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Paul Ockenden

@ockenden.com
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Ex PC Pro columnist. Ex-owner of one of the UK's first digital agencies. Now happily retired. I was once famous for missing deadlines, now I don’t miss them at all! Based in Shoreham-by-Sea (between Brighton and Worthing) on the Sussex Coast, UK.

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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 1h
What, you mean like there used to be until a few years ago?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 1h
If you went on about it too much you‘d deserve a good ticking off.
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Adam (legacy fan) @mufcadam.bsky.social · 2h
For the last time, can we PLEASE refer to these people as Spex Pests?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 29/09/2026
"This deal expired 1d ago".
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 29/09/2026
Not just AI - the whole anthropomorphic thing already went WAY too far years before AI. A bus with “I’m sorry I’m not in service”. Should just be “sorry, not in service”. “Eat Me” dates should be “Eat these”. There are soooo many examples. None as dangerous as Ai. Except maybe that bus.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 29/09/2026
That lilo is called Fenton.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 29/09/2026
That lilo is called Fenton.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 28/09/2026
What a complete and utter shit-stirring twat this bloke is. My contempt for him knows no bounds.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 28/09/2026
Anything announced on X is bound to be xit. (Pronounced the Chinese way).
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 27/09/2026
Costa is *so* variable. They’ve extended and franchised the brand to fuck, to the point where the drinks in one outlet can be radically different to the drinks from another one two minutes away.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
Laminated menus are closely related to sticky tables.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
I see your account is flagged for intolerance. Is there also an available flag for fuckwittery?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
Perhaps it was his pickup line?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
Saul > Bad.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
You are 100% correct on both counts.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 26/09/2026
Bath is nice. To visit. Not sure I’d want to live there.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 25/09/2026
Also, Better Call Saul > Breaking Bad.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 25/09/2026
It's eyes move too don't they? Or at least they are supposed to.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 24/09/2026
Fesshole really isn't the best advice column!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 24/09/2026
Karen. Just call her Karen.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 24/09/2026
If only there was an Ai You could ask…
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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 23/09/2026
"Can we talk about the buses?"
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 22/09/2026
Reminds me of Norfolk / Suffolk / Essex on this side of the pond. People buy cliff top houses without realising that those cliffs are made from Digestive biscuits.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 22/09/2026
Certainly better than colon(ial) brown!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 21/09/2026
My favourite place in the world.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 20/09/2026
Flickbait.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 20/09/2026
It was Tetrishead that did it. Blew me away. Didn't even realise at that stage that it was just one instrument multi-tracked. Thanks Spotify! I've 'discovered' several other musicians / bands like that too.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 20/09/2026
I discovered you via Spotify’s ‘if you like this then you might like that’. But I don’t make TV shows!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 20/09/2026
I guess Spotify/Apple/etc. are tiny $$, but they do provide exposure which helps bring the bigger earners in. Not that that’s ANY excuse for them paying peanuts. It’s just that if you said ”sod it“ and left those platforms the pain might be bigger than the loss of their tiny income. ??
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 20/09/2026
A poem that really sticks the knife into someone you dislike, but don’t name them, or make it in any way obvious who it is.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 19/09/2026
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 19/09/2026
Actually, no. It was this xmas card.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 19/09/2026
As I wrote a while back: bsky.app/profile/ocke...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 19/09/2026
Google now thinks you’re a billionaire - you’ll get some great ads!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
There small fun to be had taking 'cheap shop' bags to 'posh shop'.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
I think you’ll find it’s Big Mac ‘special sauce’.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
I refuse to wear clothes with big brand logos. A small tag on the back of a pair of Levi’s or the roundel on Converse Chucks is OK, but no more than that. It was those G.A.P. hoodies from a few years back that first put me off. You want me to WEAR your ADVERTISING? Pay me!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
The ‘Sonic’ rings on that gif are a touch of perfection.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
“Mate, oo did that? <sucks air through teeth>”
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 18/09/2026
It's just comedy (satire) that I think would appeal to your sense of humour and values. Only 15 minutes.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 17/09/2026
Apparently it's on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 17/09/2026
Hey @manmademoon.bsky.social - dunno if you can get BBC Sounds over there, but if you can (vpn?) I *know* you'd love The Skewer, and especially this episode.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 17/09/2026
Perhaps @manmademoon.bsky.social can put you on a guest list?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 17/09/2026
What's wrong with MS Paint?
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 16/09/2026
Your orange cat is less orange too!
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 16/09/2026
Calling @amberleymuseum.bsky.social
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 16/09/2026
Old bloke drives off laughing to himself, after getting another one.
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