Jon Wood

I don’t often miss smoking these days but nothing quite beats a well earned smoke at the end of a journey.

The real clue is when the kids come back with a goatee.

Seeing some discourse on shop lifting and let me just note the poster in Sainsbury’s suggesting that their customers might like to donate a little to help those in food poverty.

If only there were some organisation with a national logistics network and supplier relationships that could do that.

I reckon we should flip it. Have a single labelled noisy coach. Gather all the people who can’t shut the fuck up for 90 minutes there to yap incessantly at each other.

It somehow took them until the 32nd century to work out they could just carry a single device.

If only they hadn’t and the Muslim housewives could have gone to their true political home, the party of [checks notes] considering all Muslims illegal immigrants and demanding they be deported.

This got an involuntary Awwwawwaww from me.

rushing to the window "young young boy, what day is it?"

and hearing "the tories lost their deposit" and cackling

The Comments Below, so called because they’re Hell. (Is this original? Probably not, I’m sure someone else has thought of it before, but its new to me)

Traditional Methods to Increase Effectiveness sounds like it’s for losers as well. Gotta explore untraditional methods first, disrupt those methods.

Ironically the Lib Dems here are articulating why a ban for under 16s isn’t the answer here. Spreading harmful content and relying on addiction to keep customers should be universally regulated, they don’t magically stop being a problem the moment a potential customer has their 16th birthday.

I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.

But also don’t, because this is a cube of scented wax.

Love it, it’s all gorgeous! I genuinely have no idea how I ended up following you but very glad I did.

Can I buy a large print of that image from you (or for that matter a high resolution version of the image and a license to make one print from it)? DMs are disabled here but drop me an email, jon@blankpad.net

Please tell me your reputation with cats can’t go above zero.

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, the famous photo of some American Marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima.

You’re writing that as if any of these people make a distinction between asylum seekers who’ve come via irregular routes and a vaguely brown person who was born here. It’s not about immigration, that’s just the fig lead they put over being racists.

Me: We might go to a protest this weekend.

Local 7-year-old: Is it gonna be "boo ICE!" or "go trans!"?

Local 10-year-old: It's... kinda all the same thing.

Collective liberation ftw.

Did he have any suggestions for what every white collar worker should do once they’ve been replaced by an LLM.

Snapped and unscrewed it from the wall. It’s a homeopathic switch, I assume at one point the heater was attached to it rather than the economy 7 circuit. This is fantastic news!

I am once again being driven mad by a fused switch in my flat. It’s on the wall next to the heater, and yet somehow has no influence at all over the operation of the heater. Which is annoying, because what I’d really like is a fused switch which turns the heater on and off.

This is the only fess where replying “didn’t happen” is appropriate. Go wild everyone.

Credit to you man, I had an assortment of minimum wage jobs but none of them were enough to actually pay rent or bills. (And honestly, I had it comfortable so never had to push for it)

I really wish there a way to systematise the dicking around with stuff that’s interesting until it accidentally becomes a career path route. Its one hell of a way to get a broad base of experience but only really works if you’ve got patient parents who can afford to be exasperated at you for a while

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No, you’ve misunderstood. It’s just one of those people who are adamant the live in Ilford because that bumps their house price a bit.

Come on, that’s hilarious, why wouldn’t you tell your partner about a funny thing happening during your day?

If there’s one thing we should have learned in the last decade it’s that listening to the FX/rates-watchers rather than, you know, actual people, is a terrible idea.

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