Mark Owen

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

#GoneFishing

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Battery-electric vehicle sales in the UK 🇬🇧 show a beautiful growth trend each year 📈⚡ The image shows cumulative monthly BEV registrations by year. This year is up +30.2% compared with January–September last year.

Fucking Ted Lasso, making feel things.

The next race is not for liquid fuels It is for cheap electrons Global evidence shows electrification is no longer a distant or marginal pathway The deployment of solar and batteries now represents the fastest energy shift in human history Wills, Newman & Buckley thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

He imposed Shania Law

Excellent thread!

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

Thinking of putting two labels on my next book. 1. WRITTEN BY A HUMAN. 2. NOT FOR FUCKWITS.

Moustaches are a terrible, terrible mistake, and yet each generation must make the same errors as those who came before them.

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

Working Man Proud Of Job He Hates https://theonion.com/working-man-proud-of-job-he-hates-1819567149/

If you haven’t met The Bear before, this is a good introduction.

What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

The Clacton by-elections will continue until morale improves

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

It’s a crowded field, but the jaw-dropping moment for me is when Orr reels off all the other illicit donors who have illicitly donated one to Reform via illicit means, like this is helpful

Solar is doing more to reduce energy poverty than any other tech! Solar is now the single biggest addition to grid capacity in many African countries. Ten countries will each add at least 1 GW of solar between 2023 and 2026. ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky

Conservative policy: - Demand criminals get long sentences - Don't build prisons to house them - Oppose early release of prisoners - Cut prisons budgets so that fewer people are rehabilitated 👍

Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭

Latest episode of Almost Breaking News covers a great many topics of interest. (May contain mild rants) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xePJ...

tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny

Off to work 😭

Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports