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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 08/10/2026

Sadly, Team UK won't be progressing to the Quarter Finals of the European Team Carcassonne Online Championship 2026 as we finish 3rd in our group. I am, however, pleased with my contributions; being picked for three matches and securing two 2-0 victories, including over a Master rated player.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/09/2026

If you'll indulge a personal post and some shameless celebrating... Very happy to have secured my first significant international Carcassonne trophy by taking 2nd place at the World Cup of Carcassonne Central 2026. Had an amazing run knocking out two Master rated players on route to the final...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/09/2026

Went clapper bridge spotting in Malham yesterday and had a very lovely time of it. It's easily one of my favourite historic bridge types, with the (I think 17th C.) example in front of Malham Cove being a truly delightful example of the genre

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 11/09/2026

Stumbled upon a holloway with a probable stone flagged path (maybe Cart track?) whilst on a lunchtime walk and was amazed to discover it isn't on the HER despite how clear the remains are! (I have emailed the relevant peope). It's things like this that I really love about archaeology.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 07/09/2026

I have been informed that every Plaid Cymru Sennedd member is meeting tomorrow to discuss their next steps regarding the pause to gender affirming surgeries in Wales. So, If you havent already contacted your local Plaid MS do so now. Also, In case you havent seen Plaid Cymru's letter to the NWJCC 👇

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/09/2026

I hate generative AI. All of it hurts my soul. But nothing breaks my heart more than seeing AI slop about the Lord of the Rings and the rest of Tolkien's works. Not only is it almost exclusively wrong, but its existence is an insult to Tolkien and the stories of Middle Earth. I weep.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/08/2026

Unfortunately I couldnt secure funding for having this article open access, however if you dont have institutional access to the article then (while live) you can click this link to access a free eprint copy. And failing that, this excerpt sums it up I think... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RTJM3...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/08/2026

I'm proud to say my article on running an explicitly trans inclusive community excavation has been published. I'm sure nobody will be surprised to hear that being trans inclusive in archaeology is actually extremely easy and simple. Read more below 👇 url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 12/08/2026

Won some serious cool points with my eldest by winning a solo Battle Royale on Fortnite on only my second ever game - and followed it up by winning a team match with him and my partner after 😎 (I still do not really know how to play this game, but he said he respects me as a gamer now 😅)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 06/08/2026

I see Kathleen Stock is being as normal as ever... (See also 'First they came for Trans People' etc...)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/07/2026

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/07/2026

How the 2026 Clacton by-election is going to feel as the good Count Binface faces off against exclusively far-right candidates

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/07/2026

Would Count Binface winning in Clacton be the UKs greatest by-election result? Quite possibly yes.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/07/2026

Stopiwch y Cyfrif! Gotta say it'd a sight for sore eyes to see Wales top a table in a Rugby Tournament again! (And even prettier for England being dead last...)

A table for the Northern Hemisphere in the Nations Championship with Wales on top and Enhland last

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 02/07/2026

Okay so this combination on Netflix made me laugh more than I should... 😅

A picture of Netflix with the film "Tall Girl" next to the Film "Little Women"

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 21/05/2026

Once again the Good Queers of York are mutinying the capitalist and corporate York Pride with a Queer Mutiny on the Little Knavesmire! The Mutiny was an incredible success last year, so if you want to enjoy genuine Pride for what it should be then make sure you come along this year!

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/05/2026

Okay, hear me out. What if the BBC made Mackenzie Crook the new show runner for Doctor Who? I'd watch the fuck out of that.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/05/2026

Remember that Wes Streeting's majority is only 528 votes. Hardly secure. Regardless of what political manoeuvres this neo-liberal bigot pulls between now and the next election, it's imperative that he loses his seat at all costs.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 12/05/2026

Following his election today as First Minister of Wales, I have written to Rhun ap Iorwerth to urge him to prioritise his manifesto commitments to trans equality as a matter of priority for the first 100 days of this @plaidcymru.bsky.social government 👇 I encourage everyone else to do so too.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 10/05/2026

Plaid Cymru's minority government plan is genuis. Unless Labour decide to vote with Reform, everything on the Plaid manifesto can get through the Senedd. Labour have two choices, support progressive policies or destroy themselves even further by voting with Reform.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/05/2026

Privileged to be talking at the KSA 2026 Conference about the Suontaka individual and KS identity in the archaeological record. As an endosexual individual myself, however, I recognise that as an outsider it's my duty to listen to the KS community here today and work their voice into my project.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/05/2026

Hang it in the Louvre 📸 If a picture says a thousand words, then this image from Caerdydd Penarth yesterday is a Magnus Opus on what happens when Labour abandons the left. Hope has spoken, and it is winning. @greenparty.org.uk

A photograph of a Labour politician looking soul crushed and a Green politician looming extactic

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 08/05/2026

I know the constituency is much much bigger than just Bangor, but I'm one proud as fuck former Mayor of Bangor this afternoon! Get wrecked Reform 🖕

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 24/04/2026

I've been unwinding after work by playing some of the Original Baldur's Gate. If you've played this game before (or are familiar with its lore), you'll appreciate how funny this statistic is on Jaheira in my current save...

Image of a stat screen in Baldur's Gate for the character of Jaheira. It shows that she has killed Khalid

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/04/2026

In some personal news, I'm pleased to say I'll once again be flying the Welsh flag on the international Carcassonne stage. I've been selected for Team UK in the upcoming 2026 World Team Online Championship for Carcassonne.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 31/03/2026

I got an article back recently with minor revisions, and I've spent today finalizing my edits and response to the reviewers... Very satisfying to hit submit on the revised version and send it on its way! Hopefully, it won't be (too) long until it gets published!

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/03/2026

Trans people are at risk because the UK have banned trans youth healthcare, and adult HRT pathways are unfit for purpose. If you want to stop DIY HRT or 'black market trans hormones' then lift the fucking ban and make all types of HRT free and accessible through NHS GPs. It's not rocket science.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/03/2026

In 2013/2014 the UK was Europe's trend setter in Transgender Equality. In 2025, after years of decline, it ranked 22nd with a score of only 45.65% on ILGA Europe's metrics. We cannot accept this continued decline, we must fight it in every way we can - from the ballot box and beyond.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/02/2026

Big up the Greens 💚 What a Result 💪 I expect we will see a lot more of this in elections to come.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/02/2026

🚨 Please Share If anybody has any material culture related to protesting the Cass Review specifically, and would like to share pictures of them with me, then please send me images here or via owen.hurcum@york.ac.uk. I have an idea to do a little write-up about them from the pov of an archaeologist

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/02/2026

Pleased to announce that I will be talking at the Queer Intersections Oxford Research & Refreshment event on Friday the 20th February, alongside two wonderful researchers, on the Sackville Gardens excavation. If you are down that way and fancy attending, its free! See you there!

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/02/2026

Sorting out my ppt for my public talk at the University of Leicester School of Heritage and Culture's Wednesday Seminar Series on the 11th of this month at 16:30. If you'd like to attend either in person or online, then you can email the organisers for all the info: shac-wedseminar@leicester.ac.uk

Photograph of a PowerPoint Title slide. The title reads "From 'mannish houswives' and 'Honorary males' to 'non-binary' and 'intersex' - A Tumultuous Tales of Terms in Gender Archaeology" and is accompanied by a meme of three spidermen pointing at eachother each labeled with a different term from 1990s Gender Archaeology

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 03/02/2026

For all my love of the Lord of the Rings, I haven't actually read The Silmarillion until now... On a related note, this is now officially an anti-Fëanor account! Remember, if a selfish Noldor Prince breaks his ban and preaches from the summit of Túna about self indulgant revenge; just say "No!"

A drawing of Fëanor brandishing his sword with a large red X across it

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/01/2026

Thanks to what I learned through trial and error modding .dds image files in Rome Total War as a child, I've now managed to teach myself how to use Inkscape to digitise trench plans and sections as vector files... 🤣 (only made possible by my supervisors' excellent on-site plans of course!) 😅

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A Liquid Gold Poppers Bottle. This is one of the most contemporary finds from the site, but had managed to bury itself quite forcefully into a clay top soil in Trench 2.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A 1999 Walkers Crips promotional Donald Duck Quibix Jigsaw peice. Found in its original plastic wrapping.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A SR Gibbs Toothpaste tube. Despite extensive searches I could not find a specific date for this one, but contextually it dates from between the mid-1970s to the early 1980s

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A Coca-Cola can. This example is without a barcode and therefore dates from before 1978.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) travel card wallet. This bears the original 'double m' logo introduced in 1974.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A Princess Diana and Prince Charles royal wedding commemorative ale bottle cap dated from 1981.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 A Penguin Wrapper. Sadly the Best Before Date had rubbed off. Extensive image searches only returned one near identical example (same design but in red) which the poster claimed was from the early 1980s.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

📸 Three Frozen Pop wrappers. The left most is a 'Frozzy Freeze Pops' and dates from 1972-1978. The others are Tip Top Twin Pops and date from before 1983.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/01/2026

Writing up my Excavation Report for the recent community excavation in Sackville Gardens has given me the chance to handle our finds again, so I thought I'd share a few of my favourite contemporary (1970-present) finds from the site... 📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper. 1/9

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 21/01/2026

Despite putting in both the patent number and registered design number I've been unable to to date this Express Dairies Orange Crush plastic carton. So I was wondering, on the off chance, if anyone here might be able to help me date it? Based on it's archaeological context it should be 1970s/80s...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/01/2026

Excited to say I will be giving a public presentation on my research as part of the University of Leicester's School of Heritage and Culture Wednesday Seminar Series. This will be on the 11th of February at 16:30 and is fully open to the public both in person and online.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/01/2026

I have a complicated relationship to Plaid Cymru, indeed in the run up to the last Senedd Election I was even a candidate for them before I resigned due to the party's institutional transphobia. Since then, however, Plaid have returned to the left and if this result came true I would be overjoyed...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 11/01/2026

Just moved house and unpacked my Board Games. Perhaps I have too much Carcassonne... then again, when I get a second Kallax, I'll have room for more 😅

A pile of 25 Carcassonne boxes. There are each a different type or different language publication

A picture showing a shelf filled with small Carcassonne items

A shelving unit with 47 non-Carcassonne games filling it

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 06/01/2026

I found a teddy I had growing up in my parents loft today. The really special thing about this teddy, however, was that when I was 11 or 12 and deep in the closet, I wrote a gay fantasy about a classmate of mine. I ended up tearing it up in shame and denial and hidding the scraps in this teddy...

Image of a dirty old teddy bear, in the form of a snow tiger, on a table. Next to it are scraps of ripped paper with handwritten text on them. They cannot be read.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 25/12/2025

Happy Fellowship leaving Rivendell in 3018 of the Third Age Day for all who celebrate it!

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