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Owen Ralph

@owenralph.photos
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 05/10/2026
Oh thank god, I thought we were living in an out-of-control flaming hellscape of chaos. Comforting to know it's a competent coordinated multi-decade strategy of evil after all
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 30/09/2026
Explaining this t-shirt to someone outside the community is a full-on exam question at this point
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 11/08/2026
I had a lecturer at uni who used to set us 300-word essays. Learning the discipline of writing something good under such a tight constraint has been a genuinely useful life skill.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 05/08/2026
A world weary older Bond could be great though
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 28/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK reporting Green leader Zack Polanski to police over Instagram post
The post included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 27/07/2026
www.moreincommon.org.uk/research/the...
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The three assumptions that explain our voting intention - More In Common
What explains our headline voting intention results?
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 26/07/2026
Woko is a genuinely excellent idea
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 21/07/2026
Pretty sure it's pen and paper...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 20/07/2026
If his first act as Prime Minister is to abolish Hot Lectern Guy, social media will never forgive him
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 27/06/2026
Defence bonds are still just borrowing though, they're debt-funded spending rather than actual funded spending
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 21/06/2026
Always my favourite episode format from the New Statesman podcast, you and Will are great
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/05/2026
Millennials: we have got to start talking up the Financial Crisis. The Greatest Generation dined out on the Great Depression for 80 years. If we’re not all out there talking about how we had to have five roommates and sell our plasma to buy ringtones I’m worried we’ll be missing our shot
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 12/05/2026
But there's a middle ground right? Denying the existence and gravity of political drama is absolutely ignoring reality, but it's also legitimate to be frustrated at how the circus and its amplification in the media effectively grinds the machinery of government to a halt
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 12/05/2026
And frustratingly, I don't think I've seen a single piece of coverage about what might be in the King's Speech, despite that being the thing which should actually be making a difference to our daily lives...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 12/05/2026
"Eighty-one Labour MPs have now publicly called for Keir Starmer to either resign or set a timetable for his departure." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
bbc.co.uk
Keir Starmer tells cabinet he won't resign as more MPs call for him to go
The PM says a leadership contest has not been triggered, after the first government minister resigns and joins 80 other Labour MPs who have urged him to go or set a timetable.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 07/05/2026
Given how PR systems which keep local representation tend to be fiddly and complex to explain, do you think PR also raises its own trust issues for voters who aren't deep into this stuff? Heard Luke Tryl speaking the other day about how nobody in his Welsh focus groups could explain D'Hont
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 01/05/2026
Especially given all the stories we're seeing of young people having to put in literally hundreds of job applications right now to even get an interview
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 21/04/2026
Channel 4 wouldn't have been offering Lewis hour-long documentaries before the News Agents took off
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 21/04/2026
I can barely recite my fiancée's number, but can rattle off without hesitation the number to enter Who Wants to Be a Millionaire or enter a competition on CITV in the late 90s
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 01/04/2026
"Who the eff is Hank?"
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 30/03/2026
It's more green than importing our steel from overseas...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 25/03/2026
To log in on your laptop you have to scan a QR code with your phone, which then allows it to sync the messages. You wouldn't be able to simply enter your login details on your laptop without that step.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 25/03/2026
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, so messages aren’t stored in a readable form on WhatsApp’s servers. They only exist in usable form on the devices that received them (or in backups if those are enabled, and they usually aren't by default). Logging in on a new phone can't restore message history.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 20/03/2026
Well worth watching Sadiq Khan's video highlights from the event (featuring a CofE vicar): youtu.be/g462d_ToKoQ?...
youtu.be
Open Iftar Brought Londoners Together For Ramadan
YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This International Women's Day, I implore you to listen to this podcast interview I did for Endless Thread on WBUR about what it felt like to be digitally undressed by Grok without consent. www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...
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What it's like to be undressed by Grok without your consent
Your photos are your own. Until they're not. Earlier this year, people began using Grok, X's generative AI chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes of women and children. Hosts Ben and Amory talk to Ion...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 15/02/2026
The episodes so far have been going up in full on the TLC YouTube channel too: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Mock The Week - YouTube
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 03/01/2026
He said it in answer to a different question, Adam just decided to glue two different questions together...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 28/12/2025
Always Flo's favourite spot
A cat sleeping on his back under a radiator
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 08/12/2025
Happily, that's what the proposal actually is (the Mail just can't help but outragebait) bsky.app/profile/dhot...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 05/12/2025
Transform Me Then is stunning, but do give Tomorrow Held a listen if you haven't already. A really well deserved nomination for a brilliantly creative duo
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 28/11/2025
This is the reasoning from @cancerresearchuk.org for those who haven't read it. Quite important context whether you agree with the conclusion or not.
Some numbers have been crunched by Cancer Research UK, using the latest data from the UK National Screening Committee.

