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Cycling round Wiltshire and feeding the ducks (and playing records and building little aeroplanes).

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 19h
“Google Play Books” you took a perfectly good product name (“Google Books”) and made it sound like a something an unfortunately-named gorilla who was first learning sign language would spell out before asking for something useful, like a designer handbag or more bananas
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We drove out west quite a few times past this, and every time we did I told the kids that many people died there and that ‘this is what happens when you don’t care about the vulnerable, and that’s what Tories do’. So far it’s worked.
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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway. Please enjoy this DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE NARROW BOAT!!!! (You probably can’t see* it, it’s centre frame) (*or at least accurately torpedo it)
A narrow boat in the distinctive abstract black and white WWI “dazzle” camouflage.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Wrong Trousers, dir. Nick Park 1993
A traffic cone with a red safety glove on it
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The rest I just squandered.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's like Saul Bass was a civil servant.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and God said, why the long face
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, good old Elfyn Evans gets the title at last.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 2026 world rally championship is going to go down to the last stage this afternoon. The drivers in first and second are on the same team, so you can watch them, live on tv right now, having a rather awkward lunch.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a world.
A Bacon Scented Flying Disc hanging up on the pet section of a gift shop.
Frisbee. It's a frisbee.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
St Margaret of Antioch protected herself from the dragon in her cell by telling it ghost stories. It found these so frightening that she had to lend it a security blanket to help it fend off panic attacks.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Went for a flight in this earlier today. Absolutely brilliant, although it was a good couple of hours before I could face any lunch.
A red, white and blue Pitts S-2A Special on the grass with the engine running. There are two people inside <waves>Taking offGetting out
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'd love to claim I recognised it, but I looked it up.
An ADSB Exchange screenshot of a biplane leaving Popham, beating up Greenham Common then heading home again.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saw a puff of smoke on the way home from work so quickly parked up and watched this Christen Eagle having a bit of fun at Greenham Common.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With a bonus Sorry, What?
"This means that an estimated 3.8 billion wet wipes are flushed annually, enough to fill the equivalent of 10 Big Bens."
I've got my Local News Style Guide here and I can't find the bit about using Big Ben as a unit of volume.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"As"
Higher water bills warning as billions of wet wipes clog sewers, warn Thames Water
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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have just been helping to read bedtime stories in both French and English to a small child, and the French one is literally: Now learn your cheeses, while the English one is: Paddington is put in a stressful situation and doesn't say anything because one can't possibly.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The County Ground's not always pretty, but when everything lines up just right...
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'll give it a week before I'm out for the season with a sprained ear or something.
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📸 Nevada Northern Railway Museum
Orange long-haired cat sleeping sprawled on an open toolbox amid tools in a train maintenance shop, with a red, white, and blue locomotive numbered 250 visible in the background.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Floodlit football is the best football.
The sun setting behind the Town End, 1st April 2025; Swindon 2 - 1 Wimbledon.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jon spotted out running as Swindon Town injury crisis deepens.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"As".
<photo of a helicopter> "King's helicopter spotted overhead as Royal Family deal with controversies"
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Went for a run like some kind of dickhead and Strava failed to record it, but on the plus side a first public outing for my new Antarctic Thistle FC shirt. #DoReMe
A man (hello, it is me, I am the man) wearing blue and yellow Antarctic Thistle FC football shirt
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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 29/09/2026
New commission. This beer mat as the last thing Bert chewed before going to dog heaven. So I was asked to paint Bert onto it!
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Correction: 541 Sqn didn't fly operationally on the 22nd due to weather, but 540 Sqn's Operational Records Book confirms that White and Prescott flew their Mosquito over Stettin (/Szczecin) so it'll be them that took those photos.
An excerpt from 540 (PR) Squadron's operational records book from April 1943 showing that P/O W.J. White and Sgt R.C. Prescott flew Mosquito DZ 473 on a photo reconnaissance flight over Stettin on 22.4.1943.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
541 Squadron were on aerial reconnaissance over Szczecin on 22nd April 1943 the morning after a raid on the ship yard, so this is probably from that. maps.app.goo.gl/UmUtkwzMK6Db...
maps.app.goo.gl
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got this aerial reconnaissance stereoscope photograph too, which is neat. You can see the 3d if you can 'magic eye' your vision enough.
a 3d stereoscope from an aerial photograph. Go on, defocus your eyes and have a go.The same photo, propped up in front of a laptop screen showing the same area of Szczecin today.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well that was a lovely few days in the New Forest. Now we're home it's time to put the kettle on, listen to the Wiltshire/ Gloucestershire local news and see if anything's been happening while we were away.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Number 4: Lyndhurst and Ashurst CC. This is our first thatched pavilion.
Lyndhurst & Ashurst Cricket Club's pitch, fenced off against New Forest ponies. Bolton's Bench, where someone slayed a dragon, is in the background.Now facing east. The moon is trying to break through the cloud above the pavilion. Red lights on top of the cranes at Southampton docks are just visible on the horizon just to the right of the thatched pavilion building.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Number 4: Lyndhurst and Ashurst CC. This is our first thatched pavilion.
Lyndhurst & Ashurst Cricket Club's pitch, fenced off against New Forest ponies. Bolton's Bench, where someone slayed a dragon, is in the background.Now facing east. The moon is trying to break through the cloud above the pavilion. Red lights on top of the cranes at Southampton docks are just visible on the horizon just to the right of the thatched pavilion building.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Five subs a game has messed things right up. Should have canned that post-covid and gone back to expecting professional footballers to generally last ninety minutes.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also realised I'm at the point where I need a spreadsheet filled in before I buy any more pre-war Ordnance Survey maps in case I double up.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Uh oh.
A sign saying "Book Fair Today" with an arrow. I did check it wasn't under a cardboard box propped up with a stick with a bit of string tied to it.Swindon Works, 1947, with a cover picture of a locomotive hanging from some very large chains.Behold, a fold-out map of the Swindon Works from 1947 with an 1846 inset.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Found a trig point.
An OS triangulation point in the new forest.
OSBM S2716.
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Michael Hutchinson @doctorhutch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Slovak team haven't been able to field a pro rider for the men's race on Sunday due to injury and availability. So one of the soigneurs is giving it a go. I've transferred my allegiance from Wout to Vladimir Kovacik, for as long as he lasts.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just cleaned my glasses with a bottle of lens spray that smells of Sister Ray Records on Berwick Street before they moved.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day, everyone.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3D printed chicken wire! And to think I used a teabag for the pigeon loft...
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 25/09/2026
When the photography shop assures you that these expired films are unused
Black and white photo. Due to a double exposure, it looks as though a racing car is about to crash through a spectral graduation ceremony
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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An FA sub-committee have made a decision over a refereeing mistake in an FA Cup qualifier which could end up having far-reaching consequences. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-fa-hav...
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The FA Have Just Opened a Can of Worms That They May Find Difficult to Close Again
A dodgy penalty decision in an FA Cup qualifier has led to an even dodgier decision by a Football Association sub-committee.
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hooray!
Total lives saved 78277829
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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hooray!
Total lives saved 78277829
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