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Darren Hayman

@darrenhayman.bsky.social

It’s my birthday.

The best thing you could do for me is buy my lovely new book, ‘Birds Painted on Beer Mats’

That would be great for both of us I think.

darrenhaymanart.com

December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

"I'm helping"

A black cat investigating an illuminated Christmas tree, which has been up for all of two minutes.

December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Aerial photography's often fascinating, but this oblique view of Swindon and 1920 is a particular peach.

historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

EPW000937 - Aerial Photo | Historic England

Explore the aerial photo collection

historicengland.org.uk

November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM

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Hedley Thorne

@hedleythorne.bsky.social

Uffington White Horse charging towards the hillfort. It is lovely at this time of year. #neolithic

November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Martin Calladine

@uglygame.bsky.social

Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.

Headline from The Onion:

Opinion

Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes

by Some Rich Asshole

November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Brian Edwards

@public-history.bsky.social

I bought this hand coloured copy of the 18th century engraving of Cherhill White Horse some time back. It was inexpensive because someone started recolouring it in the 60s judging by the paint applied to the traveller's coat left.

November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Richard Pettigrew

@wiglet1981.bsky.social

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Anybody want to go and work for Vickers at South Marston (currently a massive speculative industrial estate, formerly Honda)?

The front cover of Flight And Aircraft Engineer (official organ of the Royal Aero Club), 25 May 1956.
A dramatic painted image of a De Havilland Vampire with two pilots side by side in the cockpit firing missiles at a beach

A stylistic advert for Martin Baker ejector seats

A very stylish advert for Bristol, seeking draughtsmen and technicians

Situations vacant, including a position at Vickers in South Marston

November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

#NowPlaying Al Green, I Want To Hold Your Hand

A record playing on a turntable. There's no sleeve propped up behind today.

November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Had a bit of a tidy while listening to the football. What do we think was occupying the minds of Practical Motorists in June 1958?

Oh...

The colourful front cover of Practical Motorist & Motor Cyclist (The leading journal for do it yourself motorists), June 1958. A man in a light brown jacket has the rear offside wheel off a green Morris Minor Traveller.

THE BUDGET BLUNDER
Once again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has seen fit to pass by the legitimate claim of the motor industry and its customers and users for a considerable reduction of the punitive taxation to which motorists and Whilst the Chancellor on one hand made mild makers have been subject for so many years. There is a 60 per cent. purchase tax, or 12s. in the pound, on every new car, and there is, moreover, a further tax of 2s. 6d. on every gallon of petrol. The petrol tax alone contributes £360,000,000 to the total national revenue and purchase tax on cars, £115,000,000, or about one quarter of the total purchase tax revenue. tax concessions on cosmetics, certain domestic equipment

November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Have some of that. Shame Walsall got a winner at Bromley, but second in the table's ok for now (and all you can do is win, right?).
Hope Holloway doesn't mind me enjoying things...

November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Mark Holland

@riffraff1971.bsky.social

ADRIAAAAANNN!!

November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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Stephanie 🍉

@ageofoddish.bsky.social

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Tufted ducks down the lake lads

Several ducks swimming around. Some of them are black and white with little tufts on their heads, because they're tufted ducks

November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Good grief

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 3d

Speaking on Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast on Friday morning, Badenoch suggested it could be "argued that" the Budget was unchristian.
When pressed on the remark, the Tory leader explained: "In early Christian times, there was no state or welfare, so I think that you can argue that, actually.

November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM

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Darren Hayman

@darrenhayman.bsky.social

Lego Spaceman paintng

darrenhaymanart.com/products/leg...

November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

#NowPlaying As is tradition
#WithAParahraphOnTheBackOfEachOneExplainingWhatEachOneWas

Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie playing on a turntable, with the sleeve propped up behind.

November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM

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Hugh Brechin

@hughrbrechin.bsky.social

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

A yellow tractor on a London street, driven by a man dressed as Father Christmas. The sign on the front reads 'Farmer Christmas: The Naughty List. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, David Lammy, Diane Abbott, Angela Rayner, the BBC.'

November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM

jonstump

@jonstump.bsky.social

Looking forward to this (having live-tweeted Alcock and Brown's crossing in real time, a hundred years on)

15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 5d

We are delighted to share our launch episode with you, as @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to discuss the men who showed up in Newfoundland after the end of the Great War to attempt to fly the Atlantic. David, your 15 minutes begin now...

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November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM

jonstump

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I don't think I've seen stones used to weigh anything other then people for decades. Pounds maybe, if your style guide insists on bracketed imperial measurements, but not stones.

Cool story though.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The device, described by Mr Kennard as "battered," measures roughly 120cm (50in) in length and weighs about 15kg (2.4 stone).

November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM

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Wiltshire Museum

@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

An aerial photo of Liddington hillfort in our collectons inspired artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby to create two prints now in our exhibition - Liddington in Winter / Summer. Different layers of paint in the print created different effects. #HillfortsWednesday

Liddington in Winter. Swirling pattern of very pale greens inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort.

Liddington in Summer. Swirling pattern of very pale greens and areas of darker green inspired by the fields and woods seen in a vertical aerial photograph of the landscape around an Iron Age hillfort.

Black and white aerial photograph showing fields and woodland in the landscape around Liddington hillfort, seen top centre.

November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Rory Blank

@roryblank.bsky.social

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.