Nicely Nicely Jones
LightNews LightNews
banner
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Nicely Nicely Jones
@nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
470 followers 1.2K following 1K posts
Just a guy, getting by.
Posts Replies Media Videos
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
When I asked Google Gemini for help analysing these, it seems that it can find Bill Clinton, but it can't even look for Donald Trump. Interesting. I wonder why Google Gemini seems so selectively inept?
A screenshot of a Google Gemini prompt enquiry about a folder in the Epstein files released 12 November 2025. When asked to find references to Donald Trump in the files, it responds? "I'm still learning and can't help with that. Do you need help with anything else?" But to the same prompt asking about Bill Clinton, it responds with a list of references it found.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
...and when I asked chatGPT to "Create an image of an oligarch's bathroom using only cheap white marble and gilt," this is what I got, with the comment: "Here it is — a bathroom that screams “I have money!” but whispers “I spent it all on gold spray paint and faux marble.” (Check out the ALT text).
A lavish bathroom designed to mimic opulence using only cheap white marble and excessive gilt. The walls and floors are covered in faux white marble with exaggerated veining, and every fixture—mirror frames, faucets, towel racks—is coated in shiny gold paint. A large, ornate bathtub sits in the center, surrounded by gilded columns and plastic chandeliers. The overall aesthetic is gaudy and over-the-top, aiming for grandeur but clearly budget-conscious.
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Wicky Galore!
A poster for a movie called 'Wicky Galore! Set in the 1950s, the poster shows a merchant ship in the background seems to have run ashore at a remote and beautiful Scottish beach. A crate of whisky from its cargo has spilled open on the sand. Various locals are lying dead or drunk across the sand amidst many bottles. In the foreground stands a smiling man in a beard and slightly long dark hair. He has a smoking gun in one hand and is toasting the poster viewer with a glass of whisky in the other. The text at the top of the poster says: A Charming Scottish Black-And-White Comedy: Wicky Galore!. At the bottom of the poster are the words: John Wick: A Killer Comedy in Glorious Monochrome. It is an AI-generated image.
October 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
3/3 But the train back was crowded.
Nelson's statue on top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in London.
September 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
2/3 It helped that it was sunny.
A view of St Martin-in-the-Fields church from along Pall Mall alongside Canadian flags hanging outside Canada House in London. A view of Nelson's Column and Trafalgar Square from outside the National Portrait Gallery in London. A view of a UK Government office building at the edge of Trafalgar Square from behind one of the fountains in the Square.
September 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
1/3 So my commute on Thursday took me to London. The views weren't bad.
Mist over an English field at dawn. Early sun reflected in the reflective glass windows of an eight storey office building in a picture taken from a London train. Nelson's column on a sunny morning.
September 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
This is 1st class this evening.

We’ve been shunted here because there is no room anywhere on the train. Reason? ‘A short train.’ Same excuse they used this morning.

2 hours of standing in front of me as there is literally no room to sit, even on the floor. No compensation due. Appalling #GWR
Picture of people in an over crowded first class railway carriage.
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Well played, Hiscox, well-played.
A billboard of three adverts by Hiscox insurance for accidental copyright infringement, parodying the look and tone ofthree famous brands: Specsavers, Weetabix and Cillit Bang.
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Found what must be the World’s smallest park yesterday. There’s a stream behind that back fence.
A small grassy rectangular public space about 2.5m wide by 5m long. Surrounded by a wrought iron fence with one opening about 1.5m wide. There is a backless park bench at the far end.
September 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
This is on the WhiteHouse website, and I was seriously impressed. I didn't know that he was so keen to celebrate America's animal doctors.

Given what he's said and done previously, it can't be be anything else, can it?
A photograph from the White House website, depicting President Trump, Vice President Vance and various other men, smiling and looking at something to the right of the picture. Overlaid is the text 'Honoring our vets'.
August 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
This made me laugh, from Monckeon on BT3A...
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
This is where I post from.
A scene from the 1967 film 'Billion Dollar Brain' where characters played by Michael Caine and Karl Malden are beside what appears to be a large computer printer. Michael Caine is holding some of the continuous feed pages which are emerging from the printer. Black and White. Strak lighting and shadows.
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Sunday morning. We had a coffee in a cafe overlooking a Weston beach empty after rain. These women walked out onto the sand, posed to take a picture, then left. No fuss. What was the story? No clue, but it was fun to wonder what it might be.

#StoriesEverywhere.
#ThingsYouDontSeeEveryday
A photograph taken from a distance looking down at three women on an empty beach. One is carrying an inflatable life-size mannequin of indeterminate sex with a photograph of a face attached to the head. The woman with a mannequin is standing with her back to the sea, while another takes a photograph of her and the mannequin. The third woman is off to one side, looking back up at the person taking the photo being described.
July 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Took this yesterday a Paddington underground station. I’m oddly pleased wit it.
A black and white photograph of the Victorian roof, walls and open sky from a platform at Paddington underground station. The sequence of brickwork arches atop square supporting columns reflect the bright morning sun that leave dark shadows underneath.
July 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
I thought this was appropriate today.
A picture of an old gravestone in a churchyard, inscribed with the words: "The American Dream. Born, 4 July 1776. Died, 3 July 2025."
July 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Lucas Moura leaping into the air in celebration after scoring his third goal, and last-minute winner, for Tottenham Hotspur in the sixth minute of stoppage time in the Champions' League semi-final against Ajax in 2019. Behind him, his teammate Deli Alli, has an ecstatic expression on his face.
June 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
My work here is done. My greatest ever achievement on BlueSky.
A blue sky notification confirming that Armando Iannucci liked my post about a wonderful US spoof news cast...
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Explaining the world using replicable, verifiable evidence, rather than opinion.

"Take nobody's word for it."

Or in latin, the motto of the Royal Society:
A stained glass window showing the arms of the Royal Society, with the motto "nullus in verba" which translates as "Take nobody's word for it." The window was taken in the lobby of the Royal Society in London.
June 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
It is good to see that there remain some frontiers still to explore. smstone0.github.io#/uk-map
A map of the United Kingdom with counties in different colours according to whether @nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social has lived, stayed, visited, stopped, passed or never been there. Points are awarded for each category from 5 points for having lived in a county to zero for having never been there. @nicleynicleyjones aggregate score is 275 as there are only a few counties to which he has never been. The tool which enabled him to complete the map can be found at https://smstone0.github.io/#/uk-map.
May 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Any shot which recreates a famous painting or photo.
A shot from MASH, a movie made in 1970, which mimics the layout and poses of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper, with a figure centrally placed at the centre of a long table, with acolytes spread out on either side of him.
May 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
How I arrived on Bluesky
April 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
For no reason at all, I was reminded today of this great poem by W H Auden.
An image containing the words of a poem by W H Auden. Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
March 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Forty years ago, the inestimable Berke Breathed identified the core principle of American Government. It is sad to see that rather being satire, this is now policy.
A four-frame strip from the newspaper comic strip 'Bloom County' popular in the 1980s. In it, a drunken Senator Bedfellow addresses an elementary school class to ask them which principle our political system is based on. Milo, a school child, shouts out MONEY TALKS!
February 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
nicelynicelyjones.bsky.social
Of course! 'YMCA' - that's Young Men's Circus Association, right?
February 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM