Jon Naylor
@jonnaylor.bsky.social
Teacher, drummer, dog parent, occasional cruciverbalist.
Fun times with a new band! Just joined Bare Brass Band and played a big posh charity event last night. Great fun!
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fun times with a new band! Just joined Bare Brass Band and played a big posh charity event last night. Great fun!
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"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 mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"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 mechanical computer, 1864
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“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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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]
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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’?
October 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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#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.
Trust me, you'll want to take a few minutes to watch this, if you're feeling down about the state of the world.
Ireland. Stop flirting with me. I am MARRIED, god damn it.
Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup
YouTube video by David Nihill
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October 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#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.
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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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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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Reform: the voice of the voiceless, ordinary people.
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Reform - which claims to represent left-behind Britain - received £100,000 in June from a fox hunt “master”.
Johan Christofferson, a hedge fund manager, was the joint-master of a hunt in Scotland that was prosecuted for illegal hunting in 2017.
He previously gave money to Boris Johnson.
Reform - which claims to represent left-behind Britain - received £100,000 in June from a fox hunt “master”.
Johan Christofferson, a hedge fund manager, was the joint-master of a hunt in Scotland that was prosecuted for illegal hunting in 2017.
He previously gave money to Boris Johnson.
September 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reform: the voice of the voiceless, ordinary people.
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
August 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
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1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.
This is wrong.
And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
This is wrong.
And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
August 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research.
This is wrong.
And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
This is wrong.
And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.
Stocked up on reading material at @booksonthelane.bsky.social before Mrs Naylor's big op. I suggested this one, after glancing at a short passage, as a good one to accompany her bed-bound first week of recovery. She says it's "the best book I think I've read". Thanks @levparikian.bsky.social :)
August 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Stocked up on reading material at @booksonthelane.bsky.social before Mrs Naylor's big op. I suggested this one, after glancing at a short passage, as a good one to accompany her bed-bound first week of recovery. She says it's "the best book I think I've read". Thanks @levparikian.bsky.social :)
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school so you better start eating healthy.
August 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school so you better start eating healthy.
Turn 3 was a kicker!
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July 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Turn 3 was a kicker!
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Firefox extension for those who are interested.
June 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Firefox extension for those who are interested.
I was in Stornoway back in April. I saw a sign outside a shop that simply read, 'Shame on you Donald John.'
June 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I was in Stornoway back in April. I saw a sign outside a shop that simply read, 'Shame on you Donald John.'
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Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine a future where forests, rivers, and local green spaces are sacrificed for unchecked development.
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
June 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Imagine a future where forests, rivers, and local green spaces are sacrificed for unchecked development.
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
That’s the risk we face under the new Planning Bill. Help stop this.
Sign the petition now👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
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Everyman has its own place now. It takes a bit of getting used to. Still not sure if I like it, but the timer is an interesting feature.
I just solved @AmuseLabs's crossword in 42 minutes 24 seconds. Can you beat my time? observer.co.uk/everyman?id=...
I just solved @AmuseLabs's crossword in 42 minutes 24 seconds. Can you beat my time? observer.co.uk/everyman?id=...
Everyman – 250525 | The Observer
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May 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Everyman has its own place now. It takes a bit of getting used to. Still not sure if I like it, but the timer is an interesting feature.
I just solved @AmuseLabs's crossword in 42 minutes 24 seconds. Can you beat my time? observer.co.uk/everyman?id=...
I just solved @AmuseLabs's crossword in 42 minutes 24 seconds. Can you beat my time? observer.co.uk/everyman?id=...