Owen Blacker

Karma is finally catching up with the reprehensible Philip Normal and I am front row eating popcorn.

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He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)

tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”

i stand by this statement every year

There are only two situations where I've seen people actually use the term:

1. Lesbian parents when specifying which of the two of them gave birth

2. Trans men and non-binary people who have kids using that term *for themselves*

But Ana made it about her for no reason at all.

Literally nobody has ever referred to her as a "birthing person," yet the existence of the term was enough to turn her into a full-on anti-trans crusader.

Europe scraps 2035 new ICE car sales ban - report | Autocar A senior European lawmaker says the ban is "off the table"; EU expected to officially confirm on Tuesday

So the EU looks like scrapping the 2035 internal combustion engine ban for a 90% reduction in emissions, which basically means the rich will get to continue to pollute in high end cars www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...

I don't use Threads, Nostr (who?) or Twitter and I get much more conversation here than Mastodon. Mainly because of the network effect — there are others of magnitude more people who I engage with here than there.

Here is where people came after Twitter. Mastodon is mainly just techies.

‘Heated Rivalry’ has been renewed for Season 2.

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Kieth Starmer: [supports a genocide, kills trans kids, starves poor people, complicity endorsed multiple race riots]

Lewis Goodall: but he’s so harmless?

omg they're so cute!

I think @jenblacker.bsky.social used nail clippers for taking through airport security?

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#TodayInQueerHistory
December 12 (1969,1970)
A big day for NYC's Continental Bathhouse 🛁🛁

(1969) 3 patrons and 3 staff are arrested for "lewd and lascivious acts" and "mischief". During its time, the baths had over 200 police raids

(1970) Singer songwriter Barry Manilow gets a job at the baths!

Precisely.

I don't wanna quote JFK and all, but one's attitude towards the government shouldn't *solely* be "what will you give me". Thatcher was wrong about there being no such thing as society. Etc etc

Is it at least partly because half of American economic growth is very rich cocaine addicts convincing people that they’ve invented an infinite motion machine, and that they should invest heavily in the South Sea Company

Great article.
“You don’t really kind of grasp the scale of what’s going on until you see it in person,” he said.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

This is especially dire when you consider that many trans people across the UK are considering fleeing to Ireland

My first ft job was making t-shirt designs for Disney. Their brand guidelines were crazy strict. For ex multiple princesses couldn’t interact/look at each other or have their feet visible.
I guess you can just slopify as much spiderman elsa feet stuff as you want now. Brand integrity? Who cares lol

Nor, of course, does the average person in midlife *need* as much or of it as a child or a pensioner. On average.

Even before the two facts I wish more politicians understood and communicated:

1) Essentially no-one can 'afford to have children' (really only a small tranche of the people who privately educate can)
2) State pensions are *always* paid for by current taxpayers

Ultimately every statement about immigrants, laudatory or critical, is only as true as it is about people. The UK runs a deficit so *most people* are net beneficiaries just by definition! Our tax system is really lopsided so most people are net beneficiaries!

Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat and vice chair of the Democratic Caucus, said there are "a diversity of views" about impeachment in the caucus. He said that House Democrats intend to conduct oversight of the administration should they win a majority in next year's midterms but that a win at the ballot box did not guarantee an impeachment vote. "I think you would have to have an investigation where you actually talk to witnesses and review documents and look at, you know, video and listen to audio. You need to do all of that before any decisions are made," he said.

This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.

Given Bayswater are now bringing a legal challenge does anyone in mainstream media want to actually report on the fact they allowed discussion of child abuse and have a DIY conversion therapy manual on their site?

rereading: because books are art, and art is labor For almost twenty years, the Calibre project has provided people with a way to manage their e-books, building personal libraries, transfe...

on the fork of Calibre without AI, set up with attention to actual governance rather than trusting in one guy

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No. It still gives her a boost and extra money to use for her hate campaigns. Just give up on it. There are plenty of better books, games and movies.

Reform councillor sends two emails in first six months of job - The Independent

Reform the saviours of the UK ha bloody ha
their chaos, racism, full of failed ex Tories, wasting money in various councils, their defining achievement spending £75,000 on flags, their dodgy funding/Putin influence FFS