Jon Ayre

@jonayre.uk

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I've been an engineer, software developer, architect, director & CTO. Now I'm a hands-on consultant doing business and tech strategy. Creator of the business evolution map. Father & Husband. It WILL go wrong & it CAN be fixed. He/him.

Confederate soldier mannequins from the film Night at the Museum
Thousand yard stare meme. A war weary dishevelled soldier stares blankly into the camera as war rages behind him.
A lemonade fizzy drink label for the brand Cresta showing a Polar bear surfing on bubbles while drinking lemonade through a straw
The guy in the hot dog suit saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"
A mannequin dressed in a horizontal red and white striped dress reminiscent of the internet famed blue and black dress that some people saw as white and gold.
A black cat is peering through a small hole in the back of a cabinet where the wires go through. The hole is the size of his head and all we can see is the top of his head and his eyes
A black and white tuxedo cat wearing a merry Christmas scarf is looking up hoping for treats
A black and white tuxedo cat is sitting back and looking up at us from the floor. He's wearing a black and white striped neck scarf which has Merry Christmas on it in white lettering with a picture of Santa below the lettering. He obviously expects treats for being such a very good boy.
A black and white tuxedo cat sticking his head out half way up an as yet undecorated Christmas tree.
A black and white tuxedo cat sits on a wood laminate floor with a small Christmas for tree decoration behind him. He's looking at the camera and is wearing a decorative collar with a gold chain fastening and blue beads around the circumference. A shiny blue spherical bell is hanging from the gold chain.
Black and white tuxedo cat wearing Dracula cape with wide bright orange collar and red bow.
A notification from Amazon Fashion with the text "Recommended for you. We thought you'd like a new handbag." It pictures two handbags, one cream and one pale green.
A black and white tuxedo cat in a Halloween costume featuring a large splayed orange collar tied on with a red ribbon looks up at the camera.
Prototype electronic circuit constructed on a single strip of breadboard
A helmeted soldier stares blankly past us. In the background are scenes of war.
An atmospheric photograph of the viaduct traversing the Ribble valley with the sun setting on the horizon.
A hunting bird on the lawn of a domestic garden eating a small bird.
Aston Martin with the number plate 800M (boom)
A map made up of coloured hexagons intended to show the UK economy in terms of value. Each hexagon represents £1 billion and the positioning of the industry sectors demonstrates their relationship to each other. At the centre is an open space labelled "Carbon capture" suggesting a future sector. Around are the established sectors, Electricity Generation, Electricity Distribution, Gas Distribution, Water and Waste.
Windows shutdown menu showing multiple options: Sign out Sleep Update and shut down (estimate 5 min) Shut down Update and restart (estimate 5 min) Restart
White BMW with the number plate JU57 CUK
Black and white cat lying on his side, stretched out full length on a sofa
Black and white tuxedo cat standing on a hooded litter tray.
Close up of a red breasted robin sitting on a bark chip covered border in front of a hedge looking up at the camera.
Ms Casey from the TV show Severance
Black cat sitting in a green Marks and Spencer shopping bag
Chonky tuxedo cat
A small black cat is standing on a round red Christmas rug under a Christmas tree. He's wearing a red scarf with white trim and is looking up at the baubles.
A black and white tuxedo cat is wearing a red Christmas cape with a white bobble under his chin. He is reaching up for treats that I'm handing to him.
A black cat lies on a soft brown rug with his chin pushed down into the pile.
Garden lit with multi coloured Christmas lights, white LED reindeer and polar bears and LED "berry" trees.
Seven corn cob spikes laid out in the four panel comic layout popularly known as loss.
A tuxedo cat (black and white) resting on a red blanket with his paws tucked underneath his chest stares intently into the camera.
A small black cat partially lying on his side under a Christmas tree reaches up with his mouth open. A blue LED is in his open jaws lighting up his mouth. He looks like he's about to eat it.
The three droids from the film "Silent Running", Huey, Dewey and Louie.
A huge tower of precariously balanced blocks of varying size propped up at the bottom by a very small inadequate stick. The stack is labelled "Your entire belief system". The stick is labelled "one key fact you read somewhere but never checked".
A news article with the headline "New publisher aims to disrupt industry by using AI to publish 8000 books in 2025". Beneath the headline is a photo of the four founders who look almost identical with their beards, moustaches, short hairstyles, pale skin tone and black t-shirts.
A four panel photo story featuring a man with a moustache and a blonde women. Him: They tried to get revenue by offering beneficial services for a subscription and believed they could do it without allowing the worst people to dominate there platform. Her: Well, did it work for those people? Him: No it never does. These people somehow deluded themselves into thinking it might but... Him: ...but it might work for us
Me in a suit and a top hat for a wedding
Farage, flanked by body guards, is dressed in a green Barbour jacket, yellow waterproof trousers and green wellies.
Me as a baby with a broad smile, chubby cheeks, dimpled chin and a HUGE forehead. I mean, massive.
A scene from the film silent running in which the lead character sits in the preserved forest in the space ship teaching his robots how to tend to the plants.
A reply to a post of mine from an account called creature-x blaming immigrants and falsely accusing them of murder. That's an instant block.
A snow covered suburban scene taken from an upstairs window.
The profile of bigduncclan. Background is a picture of trump with "the man, the myth, the legend" and bio reads "here to keep an eye on the enemy"
The two main characters from "Withnail and I" standing in the rain with the words "We appear to have done a civil war by accident"
A room with every wall stacked from floor to ceiling with Gecko cages. There are two beanbags in the middle, presumably for sitting and watching the Geckos
A meme in which a man and woman are talking Man: They tried to get revenue by offering beneficial services for a subscription and believed they could do it without allowing the worst people to dominate their platform. Woman: Did it work for those people. Man: No, it never does but somehow they delude themselves into thinking it might, but... Man: ...but it might work for us.
A black cat stares at the camera and a tortoiseshell cat peeks over his back in the background
A counter with blue digits showing the number of users on Bluesky as over 17 million. The last digit is in the process of rolling over from 3 to 4.
A wide eyed black cat stares at the camera and a tortoiseshell cat peers over him in the background. They're sitting on a table near an open notebook and pencil