Jon Barnes
@jonbarnes.bsky.social
fax instrumentalist - has played international rugby for Kyrgysztan
Intrusive thought: one of the other parents in my boy's class WhatsApp group just used the wrong "you're" and I can't stop thinking about correcting them.
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Intrusive thought: one of the other parents in my boy's class WhatsApp group just used the wrong "you're" and I can't stop thinking about correcting them.
This is a lovely primer to a series i love. But if I can offer an alternative reading guide/order: whatever the next one was that happened to come on the mobile library that looked after the villages round our way.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. They're all amazing.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. They're all amazing.
DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books.
DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books.
DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion.
From there, follow this guide to find your next book.
DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books.
DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion.
From there, follow this guide to find your next book.
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is a lovely primer to a series i love. But if I can offer an alternative reading guide/order: whatever the next one was that happened to come on the mobile library that looked after the villages round our way.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. They're all amazing.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. They're all amazing.
Is it possible that AI couldn't do fingers because it was largely trained on people's uni photos from the early 00s where everyone had four apple VKs tucked in their claw?
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Is it possible that AI couldn't do fingers because it was largely trained on people's uni photos from the early 00s where everyone had four apple VKs tucked in their claw?
IT SHOUKD BE IN MID WALES
The more I think about it, we got into this debacle largely because people who hadn't really considered what it would involve and how hard and trying and dangerous it was going to be kept suggesting cutting a team so fuck it.
Gonna start doing the same thing suggesting we go up to five regions.
Gonna start doing the same thing suggesting we go up to five regions.
Ospreys, Cardiff & Dragons all win. Scarlets give reigning champions Bordeaux a proper game. All four in position right now to potentially get out of their groups.
Welsh rugby is class right now let's add a fifth region
Welsh rugby is class right now let's add a fifth region
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
IT SHOUKD BE IN MID WALES
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Absolute cinema
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Absolute cinema
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a Christmas movie(s)
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a Christmas movie(s)
House prices are made up.
Sell your house for 1.9m quid if you dont want it to be worth 2m.
Solved it.
Sell your house for 1.9m quid if you dont want it to be worth 2m.
Solved it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
House prices are made up.
Sell your house for 1.9m quid if you dont want it to be worth 2m.
Solved it.
Sell your house for 1.9m quid if you dont want it to be worth 2m.
Solved it.
I think the things that we seem pretty bad at (gain line both sides of ball, missing tackles, aerial) are the things that make life really easy for a half decent team to put enough pressure on that it's too easy to score.
We could fix everything else, but if we don't fix those then we go nowhere.
We could fix everything else, but if we don't fix those then we go nowhere.
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I think the things that we seem pretty bad at (gain line both sides of ball, missing tackles, aerial) are the things that make life really easy for a half decent team to put enough pressure on that it's too easy to score.
We could fix everything else, but if we don't fix those then we go nowhere.
We could fix everything else, but if we don't fix those then we go nowhere.
Have we missed more tackles than they've made yet?
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Have we missed more tackles than they've made yet?
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Some thoughts on the importance of winning, the environment that Steve Tandy is creating and the WRU sabotaging themselves and everyone around them.
cardiffrugbylife.wales/2025/11/18/v...
cardiffrugbylife.wales/2025/11/18/v...
View from next door: Japan
There’s nothing quite like winning. Performances can be attractive, they can be brave, they can be dominant, but ultimately winning is the aim no matter how it comes. For Cymru on Saturday it…
cardiffrugbylife.wales
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Some thoughts on the importance of winning, the environment that Steve Tandy is creating and the WRU sabotaging themselves and everyone around them.
cardiffrugbylife.wales/2025/11/18/v...
cardiffrugbylife.wales/2025/11/18/v...
Vile. They should be ashamed.
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Vile. They should be ashamed.
How bad was that first half?
We had family round for picky bits lunch and I have put a massive, shameful dent in the leftovers...
We had family round for picky bits lunch and I have put a massive, shameful dent in the leftovers...
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How bad was that first half?
We had family round for picky bits lunch and I have put a massive, shameful dent in the leftovers...
We had family round for picky bits lunch and I have put a massive, shameful dent in the leftovers...
The sort of thing you could only achieve with vision and a massive majority and...
