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Owen Blacker
@owenblacker.bsky.social
🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸♿⧖ 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
Maybe; it's partly about making it not look terrible as well. But that's helpful, thank you cariad
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I always do 😘
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
You really are so fucking sexy
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Me? 🥺👉🏼👈🏼
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Exactly what I was thinking
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I *really really want* to see a period-piece Bond movie faithful to the book "Moonraker"! It's got it all: a secret British ICBM program, a stolen nuke, rocket scientists who are a Nazi werewolf team planning to flatten London and win the war a decade after VE day ...
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I really need to work out how to do something similar here without the space and without access to the cistern of our toilet.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And about the only benefit to being all fluey today is that I just devoured Apprehension by @maryrobinettekowal.com, the other half of the Saga Double, and it is also a delight. Neither messy nor queer but a gripping action thriller with a great elder protag.

I need these as a film double-bill.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Always remember that the man behind Newsnight, who moved to C4 and was responsible for the penis-chanting 'Genderquake' there, was married to the CEO of Mumsnet.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If you want to read more about how BBC Newsnight actively worked as agents of anti-trans propaganda - platforming misinformation and working as a lobby platform to influence anti-trans policies - you can read more from the excellent @simonwhitten.bsky.social here:

👉 archive.is/Z8deW
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Of course NONE of this was ever reported in the UK mainstream news media - which has become even more trans-hostile since these articles were published.

The only publications reporting on this scandal are LGBT media or international platforms - Not read by politicians, judges, or policy makers!
Researchers behind ‘controversial’ puberty blockers study slammed by BBC’s Newsnight cleared of any wrongdoing
Researchers looking at the effects of puberty blockers on trans children have been cleared of any wrongdoing, following Newsnight claims.
www.thepinknews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The net effect... BBC Newsnight, BBC News and BMJ pieces echoed each other.

Lobbyists, trans-hostile news outlets and 'gender critical' transphobes pointed to this “body of evidence” to push policy shifts and close down essential NHS services.

It was like money laundering, but for transphobia!
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Barnes and Cohen responded to the HRA report with an article on the BBC website - not by acknowledging their alarmism had been misplaced, but by insisting, with a link to a comment by a 'GC' transphobe in the manufactured BMJ comments section - that many had raised similar concerns.

💯 propaganda!
Questions remain over puberty-blockers, as review clears study
But questions remain over the use of puberty blockers, say Newsnight's Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The ultimate twist is that 'gender critical' activist-journalists, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes, reported the study to the HRA themselves!

The HRA was required to open an investigation because they’d received a report... which gave the Newsnight duo the shocking headline they desired.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM