Jon Walls
@jonwalls.bsky.social
Professional geek. Very amateur musician.
Ironically the cranky tone of this piece is perfectly in keeping with a supposed age of 86.
(I am childishly pleased to have been identified as in my 30s not my 50s but would no doubt join in the humbugging if it had been otherwise)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
(I am childishly pleased to have been identified as in my 30s not my 50s but would no doubt join in the humbugging if it had been otherwise)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ironically the cranky tone of this piece is perfectly in keeping with a supposed age of 86.
(I am childishly pleased to have been identified as in my 30s not my 50s but would no doubt join in the humbugging if it had been otherwise)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
(I am childishly pleased to have been identified as in my 30s not my 50s but would no doubt join in the humbugging if it had been otherwise)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Happy St Andrew’s Day fellow Scotch.
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Happy St Andrew’s Day fellow Scotch.
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I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
This insane person is deep in megalomania to point of questioning the Nuremberg trials. A deep resentment of paying taxes and being subject to rule of law.
This is who the government wants in charge of our health care data, embedded into our governance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is who the government wants in charge of our health care data, embedded into our governance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This insane person is deep in megalomania to point of questioning the Nuremberg trials. A deep resentment of paying taxes and being subject to rule of law.
This is who the government wants in charge of our health care data, embedded into our governance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is who the government wants in charge of our health care data, embedded into our governance.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪
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the ending of this explainer might surprise you
August 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
the ending of this explainer might surprise you
Can’t get more Simon Jenkins in @theguardian.com than admiring the aesthetics of Donald Trump. Gold encrusted Oval Office (and toilet seats), oversized tie, blatantly fake tan, heavily plastic-surgeoned female entourage, taste in underage girls, and McDonalds diet: a true eye for natural beauty.
August 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Can’t get more Simon Jenkins in @theguardian.com than admiring the aesthetics of Donald Trump. Gold encrusted Oval Office (and toilet seats), oversized tie, blatantly fake tan, heavily plastic-surgeoned female entourage, taste in underage girls, and McDonalds diet: a true eye for natural beauty.
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I fear his approach.
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I fear his approach.
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Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
July 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
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As I get older and I remember all of the people I lost along the way I think to myself, maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t for me
September 3, 2024 at 2:21 PM
As I get older and I remember all of the people I lost along the way I think to myself, maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t for me
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Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Arranging for my tombstone to provide suggestions of similar humans you might like
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They say genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
This smells like the most intelligent bus I've ever been on.
This smells like the most intelligent bus I've ever been on.
June 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
They say genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
This smells like the most intelligent bus I've ever been on.
This smells like the most intelligent bus I've ever been on.
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Middle age: walking round my birth city muttering ‘well, they’ve changed all this’ any time I see a bar that is called something different from what it was in 1988.
June 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Middle age: walking round my birth city muttering ‘well, they’ve changed all this’ any time I see a bar that is called something different from what it was in 1988.
@aiannucci.bsky.social introduces us to the word “fissiparous”.
Could Trump, Musk, Farage, Badenoch all be said to be indulging in one huge, elongated “fissi fit”?
Could Trump, Musk, Farage, Badenoch all be said to be indulging in one huge, elongated “fissi fit”?
My piece in #NewStatesman on the collapse of nuance in politics, and the economic as well as moral case for tackling poverty. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
It’s the nuance, stupid
Binary thinking has broken our politics. Is there a way back?
www.newstatesman.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@aiannucci.bsky.social introduces us to the word “fissiparous”.
Could Trump, Musk, Farage, Badenoch all be said to be indulging in one huge, elongated “fissi fit”?
Could Trump, Musk, Farage, Badenoch all be said to be indulging in one huge, elongated “fissi fit”?
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Walking along the banks of the Thames and I've just stumbled on the opening and closing shot of an unwritten rockumentary.
May 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Walking along the banks of the Thames and I've just stumbled on the opening and closing shot of an unwritten rockumentary.
Important thread on language! How we instinctively do understand types and degrees of behaviour.
