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Paul Ockenden

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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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Certainly the same colour.

07.03.2026 18:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you were one of the last humans alive would you want to spend the rest of your life in prison? I know I wouldn't.

07.03.2026 12:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LOL!

06.03.2026 22:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@manmademoon.bsky.social - does this work from your side of the pond? I think you'd enjoy it if you can. Seems to be your sense of humour.

06.03.2026 21:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - The Naked Week, Series 4, War, Law, and Operation Amol Rajan We go to war, flout the law, and launch Operation Amol Rajan.

Brilliant 1st episode of new series of The Naked Week.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I don't know how @andrewhunterm.bsky.social and @jonholmes.bsky.social get away with it, but I'm glad they do!

06.03.2026 21:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are you denying that a ‘properly’ toasted crumpet isn’t chewy?

06.03.2026 11:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sure, but do you honestly think the complainer in the OP had only ever eaten raw crumpets?

‘Too chewy’ is still a measure of chewy.

06.03.2026 11:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sure, but the ‘ier’ is important. A properly toasted crumpet is still chewy.

06.03.2026 11:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man wearing a wayne 's world hat is sitting in a room and saying `` way '' . ALT: a man wearing a wayne 's world hat is sitting in a room and saying `` way '' .
06.03.2026 10:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, because crumpets aren't chewy once toasted...

06.03.2026 10:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Residence? Is that like a villa or something?

06.03.2026 09:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A joke so poor it needed a ‘geddit’ comment.

05.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm glad one person got the (very poor) joke.

05.03.2026 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When did people, and in particular BBC newsreaders, forget how to pronounce the word 'rhetoric'?

(That's a rhetorical question, literally!)

05.03.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fiscal headroom.

05.03.2026 16:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“How could you treat me this way?”

05.03.2026 14:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Iran’s “completely obliterated” nuclear facilities seem to have grown back even faster than Trump’s ear.

05.03.2026 13:40 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Jesus in a MAGA hat “One day I will return but only once you bomb a bunch of kids because a pedophile told you to”

Jesus in a MAGA hat “One day I will return but only once you bomb a bunch of kids because a pedophile told you to”

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette

05.03.2026 10:25 👍 458 🔁 134 💬 3 📌 5

Iran’s nuclear capabilities grew back faster than Trump’s ear.

05.03.2026 07:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Worst pub ever.

04.03.2026 18:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

They are taking the piss (even though she’s more used to giving it).

04.03.2026 17:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Have you ever been to the moon before?”

03.03.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump's dad was in fact born in New York City

03.03.2026 17:38 👍 5213 🔁 1152 💬 334 📌 78

“I take a cup”

This tea tastes funny…

03.03.2026 14:29 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/ocke...

02.03.2026 16:06 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🎶“War, huh, what is it good for?“🎶

Well, the price of oil and gas, the price of gold, the share price of armaments manufacturers, and many other things that have a positive impact on those people who are already obscenely rich.

For everyone else, 🎶”Absolutely nothing”🎶

02.03.2026 16:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Convenient for his [mate/master] (delete as applicable) Putin. Russian economy was on its knees but a like little oil-price bump will help fund that war.

02.03.2026 15:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doggerland: bit of a weird theme park. Didn’t enjoy the rides.

02.03.2026 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You're not here for the hunting are you?

02.03.2026 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ok then, we had farms before people played the derivatives game.

01.03.2026 20:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0