They calculate that if you test 1,000 men aged 50 to 60:

Twenty-eight: Would be diagnosed with prostate cancer
Two: Lives would be saved
Twenty: Would be "over-diagnosed" meaning a slow-growing tumour that doesn't need treating would be found
Twelve: Men are then likely to have treatment like surgery or radiotherapy that doesn't benefit them, but comes with harms potentially including being unable to control your bladder or maintain an erection
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 29/10/2025
Just finished watching it, you were so so good! Becoming a sensation on the UK panel show circuit should absolutely be your next project
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 24/10/2025
I grew up in Abertridwr a few streets away from Lindsay, he's an absolute pillar of the community and a genuinely lovely man who really cares about Caerphilly
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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 07/07/2025
Suicide rates in Sri Lanka have fallen by almost two-thirds since the late 1990s
The image illustrates a line graph depicting suicide rates in Sri Lanka from 1980 to 2021. Rates have fallen by almost two-thirds since the late 1990s. Data source: IHME (2024). Chart is CCBY by Our World in Data
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is amazing. Who know you could tune in to see what "Barbra Streisand" the penguin has been up to recently.
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 21/05/2025
This is like "pumpkins and penguins" but for more serious correspondence
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 17/05/2025
This is a big talking point in the UK at the moment, with bad faith actors loudly opposing transitions to renewables because they claim it will make people poorer, cost jobs and make our power supply unstable. "What is the worst that can happen" is a question they would leap on
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 10/05/2025
I’m done with the online left. And here's why.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously].
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 24/04/2025
As someone who is both self-employed and neurodivergent, they've been a real game changer in terms of keeping my productivity up. The ethical concerns are a constant source of guilt though. Knowing we're likely to find ways to reduce the environmental impact doesn't totally remove that
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Errol 🦇🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Remember that some people have a lot to gain by making trans people and their allies panic about today’s judgement. Remaining calm and avoiding reactionary statements is something YOU can do to make today easier.
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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On the day that my landlord has increased my rent by 11.3%, I have also had an unexpected car bill of £380 and a parking ticket for ONE minute of parking of £50. For a self-employed freelancer with fibromyalgia which limits the amount of work I can take, living invoice to invoice…
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Iona Fyfe
Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland’s finest young folk singers, rooted in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. The first ever singer to win the coveted ti...
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 31/03/2025
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 31/03/2025
Page 14-15 in this? www.britishfuture.org/wp-content/u...
britishfuture.org
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Owen Ralph @owenralph.photos · 03/03/2025
You're in luck! www.channel4.com/press/news/m...
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Mitchell & Webb are back on Channel 4 with a brand-new sketch show, teaming up with next generation of comedy writers and performers | Channel 4Artboard 2
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are returning to Channel 4 with a brand-new sketch show, which sees them combine forces with a host of exciting and innovative future stars, marking a bold return to Bri...
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 20/02/2025
There's speculation this image comes from the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. But... 🚫 We couldn’t find a matching scene in the film. 💻 We know it was created or edited using Google AI tools.
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