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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 2h

The proliferation of auto-playing previews on streaming services and websites must be an environmental catastrophe

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 4h

We need a standard disclaimer: “Sir Paul McCartney, who is alive and well, has not been Milkshake Ducked in the past 72 hours, and is currently neither Nottingham Forest manager nor Prime Minister of France,…”

Christopher Barbour @atbccb.bsky.social · 4h

Bit of a panic when this was the first post on my feed when I opened the app. Is Macca now in the Tom Baker "needs a disclaimer if could be interpreted as a death notice" category?

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 4h

In a sane world this would be Christmas Number 1 this year

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 15h

I will! I’m almost at the end of my course but we shall make it happen!

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 16h

Whaaaaaaat how?? We should do a repeat!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 17h

Why is this image so adorable

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 17h

What if he did and accidentally won the sumo in the process

HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 20h

These are good browns! Well browned, A++

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 20h

Same! I especially enjoyed BROWN

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 21h

Sadly not even close. Chansiri at Sheff Wed, Owen Oyston at Blackpool, even the Glazers at Man U… that’s not to praise Marinakis, who is an idiot, just to say the bar is *low*

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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 1d

When our media platforms far right rhetoric daily, it's impossible for the left not to experience these views. Social media echo chambers are an issue predominantly for the right and we're watching the effects of that in real time as they slide into conspiracy theory, utterly divorced from reality.

Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 1d

‘People are retreating into spaces where they are free to say what they think, they just don’t realise other people disagree with them’

This week I debated concept of free speech on the new BBC Today show. You can find the link on BBC Sounds to listen to whole programme from Tuesday 14th October.

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, it takes an ordinary mild-mannered schoolboy quite a while to eat a boiler in order to turn into Boilerman

HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 2d

POV: you are a skeleton trying to do better

Three pill jars saying, left to right: ENERGY, BONES, ENERGY

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 2d

Pollock and McLean
Pollock and McLean
One of them solicits
The other is a pain

A building with the sign Pollock and McLean Solicitors and Estate Agents

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 2d

Huge mix-up. Turns out it was just south of Basingstoke all along

HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 3d

I’m second in my Duolingo league this week but about 15000 points behind someone called Kemi who must spend every waking minute on it.

Couldn’t be… could it?

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3d

Hindsight is 20-20, but I really think they should have taken Maxwell's silver hammer away before the trial.

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 4d

Hinged opinion: Reading a collection of Poe’s short stories at the moment. The famous ones are the best ones. Opinion ends

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 5d

This is the only conceivable addition that could improve The Magic Pudding en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mag...

The Magic Pudding - Wikipedia

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The Masked Marvel @damaskedmarvel.bsky.social · 5d

This works well for "revisions required" following a PhD viva as well. The omerta around discussing it means very few realise how common it is, how it's not the end of the world, and how it's not going to haunt you for the rest of your life (even if it does mean a few more months of graft).

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 5d

More representative, probably

Passport photo of me aged 19ish with bleached blonde hair

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 5d

Post you from a different era

(Not my usual attire. Perhaps it should have been)

Me age 19ish, in a red Chinese-style sleeveless dress and bleached blonde hair

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HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry to hear that. Get well soon!

HallOwen @problemsdog.bsky.social · 7d

Look what you’ve done to the manguage