Controversial I know but Twitter is being brilliant right now, like proper old times

Doing an Easter Egg hunt and one of my clues is basically ‘Go ask Rhod’

I’ve just lost my lovely gig as TV columnist with The Lady Magazine (which has gone into liquidation). If anyone knows of any writing jobs going, my CV can be found within the realms of my website www.mathew-owen.co.uk

For anyone who needs it - www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk

In cheering news, if you’re near Moorgate, you must pop into Makes Sense to Me’s bookshop pop-up at 120. (Inside the Barclays.) Karyma Ellis specialises in neurodiversity and sells books and fidgets for kids, teens and adults - really really lovely! makessensetome.co.uk/pages/events-1

The hard Brexit vibes are so strong

Almost everyone I know in the arts bar the luckiest of the lucky few - the most talented people I know, the funniest and most industrious people I know - almost universally people are saying they don’t think they can afford to do this job anymore.

I’ve gone into the shed to work because of ‘house noise’. I was in there 20 minutes before I was joined by A) a big wasp B) my dog C) Rhod chopping wood

‘We’re sorry for the delay but we’re experiencing an extreme amount of calls right now’ I’m on the phone to a wool shop.

BT are so bad the only way we’ve ever got to talk to someone was cornering one of their employees at a wedding

Please share :)

POV: You turn up to a radio recording and are the only one with a highlighter.

I love how Antiques Roadshow has just said “fuck it” and gone for Gen X nostalgia now, cos that’s your audience. This week they wheeled out Empire Strikes Back crew christmas cards and a bloke who’d been given all John Inman’s old panto costumes by Bungle. Lean into it, guys. More please.

Jewelry shops in towns and cities Spain would have an unofficial common fund during the dictatorship in case Franco’s wife visited a shop as she would want everything for free and no one would dare refuse. It earned her the nickname Carmen Necklaces. This is the same but with more money.

@soozuk.bsky.social hellloooo!

In response to this, please donate to Quaker Social Action if you can, they do a lot of good, including a funeral poverty helpline quakersocialaction.org.uk/get-involved...

WhAt TIme IS iiiT PLeaase

Me? in the Bookseller's 10 books not to miss in June (for Cursed Under London's Paperback edition)? With MY reputation?? (none of this down to me, huge thanks to Duckworth)

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

The setting up gang. A very fun night that went on until 1am. Buy Cafe Chaos if you have any 9 to 12 year olds. Especially relevant to those starting big school.

YES my first block on Bluesky, this place is really starting to feel like good old days Twitter ❤️

Reminder: the cat is still missing. Please do check where you live.

Ppl being weird about this but I had to help my mum delete her twitter and facebook accounts because she was getting radicalised by the algo so…

I’m in a Golden Girls Fan group on Facebook and someone keeps posting stuff about euthanasia

Yes. The point is to normalize abductions by a masked, unidentified, secret police force. Things are moving very fast right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

Just remembered explaining Mr Blobby to our French exchange student back in the 90s and being ‘Why are you not getting this? A man in a pink plastic outfit knocks over guests!! It’s hilarious!!! Mam, play the single’

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

You have TWO more nights to catch @eleanormorton.bsky.social’s brilliant show - HAUNTED HOUSE - in Soho before it’s gone. Ingenious, hilarious and the doll house has to be seen close up. Go go.

Not sure if I’m having a break down but I was up at six decanting all my dry goods into glass jars.

I fluctuate between wanting to throw all social media and news into a river and feeling like an out of touch alien if I go longer than 48 hours without checking it

"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Can’t believe Rhod made me sing our fizzy water song live at the London Palladium last night on @offmenuofficial.bsky.social

Totally forgot about this place but YES COME ON

Who the fuck was booking a holiday in Wales thinking ‘I can’t wait to drive at 30mph’

Wow coming to this place from Twitter feels like being in a really awful house party where it’s kicking off and stumbling into a bedroom where everyone’s really chilled, lying down talking about music

me last week: the invite system is elitist me after getting two invite codes: my friend chris once made fun of me in a reply. he will not set foot in the kingdom of god

It's ok to feel sad about it. It is genuinely sad. Twitter is where I met my wife, the love of my life and the mother of my children. Now that Twitter is dying, I have no way to contact these three.