Jon Owen

A man, standing in the way of a nice view.

I'm in the Highlands. It's nice.

First Cutting by George 'Frolic' Weymouth 2004
(William Bretzger, The News Journal)

Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones | Defector Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in...

"Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: can you laugh along? Will you be chill, or are you going to make a big deal out of this?"

Why a bunch of real dicks keep throwing fake ones

✍️ - @brandyjensen.bsky.social

defector.com/why-a-bunch-...

"'What upsets me most is that he couches his reasoning in scientific terms,' Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told me. 'It makes it sound like he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t know what he’s talking about at all.'"

Print with stylised meadow flowers and seedheads in front of orange sun

'Island with Teasels" linocut by contemporary UK printmaker Angie Lewin #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#LateSumner

He's Bill Thorpe from Worksop, apparently. And I would put a stack of cash on him driving a Ford Capri.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1969
Acrylic on paper 182.5 x 122.5 cm
@artinstitutechi
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

Chilli?

Kwasi Kwarteng to speak at event for firm that helps super-rich pay less tax Former chancellor who devised disastrous 2022 mini-budget hired for Nomad Capitalist’s conference

I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!! 😱

'Kwasi Kwarteng, the former chancellor dismissed after 38 days following his 2022 mini-budget for Liz Truss, has been hired as a keynote speaker by an advisory firm offering services to help the super-rich pay less tax.'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I love it.

I really want to know that guy's backstory.

Unimprovable. Both the photo and the mullet.

Print featuring a shoreline with plants, a blackbird and insects in silhouette in front of sea and a glowing red sun

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Update: the climb out of the car park wasn't as lung-busting as last time I rode at Laggan and, for a change, I didn't crash.

But I may cut BabyDave out of my will* for this piece of 'damned by faint praise': "You're pretty fast for an old guy, Dad."

*I was going to leave him my nicest track pump

Or you could, you know, follow me (and I mean me, not Katie) for village-idiot-level insights.

How cool are birds?

Here's a pretty picture.

I rode my bike. And broke it.

Maybe we should, you know, fix the climate?

A mountain bike, leaning up against a garage door.

I like riding this bike. Today I'm taking it to Laggan Wolftrax.

Water clover #coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography

A bit o' Burns for you, there.

The braes ascend like lofty wa's,
The foaming stream, deep-roaring, fa's,
O'er-hung wi' fragrant spreading shaws,
The birks of Aberfeldie.

A family selfie with a waterfall in the background.

Walked up to a waterfall. Which was nice.

Not shown: two spaniels, who thought they'd died and gone to spaniel heaven.

Awesome.

ARSTECHNICA.COM OpenAl declares Al race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use 10/10 of Car Thieves agree laws are not good for business

Spotted on Insta:

Docker waiting for work, Liverpool, 1963, photo by Colin Jones (1936-2021).

[Quietly]: "D'you remember that time when someone parked here for twenty five minutes?"

*shudders*

A year of Eluned Plus some rather sneaky Tories...

Good piece on Welsh Labour: "When I asked the First Minister about how Welsh Labour had improved Wales during their 25 years in office she pointed to free prescriptions - a policy introduced 18 years ago. When your key selling point is in itself old enough to vote in the election you have a problem"

People prefer trains to planes. 👇🏼

The trick is you actually have to build them instead of dicking around for decades then pulling the plug to focus on road building and airport expansions.

A flock of sparrows are enjoying the wheat which is golden and ready to harvest. The field is fringed with wild flowers including poppy

“When the corn is ripe, flocks of sparrows raid the heavy-grain ears.”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

My painting RUNNERS IN THE WASH