Jon Owen
@anotherjon.bsky.social
Not as bright as forecast. Pieces of a man, loitering at the intersection of art, cycling, and eco-socialism.
He/him. 🌳 🚴♀️🚶♀️🚶♂️👩🦽 🌳
He/him. 🌳 🚴♀️🚶♀️🚶♂️👩🦽 🌳
Oh, Santa, with this Pedro's bicycle tool, you're really spoiling me.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Oh, Santa, with this Pedro's bicycle tool, you're really spoiling me.
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Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
The Formica Stool of Chastity would have been a great place for the hosts to have left a List of Subjects We Don't Mention in this House, produced on a mid-90s Canon dot matrix printer
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night
Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz
December 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The Formica Stool of Chastity would have been a great place for the hosts to have left a List of Subjects We Don't Mention in this House, produced on a mid-90s Canon dot matrix printer
I *love* this.
This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
December 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I *love* this.
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The Daily Rothno is an iron roof support at Liverpool Street Station rubbed and worn by the passage of time, and passengers.
December 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The Daily Rothno is an iron roof support at Liverpool Street Station rubbed and worn by the passage of time, and passengers.
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Flowers in stone | Paul Klee
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Flowers in stone | Paul Klee
Me: So, where do you work?
Nile: The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. You?
Me: <Dies a bit then, rallying, scans the room for improvised weapons>
Nile: The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. You?
Me: <Dies a bit then, rallying, scans the room for improvised weapons>
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Me: So, where do you work?
Nile: The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. You?
Me: <Dies a bit then, rallying, scans the room for improvised weapons>
Nile: The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. You?
Me: <Dies a bit then, rallying, scans the room for improvised weapons>
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
CBS Abruptly Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Migrants Sent To El Salvador Prison—What To Know
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Germany shifts over 2 million e-bikes every year. France: over 500,000.
Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why?
Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why?
Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace?
Emulating the bike-friendly highways enjoyed by our continental neighbours will take a lot more money and political will
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Germany shifts over 2 million e-bikes every year. France: over 500,000.
Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why?
Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Britain? It will be lucky to get to 150,000. Why?
Because people need to feel safe to cycle, and that requires serious and sustained government support, which has not been forthcoming.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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Semaphores and Signal Box at Arnside. 20 December 2025. #railway #photography
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Semaphores and Signal Box at Arnside. 20 December 2025. #railway #photography
If I were a betting man, I would put money on the driver having failed to see - or being unable to see - that *child-sized* bollard.
An American beast. Tamed.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If I were a betting man, I would put money on the driver having failed to see - or being unable to see - that *child-sized* bollard.
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Dark PR in action: how devious framing is used to defend car dependency by shaping debates and muddying evidence.
📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.
📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Dark PR in action: how devious framing is used to defend car dependency by shaping debates and muddying evidence.
📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.
📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.
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Frank Hinder - Cyclists, Canberra 1945 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
December 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Frank Hinder - Cyclists, Canberra 1945 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
Who won the Internets today?
- I think we know who.
ALT-text: Durrell posted a spoof Pantone colour sample. The colour is black, and the description reads "Epstein Files"
- I think we know who.
ALT-text: Durrell posted a spoof Pantone colour sample. The colour is black, and the description reads "Epstein Files"
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Who won the Internets today?
- I think we know who.
ALT-text: Durrell posted a spoof Pantone colour sample. The colour is black, and the description reads "Epstein Files"
- I think we know who.
ALT-text: Durrell posted a spoof Pantone colour sample. The colour is black, and the description reads "Epstein Files"
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Artist: Anna Syperek
“Little Red Cabin in Lanark”
“Little Red Cabin in Lanark”
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Artist: Anna Syperek
“Little Red Cabin in Lanark”
“Little Red Cabin in Lanark”
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All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.
Engineers working on the HS2 project have slid a 4,600t viaduct section across the M6 without a full carriageway closure, in what contractors say is a UK first that will reduce disruption for drivers
Full story:
Full story:
HS2 completes final slide of 4,600t viaduct across M6 without closing motorway | New Civil Engineer
The 17‑hour operation carried out over the weekend of 13-14 December completed the three‑stage assembly and installation of the 315m long East deck of the
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
All of these skills built up on the project will be scattered to the winds because we have cancelled a chunk of the project and we're not building any more high speed rail.
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“Labour councillor Fabian Breckels, said: "What we need to know is: are lives more important than anti-car dogma?”
Says a supposedly progressive politician, while spouting pro-car dogma, in a country where 1:4 households don’t have a car #ActiveNeighbourhoods
Says a supposedly progressive politician, while spouting pro-car dogma, in a country where 1:4 households don’t have a car #ActiveNeighbourhoods
Bollards to be removed in East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood
The road blocks causing the most disruption for emergency services will be replaced with cameras.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Labour councillor Fabian Breckels, said: "What we need to know is: are lives more important than anti-car dogma?”
Says a supposedly progressive politician, while spouting pro-car dogma, in a country where 1:4 households don’t have a car #ActiveNeighbourhoods
Says a supposedly progressive politician, while spouting pro-car dogma, in a country where 1:4 households don’t have a car #ActiveNeighbourhoods
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Last Tuesday 🙂
December 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Last Tuesday 🙂
This beat is my recital
I think it's very vital
To rock a rhyme
That's right on time
It's tricky tricky yo here we go
I think it's very vital
To rock a rhyme
That's right on time
It's tricky tricky yo here we go
a man wearing a hat and sunglasses stands in front of a crowd of people
Alt: Run DMC performing outside
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This beat is my recital
I think it's very vital
To rock a rhyme
That's right on time
It's tricky tricky yo here we go
I think it's very vital
To rock a rhyme
That's right on time
It's tricky tricky yo here we go
70 miles per hour, my arse.
“I do not believe that cyclists are a group of people who are more criminal than the rest of society or than any other road users. However, they are less accountable than people who drive buses and cars, and general deterrence theory does not work for them,” said former Met head Lord Hogan-Howe
“Arrogant” cyclists riding at 70mph are ignoring police and making pavements “as dangerous as the road”, House of Lords told
During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, former Met Police head Lord Hogan-Howe reiterated his calls for bike number plates, while other peers claimed that the “threat” had shifted from “Lycra ...
road.cc
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
70 miles per hour, my arse.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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My painting GRASSY LAKE
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My painting GRASSY LAKE