Reposted by Bark OwenLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 06/06/2025ICYMI, myself and the other Lort Burn Specials conspirators (@alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social) announced the latest event in our contribution to North East culture. I'll be talking to rail engineer and author @garethdennis.bsky.social about all things rail! Come down! 0114
Reposted by Bark OwenSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/05/2025Misinformation: A Telegraph guide 1️⃣Find apparently shocking stat: EV fires "up 77%" 😱 2️⃣Always round up ("nearly double")🤔 3️⃣Downplay context: There are 105% more EVs🙉 4️⃣Sideline wider truth: EV fires 5-6x *less* likely🙊 5️⃣Add quote to cover yourself🙈 24506152
Reposted by Bark OwenMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 27/05/2025Ended up against my will discussing trans rights again recently. I pointed out that there was broad cross partisan support for trans inclusion only a decade ago, that Donald Trump and the leader of the UK conservative party were simultaneously endorsing trans inclusion measures but this closed... 9640159
Reposted by Bark OwenMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 27/05/2025...issue was ripped back open through 10 years and about $2bn of propaganda against trans people. People's imagination of the historical arc of progress and continuity means they forget how much consensus there was for trans gender self determination back in 2015. 258889
Reposted by Bark OwenSteve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 20/03/2025I sat with a friend as they were interviewed for PIP. The experience left them shaken. Took hours to recover. Within a few months they were dead. I'm not linking one thing with the other, but why was this person subject to obvious cruelty when their doctors had already supplied evidence? 1011538
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Engels got maaaad mustard stains on his pants #EngelsHotDogEmbarrasent 130
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025shout to my hairdresser (me) (i did this all myself) 140
Reposted by Bark OwenLorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Peak rail fares are unfair and put people off using public transport. In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room. Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇 greens.scot/endpeakfares 49827
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025put off an important phone call for ages but the company called me before it became an issue so i avoided an hour on hold #prostrats 020
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025okay after a year of apple music spotify's sound quality is genuinely unlistenable to me 😭 000
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025How is it that I see my headache nurse more than any other medical professional on Earth and after almost 8 years she still does not know how to spell my name correctly? 120
Reposted by Bark Owenerin @equifax.bsky.social · 04/03/2025i’m aluminum foil btw if you even care 5405180
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Aw man they've put the heating back on on the train to school </3 000
Reposted by Bark OwenWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/03/2025This is Ramsey and Rebel. Ramsey can be a little needy sometimes. But Rebel doesn't mind because Ramsey’s needs are very cozy. 13/10 for both 10110064603
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Rick Astley's Pink Pony Club cover is great but I won't rest until we see him do this on stage in a full Chappell Roan drag look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...youtube.comPink Pony Club (Chappell Roan Cover)YouTube video by Rick Astley 140
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Does anyone else have an alter-ego who exists purely for signing up to public wifi hotspots? I have a whole identity mapped out for mine. 240
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Chemists really went off with the word 'stoichiometry'. 010
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 08/03/2025at the pub yesterday we were discussing our favourite animals and none of my friends knew what they looked like irl so i looked up a video to show them and polly said 'it's like a pug with a pine marten's face'. cannot stop thinking of this. 150
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 08/03/2025straight couple having a massive shouting match in the street outside my house for the last several minutes. finally made their way back to the inciting incident and it turns out they've been fighting about mcdonalds this whole time. 060
Reposted by Bark OwenIts been one of those weeks🥂 @passtheyaoii.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Yknow it!! 0593423
Reposted by Bark OwenBark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025regrettably this is still the greatest song of all time youtu.be/JyKJUs0RqWY?...youtu.beEverything Everything - Live at Head of Steam, Newcastle 20/08/2008YouTube video by ATB - Everything Everything Fans 111
Reposted by Bark OwenKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species. What are we even doing here. 🎁 link: 🧪texasmonthly.comAfter Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for FreeThe billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct. 573048917
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025i honestly should not be allowed access to music past about 8pm it never ends well 040
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The thing is. The guy from Modest Mouse really does sing like he is being chased by someone with a garden hose. 050
Reposted by Bark Owenafter_all @loveisabunnyrabbit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025mouse 517 you are destined for great things 151
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025regrettably this is still the greatest song of all time youtu.be/JyKJUs0RqWY?...youtu.beEverything Everything - Live at Head of Steam, Newcastle 20/08/2008YouTube video by ATB - Everything Everything Fans 111
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025>sunniest day of the year so far >brighton is consumed by The Fog 140
Bark Owen @boltongoggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025not to brag but i just made a batch of pancakes that was literally perfect 4110
Reposted by Bark OwenTechpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The Borders Railway is a classic example of the UKs endemic treasury brain and "measuring the need for a bridge by counting how many people swim over the bridge" Gov/officials starved the scheme of funding, so it was built single track & unelectrified, and has smashed it's ridership projections 15615
Reposted by Bark Owencillian @cilliaaan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024nobody talks about Tom Pickard smashing his car into JH Prynne's for the crime of telling him to keep his son quiet at the 1967 Sparty Lea Poetry Festival these days. 122
Reposted by Bark OwenJohn Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Need a bit of sun in your day? Join comedian Angela Barnes and me for the latest Monstrosities Mon Amour podcast. Experience the strange delights of Brighton Marina and the evocative lure of post-war shop typography @angelabarnes.bsky.social johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...johngrindrod.substack.comMonstrosities Mon Amour 4: Brighton MarinaJohn Grindrod meets comedian Angela Barnes and together they explore bonkers seaside monolith Brighton Marina, and the delights of 1960s shop-front signage 3439