Owen Blacker
@owenblacker.bsky.social
🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸♿⧖ he/him, cis.
Queer political geek; proud social justice warrior+trans ally. Queering Wikipedia (and chair of @wmlgbt.org), Open Rights Group, ex-mySociety. Dysgwr. My opinions, not my employer’s.
t.me/owenblacker
owen.blacker.me.uk
Queer political geek; proud social justice warrior+trans ally. Queering Wikipedia (and chair of @wmlgbt.org), Open Rights Group, ex-mySociety. Dysgwr. My opinions, not my employer’s.
t.me/owenblacker
owen.blacker.me.uk
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Both Knives Out and Glass Onion are more interested in offering takes on old money and tech bros respectively, and that’s fine! Glass Onion’s portrayal of tech world idiocy remains one of my favorites. But a thoughtful exploration of why something can offer meaning? Mwah!!
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Both Knives Out and Glass Onion are more interested in offering takes on old money and tech bros respectively, and that’s fine! Glass Onion’s portrayal of tech world idiocy remains one of my favorites. But a thoughtful exploration of why something can offer meaning? Mwah!!
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The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.
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Borrowed Drew's camera for a second. The light was just perfect.
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Borrowed Drew's camera for a second. The light was just perfect.
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Is Your Party an op from The Onion?
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Is Your Party an op from The Onion?
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"Getting canceled" is just another stage in a successful career, much like the way tenured professors take sabbaticals.
You spend a bit of time on a vacation with reduced pay, before coming back with the full support of the monied elite.
You spend a bit of time on a vacation with reduced pay, before coming back with the full support of the monied elite.
Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Getting canceled" is just another stage in a successful career, much like the way tenured professors take sabbaticals.
You spend a bit of time on a vacation with reduced pay, before coming back with the full support of the monied elite.
You spend a bit of time on a vacation with reduced pay, before coming back with the full support of the monied elite.
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Sure. If a white guy says he’s cancelled, it means he’s tapping into the media subsidy machine for faux-grievance in service of regressive culture. Only cost of admission is pretending to be a martyr.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sure. If a white guy says he’s cancelled, it means he’s tapping into the media subsidy machine for faux-grievance in service of regressive culture. Only cost of admission is pretending to be a martyr.
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Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Once again, “cancelled” just means “subsidized by the media and culture infrastructure that still has robust funding”.
I'll take it, I guess >>
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 29th 2025 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 29th 2025 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'll take it, I guess >>
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 29th 2025 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 29th 2025 (Hard), in less than 13 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
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Are Labour going to get rid of leasehold or what
In the Middle Ages, serfs paid for the privilege of working their lord's land, which included renting animals needed for cultivation.
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
Kirkby residents receive £3.6m bill for flats too dangerous to live in
Two unsafe tower blocks in Kirkby, Merseyside, were closed down by the fire service in July.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Are Labour going to get rid of leasehold or what
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In the Middle Ages, serfs paid for the privilege of working their lord's land, which included renting animals needed for cultivation.
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
Kirkby residents receive £3.6m bill for flats too dangerous to live in
Two unsafe tower blocks in Kirkby, Merseyside, were closed down by the fire service in July.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In the Middle Ages, serfs paid for the privilege of working their lord's land, which included renting animals needed for cultivation.
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
They also bore the responsibility for maintaining the fields and buildings, incurring costs and expending labour from their own resources.
What's changed?
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One of my favorite Stoppard monologues. From Arcadia.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One of my favorite Stoppard monologues. From Arcadia.
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of the greatest to ever do it.
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“And don’t call me Shirley”
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“And don’t call me Shirley”
London's sky says trans rights
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
London's sky says trans rights
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it's just respectability politics through and through.
calling someone a racist, a transphobe, an ableist, a misogynist, a homophobe or even quite famously; a bigot, is hands down far worse than the bigotry itself.
always has been. because it benefits power and no other reason.
calling someone a racist, a transphobe, an ableist, a misogynist, a homophobe or even quite famously; a bigot, is hands down far worse than the bigotry itself.
always has been. because it benefits power and no other reason.
