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

... where I sadly lost to the Spanish Master who plays online under the handle valle13. A most worthy opponent and deserved winner of the tournament. Just have to wait for the trophy and commemorative tile to be shipped from France now as it was an international and online competition!

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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 · 24/09/2026

... artist in the future for something else! (Which will likely be for making the art for Board Game prototypes I have in my head ahead of showing them to publishers which is something I've told myself I want to do after submitting my PhD)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 24/09/2026

Thank you to all the human artists who interacted with this! I've found an artist I like and whose art style is congruent to the classic Baldur's Gate One Character Portraits (for I'll be using the art for my PC for a BG1-BG2 playthrough). I've noted all the others down for if I should need an...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

Indeed, yes! My email is still the same from when we were talking before my stressed induced MIA 😅

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

I was never worried about finding a suitable artist, but I wrongly assume asking here would avoid facing AI... How wrong was I

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

Well that's depressing. Asked for recommendations for fantasy artists I could commission and mostly got a bunch of AI accounts replying with links to their slop... So I'll try again. Does anyone have any recommendations for real human, anti-AI, artists for DnD style fantasy art?

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

No problem. All being well the publication about the study should be out in 2027 and will be linked on my website along with my other papers on trans rights and archaeology

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

Currently being written down for two different future publications (one presenting a study of about 40 anti-trans archaeology memes, the other summarising this study in a larger argument about archaeology and trans rights). I did however present on this topic at Nordic TAG 2024 and TAG 2024...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

It will never not be strange when I have to academically discuss Wojaks (and often the most offensive examples) in my archaeology... Like yes, here is some detailed gender archaeology, and here is how the internet will use line figures to insult it and attack it, so here's how we we respond.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 18/09/2026

Fascism. That's what's happening. The inevitable endpoint of capitalism

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/09/2026

If Carcassonne is a game you enjoy and you want to follow along with the tournament, you can find full details and commentated livestreams of the event here: carcassonne.gg/etcoc-2026/?... The tournament begins on the 21st of September

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/09/2026

Very pleased to have once again made the UK team for a major international Carcassonne competition; this time the European Team Carcassonne Online Championship 2026. Not sure if I'll get a game as I've asked for a reserve role due to being in my PhD write up - but still pleased to be in the squad

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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 · 12/09/2026

Don't fuck this up, Alex (You won't, you've got this 💪)

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

Maybe? Or perhaps nobody whose spotted it before was aware of the reporting process... I doubt I'm the one to 'discover' the feature

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

(I should also say that image 2 and three are not in the same place lol! I did do a small clear with a stick for a better picture, but the two spots pictured are in different spots. I only realised how much it looks like a before and after picture after posting it aha!)

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

Looking forward to hearing back from WYJS about it and what the next steps might be for dating and identifying it (do a small excavation and let me dig it please... 👀)

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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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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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

... local Plaid Cymru Senedd member ahead of their meeting tomorrow to demand that they use their powers to overturn the ruling.

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

... towards forcing the NWJCC to overtun the pause. Again, I wish it was quicker, but the fact Plaid are working slower than we would like doesn't mean Plaid are betraying their promises to trans people. It just means we have to keep them honest through the process. So again, please contact your...

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

Whilst I wish (and have directly said to several MS's and their staffers) that Mabon would use his role as Health Minister to overturn the decision straight away. The above letter and and private conversations I've had do fill me with hope that Plaid are listening to trans people and are working...

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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

My youngest son is autistic and finds a lot of comfort in small and dark spaces (like being in his toy box or a wardrobe). We took him to visit a small historic cave today, and he was a big fan. Makes think what stories archaeology is missing to do with how neurodivergent people across deep time...

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

So I can only deduce that in this current UK climate these fascists will get nothing* *a sponsorship deal and a podcast maybe

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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 · 04/09/2026

In an unrelated note I managed to typo 'eliminationism' so badly in one of my paragraphs I accidentally talked about trans delamination... Never speed type in anger

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/09/2026

Writing about contemporary trans politics for this PhD is such a mind fuck because I'll write a sentence thinking "damn, that's a pretty well written point if I do say so myself" and the point is one describing how society wants to eradicate us all 🙃

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 03/09/2026

Really wanted to go see Coyote vs. ACME at Cinema's, but there are literally no screenings near me after 17:00 which will make it all but impossible to get to! Unbelievable

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I came to fuck up trans rights, and im all outta rights to fuck up

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/09/2026

Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 01/09/2026

The only resolution acceptable is to have this pause overturned as soon as possible. Anything less is a betrayal of your manifesto pledge to run the Welsh Gender Service in line with international best practice.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 01/09/2026

Also just to put a bit more perspective on this - Up until 2023 Finland was still chemically castrating trans people - Finland now rank almost 70% above the UK on ILGA-Europe's trans rights index. This places the UK in the same sphere as places like Russia and Hungary.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 30/08/2026

Plaid Cymru have the power, and the mandate, to force the the NHS in Wales to reverse its suspension of gender affirming surgeries on the Welsh Gender Service. How they act now is a defining moment for trans people in Wales, as well as for the party. Read More 👇 owenexiehurcum.com/2026/08/30/d...

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Dim Bradwyr Yma? The First Test of Plaid Cymru’s Trans Equality Manifesto

I’m not going to talk here about why the Welsh Gender Service’s decision to suspend gender affirming surgeries and new referrals on the NHS in Wales is fucking bullshit as others have already done …

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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The piece reveals exactly how biased the systems are against trans-related healthcate. Well researched evidence demonstrating real issues, simply ignored. One "GC" journalist blog expressing "concerns", no evidence of any actual harm, shuts down vital aspects of care. That's the scandal right there.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

... by the politicians and the public press. Each day the next method of our extirpation is sewn by anti-trans activists, and the last harvest reaped by the anti-trans government. They will not rest until we are dead. Our lives depend on the cycle of consent being broken. If you are cis, act now.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

There will be no widespread outrage at the prohibition of trans affirming surgeries in Wales beyond the trans community because banning affirming surgeries on the NHS is now the majority opinion (as shown in a 2023 YouGov survey) in the UK. Each day consent for our eradication is manufactured...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

My entire PhD has just been spent re-writing the Research Context chapter of the thesis with each of these. No doubt I'll also have to do what you did after submitting towards the end of this year and defending early next...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

The UK is barrelling towards, if not already in, a trans genocide. Transphobia is a movement that won't stop until we are all dead. And then their same rhetoric and illogic will be pushed onto the next group. Transphobia is the gateway to fascism, and it is making Nazi's left right and centre.

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