Jenny Blacker
@jenblacker.bsky.social
Knitter, housewife, geek, poly, bi, autistic, owned by cats. Kinda sweary. Very chatty. I also make stuff as
Jenny Wren Creates. She/her
Jenny Wren Creates. She/her
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It's only a podcast if I can listen to it via any podcatcher that picks up RSS feeds.
A video is not a podcast.
An audio performance that I can only hear on one app or website is not a podcast.
A video is not a podcast.
An audio performance that I can only hear on one app or website is not a podcast.
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's only a podcast if I can listen to it via any podcatcher that picks up RSS feeds.
A video is not a podcast.
An audio performance that I can only hear on one app or website is not a podcast.
A video is not a podcast.
An audio performance that I can only hear on one app or website is not a podcast.
I ight be still in my dressing gown with wet hair, BUT the quiz is finally ready
45 mins before it starts... 😬
(if you know me/he and would like to come, on zoom at 7, prod @owenblacker.bsky.social )
45 mins before it starts... 😬
(if you know me/he and would like to come, on zoom at 7, prod @owenblacker.bsky.social )
December 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I ight be still in my dressing gown with wet hair, BUT the quiz is finally ready
45 mins before it starts... 😬
(if you know me/he and would like to come, on zoom at 7, prod @owenblacker.bsky.social )
45 mins before it starts... 😬
(if you know me/he and would like to come, on zoom at 7, prod @owenblacker.bsky.social )
1. I listen to a LOT of podcasts (subbed to ~300)
2. I also watch a lot of Youtube
3. There is *zero* overlap between the two for me
4. If you put a video version of your podcast out, I'll actively avoid it
Bonus: your phone will subtitle audio, certainly Android can, have a mess in access settings
2. I also watch a lot of Youtube
3. There is *zero* overlap between the two for me
4. If you put a video version of your podcast out, I'll actively avoid it
Bonus: your phone will subtitle audio, certainly Android can, have a mess in access settings
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
1. I listen to a LOT of podcasts (subbed to ~300)
2. I also watch a lot of Youtube
3. There is *zero* overlap between the two for me
4. If you put a video version of your podcast out, I'll actively avoid it
Bonus: your phone will subtitle audio, certainly Android can, have a mess in access settings
2. I also watch a lot of Youtube
3. There is *zero* overlap between the two for me
4. If you put a video version of your podcast out, I'll actively avoid it
Bonus: your phone will subtitle audio, certainly Android can, have a mess in access settings
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STILL no trans people or drag queens implicated in the Epstein Files.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
STILL no trans people or drag queens implicated in the Epstein Files.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
Plenty of TERFs though.
It’s almost as though every “gender-critical” transphobe is trying to protect cis men who abuse women and girls by helping them distract from the real threat.
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gonzo is a lesbian i don’t think i need to explain
December 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
gonzo is a lesbian i don’t think i need to explain
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I know #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is fun and raises money for charity but it also gets me emotional. Like, it's so important for us to be with our loved ones that we will sleep on kitchen floors and also those bonds are strong enough for us to say "oh you're ok with the broken camp bed, yes?" ♥️
December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I know #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is fun and raises money for charity but it also gets me emotional. Like, it's so important for us to be with our loved ones that we will sleep on kitchen floors and also those bonds are strong enough for us to say "oh you're ok with the broken camp bed, yes?" ♥️
Emo keeps getting under our feet in the kitchen, so I made a masking tape trap
We just got back and found him asleep in it 😻
#EmoKitty #MaineCoon #BeautifulHimboCat
We just got back and found him asleep in it 😻
#EmoKitty #MaineCoon #BeautifulHimboCat
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Emo keeps getting under our feet in the kitchen, so I made a masking tape trap
We just got back and found him asleep in it 😻
#EmoKitty #MaineCoon #BeautifulHimboCat
We just got back and found him asleep in it 😻
#EmoKitty #MaineCoon #BeautifulHimboCat
Midnight mass: SUNG!
Supper: EATEN!
Husband: IN BED!
BRING ON THE STRONG MEN!
Supper: EATEN!
Husband: IN BED!
BRING ON THE STRONG MEN!
a man with a beard is wearing a black shirt that says man on it
Alt: eddie hall (previous world's strongest man) says hi to you
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Midnight mass: SUNG!
Supper: EATEN!
Husband: IN BED!
BRING ON THE STRONG MEN!
Supper: EATEN!
Husband: IN BED!
BRING ON THE STRONG MEN!
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Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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Do Quakers do Christmas? Traditionally, Quakers don't celebrate special days, but today the picture is more complex.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Is your Christmas simple, radical, spiritual?
Rhiannon Grant reflects on how Quaker traditions and testimony influence how she marks the festive season.
quaker.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Do Quakers do Christmas? Traditionally, Quakers don't celebrate special days, but today the picture is more complex.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
Rhiannon Grant shares four questions she asks herself when thinking about whether and how to participate in Christmas activities.
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In these challenging times someone might need one of them:
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
Age UK: 0800 169 6565
Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650
Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677
MH text support: 85258
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
Age UK: 0800 169 6565
Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650
Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677
MH text support: 85258
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In these challenging times someone might need one of them:
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
Age UK: 0800 169 6565
Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650
Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677
MH text support: 85258
Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
Age UK: 0800 169 6565
Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650
Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677
MH text support: 85258
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He's making a list,
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
He's making a list,
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
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I'm preaching to the choir here, but I read articles to find what's not being said and where I need to keep digging. And that's something a generated summary cannot provide.
FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm preaching to the choir here, but I read articles to find what's not being said and where I need to keep digging. And that's something a generated summary cannot provide.
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Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy in the tum tum every time I think about or see pictures of Jake Paul getting his soul punched out of his body.
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy in the tum tum every time I think about or see pictures of Jake Paul getting his soul punched out of his body.
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He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
You can only book space in a Quaker owned/run building if you adhere to our principles
And we collectively decided to affirm and welcome trans and NB folks
There are GC/TERF Quakers, but they're in the minority and frustrated at the lack of traction they've been able to gain
And we collectively decided to affirm and welcome trans and NB folks
There are GC/TERF Quakers, but they're in the minority and frustrated at the lack of traction they've been able to gain
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
December 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You can only book space in a Quaker owned/run building if you adhere to our principles
And we collectively decided to affirm and welcome trans and NB folks
There are GC/TERF Quakers, but they're in the minority and frustrated at the lack of traction they've been able to gain
And we collectively decided to affirm and welcome trans and NB folks
There are GC/TERF Quakers, but they're in the minority and frustrated at the lack of traction they've been able to gain
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Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4
December 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4
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[Work on the Provençal crèche continues.]
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
[Work on the Provençal crèche continues.]
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Walliams was "responsible for 44 per cent of HarperCollins’s children’s sales in the UK in 2018" and I guess that income was more important than protecting women.
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Walliams was "responsible for 44 per cent of HarperCollins’s children’s sales in the UK in 2018" and I guess that income was more important than protecting women.
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It’s not the Industrial Revolution. It’s colonialism, resource plunder from the vulnerable, and enforced free labour (whatever you want to call that) for the benefit of a declared overclass. Empire by another name, not charming top hats and poop-poop steam engines.
Oh no the Governor of the Bank of England compared AI to the Industrial Revolution
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
It’s not the Industrial Revolution. It’s colonialism, resource plunder from the vulnerable, and enforced free labour (whatever you want to call that) for the benefit of a declared overclass. Empire by another name, not charming top hats and poop-poop steam engines.
1. You should subscribe to this, it's a lot of fun
2. I've listened to ABK read his own book this week, and now 2 podcast episodes, I've started narrating my own thoughts in his voice
3. The books are amazing, O ended up listening to the middle/end with me, packed with Adams/Pratchett-esque humour
2. I've listened to ABK read his own book this week, and now 2 podcast episodes, I've started narrating my own thoughts in his voice
3. The books are amazing, O ended up listening to the middle/end with me, packed with Adams/Pratchett-esque humour
Part 2 should be in your Beaver Holes now!
It's an always-winter-but-never-Christmas miracle! Part 1 of the Eleanor & Alasdair Read That Xmas special is out now. Listen to me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social re-cap the story of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe with, frankly, too much enthusiasm.
linktr.ee/readthat
linktr.ee/readthat
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1. You should subscribe to this, it's a lot of fun
2. I've listened to ABK read his own book this week, and now 2 podcast episodes, I've started narrating my own thoughts in his voice
3. The books are amazing, O ended up listening to the middle/end with me, packed with Adams/Pratchett-esque humour
2. I've listened to ABK read his own book this week, and now 2 podcast episodes, I've started narrating my own thoughts in his voice
3. The books are amazing, O ended up listening to the middle/end with me, packed with Adams/Pratchett-esque humour
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❤️🎄🇵🇸
𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx
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𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx
linktr.ee/T4Plive
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
❤️🎄🇵🇸
𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx
linktr.ee/T4Plive
𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx
linktr.ee/T4Plive
I stopped selling online and now only stock a local physical shop
The RELIEF from not having to try and do the social media aspect of it too...
I'm a maker, not a social media pro, I'm *terrible* at pro instagram and I have zero desire to leave how to improve!
The RELIEF from not having to try and do the social media aspect of it too...
I'm a maker, not a social media pro, I'm *terrible* at pro instagram and I have zero desire to leave how to improve!
One of my big concerns is that creators are now often required to be influencers. Creativity takes a backseat to generating content, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
One of these days we’re gonna have to have a long discussion about the need to survive as a creator under capitalism vs the commodification of art, aren’t we.
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I stopped selling online and now only stock a local physical shop
The RELIEF from not having to try and do the social media aspect of it too...
I'm a maker, not a social media pro, I'm *terrible* at pro instagram and I have zero desire to leave how to improve!
The RELIEF from not having to try and do the social media aspect of it too...
I'm a maker, not a social media pro, I'm *terrible* at pro instagram and I have zero desire to leave how to improve!
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“Martin Luther promoted the idea that gifts were brought by baby Jesus himself, in a transparent attempt to ensure that no one forgot what Christmas was really meant to be about…” This week’s New World column is about who brings Christmas gifts around the world
Nerd’s Eye View: 13 things you need to know about the Gift-Bringers
Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“Martin Luther promoted the idea that gifts were brought by baby Jesus himself, in a transparent attempt to ensure that no one forgot what Christmas was really meant to be about…” This week’s New World column is about who brings Christmas gifts around the world