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Owen Blacker

@owenblacker.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸♿⧖ 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

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 3h

oh NO

Photo of Miss Major in a colorful, geometric pattern dress, with the text below it

It is with profound sadness that House of gg announces the passing of our beloved leader and revolutionary figure in the TLGBQ liberation movement, Miss Major
Griffin-Gracy. Miss Major, 78, passed away on October 13, 2025 in the comfort of her home and surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her enduring legacy is a testament to her resilience, activism, and dedication to creating safe spaces for Black trans communities and all trans people-we are eternally r Miss Major's grateful folife, her contributions and how deeply she poured into those she loved.
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Ego Rodriguez @egorodriguez.com · 3h

It's getting the right time to re-share this 4. Get some pumpkin pie 🎃
#art #illustration #halloween

A drawing of someone dress as a skeleton

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 7h

Google has, yet again, found a way to make it harder to identify which links are real and which are ads. www.theverge.com/tech/798901/...

Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them

At least you can collapse them now.

www.theverge.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10h

Ettore Boiardi, aka Chef Boyardee, and we celebrate all that immigrants bring to the American economy or something.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 11h

The above were not opinions. They were facts. My opinion is that the only possible solution is the one democratic, secular (with religious freedoms) state solution. AKA the free Palestine solution. Because no one gets an ethnostate.

Also, Netanyahu is a war criminal and must be tried.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 11h

* Trump forced Netanyahu to make this deal because he wanted a Nobel

* It's not called the Nobel Ceasefire Prize

* A signing where neither side of the accord is present is ridiculous

* The governments of Arab countries have, once again, stabbed the Palestinians in the back

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.bsky.social · 11h

Some things that are true:

* Ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages from both sides is a very good thing

* A version of this very deal has been on the table for two fucking years, and the main roadblock has been Netanyahu

* This is not peace. It's a ceasefire.

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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 13h

Boooo. Sport has stolen my quizzes.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 14h

Hate reading still puts eyes on bad books. You don't need to do it. If it's transphobic fanslop, you can just chuck free copies down a well. And certainly save your money if some shill hasn't shoved it in your mailbox.

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 10h

Omg they're amazing!

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 14h

A woman in my book-signing line at the Heartland Book Festival gave me these miniature versions of my books. So delightful! 📚I'm going to keep this tiny library on my desk. Nearly every book I've written.

Nnedi's fingers holding a box of miniature Nnedi books.

All the miniature books spread on Nnedi's hand.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14h

Israel violates the ceasefire - and threatens more genocidal violence.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-vio...

Israel violates ceasefire, threatens more violence

Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating - but danger remains

www.owenjones.news

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14h

👀

Wrath Month - Stories of Queer Rage

The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it...

is...

driving...

us...

a close up of a woman with curly hair and a hair clip in her hair making a funny face .

ALT: a close up of a woman with curly hair and a hair clip in her hair making a funny face .

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 11h

Hahaha

One of the benefits of working from home is that I'm never more than a few metres away from my actual bed 😅

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15h

I'm soooooo impatient to get into some seasonal horror 😅

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15h

Not yet; I preordered that too, but it's gonna wait until after spooky season. I couldn't bring myself to make Tourane and Luca also wait for a month.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 15h

Give it up for the ubermensch!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

Last week, Hegeth announced the United States would build a facility in Idaho to “host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots,” and this week Vance is insisting that Hegseth’s own statement was “largely a fake story." trib.al/xzhWdHI

JD Vance Completely Undercuts Pete Hegseth on Qatar Military Base

Vance insisted that Hegseth’s own statement was a “fake story.”

trib.al

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15h

I have We Will Rise Again on pre-order and I'm very excited for it.

I'm 72% through The Sovereign and I am loving how much Cheráe is making me frustrated with no idea how things will end up; I'm not even sure of the motivations of the POV characters some of the time and it's delightful 😅

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17h

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.

No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.

Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 17h

Some people are so lucky.

An apartment hallway with many vintage elements, including tile floor, door, stair rail, radiator and newel post.

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15h

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15h

Naps have generally been my solution (along with getting full bloodwork drawn last week, to check there's not actually something more serious going on). But sometimes a nap just isn't convenient, y'know? :)

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 17h

On the occasion of Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, I hope everyone here will join me in raising a toast to her still being dead

"The Margaret Thatcher flag": reds represent Hell, where she is, brown represents dirt, where her body is, grey represents her tombstone and yellow represents piss. I gather in American English, this is known as "the Ronald Reagan flag". Two countries divided by a common language, huh.

A quote from Margaret Thatcher that has been deliberately-badly edited to read "The problem with pissing on my grave is that you eventually run out of piss"

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