Sign in

Mike Owen

@mikeowen.bsky.social
484 followers 144 following 941 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Mike Owen
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 15h
Utterly absurd. www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-t...
thebookseller.com
Faber to no longer distribute Sally Rooney in UK due to Palestine Action legislation
Faber, the publisher of Sally Rooney, has said it will "no longer supply her works in the UK in any format" following legislation on the Palestine Action group from the UK government.
2459
Reposted by Mike Owen
womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h
"An embroidered globe made in 19thc US when girls were allowed at last to learn geography. The school couldn’t afford globes so the girls stitched their own, sewing down the boundaries of their New World. The globes were only 5” high" via @ sewingmatters & @ Sirensongs #womensart
Photo of a small light browm coloured fabric globe with embroidery of a map of North and South America, as well as latitude and longtitude lines
101638394
Reposted by Mike Owen
Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Happy World Photobook Day! 📚✨ There’s no better day to take a look at our fab little bookstore and maybe treat yourself to a book: www.photobookjunkies.com/products Worldwide shipping! 🌎
0124
Reposted by Mike Owen
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Clash’s Mick Jones in New York, 1979, by Pennie Smith.
18611
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And collected in 'Before & After; on tour with The Clash' which is a truly great photography book.
010
Reposted by Mike Owen
Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
From our bookstore: Dennis Stock - California Trip More info here: www.photobookjunkies.com/product/denn... ‘In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene.‘
071
Reposted by Mike Owen
Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Landscape at Tenby with Figures Gwen John. One of the earliest known paintings by Gwen John painted around 1896 when she was about 20 years old. The older of the two girls in the picture is Winifred John Gwen’s younger sister.
1221
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Destroyed all trace of a load of his crypto “currency” as well.
000
Reposted by Mike Owen
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/10/2026
Make space enough between you.
A license plate that says: “KER NING”
101307184
Reposted by Mike Owen
Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Much like badgers in England before them, Wales' badgers could soon be culled. The Welsh government will soon announce its intention on whether to mass-slaughter badgers in the name of tackling bovine TB in cows.
43525
Reposted by Mike Owen
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ynterviewer: Kan you explayne thys gap yn your resume? Dante Alighieri: Yn the middle of thys journeye of lyfe Ich founde myselfe yn a shadowye woode, for...
746179
Reposted by Mike Owen
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
625 New Cosy Crime Novels for Autumn! (My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com)
Title: 625 new cosy crime novels for autumn! (pick one option from each column) 

Column 1: (one option) The.

Column 2: (five options) Chipping-Sodbury, Bishop's Stortford, Kirkby Stephen, Saffron Walden, Melton Mowbray. 

Column 3: (five options) Retired Librarians', Parish Council,Lawn Bowlers', Pub Regulars', Women's Institute.

Column 4: (five options) Murder, Burglary, Littering, Bigamy, Poisoning. 

Column 5: (five options) Investigation Society, Revenge Guild, Detection League, Punishment Club, Inspection Unit.
25740246
Reposted by Mike Owen
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"
3045381654
Reposted by Mike Owen
Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Vel d’Hiv, Paris 1957 📷Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photo of a man massaging the left knee of a cyclist who's laying down. In the background one can see 6-day bicycle racers riding on a velodrome track.
1699
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I see the Parisian school kids have stormed the Bastille
110
Reposted by Mike Owen
Tim Bonville-Ginn @timbonvilleginn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For crying out loud we may be on the move again!! veloracycling.com/news/eurospo...
veloracycling.com
Eurosport’s new owner plans streaming shake-up – what does it mean for cycling fans?
Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery takeover puts Eurosport under new ownership, with Giro d’Italia and Tour de France rights intact. Read more.
7212
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Leave it out you two
000
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember riding my bike on the back lanes of West Sussex (not Hookland) and being able to smell the apples that had fallen and been run over by commuters cars below the flank of the South Downs.
020
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It looks like an orthopaedic shoe.
000
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.maptap.gg October 7 100🎯 95🏅 90👑 83😁 62🤨 Final score: 810
maptap.gg
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
010
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As vile as she is I went over to that place and looked and I couldn't see it on her profile.
120
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You get invited to parties?
000
Reposted by Mike Owen
Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026



right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother






right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother
110104362383
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Plaid are doing their very best to be a huge disapointment.
000
Reposted by Mike Owen
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sigh. Welsh Gov are going to "fix" congestion with more road capacity. Obligatory Mumford quote here...
2407
Reposted by Mike Owen
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool
123758
Reposted by Mike Owen
Photobook Junkies @photobookjunkies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📷 Lee Friedlander
0235
Reposted by Mike Owen
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026
Abu Dhabi want you all to know that they absolutely don't own Manchester City but if Manchester City are sanctioned for their industrial scale cheating, then the UAE could pull all investment from Britain.
391270292
Reposted by Mike Owen
Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
56120323575
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
010
Reposted by Mike Owen
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Morning visitors to the swimming pool at Las Vegas’ Hotel Last Frontier in 1953 watch the mushroom cloud from an A-Bomb test in Nevada some 80 or so miles away. The sheer insanity of this, on so many levels.
24011
Reposted by Mike Owen
Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
74244996
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bought.
010
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not sure about the quasi comedy kettle drum tbh.
010
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's good, I like it.
110
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SOLD!
010
Reposted by Mike Owen
Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'In the letter, Watson detailed Lewis’s interventions on Palantir, writing: “By my count, you’ve spoken about Palantir almost 130 times since 2020; around 50 in the past year alone.” Clive Lewis MP told The Nerve: “ ... That, to me, was an implicit threat"' www.facebook.com/bheardmedia/...
27382216
Reposted by Mike Owen
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Autonomous vehicles offer to entrench, for another generation, the idea that the any other use of urban streets must come second to the rapid movement of metal boxes
35019
Reposted by Mike Owen
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
devonlive.com
Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
791434323
Reposted by Mike Owen
sturmyarcher3.bsky.social @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Relentless www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... child in collision with car
bbc.co.uk
Child suffers life-threatening injuries in collision with car in Thetford
Police bail two women arrested on suspicion of drug driving and dangerous driving.
287
Reposted by Mike Owen
Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham is saying all of the right things, it's what he does and he does it very very well. His track record suggests he won't deliver much of it, if any. I would be unbelievably happy if I end up being wrong on this.
static.klipy.com
Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'
ALT: Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'
7275
Reposted by Mike Owen
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
17572691994
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which was implicit in my question. Are they going to DO something or just blow platitudes and then post another tiktok?
110
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But are they going to nationalise?
112
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DdwZ-_1...
instagram.com
Instagram
000
Reposted by Mike Owen
Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's tell it how it is. Burnham to announce the worst pension in the developed world will be even worse.
2239
Reposted by Mike Owen
Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse. Later, we would call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found. Original post
Image 1
529853
Reposted by Mike Owen
womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shani Rhys James, Welsh Kettle and Pliers (2004) Welsh painter #womensart
Painting featuring a white child peeping over a table on which a black kettle, jug of flowers, a teapot and pair of pliers rests on a white tablecloth
143762
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And don’t forget that only the purity of a royal bloodline can save the galaxy.
110
Mike Owen @mikeowen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess he's thinking at least the journalist didn't specify which year that might happen...
110