...oh well
...oh well
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The sort of thing you could only achieve with vision and a massive majority and...
...oh well
...oh well
There is a dog called Bobby in the park not adequately returning a tennis ball to his owner and consequently there is a man in Llanishen Park shouting "Bobby Ball" repeatedly with increasing levels of annoyance
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There is a dog called Bobby in the park not adequately returning a tennis ball to his owner and consequently there is a man in Llanishen Park shouting "Bobby Ball" repeatedly with increasing levels of annoyance
Wales has partly paid for this bridge to nowhere as part of paying for the rail line that isn't in Wales and doesn't come to Wales. There's a poetry in that.
Periodic reminder that in opposition UK Labour thought we shouldn't pay, but in government kept us on the hook. Cool.
Periodic reminder that in opposition UK Labour thought we shouldn't pay, but in government kept us on the hook. Cool.
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Wales has partly paid for this bridge to nowhere as part of paying for the rail line that isn't in Wales and doesn't come to Wales. There's a poetry in that.
Periodic reminder that in opposition UK Labour thought we shouldn't pay, but in government kept us on the hook. Cool.
Periodic reminder that in opposition UK Labour thought we shouldn't pay, but in government kept us on the hook. Cool.
Close WalesOnline, but wrong sport...
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Close WalesOnline, but wrong sport...
Crumbs. The comment section on this @squidgerugby.bsky.social video are a train wreck. youtu.be/G6YuqL7_Xf8?...
The absolute pick of the bunch was the melon saying "the capital" doesn't need a team...
...cough...ahem...
YOU PUT THE TEAMS WHERE THE PEOPLE AND MONEY ARE
The absolute pick of the bunch was the melon saying "the capital" doesn't need a team...
...cough...ahem...
YOU PUT THE TEAMS WHERE THE PEOPLE AND MONEY ARE
So Wales are cutting a region | Reaction & Analysis
YouTube video by More Squidge Rugby
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Crumbs. The comment section on this @squidgerugby.bsky.social video are a train wreck. youtu.be/G6YuqL7_Xf8?...
The absolute pick of the bunch was the melon saying "the capital" doesn't need a team...
...cough...ahem...
YOU PUT THE TEAMS WHERE THE PEOPLE AND MONEY ARE
The absolute pick of the bunch was the melon saying "the capital" doesn't need a team...
...cough...ahem...
YOU PUT THE TEAMS WHERE THE PEOPLE AND MONEY ARE
Neither Faletau nor Adams looked at all good going off. Not good news for the autumn.
October 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Neither Faletau nor Adams looked at all good going off. Not good news for the autumn.
Really good to see Basham having a belting game. Sad that he'll undoubtedly be picked up by the fines committee for being dragged from scrapping by Sheedy...
October 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Really good to see Basham having a belting game. Sad that he'll undoubtedly be picked up by the fines committee for being dragged from scrapping by Sheedy...
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I am crippled with envy at Irish statehood and its emergence as an economic success story, with a government eager to spunk money and tax breaks on rugby union.
We could and should have the same thing in Cymru, if only we had the vision, guts and self-esteem to make it a reality.
We could and should have the same thing in Cymru, if only we had the vision, guts and self-esteem to make it a reality.
October 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I am crippled with envy at Irish statehood and its emergence as an economic success story, with a government eager to spunk money and tax breaks on rugby union.
We could and should have the same thing in Cymru, if only we had the vision, guts and self-esteem to make it a reality.
We could and should have the same thing in Cymru, if only we had the vision, guts and self-esteem to make it a reality.
I might be late to the party on this but how has there not been a time travel spin off of Chicken Run called Bantam Leap
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I might be late to the party on this but how has there not been a time travel spin off of Chicken Run called Bantam Leap
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Goodness, austerity would mean we couldn't adequately fund rail infrastructure in England with no benefit to us at all.
Plaid Cymru’s ambition of an independent Wales could drag the country back into austerity, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens is expected to argue at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this weekend
Jo Stevens warns against Welsh independence, suggesting it could cause austerity
Plaid Cymru’s ambition of an independent Wales could drag the country back into austerity, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens is expected to argue at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this weekend. Ind...
wp.me
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Goodness, austerity would mean we couldn't adequately fund rail infrastructure in England with no benefit to us at all.