Off the cuff theory: politics is learning that you have to vote for prats and pricks, while hard right/left politics is supporting twats and cunts by denying any “mistakes” were ever deliberate.
Off the cuff theory: politics is learning that you have to vote for prats and pricks, while hard right/left politics is supporting twats and cunts by denying any “mistakes” were ever deliberate.
The prat slips on a banana skin he should have noticed.
The prick carelessly dicarded the banana skin.
The twat deliberately put the banana skin in a dangerous place.
The cunt is a twat did it hoping for a serious injury.
The prick carelessly dicarded the banana skin.
The twat deliberately put the banana skin in a dangerous place.
The cunt is a twat did it hoping for a serious injury.
May 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Important thread on language! How we instinctively do understand types and degrees of behaviour.
Off the cuff theory: politics is learning that you have to vote for prats and pricks, while hard right/left politics is supporting twats and cunts by denying any “mistakes” were ever deliberate.
Off the cuff theory: politics is learning that you have to vote for prats and pricks, while hard right/left politics is supporting twats and cunts by denying any “mistakes” were ever deliberate.
Have just arrived in Glasgow on Avanti West Coast. Smooth journey.
But not in the station, no, we’re currently parked over the Clyde and “delayed”. It’s like they don’t want to arrive on time on principle.
But not in the station, no, we’re currently parked over the Clyde and “delayed”. It’s like they don’t want to arrive on time on principle.
Every single fucking time someone's coming to see me on an Avanti West Coast train I get this slight ambient nausea, not knowing how serious the balls-up's going to be this time. Today my visitor is currently stuck at Crewe, "collapsed line" ETA shrug emoji. Avanti, Italian for "fuck off!"
May 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Have just arrived in Glasgow on Avanti West Coast. Smooth journey.
But not in the station, no, we’re currently parked over the Clyde and “delayed”. It’s like they don’t want to arrive on time on principle.
But not in the station, no, we’re currently parked over the Clyde and “delayed”. It’s like they don’t want to arrive on time on principle.
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Magnum Cart.
The singular of Magna Carta.
The singular of Magna Carta.
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Magnum Cart.
The singular of Magna Carta.
The singular of Magna Carta.
Starmer didn’t bother to show up. Loser.
“Hearing from the Labour party chair, Ellie Reeves, that “traditionally prime ministers don’t campaign in byelections” felt like just another way of falling back on weird conventions that no one normal has ever heard of”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Hearing from the Labour party chair, Ellie Reeves, that “traditionally prime ministers don’t campaign in byelections” felt like just another way of falling back on weird conventions that no one normal has ever heard of”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is Farage’s win a new dawn? We could ask Labour, but they’re still fast asleep | Marina Hyde
The local elections results tell us one clear thing: the ‘two main parties’ offer a change that actually changes nothing – and voters know it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Starmer didn’t bother to show up. Loser.
“Hearing from the Labour party chair, Ellie Reeves, that “traditionally prime ministers don’t campaign in byelections” felt like just another way of falling back on weird conventions that no one normal has ever heard of”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Hearing from the Labour party chair, Ellie Reeves, that “traditionally prime ministers don’t campaign in byelections” felt like just another way of falling back on weird conventions that no one normal has ever heard of”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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DEUT
Black and white version of this view looking from Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway station looking back at Heron Quays station.
The vantage point is on board the Stratford DLR, shooting through the glass at the back of the train.
#photography #railway
Black and white version of this view looking from Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway station looking back at Heron Quays station.
The vantage point is on board the Stratford DLR, shooting through the glass at the back of the train.
#photography #railway
May 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
DEUT
Black and white version of this view looking from Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway station looking back at Heron Quays station.
The vantage point is on board the Stratford DLR, shooting through the glass at the back of the train.
#photography #railway
Black and white version of this view looking from Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway station looking back at Heron Quays station.
The vantage point is on board the Stratford DLR, shooting through the glass at the back of the train.
#photography #railway
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HI BLUESKY HERE IS A PHOTO I MADE
April 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
HI BLUESKY HERE IS A PHOTO I MADE