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Owen Blacker
@owenblacker.bsky.social
🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♿⧖ Mainly-gay, mainly-Welsh political geek; proud social justice warrior+trans ally. Queering Wikipedia, Open Rights Group, ex-mySociety. he/him, cis. t.me/owenblacker
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Isinglecrow.bsky.social

a) I love this and b) I feel like there must be people who don't know that "DESNZ" is pronounced "dez-nez", it makes me very happy and I hope it makes you happy too

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UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

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UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

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Yay!

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SMsolarpunklitmag.bsky.social

Our 2025 Kickstarter launches tomorrow at 8am PST! CITY OF HOPE, an utopian narrative worldbuilding RPG. Magazine issues and 2025 subscriptions will also be available during the crowd funder. Day 1 backers get a free enamel pin of our sun logo. You know where thelinksat. #solarpunk

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Omg, how did I not notice this 3 months ago?! (Also: damn cariad! I could comment further, but I don't know your comfort level with that)

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Repost if you're queer and into horror.

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Oh Babel is SOOO good! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I really do need to read some Premee Mohamed…

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AKarsduo.bsky.social

The automated transcription at the panels was cool—primarily because accessibility, secondarily because I can share a bit of the weird joyous magpie energy of @meakoopa.bsky.social being on a great panel on Christian figures in literature.

Anthony Oliveira/@meakoopa on a panel at Word on the Street
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So my book is called Dayspring, this is very early on, it's the story of the beloved disciple from the Bible told of a disciple through the perspective of that disciple but it's also kind of screwy with time so it's kind of a contemporary story. I'm going to read from the section very early on, this is page 6 if you are following along, and I am going to skip a line and 1/2 that is a little porny because I do see some kids. Did it spell porny? It did!
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Jesus or whatever, he does. But there's also a habit of mine where I speak and endless quotation, like the passage I read at the beginning has a lot of CS Lewis in it, there's a lot of that section that is actually the kids meeting Aslan.

I'm sort of obsessed with- and I never know what I'm quoting, I'm always like is that Shakespeare or Zach Gilmore Girls?
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There's something funny about the word radical. We think about it as meaning something coming from the margins but it's actually the roots, radishes, radiuses, radical means to go back to the absolute route of something and I wanted to strip- to renovate some of these passages so they struck your ear at an angle you are not used to so that you could recover some of that gesture.
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JWwiswell.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky! Hit me up with the most recent book, story, song, or other piece of art you loved that was created by a trans person. Let's boost some trans creators today.

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Owen Blacker
@owenblacker.bsky.social
🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿♿⧖ Mainly-gay, mainly-Welsh political geek; proud social justice warrior+trans ally. Queering Wikipedia, Open Rights Group, ex-mySociety. he/him, cis. t.me/owenblacker
851 followers1.5k following2.3k posts