Jon Naylor
@jonnaylor.bsky.social
Teacher, drummer, dog parent, occasional cruciverbalist.
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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
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
October 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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
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
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.
September 23, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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.
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"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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#Birdsong #IndieDev #GameDev
September 17, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"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
bird-times.lovable.app
#Birdsong #IndieDev #GameDev
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.
September 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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.
Does enjoying #ItsASuperpower count as a diagnosis?
September 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Does enjoying #ItsASuperpower count as a diagnosis?
Worth a brag, aye! Shame about that last one though.
www.maptap.gg August 16
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Final score: 962
www.maptap.gg August 16
98🎯 99🎯 99🎯 96🔥 93🏆
Final score: 962
🎯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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August 16, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Worth a brag, aye! Shame about that last one though.
www.maptap.gg August 16
98🎯 99🎯 99🎯 96🔥 93🏆
Final score: 962
www.maptap.gg August 16
98🎯 99🎯 99🎯 96🔥 93🏆
Final score: 962
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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.
August 14, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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.
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:
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August 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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:
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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
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
We have all been gaslit by the lobbyists, the "merchants of doubt", whose while raisin d'etre is to sow uncertainty in the publicind about things that would otherwise be easy, evidence based arguments to make.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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"If you can do ‘tobacco’ you can do just about anything in public relations” says Robert Kenner’s “Merchants of Doubt”
Kenner shows how secretly funded think tanks have perverted public policy & created confusion over major issues from gun control to climate change.
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Kenner shows how secretly funded think tanks have perverted public policy & created confusion over major issues from gun control to climate change.
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August 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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June 27, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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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
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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
June 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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
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
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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/
June 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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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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.
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.
June 17, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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.
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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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!
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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
May 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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
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
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.
May 10, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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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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
Real change is possible, but only with new leadership for the country.
#VoteGreen #LocalElections
#r4today
May 7, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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
Real change is possible, but only with new leadership for the country.
#VoteGreen #LocalElections
#r4today
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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.
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.
May 5, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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.
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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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/
Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
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April 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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/
Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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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April 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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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.
April 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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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“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).
Great description of any use of an LLM that takes away formative struggles in education (reading papers, fixing early mistakes, outlining arguments).
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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April 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
“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).
Great description of any use of an LLM that takes away formative struggles in education (reading papers, fixing early mistakes, outlining arguments).