I have no idea who Jennifer Forbes is, or what her views are, but unless she’s got an earpiece with someone else barking instructions to her, it’s pretty fucking sus.
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
it's just respectability politics through and through.
calling someone a racist, a transphobe, an ableist, a misogynist, a homophobe or even quite famously; a bigot, is hands down far worse than the bigotry itself.
always has been. because it benefits power and no other reason.
calling someone a racist, a transphobe, an ableist, a misogynist, a homophobe or even quite famously; a bigot, is hands down far worse than the bigotry itself.
always has been. because it benefits power and no other reason.
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I had about this, but now having viewed it: This is the result of Jeremy Corbyn not being strong enough a leader. It was never any good to play “wait and see” over transphobia.
Hussein played women against each other, and suggested segregation for trans people.
It was transphobic
Hussein played women against each other, and suggested segregation for trans people.
It was transphobic
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I had about this, but now having viewed it: This is the result of Jeremy Corbyn not being strong enough a leader. It was never any good to play “wait and see” over transphobia.
Hussein played women against each other, and suggested segregation for trans people.
It was transphobic
Hussein played women against each other, and suggested segregation for trans people.
It was transphobic
I, for one, am shocked — shocked! — to find transphobia at the "we won't make a policy about transphobia until we get to the conference because people need to vote on it" party.
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I, for one, am shocked — shocked! — to find transphobia at the "we won't make a policy about transphobia until we get to the conference because people need to vote on it" party.
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“Wait for the conference”, they said. Well I say, get fucked
Yorp conference doing its best to shut down anyone daring to call a transphobe a transphobe.
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Wait for the conference”, they said. Well I say, get fucked
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Imagine ruining whatever little credibility you have left by supporting the SWP. Imagine choosing that hill to die on rather than all the other bullshit that has come from Your Barely Nascent Party
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana boycotts first day of Your Party conference over 'witch hunt' expulsions
Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Imagine ruining whatever little credibility you have left by supporting the SWP. Imagine choosing that hill to die on rather than all the other bullshit that has come from Your Barely Nascent Party
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Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Ahahahahaha, local business that recorded themselves sticking a load of Union Jacks to lampposts all about town are currently pissing and moaning about finally Finding Out.
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In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
X is not above the law
goodlaw.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
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Gay tree is up for the season
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Gay tree is up for the season
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It’s sometimes said that history may not repeat itself but often rhymes.
We all can learn lessons from history and, at this critical moment for the rights of LGBTQ+ communities, now is an apt time for LGBTQ folk to listen to each other across generations, both older to younger and younger to older.
We all can learn lessons from history and, at this critical moment for the rights of LGBTQ+ communities, now is an apt time for LGBTQ folk to listen to each other across generations, both older to younger and younger to older.
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It’s sometimes said that history may not repeat itself but often rhymes.
We all can learn lessons from history and, at this critical moment for the rights of LGBTQ+ communities, now is an apt time for LGBTQ folk to listen to each other across generations, both older to younger and younger to older.
We all can learn lessons from history and, at this critical moment for the rights of LGBTQ+ communities, now is an apt time for LGBTQ folk to listen to each other across generations, both older to younger and younger to older.
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“I love sherry because it’s just a little bit too strong.”
Performing ‘I Miss the War’ at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
I was inspired by the wise old gays I met in my late teens / early 20s, who recalled a time before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, often with affection.
Performing ‘I Miss the War’ at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
I was inspired by the wise old gays I met in my late teens / early 20s, who recalled a time before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, often with affection.
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“I love sherry because it’s just a little bit too strong.”
Performing ‘I Miss the War’ at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
I was inspired by the wise old gays I met in my late teens / early 20s, who recalled a time before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, often with affection.
Performing ‘I Miss the War’ at the @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
I was inspired by the wise old gays I met in my late teens / early 20s, who recalled a time before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, often with affection.