Daniel Owen
@danieljowen.bsky.social
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, coated in breadcrumbs and dipped in ketchup.
Refugees welcome. Hate AI. Love fountain pens and baseball.
He/him
North Devon, UK
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Refugees welcome. Hate AI. Love fountain pens and baseball.
He/him
North Devon, UK
🧡
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An alternative, updated version of Star Wars in which Keir Starmer, as Obi Wan Kenobi, persuades Luke Skywalker that the only way to stop Darth Vader and the Emperor is to get out there and destroy Alderaan first.
The breakfast bar stools from B&M really bring the kitchen together.
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The breakfast bar stools from B&M really bring the kitchen together.
"I have a Dan Brown audiobook on CD. Do you mind if I put it on?"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"I have a Dan Brown audiobook on CD. Do you mind if I put it on?"
At some point, you have to accept that if you think the best way to curb the far-right is to give them everything they want, that does actually make you far-right.
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
At some point, you have to accept that if you think the best way to curb the far-right is to give them everything they want, that does actually make you far-right.
There are Ukrainians being hosted in the UK who have returned to Ukraine for dental treatment. A country that's been repelling a full-scale land invasion for nearly four years is still better able to provide dentists for its citizens than Britain is. We should feel a deep sense of national shame.
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There are Ukrainians being hosted in the UK who have returned to Ukraine for dental treatment. A country that's been repelling a full-scale land invasion for nearly four years is still better able to provide dentists for its citizens than Britain is. We should feel a deep sense of national shame.
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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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🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
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"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
Melania Trump: "Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Comet, all of them -- they're resting in the North Pole. They need to save all of their energy for their great flight around the world on Christmas Eve. Santa told me they're snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets."
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."
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(Personal comment) This discussion is getting surreal.
The Starmer gov has identified growth as its main priority.
The data suggest that joining the EU customs union would boost growth.
67% of 2024 Labour voters want the UK to rejoin the EU customers union.
But Starmer says no.
The Starmer gov has identified growth as its main priority.
The data suggest that joining the EU customs union would boost growth.
67% of 2024 Labour voters want the UK to rejoin the EU customers union.
But Starmer says no.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
(Personal comment) This discussion is getting surreal.
The Starmer gov has identified growth as its main priority.
The data suggest that joining the EU customs union would boost growth.
67% of 2024 Labour voters want the UK to rejoin the EU customers union.
But Starmer says no.
The Starmer gov has identified growth as its main priority.
The data suggest that joining the EU customs union would boost growth.
67% of 2024 Labour voters want the UK to rejoin the EU customers union.
But Starmer says no.
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If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.
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Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!
It really does feel like a lot of the people currently in government never really asked themselves why many of their own supporters went for Corbyn in the first place and, similarly, are unwilling to ask the same question of Polanski's success.
It's a self-revealing kind of ignorance.
It's a self-revealing kind of ignorance.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Absolutely no honest self-analysis whatsoever of what will happen when you spend a year solid telling social liberals to fuck off. Surprise surprise! They fuck off! It's nothing to do with them being 'unserious' - this government just spends quite a lot of its time telling them it hates them!
Editing audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine, using a razor blade and chinagraph pencil.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
I can disassemble and reassemble a 700 series telephone. Not expecting ever again to rejuvenate a carbon granule microphone by slapping it.
I can disassemble and reassemble a 700 series telephone. Not expecting ever again to rejuvenate a carbon granule microphone by slapping it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Editing audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine, using a razor blade and chinagraph pencil.
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I'm imagining a remake of A Grand Day Out in which Wallace uses AI to tell him how to prepare for a trip to the Moon, and they immediately asphyxiate to death when they get there.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'm imagining a remake of A Grand Day Out in which Wallace uses AI to tell him how to prepare for a trip to the Moon, and they immediately asphyxiate to death when they get there.
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
My wife said to add sink unblocker to the online grocery shop and don't ask me how I got from there to inserting "drain gel" into songs instead of "angel" but now I have 'Hark, the Herald Drain Gels Sing' playing in my head and also you're welcome.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My wife said to add sink unblocker to the online grocery shop and don't ask me how I got from there to inserting "drain gel" into songs instead of "angel" but now I have 'Hark, the Herald Drain Gels Sing' playing in my head and also you're welcome.
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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ME: Shhh, be very quiet, I’m training my horse to think.
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
ME: Shhh, be very quiet, I’m training my horse to think.
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
These are the same people who said 'All Lives Matter' five years ago.
i mean, conservatism is just identity politics for cunts
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
These are the same people who said 'All Lives Matter' five years ago.
Rosie is done for the week and ready for the weekend.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Rosie is done for the week and ready for the weekend.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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This #InternationalVolunteerDay we're celebrating our incredible volunteers who are a crucial part of Refugees at Home.
Thank you for giving your time, commitment, and compassion to help make the UK a better place for those seeking sanctuary ❤️
Thank you for giving your time, commitment, and compassion to help make the UK a better place for those seeking sanctuary ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This #InternationalVolunteerDay we're celebrating our incredible volunteers who are a crucial part of Refugees at Home.
Thank you for giving your time, commitment, and compassion to help make the UK a better place for those seeking sanctuary ❤️
Thank you for giving your time, commitment, and compassion to help make the UK a better place for those seeking sanctuary ❤️
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Sometimes, someone throws something out that hits a nerve so irritating to me that if I'm totally honest with myself I put trying to be funny second and my desire to deal with the irritating things come out as top priority.
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sometimes, someone throws something out that hits a nerve so irritating to me that if I'm totally honest with myself I put trying to be funny second and my desire to deal with the irritating things come out as top priority.
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Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration"
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
"Migration is a positive thing for our country"
"We need migration"
"We need fair and managed migration"
"And that's what will change this conversation"
*huge clap* #BBCQT
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I happily recommend @foxlanebooks.bsky.social for non-Amazon purchases.
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I happily recommend @foxlanebooks.bsky.social for non-Amazon purchases.