Jake Owen

My first live snooker experience in Llandudno for the Welsh Open semis and final with the old man. Cracking weekend!

Finished this earlier today, would recommend it to any tax dodging racist billionaires if anyone knows of any.

Nothing about me or my profile would suggest an interest in it to Facebook yet I'm seeing it constantly. A scary level of X-ification.

Still on fb 🤮 for music purposes. The amount of stuff I'm shown now pushing right wing shite has really ramped up. Posts from Republican senators defending ICE and Trump, the Cato Institute with anti-universal healthcare memes. All with the one-click option to follow...

Trump following the Kissinger trajectory.
Be a warmongering cunt ✅
Somehow obtain Nobel Peace Prize ✅
Live to be 100... tbc

Depressing that mainstream conversation re melting polar ice caps has moved from "WE NEED TO STOP THESE ICE CAPS MELTING" to "how will Russia/China/America make use of new fossil fuels and shipping lanes that open up when ice caps (which lets face it, are a pain in the arse!) finally melt." #R4Today

Wikipedia rabbit hole made me think of Rufus Hound for the first time in ages. Thought to myself, man I haven't thought about him for ten years. Then thought, "this is like when you remember The Game", therefore lost The Game.
Happy new year everyone 🥳

It was only when the crowd spilled across the road as the parade neared that cars stopped attempting to go through green lights. Which didn't stop the drivers behind beeping at them to go! No police presence till the parade arrived as far as I could tell.

I think the simple fact is that some people recognise their own behaviour in the actions of Doyle. Road rage, "car brain", whatever. It was scary that day (I was watching with my wife and baby on Moss St/Islington), drivers were left to their own devices as crowds gathered.

Indeed. I just hate that we’re in a timeline in which support and empathy for marginalised groups is deemed extreme while hatred and disdain for those same groups garners support and air time on political/news programmes

Impartial reporting 👍🏻

PS still think the current iteration of the Labour Party can do one.

The BBC article on the budget is reeeeeeally pushing a narrative. People being "dragged" (their choice of vocab) into higher tax thresholds. Playing upon ignorance of progressive taxes... also "mansion tax" might CAPTURE homes in expensive areas. Boo fucking hoo.

Too Close For Comfort - Virtual Reality film (2D version) | Cycling UK YouTube video by Cycling UK

Anyway, here's a helpful video for anyone interested in the cyclist's perspective of close passing: youtu.be/9kgPt-lNYGY?...

Even with this short journey, which I only make once or twice a week, more often than not there's *something* that puts me off ever doing it again. I can normally just ignore the abuse and dodgy overtakes but yesterday really did take the piss.

I'm a purely functional cyclist, I only really do it to commute on the days I work in south Liverpool as the 3 mile journey is 15 minutes whether I go by bike or car and I like the fresh(ish) air in the mornings.

... mobile phone use or just general shit driving. Either way, one false move by either of us as he passed and I could have been knocked off, injured, maybe killed like Keith Hornby was, tragically in Huyton last week.

Without a doubt, the driver could see me well ahead of him staying in lane to continue straight after the railway bridge, I don't know if it was punishment for having the audacity to filter past him to the bike box at traffic lights about half a mile earlier ...

I shouldn't be shaking with anger and fear when I arrive for work in the morning but I was yesterday. I got "close passed" by a lorry on Smithdown Road (Liverpool) and it was bloody terrifying.

A statement by the Linguistic Society of America on designating English as the official language
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Finally got through all 8 hours of the Let It Be doc in a few late night sittings. An absolute joy. Been on the to-do list for a while, all it took was having a baby. Who knew there was an entire extra half day to be enjoyed, it's just called night time?!

A selection of unrelated screenshots

Agreeing with my wife that moving my foot would be too much of a disturbance for this little guy and that as a result, she is responsible for all drink replenishment.

Characterising equality initiatives as “‘actually, we're about anti-whiteness'” is the kind of thing Musk and Trump do. This is far-right framing from Streeting, and has no place in any mainstream political party in the UK, let alone the ostensibly left-wing(!) one

Oh my God me tooooo. Blocked around 20 Sarahs this afternoon! I only joined the other day and this is the only real turn off so far. (Except individuals/organisations I want to follow that aren't here yet but I'm confident that'll resolve over time!)

Trying to rebuild my Twitter as it was circa 2014-18.

New year, new social media presence.