Owen Blacker

I am beyond proud to be able to share that I am 11th on this year’s Pinc List from the Western Mail and Wales Online, recognising LGBT+ people across Wales doing our bit to make the world a better place. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... Happy Pride everyone! Balchder hapus i bawb!

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* Linked to a charity? * Overt branding? * Associated with a brand? * Has a slogan attached? * On an entertainment show? There you go, BBC, fixed it for you. #ProtectTheDolls

Imagine how shocked anyone trageted by anti trans groups by this revelation. We arent shocked its not about protecting woman never was.

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And why? In the end, one has to ask if their own policy preferences are showing. That is, does the media for all the talk of liberal bias have a center-right one?

I don't know why I would spend a half-hour carefully crafting a prompt to get some approximation of nuanced performance out of a computer when I could just tell some random guy I found on Backstage dot com "Do it a little angrier" and get the same result in a couple minutes.

Like this is not a modern woke take. This is an ancient take echoed through history. He kind of sucks. Dante has him in the eighth circle of Hell. That's like the second to worst one.

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

Feeling SO GREAT about porting my entire digital backend from google to... this. Argh. Fuck.

C'est génial (Probably not understandable to the English speakers but)

I agree with this. Voting must never be the *only* thing you do, but it is a baseline. If you can't, in good conscience, vote for the Democrat - which I understand in many cases - find another candidate or write one in. I won't be able to vote anywhere for years, as I'm not returning to Israel

Wikipedistas trabajando para usted en Queering Wikipedia. Después de varios años de construcción colaborativa, tuvimos la primera conferencia internacional Wikimedia para la comunidad LGBT+. Qué alegría, qué planazo. 🌃 Montreal, Canadá, 2026. 📸 Jajwaka, CCBYSA @wmlgbt.org

Oxford Street pedestrianisation has really highlighted how people on the internet really care about mobility impaired people. Very interesting because no one moves when a wheelchair wants to get on the bus but now everyone cares they can't get a taxi to Selfridge's door 🤔

On BBC News they listed Lula's policies like environmental protections, public spending and "higher taxes"(for whomst?) in a way that sounded like they were supposed to be bad or controversial

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed

Brazilian man cries as he describes how Flavio Bolsonaro's acceptance of bribery led to a delay in rolling out vaccines in Brazil. His grandmother and great-aunt he says, died as a result of Bolsonaro paydayreport.com/a-brazilian-...

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Either a Selene or an Asmodeus move (though Asmodeus would give it to Thuan, who'd roll his eyes and wear it anyway because Thuan might be a cinnamon roll but he does know the value of a good show of power)

If you look more closely at the numbers two things are clear: 1. More of the epidemic is shifting from Ituri to neighboring North Kivu. (58 of the 96 cases today are in North Kivu). 2. The response still is not working as it needs to (40 of 46 deaths reported today were deaths in the community).

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has now crossed 10,000 cases and is getting close to 5,000 deaths. It is a staggeringly large outbreak and it continues to grow rapidly, with 96 new cases in the last 24 hours alone. #IDsky 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n164-...

I could have sold my soul and been dead inside, but I would be worth high six figures probably.

In, like, 2014, I was the subject of an extremely mild Twitter pile-on, and I groused privately to my wife about how people were going TOO FAR. She (wisely) talked me out of writing anything about it. I transitioned instead, and now I am not sure how much longer I will make rent. Anyway!

This is a very good summation, and should help explain why I'm depressed about this election cycle, where the best possible result is "things will be slightly less terrible."

I am just learning this right now

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Joe Straczynski on Walter Koenig www.patreon.com/posts/173502...

THR really did a disservice here because the conversation could only add more heat than light with this framing. Were the tools used to cut out images from a background? To interpolate for tweening? It seems like it *wasn’t* used to generate imagery that didn’t exist? And the interviewer didn’t ask.

Deadass Mad Max-style landscape photography coming down from Mars today

#TodayInQueerHistory Oct 25 (2019) Self described "deaf, Jewish, gender queer, trans masculine, Chinese, person of colour" Chella Man's Teen Titans character Jericho gets a spotlight episode with a dramatic and ambiguous ending #OTD. Jericho, like Chella, is also deaf and uses sign language.

True fuckstickery in Brazil. Not caring about election integrity is an advantage for right wingers in elections.

Vernon: so we all know that blorbo is a morally conflicted badass with a checkered past Vernon: but what my adaptation supposes Vernon: is Vernon: what if he was a morally conflicted badass with a checkered past King: oh i don't like that at all Poe: that's not my blorno Koontz: [cries]

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

Three things you could probably identify in a child within 20 mins of meeting them.