Julian Owen
@julianowen.bsky.social
Location: 269 miles from Brunton Park
Honorific options on an EasyJet booking form:
Adult: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss
Child: Mr, Mrs, Miss
It’s a rum old state of affairs when my wife is at liberty not to disclose her marital status, but my five-year-old daughter is not.
Adult: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss
Child: Mr, Mrs, Miss
It’s a rum old state of affairs when my wife is at liberty not to disclose her marital status, but my five-year-old daughter is not.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Honorific options on an EasyJet booking form:
Adult: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss
Child: Mr, Mrs, Miss
It’s a rum old state of affairs when my wife is at liberty not to disclose her marital status, but my five-year-old daughter is not.
Adult: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss
Child: Mr, Mrs, Miss
It’s a rum old state of affairs when my wife is at liberty not to disclose her marital status, but my five-year-old daughter is not.
Still can’t get over yesterday. Listened back to the commentary on the train home, repeatedly watched highlights today and now Regan on MOTD. Easily the best day since 28/5/23. #CUFC
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Still can’t get over yesterday. Listened back to the commentary on the train home, repeatedly watched highlights today and now Regan on MOTD. Easily the best day since 28/5/23. #CUFC
I bet he’s sweating now.
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I bet he’s sweating now.
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you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.
"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.
Magisterial 5 Live commentary on the Ryder Cup. Utterly compelling.
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Magisterial 5 Live commentary on the Ryder Cup. Utterly compelling.
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Sir Walter Russell painted dozens of portraits as good as 'Cordelia,' (1928) but unless you happen to search for his name you are unlikely to come across how well regarded he was as a portrait painter or the work he made. Time often proves unforgiving to many artists.
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Sir Walter Russell painted dozens of portraits as good as 'Cordelia,' (1928) but unless you happen to search for his name you are unlikely to come across how well regarded he was as a portrait painter or the work he made. Time often proves unforgiving to many artists.
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One more time:
Vancouver Island looks like Nixon
Vancouver Island looks like Nixon
September 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One more time:
Vancouver Island looks like Nixon
Vancouver Island looks like Nixon
@nigetassell.bsky.social first time outscoring both contestants in Clash of the Commentators this week, thanks in part to Mirandinha (memorable to me, in part, because I saw him score his solitary international goal).
August 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@nigetassell.bsky.social first time outscoring both contestants in Clash of the Commentators this week, thanks in part to Mirandinha (memorable to me, in part, because I saw him score his solitary international goal).
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Exhausted pup wearily contemplates a future of beauty pageants and ‘doing it for mummy’.
August 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Exhausted pup wearily contemplates a future of beauty pageants and ‘doing it for mummy’.
You can keep 🐞 trying to convince me that AI is 🐞 is taking over, but I’m pretty 🐞🐞 sure it’s 🐞🐞🐞 fucking 🐞🐞🐞🐞 ladybirds 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You can keep 🐞 trying to convince me that AI is 🐞 is taking over, but I’m pretty 🐞🐞 sure it’s 🐞🐞🐞 fucking 🐞🐞🐞🐞 ladybirds 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
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For anyone now looking for alternatives to WeTransfer (cos of price and AI badness), we are currently using Smash.
Strong GDPR adherence, has a carbon emissions plan, good free transfers offer and good value plans.
Strong GDPR adherence, has a carbon emissions plan, good free transfers offer and good value plans.
Screen organisation here. We've stopped using it because they've inflated their prices to ridiculous levels. We've been testing Smash. Faster and cheaper. Does have a limited free model but the pricing is good.
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July 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
For anyone now looking for alternatives to WeTransfer (cos of price and AI badness), we are currently using Smash.
Strong GDPR adherence, has a carbon emissions plan, good free transfers offer and good value plans.
Strong GDPR adherence, has a carbon emissions plan, good free transfers offer and good value plans.
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By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.
Crowded pub in Stratford-upon-Avon. From opposite sides of the bar, Susannah York and I approach a spot where only one of us can pass by. She signals for me to proceed. “Cheers,” I say.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Crowded pub in Stratford-upon-Avon. From opposite sides of the bar, Susannah York and I approach a spot where only one of us can pass by. She signals for me to proceed. “Cheers,” I say.
For years, I was under the impression that Daphne’s brother was the worst English character ever to darken American TV. Now I’m catching up with late-period ‘24’ and… oh my.
June 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For years, I was under the impression that Daphne’s brother was the worst English character ever to darken American TV. Now I’m catching up with late-period ‘24’ and… oh my.
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We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.
June 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.
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I wouldn't mind, but I wrote that error message and I still haven't been paid.
BREAKING | ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
ChatGPT down: OpenAI reports major outage as users see error message
OpenAI reports the chatbot is seeing a widespread outage
www.independent.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I wouldn't mind, but I wrote that error message and I still haven't been paid.
As music editor of said magazine, I was in regular correspondence with arguably the best-monikered tribute band: The Mangledwurzels.
Bloody hell. I was editor of a West Country listings mag for years and never came up with this. Would have commissioned a piece just to use the headline.
Looking at writing a good review of The Wurzels so I can lead on the headline 'Smashing Bumpkins'
May 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
As music editor of said magazine, I was in regular correspondence with arguably the best-monikered tribute band: The Mangledwurzels.
Very sad to learn Michael Hurley died last month. 60+ years of turning out beauty - not just the songs on countless albums, but the wonderful cover art that accompanied them. A DIY artist decades before the term existed; a proper one of a kind. RIP.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Very sad to learn Michael Hurley died last month. 60+ years of turning out beauty - not just the songs on countless albums, but the wonderful cover art that accompanied them. A DIY artist decades before the term existed; a proper one of a kind. RIP.
youtu.be/yzIJG9Qtugg?...
youtu.be/yzIJG9Qtugg?...
Unimprovable.
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Unimprovable.
One of my favourite accounts from the Other Place.
So nice to see it rerunning here, turning Bluesky into a kind of discerning Dave.
So nice to see it rerunning here, turning Bluesky into a kind of discerning Dave.
13.5.81
I had quite a nice evening with E but after she'd gone Daddy & Mummy were saying they didn't like her and I should have more friends than always be licking around her which I don't do.
Pope John Paul II was shot today. It was terrible. He was shot in the hand, arm & stomach by a
I had quite a nice evening with E but after she'd gone Daddy & Mummy were saying they didn't like her and I should have more friends than always be licking around her which I don't do.
Pope John Paul II was shot today. It was terrible. He was shot in the hand, arm & stomach by a
May 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
One of my favourite accounts from the Other Place.
So nice to see it rerunning here, turning Bluesky into a kind of discerning Dave.
So nice to see it rerunning here, turning Bluesky into a kind of discerning Dave.
20 Rillington Place
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie.
The Wild Two
Two Flew Over the Cuckoos' Respective Nests
Four Fast Four Furious
Pretty Much Everyone Likes It Hot
The Wild Two
Two Flew Over the Cuckoos' Respective Nests
Four Fast Four Furious
Pretty Much Everyone Likes It Hot
May 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
20 Rillington Place
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
All Quit on the Western Front
All Quit on the Western Front
Remove a letter, ruin a movie
Tax Driver/Taxi River
Tax Driver/Taxi River
Due
May 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
All Quit on the Western Front
All Quit on the Western Front
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