Damien Owens
@damienowens.bsky.social
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There's genuinely something desperately sad about tech bros constantly trying to offload their thinking, their feeling, their entire fucking life on the mechanical turk of the day. They seem to think the point of living is to do as little of it as possible.
June 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There's genuinely something desperately sad about tech bros constantly trying to offload their thinking, their feeling, their entire fucking life on the mechanical turk of the day. They seem to think the point of living is to do as little of it as possible.
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Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Mike Johnson is going to have not seen THE SHIT out of this.
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Mike Johnson is going to have not seen THE SHIT out of this.
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Every corporate email
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Every corporate email
Joyce Carol Oates is going to have a fucking stroke.
Trump: Take a look at this if you want to see detail. Most people do a sign and paint it on the wall. So that's half inch thick bronze. Carved. By a very talented person. And it's brass. It's pure brass.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Joyce Carol Oates is going to have a fucking stroke.
My doctor said I'm a serious heart-throb! Or something to that effect. I wasn't really listening.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My doctor said I'm a serious heart-throb! Or something to that effect. I wasn't really listening.
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Ew gross Chris Cuomo with his new moustache looks like…and I know you’ll know what I mean…he looks like someone who would try to seduce Marge at a theme park and she has the major ick and in the car on the way home Homer remarks that the guy was really cool.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Ew gross Chris Cuomo with his new moustache looks like…and I know you’ll know what I mean…he looks like someone who would try to seduce Marge at a theme park and she has the major ick and in the car on the way home Homer remarks that the guy was really cool.
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Counterpoint: You absolutely can have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream. Probably with a sexy lady! You know what he’s like.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Counterpoint: You absolutely can have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream. Probably with a sexy lady! You know what he’s like.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
It's so delicious that Musk has been destroyed by Joyce Carol Oates, the very writer who recently ousted Cormac McCarthy as Trump's favourite.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It's so delicious that Musk has been destroyed by Joyce Carol Oates, the very writer who recently ousted Cormac McCarthy as Trump's favourite.
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I will peel a carrot or I will wash a carrot but no way am I doing both.
Pastor: These are very unusual vows.
Pastor: These are very unusual vows.
January 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I will peel a carrot or I will wash a carrot but no way am I doing both.
Pastor: These are very unusual vows.
Pastor: These are very unusual vows.
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Terry Griffiths vs Cliff Thorburn. The Crucible, 1983.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Terry Griffiths vs Cliff Thorburn. The Crucible, 1983.
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"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?"
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
Surrealing in the Years: Yates' Fianna Fáil dealings an open kimono moment for Irish politics
Agh, my eyes. My eyes!
www.thejournal.ie
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?"
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.
‘I’m no hero, I just acted on instinct,’ I explain to the TV news people when they come to interview me about being caught on CCTV trying to escape the bank robbery by using an old woman as a human shield.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
‘I’m no hero, I just acted on instinct,’ I explain to the TV news people when they come to interview me about being caught on CCTV trying to escape the bank robbery by using an old woman as a human shield.
It's not the heartburn itself that I mind so much as the day-long singing of 'Gaviscon, oh GavisCONNNN' to the tune of Galveston that inevitably accompanies it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's not the heartburn itself that I mind so much as the day-long singing of 'Gaviscon, oh GavisCONNNN' to the tune of Galveston that inevitably accompanies it.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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House opposite is getting their roof retiled. Lads just walking about up there, cool as a breeze, like it was nothing. I could never do that because I have a terrible fear of work.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
House opposite is getting their roof retiled. Lads just walking about up there, cool as a breeze, like it was nothing. I could never do that because I have a terrible fear of work.
My friend is a heart surgeon and sometimes she sneaks me in and lets me have a go. Surprisingly tricky!
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My friend is a heart surgeon and sometimes she sneaks me in and lets me have a go. Surprisingly tricky!
I see a lot of people mocking this. You're all just jealous you don't have the $2.99 it takes to pull it off.
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I see a lot of people mocking this. You're all just jealous you don't have the $2.99 it takes to pull it off.
Ugh, now I'm supposed to care that there's a new mayor in some American town no one's ever even heard of.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ugh, now I'm supposed to care that there's a new mayor in some American town no one's ever even heard of.
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Wait, I was celebrating my dominatrix finally releasing me from my dick chain, what are you guys so happy about?
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wait, I was celebrating my dominatrix finally releasing me from my dick chain, what are you guys so happy about?
For many of us, the Irish electoral cycle really only has two phases: 'Can't wait to vote these fuckers out' and 'Oh no, not these fuckers again'.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For many of us, the Irish electoral cycle really only has two phases: 'Can't wait to vote these fuckers out' and 'Oh no, not these fuckers again'.