Jon Smalldon
@jonsmalldon.bsky.social
I watch the sport, drink the drink, listen to the music, follow films, and avoid the world.
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"We are on the brink of a new era, if only ..." (Beiderbecke Trilogy)
Words and photos: http://jonsmalldon.wordpress.com
"We are on the brink of a new era, if only ..." (Beiderbecke Trilogy)
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Jon Smalldon
@jonsmalldon.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Way back in the day, Danny Baker described 'the internet' (this was the early-mid 90s) as, "being like going through the phone book asking each number if they like Batman".
Anyway, who here likes *waves arms* ... stuff?
Anyway, who here likes *waves arms* ... stuff?
There's something a bit incongruous about the broadcast being all about the White Ribbon campaign and then virtually everyone involved thinking it's fine that some players' reactions to frustration are to start hitting each other.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
There's something a bit incongruous about the broadcast being all about the White Ribbon campaign and then virtually everyone involved thinking it's fine that some players' reactions to frustration are to start hitting each other.
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 4:25 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Indeed, and you also get the large amounts of money they bring into the country to spend on rent and other living expenses, boosting the local economy around each institution.
If the government wants to raise money from international students, wouldn't it be better to have more of them rather than to raise the fees they pay? That way you get both the existing fees you charge them and you increase the income of universities and kill two birds with one stone.
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Indeed, and you also get the large amounts of money they bring into the country to spend on rent and other living expenses, boosting the local economy around each institution.
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"Do a vulgar roast. Use forbidden words."
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Do a vulgar roast. Use forbidden words."
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We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.
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A "red beret in Waterford" moment.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A "red beret in Waterford" moment.
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"Wasn't quite ready" implies it just needs more work, whereas I don't think it's going to get meaningfully better than it is. It's hamstrung by its inability to comprehend its own output, and that's not a couple of updates away, that's a whole new technology.
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"Wasn't quite ready" implies it just needs more work, whereas I don't think it's going to get meaningfully better than it is. It's hamstrung by its inability to comprehend its own output, and that's not a couple of updates away, that's a whole new technology.
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I still can't hear the M25 mentioned without thinking of Harry Enfield's character repeatedly saying "You don't wanna go on the M25" and the other bloke saying "I didn't go on the M25!"
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I still can't hear the M25 mentioned without thinking of Harry Enfield's character repeatedly saying "You don't wanna go on the M25" and the other bloke saying "I didn't go on the M25!"
I haven't checked but they better have made this same joke about England today
The shortest day of the year in Iceland is 4 hours and 7 minutes of daylight on 21st December. That's still enough time for a whole T20 match or two innings of the West Indies batting in Tests.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I haven't checked but they better have made this same joke about England today
Living in the 21st century by streaming the derby between 'my' Bohemians 1905 and 'those' Slavia Prague via a betting site.
I give it 15 minutes until the eToro sponsored dweebs are too far ahead.
I give it 15 minutes until the eToro sponsored dweebs are too far ahead.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Living in the 21st century by streaming the derby between 'my' Bohemians 1905 and 'those' Slavia Prague via a betting site.
I give it 15 minutes until the eToro sponsored dweebs are too far ahead.
I give it 15 minutes until the eToro sponsored dweebs are too far ahead.
I have switched on international rugby union and it appears to just be three officials watching a big TV whilst some Welsh people cheer.
That’s been the past ten minutes.
That’s been the past ten minutes.
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have switched on international rugby union and it appears to just be three officials watching a big TV whilst some Welsh people cheer.
That’s been the past ten minutes.
That’s been the past ten minutes.
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(character in a netflix show) well here we are, at the abandoned mall. if that mysterious phone call we got earlier was right, we'll find the key that opens that safe we found out contains a map we need, in order to locate a device which, you'll recall, could be the cause of recent events, such as t
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
(character in a netflix show) well here we are, at the abandoned mall. if that mysterious phone call we got earlier was right, we'll find the key that opens that safe we found out contains a map we need, in order to locate a device which, you'll recall, could be the cause of recent events, such as t
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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Day 2
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Day 2
As ever just into an Ashes series in Australia, I want to ask every single person who predicted a genuine contest if they really thought that or if they needed to say it in order to get paid.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
As ever just into an Ashes series in Australia, I want to ask every single person who predicted a genuine contest if they really thought that or if they needed to say it in order to get paid.
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Johnson was a PM entirely formed in trivia. He was incapable of gravitas, empathy, or anything apart from his own self-indulgent celebrity.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Johnson was a PM entirely formed in trivia. He was incapable of gravitas, empathy, or anything apart from his own self-indulgent celebrity.
Words and photos from Sunday's game are now up jonsmalldon.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/a...
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Words and photos from Sunday's game are now up jonsmalldon.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/a...
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I keep thinking about the Raymond Williams line: "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing".
Hope is not easy. Despair seems obvious. But every howl of despair manifests as further malignance. Compliance with fascism is despair metastasising.
Hope is not easy. Despair seems obvious. But every howl of despair manifests as further malignance. Compliance with fascism is despair metastasising.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I keep thinking about the Raymond Williams line: "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing".
Hope is not easy. Despair seems obvious. But every howl of despair manifests as further malignance. Compliance with fascism is despair metastasising.
Hope is not easy. Despair seems obvious. But every howl of despair manifests as further malignance. Compliance with fascism is despair metastasising.
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Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
An early goal and a late goal ... and five more goals in between. Woodingdean win a classic Cup tie against Eastbourne Town by the odd goal in 7.
Words and photos to follow
Words and photos to follow
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
An early goal and a late goal ... and five more goals in between. Woodingdean win a classic Cup tie against Eastbourne Town by the odd goal in 7.
Words and photos to follow
Words and photos to follow
I am now at the point where I really can't see an objective difference in attitude and action between what Labour are doing and what Reform would be doing
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I am now at the point where I really can't see an objective difference in attitude and action between what Labour are doing and what Reform would be doing
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Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.