Owen Booth
@owenbooth.bsky.social
Moderately attractive sometime writer. You should go do something useful instead of posting here.
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Owen Booth
@owenbooth.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Since we’re all politely reintroducing ourselves: I’m the idiot who accidentally wrote these two books and some other stuff
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She's removed Christ's message from Christian times, she's talking about Ian times.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
She's removed Christ's message from Christian times, she's talking about Ian times.
“First Person Wanker”
Is there a name for LinkedIn or X style prose, those sequences of immensely confident, short, declarative statements separated by line breaks?
The kind that goes something like this, and continues for many paragraphs:
> An employee asked me for a raise yesterday.
>
> I fired him immediately.
The kind that goes something like this, and continues for many paragraphs:
> An employee asked me for a raise yesterday.
>
> I fired him immediately.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“First Person Wanker”
And now chaos reigns
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And now chaos reigns
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It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated
As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem ...
share.google
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
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If you find something dull on social media, pass on by. If you walk by a display of power tools on the high street and have feck all interest you don’t go into the shop and tell the staff you have no interest in power tools do you? No. That would be madness and everyone would think you a pisspuffin.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you find something dull on social media, pass on by. If you walk by a display of power tools on the high street and have feck all interest you don’t go into the shop and tell the staff you have no interest in power tools do you? No. That would be madness and everyone would think you a pisspuffin.
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No we don’t! We literally do not! Do I have to engage with my air fryer? Do I have to have a co-dependent relationship with Google Maps?
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
No we don’t! We literally do not! Do I have to engage with my air fryer? Do I have to have a co-dependent relationship with Google Maps?
That would certainly get my vote
Honestly, I’d have more time for Rachel Reeves if I thought she’d dress up as a pirate, burn down a couple of Chelsea mansions and make off with the loot in a rusty iron trunk
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That would certainly get my vote
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“raid”
Homes worth more than £2mn set to be hit by Budget raid on.ft.com/4rocFhe
Homes worth more than £2mn set to be hit by Budget raid
‘Mansion tax’ set to affect more than 100,000 properties, mostly in London and the south-east
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“raid”
Listen to Irene, and remember: friends don’t let friends quote-post wankers into other friends’ TLs
I don’t want to see *ndr*w T*te tweets in my timeline 🙈
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Listen to Irene, and remember: friends don’t let friends quote-post wankers into other friends’ TLs
I see we’re still doing the “everyone look at this appalling thing that this appalling person said on X” thing. And also that I’m still doing the “I see we’re still doing the “everyone look at this appalling thing that this appalling person said on X” thing” thing…
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I see we’re still doing the “everyone look at this appalling thing that this appalling person said on X” thing. And also that I’m still doing the “I see we’re still doing the “everyone look at this appalling thing that this appalling person said on X” thing” thing…
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
A wonder, as ever!
A new entry from the #HooklandEncyclopaedia – #HooklandEncyclopedia for Hooklanders abroad). Double lives, autogyros, aerial archaeology, the Soot Sprite Trust and ghosts. All in all, typical of the county.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A wonder, as ever!
Roses are red
So are some pants
So are some pants
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Roses are red
So are some pants
So are some pants
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Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
www.thebookseller.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
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Again, I return to one of my BIG IDEAS (see my forthcoming book Patrick's Big Ideas): Taxation as a necessary mental health intervention.
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Again, I return to one of my BIG IDEAS (see my forthcoming book Patrick's Big Ideas): Taxation as a necessary mental health intervention.
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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.
Best quote on the Kingston Christmas AI incident yet: “There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Best quote on the Kingston Christmas AI incident yet: “There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
Happy International Men’s Day to all my fellow international men
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Happy International Men’s Day to all my fellow international men
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Final thoughts on “Frankenstein”: definitely better than “Nosferatu”, but that’s not a very high bar. Also: it really wasn’t that faithful to the book. Also also: the accents…
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Final thoughts on “Frankenstein”: definitely better than “Nosferatu”, but that’s not a very high bar. Also: it really wasn’t that faithful to the book. Also also: the accents…
BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR GOLD FILLINGS AND HAIR
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
All in all: lots to like and lots to…. not. The accents chief among them
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All in all: lots to like and lots to…. not. The accents chief among them
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…
Christ, Oscar Isaac is having a shocker here (no pun intended).#Frankenstein
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nice to hear the monster has the traditional Yorkshire accent though. So many of the films miss this…