Chris Owens PhD
@likesohushhush.bsky.social
Itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u ½ a holiday? [NB I'm not a politician, in the band Girls, or in the X Files.]
Finger -> pulse
Headbutts by John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett is a Christmas record send tweet.
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Finger -> pulse
Headbutts by John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett is a Christmas record send tweet.
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Headbutts by John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett is a Christmas record send tweet.
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It's been 10 years since the Paris agreement, where world leaders agreed to limit the global temperature rise to under 2 degrees. 🌡️🌍
There's still a way to go, but global collaboration IS working.
We need to keep this momentum going.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There's still a way to go, but global collaboration IS working.
We need to keep this momentum going.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's been 10 years since the Paris agreement, where world leaders agreed to limit the global temperature rise to under 2 degrees. 🌡️🌍
There's still a way to go, but global collaboration IS working.
We need to keep this momentum going.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
There's still a way to go, but global collaboration IS working.
We need to keep this momentum going.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Tender and mild" is how I would describe a really good chicken tikka.
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Tender and mild" is how I would describe a really good chicken tikka.
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Right folks,
if you want framed prints, large prints, mugs, cushions, t-shirts, phone cases, notebooks, or tote bags for Christmas, you've got until TOMORROW (Friday 12th Dec) to get your order in.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
if you want framed prints, large prints, mugs, cushions, t-shirts, phone cases, notebooks, or tote bags for Christmas, you've got until TOMORROW (Friday 12th Dec) to get your order in.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Right folks,
if you want framed prints, large prints, mugs, cushions, t-shirts, phone cases, notebooks, or tote bags for Christmas, you've got until TOMORROW (Friday 12th Dec) to get your order in.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
if you want framed prints, large prints, mugs, cushions, t-shirts, phone cases, notebooks, or tote bags for Christmas, you've got until TOMORROW (Friday 12th Dec) to get your order in.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Shades of the Buttertendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=faM-...
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Shades of the Buttertendo www.youtube.com/watch?v=faM-...
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This is a recreation of one of the first “racing games” I ever played. Yes, it’s a text-based F1 sim. On a ZX80.
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is a recreation of one of the first “racing games” I ever played. Yes, it’s a text-based F1 sim. On a ZX80.
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My bugbear is I think the nepo baby discourse drowns out the useful parallel one about class & money privilege. You can’t ever design out advantages for celebrities kids. We can help those from non gilded backgrounds in the arts though
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
My bugbear is I think the nepo baby discourse drowns out the useful parallel one about class & money privilege. You can’t ever design out advantages for celebrities kids. We can help those from non gilded backgrounds in the arts though
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
Just back from watching Eternity. 3.5/5. I liked it, but the needle on the Owens-cry-o-meter barely nudged off the bottom, which tells us something. Funny and romantic, just not funny and romantic enough to make it into the end-of-year lists.
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just back from watching Eternity. 3.5/5. I liked it, but the needle on the Owens-cry-o-meter barely nudged off the bottom, which tells us something. Funny and romantic, just not funny and romantic enough to make it into the end-of-year lists.
Been the recipient of some truly awful customer service by Next, culminating in waiting over an hour (and counting) for a callback that was estimated to take 17 minutes. Don’t buy from Next or Fatface, kids.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Been the recipient of some truly awful customer service by Next, culminating in waiting over an hour (and counting) for a callback that was estimated to take 17 minutes. Don’t buy from Next or Fatface, kids.
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New @nao.org.uk report maps out the asylum system and shows while volumes of claims represent a relatively small proportion of overall migration, the system is beset by long delays & backlogs with a human and financial cost
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...)
UK asylum system hit by inefficiencies and wasted funds, watchdog finds
In a new analysis, the National Audit Office finds “reactive” government policies moved problems elsewhere.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New @nao.org.uk report maps out the asylum system and shows while volumes of claims represent a relatively small proportion of overall migration, the system is beset by long delays & backlogs with a human and financial cost
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...)
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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This is our new CEO, Javier. I have officially adopted him. He is estimated to be 8 years old and he's deaf, so there's no need to give any feedback on his job performance. He is just a perfect gentlemen and I am so grateful he made his way to me. 14/10 no bias at all
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is our new CEO, Javier. I have officially adopted him. He is estimated to be 8 years old and he's deaf, so there's no need to give any feedback on his job performance. He is just a perfect gentlemen and I am so grateful he made his way to me. 14/10 no bias at all
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This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
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I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
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Obviously the Mail headline frames this in the worst way possible. The Lancet article just suggests restaurants offer two portion sizes so people who don’t require so many calories (inc women) don’t have to pay for a massive meal they don’t need.
December 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Obviously the Mail headline frames this in the worst way possible. The Lancet article just suggests restaurants offer two portion sizes so people who don’t require so many calories (inc women) don’t have to pay for a massive meal they don’t need.
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Your annual reminder that you never see Bob from Nativity and Simon Pegg in the same room.
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Your annual reminder that you never see Bob from Nativity and Simon Pegg in the same room.
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If you enjoy the “hilarious” stuff I share on here, I’m available to write and create very funny things (if you pay me). Please, have a look at my website and perfectly formed CV and I’d very much appreciate it if you could share this far…and wide. Much obliged xx www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services.
Get in touch!
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you enjoy the “hilarious” stuff I share on here, I’m available to write and create very funny things (if you pay me). Please, have a look at my website and perfectly formed CV and I’d very much appreciate it if you could share this far…and wide. Much obliged xx www.mathew-owen.co.uk
I genuinely worry about this shit. Also, when you find harlequin ladybirds in the UK should you squish ‘em or let them go?
It's all fun and games until the yellow-legged hornet overwinters and kills all the bees
Climate change is coming for you whether you believe in it or not www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Climate change is coming for you whether you believe in it or not www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Asian hornets creep north as hi-tech hunt races to contain invasion
There has been a 666 per cent increase in sightings this year and inspectors fear for Britain’s bees as the species is spotted near Liverpool and York
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I genuinely worry about this shit. Also, when you find harlequin ladybirds in the UK should you squish ‘em or let them go?
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 8: Black Bear Cub
Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. Shūhō was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in lifelike depictions of animals.
🐻 EA1964.95.F
Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. Shūhō was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in lifelike depictions of animals.
🐻 EA1964.95.F
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 8: Black Bear Cub
Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. Shūhō was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in lifelike depictions of animals.
🐻 EA1964.95.F
Painted by Japanese artist Mori Shūhō, this small bear looks directly out at the viewer while it sits uneasily on a ledge amid the snowflakes. Shūhō was a member of the Mori School of artists who specialised in lifelike depictions of animals.
🐻 EA1964.95.F
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.