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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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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.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Legend tells of a mythical creature - the Labour MP - which went almost extinct in 2029. Born without spines, and the males without testicles, they had necks made of pure brass. Their cry, intended to be seductive like the Sirens, was instead filled with hypocrisy and repellent to all who heard it.
Children should be able to thrive no matter where they’re born.

Scrapping the Two Child Cap lifts 450,000 children out of poverty - and over 1,200 in Kensington & Bayswater.

This is the difference that only a Labour government can make.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Sure, because OTHER PEOPLE violating copyright is terrible and completely wrong, whereas Google violating copyright is essential for the survival of the human species.
Google is suing SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, accusing it of violating copyright by accessing Google search results “at an astonishing scale” then selling that data to customers www.theverge.com/news/848365/...
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’
Scraper no scraping.
www.theverge.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.

"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Turns out @jeevunsandher.bsky.social was right - there IS something that unites Britain after all. 🤣
What "being right" looks like
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I really think so many Labour MPs and activists are in deep denial about the path Starmer and Mahmood have put the party - and the country - on. There is a clear common thread running through their rhetoric and that of Farage, Jenrick, Yaxley-Lennon, Braverman and the rest.
Farage and Polanski have something in common. They are both wrong about Britain.

Thread & link at the end 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Starmer, Badenoch and Farage have something in common. They promote racist myths to justify inflicting cruelty and suffering on migrants and refugees. Their goal is an ethnically cleansed, economically and culturally stunted Britain, controlled by tech billionaires.
Farage and Polanski have something in common. They are both wrong about Britain.

Thread & link at the end 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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For sure, the way he struts across the stage while I’m closing the first section influences how hard I go on quite a mild heckle when he pops back round.
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If we're going to have zero tolerance for 'cultures that don't respect women' we should definitely stop supporting governments that oppress women. Like when the Trade Secretary went to Riyadh last year to butter up the Saudis. Who was that? Kemi someone. It'll come back to me.
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"People who come from cultures that don't respect women."
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Don’t worry, though, I’m sure a “reset” in which they do exactly the same things and pursue the same policies will turn things around in 2026!
Keir Starmer planning new king’s speech after May elections
Timing seen as reset moment after potential loss of hundreds of council seats in England and defeat in Wales and Scotland
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There are stories involving Kalulu the Hare with a less predictable ending than “Labour strategy in 2025”.
🧵/ How has political opinion changed over 2025?

In voting intention, Labour have made the biggest losses, while the Greens have gained most, and Reform UK have established a clear lead

Ref: 28% (+3 from 12-13 Jan)
Lab: 18% (-8)
Grn: 17% (+9)
Con: 17% (-5)
LD: 14% (=)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Once upon a time, a rich man built a robot to steal all the stories in the world. But he didn't give the robot a voice or a heart or a brain, so it couldn't re-tell any of the stories properly. When the rich man went out to look for storytellers, they all told him to go and fuck himself.
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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How about illustrating this with a picture of a kid seeing his dad treat women like shit rather than a kid with a phone.
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Sound on lmao
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Love this.
We thought we'd do something fun for Inkvent this year! As we share our color swatches, we'll be pairing them with a reading suggestion from our booksellers.

A limited number of Inkvent calendars are still available in store, so it's not too late to join the fun.
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Just the worst way to start a day
December 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Even if you don't follow baseball, you'll probably know about the 2013 Boostoo Yook Yarters. An incredible team, with such mastery of both ends of the bat that they decided there was no point having a World Series for the next two years.
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.

Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”

I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.

Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”

I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Lots of pessimism in the replies to this about changing peoples' views on immigration - even if numbers dramatically fall. But that's what's happening in the US.

bsky.app/profile/moll...
This is extremely important
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Cisco voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal presented at its annual meeting, by a tally of 99-1% of voting shares. Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democracy.

www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
BREAKING: Cisco shareholders vote to reject anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent -
Cisco shareholders join investors in 31 out of 31 corporations that voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025, as Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democ...
www.impactivize.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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There is nothing worse than having a perfectly functional app or online service that you’ve used on the regular that is now completely enshitified by AI. This week it is Wix, and Canva is working on it…
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The other day I opened a shopping basket in the shop I buy ink with and didnt check it out, so they cold called me! I told them I would never be using them again. We are just drowning in this nonsense I cant stand it all of them need to shut up
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM