Jon Abbott
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Jon Abbott
@jon-abbott.bsky.social
Born in Leeds, living in Lincolnshire.
40 years fiddling bits, wrangling data mainly financial.
Retired from the grind, so now it's garden & gears from here on in.
#lufc #TdF
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FT Leeds United 3-3 Liverpool

Absolutely magnificent. From 2-0 down. Elland Road roars. Substitutions changed it completely.

#lufc
December 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I also love the idea that a group of people who can’t sort out a workable hand ball rule thought they’d diversify into handing out peace prizes.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Chairman Mao announces his new state-run transportation plan
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
JFC.

Beverly Hills 1701D.

Going to need to find a deep deep wormhole to drop this in.
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!

The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+

🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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You'll be amazed to discover that a bunch of anonymous people that Nigel Farage says definitely do exist, have confirmed that he didn't say any of the things that lots of other people say on the record that he absolutely did
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So having leaked the shit out of the "Chelsea & Liverpool are Farke's last chance *snigger*" narrative, how does the ownership react to this surprising but welcome turn of events?

#lufc
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Bank Security Department" just called.
BSD: Can I take your name and DOB.
Me: You called me. Don't you have that info?
BSD: Sorry no.
Me: Strange. I'd have thought my bank had that on file.
BSD: I'm not calling from your bank. I'm a scammer.
Me: Fair enough.
BSD: Have a nice day.
#ScamInterceptors
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I had to check..that statement is real. Absolutely vile. And the police wonder why nobody trusts them.
‘They should not face trial by media.’

But we did. By your media.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If current trends continue, numerate people will go from being a small minority of world population today to virtually extinct.

Particularly when innumerate idiots keep breeding so prolifically.
What is Mr. Tesla concerned about today?
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
They must have hired some real fuckwits.
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
That's "sons of a bitch" or "sons of bitches". At least *try* to get the words right...
Trump: "We're taking those son of a bitches out"
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#onthisday 1990

Southampton were the first door on the #lufc Advent Calendar, with former (Micky Adams) and future (Rod Wallace) on board. And some young lad called Shearer.

youtu.be/4v3quofOUWs?...
Leeds Utd v Southampton 01-12-1990
YouTube video by The Free Football Library
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And I had an X-ray to stop me breaking my arm.
Leavitt claims that Trump had a "preventative" MRI
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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So they relied on WordPress plugins to handle security for a market-moving doc, didn't fully understand how the plugins worked, and had them misconfigured. Sounds absolutely plausible. But an institution like the OBR should at a minimum have a decent sysadmin on call for webserver stuff.
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If they've got a Chief Security Officer, they have to go.

If they _don't_ have a CSO, then the CEO and/or the board need to walk.

There is no way in the world we'd have got a single contract signed in the last 15 years by any bank or fund manager with systems as slack as this.

Unbelievable.

#OBR
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"I took a cognitive test and I aced it. The maths test though I got an F."
Trump: You’re going to have drug prices coming down 500,600,700% because of me
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Ah bugger.

Well all we need now is for Liverpool to rediscover how to win 3-0 against West Ham and we're out of the drop zone.

#lufc
FT Man City 3-2 Leeds United

A vastly improved second half. Not one I think anyone saw coming. Close to getting something, at least.

#lufc
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
DF: "Well the stats don't really reflect how well we played..."
1st half stats. Important thing is, we're only 2-0 down at HT #lufc
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Matters little"????

These things are to be savoured and dwelt upon for generations as evidence of the enormous conspiracy against #lufc
Goal given. Man City 2-0 Leeds

Would be interested to look back at Foden when he had that shot that led to the corner, wondered if he might be offside. Matters little now.

#lufc
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Nobody could have predicted this. Nobody.
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ah Leeds. Never change.

#lufc
Foden 1-0 inside 60 seconds. Long afternoon ahead. #lufc
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#onthisday 1990

#lufc travel to Loftus Road to try to extend the Rumbelows Cup run.
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Well thank God the Premier League is determining final league position by "the data".

#lufc
Farke remains convinced he can turn the tide.

⚪ "17th would be great success."
⚪ “When I judge the objective data, that gives me lots of confidence."
⚪ "We are in the top two, with Man City, for physical output."
⚪ Against NEW, FUL, BOU, TOT, BUR, AVL "(data shows) we were the better side."

#lufc
Leeds finishing 17th this season would be ‘a great success’, says Daniel Farke
Farke's side are 18th in the Premier League heading into Saturday's game at Manchester City.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM