what to do.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What a lovely morning it is in Yorkshire. Bearably warm sunshine and the first day of a two-week break. Here's my wordle attempt for today: Wordle 1,876 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why is the public confused about wealth taxes and climate change? Because for 40+ years, lobby groups and think tanks have been paid to confuse them. And it started with Thatcher pulling off one of the greatest financial cons in modern history. 🧵 @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Wordle 1,834 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Robert Welbourn @robertwelbourn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Look, we gotta stop using the word 'elites'. These people are not elite, just because they've stolen a lot of money. If anything, they're the exact opposite. They're inferior. If you're sitting on a pile of money while people starve to death, you're an inferior person.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25
Express Headline:

DWP increases benefits for husbands with 2 or more wives - Started in April
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I had a nightmare last night. My ride cymbal had three cracks on the edge. Glad to realise it was only a dream. I think I'm okay now.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.maptap.gg May 8 99🎯 85😁 95🏅 87🎉 91🏆 Final score: 908
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.maptap.gg May 7 90👑 95🏅 78👏 90👑 90👑 Final score: 881
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Today is an opportunity to send a real message to Starmer to get out of our way. Real change is possible, but only with new leadership for the country. #VoteGreen #LocalElections #r4today
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
www.maptap.gg May 3 95🏅 99🎯 84😁 90👑 93🏆 Final score: 911
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.maptap.gg April 28 97🔥 95🏅 83😁 71😂 81🌟 Final score: 814
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity. They get off on the suffering. www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
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Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.
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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Take away the agent, and Bob is still a first-year student who hasn't started yet. The year happened around him but not inside him.” Great description of any use of an LLM that takes away formative struggles in education (reading papers, fixing early mistakes, outlining arguments).
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/03/2026
Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
www.maptap.gg March 24 98🎯 99🎯 94🏅 99🎯 86🎓 Final score: 940 :)
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ooh, I like this game! www.maptap.gg March 18 92🏆 99🎯 94🏅 65🙃 91🏆 Final score: 847
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Dave Bagpuss Forsey ☕️ @bagpuss.org · 14/03/2026
Oh god this made me laugh so hard. Watch til the end.
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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It's not that AI is useless. It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.
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Repeat Blunderer @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Really looking forward to seeing Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker, and John Doyle at the Crescent in York tonight. Seen them twice before and every moment was sublime.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 15/02/2026
Livingstone said: “Siobhan left me because I’d apparently made ‘no effort’, unlike her friend Becky’s boyfriend, who had a bunch of helium-filled foil delivered to her place of work.”
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Autistic man dumped after failing to purchase piece of red cardboard
An autistic man has been dumped by his girlfriend after he neglected to buy her a red rectangle of cardboard on February 14th, it has been announced. Dexter Livingstone, 26, who also failed to obtain…
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Can't help thinking that this photo of Gorton & Denton Reform candidate Matt Goodwin with Steve Bannon - convicted fraudster, close friend & enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, promoter of violence to overturn a US election & admirer of Satan - has not had the coverage it deserves.
Photo: Steve Bannon and Matt Goodwin shaking hands and grinning together. 
Quote from Steve Bannon: "Darkness is good... Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
- Steve Bannon, convicted fraudster, enabler of Jeffrey Epstein, friend of Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
For one wonderful dog walking moment this week, the rain abated and I heard yellowhammers singing for the first time this year.
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
An uplifting thread to read in these depressing times. There is hope for the USA yet.
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Cameron Beccario @cambecc.nullschool.net · 07/01/2026
I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here! earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well. And, like the website: no ads! Links below ⬇️
Screenshot of the Nullschool app in landscape orientation showing wind streams over the Northern Pacific Ocean with the action menu overlaid on top.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Aka Herbert West @herbertwest66.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Integrity is one of the few things we genuinely own and have control over. How we chose to exercise it tells the world who we are. Some times that comes at a personal cost, which sucks. However not acting with integrity will eat you up for far longer.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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Jon Naylor @jonnaylor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Fun times with a new band! Just joined Bare Brass Band and played a big posh charity event last night. Great fun!
A drummer's eye view from behind a trombone player to a large audience seated at dinner tables waiting for the show to start.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/11/2025
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the concept of the analytical engine, the first programmable mechanical computer.The analytical engine, a mechanical computer, conceived by Charles Babbage, and created after his passing by his sons.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
A dog sits near a tall shoe rack filled with various types of shoes in a room with wooden flooring. All shoes are stacked on high shelves, out of the dog’s reach.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely 

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat 

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian 

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service 

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG 
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Will a single Tory MP this week have the nerve state that ‘industrialised nations do actually need to reach net zero by 2050 to avert catastrophic levels of risk, and to pretend otherwise is utterly ridiculous’?
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Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#TimelineCleanse Trust me, you'll want to take a few minutes to watch this, if you're feeling down about the state of the world.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Reform: the voice of the voiceless, ordinary people.
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