Jon Hickman

@jonhickman

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Jon Hickman@jonhickman· 3d

Two PS5s

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· 6d

Some guy explaining the new Sunderland shirt. This stuff is getting sillier than trying to follow the MCU tbqh

“To understand why I like this football top (that costs £120, and I am an adult man remember) you will need to do homework covering the last 90 seasons of The Football”

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· 6d

Government mandated bilingual fortunes 🍁🇨🇦 The French one is SO much prettier, so je la prends

“You will soon make an important decision”, but written in French so it’s gorgeous poetry

<<L’heure d’une décision importante arrivera bientôt>> but written ugly and in English

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· 25d

Hydration Break, New York. Weegee, 1937

Kids playing in the street in water spray from a fire hydrant. 1930s photo by Weegee

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jul 12

In a quirk of fate, today I went running around the Jewellery Quarter with time to explore and I found myself running through an alleyway I’d never seen before. It spat me out next to the site of the long lost Lessar Brother’s sign on Hylton Street, which was a favourite of Brian’s and mine.

Old picture or Hylton Street, Birmingham. Prominent is the sign for Lessar Brothers Ltd

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jul 9

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jun 16

Legal Name Fraud
The Truth
It’s illegal to use a legal name

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jun 9

Frank Cooper sits on a throne of lies

A jar of Frank Cooper’s “Oxford” Original Oxford Marmalade

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· May 31

Ok, perhaps I’m underplaying how good the day is ;) Sutton Fun Run was lovely. I saw inside the Assembly Rooms for the first time and they’re gorgeous. A pal is about to host a post run pizza party and his fridge is full of St Austell Proper Job (I dropped it off yesterday 👌)

Inside the Sutton Coldfield assembly rooms

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· May 20

Engraving “Aston Villa FC” into the Europa League trophy

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· May 20

Just ran past a fella who’d clearly gone out this morning in his Arsenal shirt, all full of pride, but come six o’clock he’s fucking _done_ with strangers giving him the thumbs up and saying “congratulations”

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· May 9

Awww I think BJA has a very pure crush on your brother. I didn’t know any of this Ernie stuff, and fell exactly this far down a rabbit hole. www.altpress.com/green-day-bi...

Nearly 26 years after the album’s release, Green Day’s frontman still has a few questions about the back cover art. In his post, he says that he still wonders what happened to one of the people featured in the photo and is asking for an update from anyone that may know.

“I always wondered whatever happened to this girl just to the right of the puppet with short hair,” Armstrong asks. “Anyone know?…thought of the day.”

So far, no one has commented on Armstrong’s post about the mystery girl. In the meantime, next time you happen to be browsing through the used CD section and come across Dookie, take a look at the back and see if Ernie is still hanging out in the crowd.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· May 4

Picture doing the rounds of a guy trying back doors around our ends. Can’t believe Street Hawk fell on hard times

A man in a cool as shit motorbike vigilante outfit doing some light attempts at breaking and entering

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Apr 23

Tonight is “The One Where They Finish a Complete Rewatch of Friends”. It’s been great. Netflix lost rights halfway through and we had to buy the DVDs from their one true supplier: Oxfam 😅

The last DVD of the complete Friends box set

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Apr 7

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Mar 2

Congratulations, you are watching a good TV show

A photo of a street where not much is happening, 70s/80s home photo colour graded. Across it is written "A Good TV Show © MMXXVI To look more 1970s we did this with roman numerals". It is a comforting reminder that you have chosen a serious but whimsical quality TV show, made by artists.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Feb 21

When you used to study and teach media and you’re drinking with your extended family and they get to talking about the TV license fee and the current state of the BBC

Still from Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. A man looks sad and confused. He’s holding a paint roller. In the original broadcast he was saying:

“It’s a bit more complex than that”

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 28

Just having a lovely time on the tools.

Old key on left with Sugru fix on one button, and other button entirely missing. New shiny key on right

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 23

Applying this setting fixed 90% of the Liquid Glass fluff that made me hate my phone. Find it under Settings>accessibility>display & text size.

Settings>accessibility>display & text size: reduce transparency on.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 21

Further information on the NEU strikes at Arthur Terry Learning Partnership Since this letter was written it emerged that the top slice was actually 29% not 20%, which I corrected in the alt text.

We would rather not be taking strike action. We are educators and our role supporting your children who attend a school which is part of the ATLP.

For us, our jobs don't start and finish at the end of the school day. The majority will plan their lessons, mark books, make calls to you parents, plan school trips, deliver extra revision classes and offer enrichment opportunities outside of the normal school day to make sure each day at the school can be the best it can be for your children.

Despite this, the ATLP Board has announced that there will be over 100 redundancies across the Trust. They have been given loans by the DfE and taking a massive 29% of school budgets to help balance the books but have delivered another deficit this year.

Their solution to this? Cut the numbers of teachers and support staff.

What would this mean to your children in the classroom? Larger class sizes leading to less support from teachers and support staff. Teachers with higher workloads and an impact on SEND support.

What will it mean to the Central leadership team? 'Management' during the last year, whilst the Trust has had a budget deficit, has increased from 12 to 34 staff. That is an additional 22 staff who have been employed on at least £60,000 per year. This is over £1.3 million.

NEU members have attempted to engage with the Trust but have been met with a lack of detail surrounding the redundancies.

We agree with the CEO when he says he says it is regrettable we have decided to take industrial action, but we are left with little option. NEU members are really concerned for the students that they teach and believe that any cuts should come from the massive central office spend which includes 29% of all school funding and not from teachers and support staff who do so much for the children they support, day in, day out.

We will continue to try and speak to the Trust and seek a negotiated resolution, but our concern for the future education of your children is paramount.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 21

Please pay attention to this very good dog and his sign.

A very good boy is picketing Arthur Terry School, Sutton Coldfield, during industrial action by staff across the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership. The ATLP runs a number of primary and secondary schools across Birmingham and Staffordshire.

To summarise his sign, the dog says that the partnership has been top slicing their schools’ budgets by nearly 1/3. Some trusts take as little as 5%.

The ATLP is running a deficit of £6.05m and secured an injection of £4.5m, bought 1100 iPads and paid a lot of senior educators to manage things, and it has no money left.

So those managerial educators did the managing badly but they want to cut 100 frontline teaching and support staff. No cuts are being planned centrally, in the management of ATLP, that we know of.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 15

Matthew, #thetraitors, season 4, 2026 (colourised).

A young man who likes tank tops and just wants to be recruited

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 14

“you wanna be a big man in a small town? Fuck off up the model Huddersfield!”

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 11

Two things I’ve so far discovered, rewatching Friends in 2025/26, that I didn’t or couldn’t appreciate back in the 90s: 1. At Monica’s apartment they always make coffee in a chemex. 2. Friends predicted the tech billionaire to MMA pipeline with the introduction of Jon Favreau’s Pete Becker.

A man looking sad. He is in a full body cast in a doctor’s office (Jon Favreau as Pete Becker in Friends)

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 9

He played a blinder there tbh cos I looked him up after and google just showed this.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 5

There’s a pub on Watling Street in Grendon that’s actually a coop which always throws me when I drive past it

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 3

#thetraitors

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Jan 3

“I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne…”

Still from Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade. Henry Jones Senior holds an umbrella and is walking towards Junior on a beach.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Dec 31

I’ve just recently got into reading Christopher Priest. If you’ve not read him you’re probably familiar with his work via Nolan’s adaptation of his novel, The Prestige—that’s a good place to start reading him (as I did) as Nolan left enough behind that you’ll discover a new depth to the story.

Jon Hickman@jonhickman· Dec 30

SOON