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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 10d

I'm just excited that the Mariners don't have to play.... Although, in order to have a rooting interest I bought a Red Sox hat today in a thrift store, in their role as Not-The-Yankees

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Apr 15

Death wears a big hat
Because he's a big bloke

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 24

Genuinely still laughing at @grantbrisbee.bsky.social's Scent Of A Woman joke from last week's Roundtable

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Mar 22

Elbows up, Canada.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Mar 16

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 16

Where are the Mariners???

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 16

The Browns got off very lightly

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 5

Took an out-grown kids bike to the tip, and in the shipping container these were just sitting there...

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Sor?

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Mar 3

Good afternoon....

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Feb 28

What are they going to discuss next - the compatibility of their star signs?

Sad to see what happened to the Indie.

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Feb 15

Today I became the first person in history to buy a J.Cole CD and a Chas&Dave CD in the same transaction

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Brighter Day Record Shop @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social · Feb 6

We made it onto BBC Sounds!

The adventure of finding Vancouver resident Valerie, the person behind a 50 year old Voice-O-Graph, which I found in a collection last month, is on BBC Sounds.

Thanks to @avavsystems.bsky.social for his work digitally restoring the audio.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Reunited with message sent home 70 years ago - BBC Sounds

The disc was recorded in New York in 1955 and posted back to Welwyn Garden City.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 29

Looks like Kestrel House on the cover of "Original Pirate Material"

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 26

Prez!!

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Jan 23

Every 50 year old should get a free head torch on the NHS. That's roughly the age it's fucking impossible to read anything in less than intense sunlight.

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 18

"We will not go as far as saying there is no possibility of a general deterrent effect linked to sentence severity"

Literally the previous sentence...

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 18

a woman in a blue and white dress is making a face and saying `` oh yea for sure '' .

ALT: a woman in a blue and white dress is making a face and saying `` oh yea for sure '' .

media.tenor.com

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 18

Oh, to be blessed with such absolute certainty about complicated issues.

I'm genuinely jealous.

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 18

Yes 100% possible. Or just take less care about getting caught.

Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 17

Bought a couple of dubstep LPs because they were stupid cheap. Assumed they'd be like Skrillex....

They're not.

Apparently, I like dubstep now.

#musicsky

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 17

That's not how gifts work.

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 17

Surely, requesting that the severity of the punishment be more widely known is an implicit acceptance the deterrence does work.

If it didn't, what would be the point of teaching it in schools?

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 17

If the people arrested dealing coke are people that don't know the sentence ... wouldn't that suggest (very slightly) that deterrence might actually work, but only on those that know.

If the defendants knew the penalty and did it anyway, that would show that deterrence doesn't work.

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Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · Jan 8

Dipped into the collectibles at Emmaus, and oh my is this with £5. Taking me right back... #musicsky

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