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Jenny List

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Engineer and technical journalist. Contributing editor and European correspondent, Hackaday. Hackerspaces, Parkour, Trans Rescue. Tall, She/'Er. 🏳️‍⚧️ https://ko-fi.com/jennylist @[email protected]

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 29d

With Trump crashing the dollar and me on this side of the pond, life is a little precarious and It's come to this.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 7h

If I had five minutes with Keir Starmer, I would ask him if removing trans rights is really the hill he is prepared to die on.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty much what I tell my Dutch friends when they tell me about DigID. They have experience.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

Indeed.

I suspect that despute the response, this one will be repeatedly postponed until it is eventually forgotten.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

DigID is very different to Starmer's proposal. Knowing as I do some peiple who have reason to be familiar with its workings, I have confidence in its resiliance against abuse.

You and I both know how British governments love scope creep.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

Mermaids has a new (cis) CEO.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

Mermaids has a new CEO…

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Mermaids appoints Johanna Hardy as new Chief Executive Officer

Mermaids, a leading charity supporting transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse children and young people, have announced the appointment of Johanna Hardy (she/her) as its new Chief Executive Offic...

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

Please don't stop sharing the ID card petition. The 3 million signatures milestone is within reach.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 17h

Yay, a new bunch of people in my activism field. (Pulls out primer on what's a really stupid idea, what will get your passengers killed, and why advising Americans or Brits to claim asylum is a Really Bad Idea)

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 1d

I guarantee my far right identitarian sister will be among them.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 1d

I do hope that the A level English requirement for immigrants is extended to Welsh, Scots, Gaelic, and Cornish too.

And that we get people immigrating, yn Cymraeg. It will *so* wind up the gammon-faced idiots.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 2d

So wait. The terfs at filia had a brawl?

Day, made.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 2d

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Lewin S. Day @rainbowdefault.bsky.social · 3d

People have a *weird* blind spot around Harry Potter.

I have queer friends that still keep the books and watch the movies.

Just... wild.

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 3d

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck 'em.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 4d

If you need to understand how the American administration now functions as a royal court, i can recommend reading Philippa Gregory's Plantagenet and Tudor historical novel series.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The NationalTrust are putting Russian influence in Parliament, God help us.

Oh, wait, that wasn't the National Trust, that was, um...

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

Is there anything the National Trust won't do, God help us?

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The National Trust has put portraits of Jeremy Corbyn in the tea shop, God help us.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The National Trust is bannimg red braces on Saturdays, God help us

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The National Trust has planted white poppies in the Palm House, God help us.

Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The National Truse has put lesbian whales in the ornamental fountains, God help us.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Aug 8

A reminder: if a trans person existing in a space with you causes you discomfort or anxiety, you should not harass or exclude them. You should speak to a decent therapist instead. Just saying.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

By Brian Blessed if MtF, and by Sue Hodge if FtM no doubt.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 5d

The ID card petition is slowly inching towards 3 million people. Don't let it fade from view, help it get there.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 6d

🧵 1/7 Last night, a trans-led direct action group, Bash Back, damaged windows at the Brighton Centre in response to it hosting the Filia Conference. To be clear: TPB had no involvement in this and doesn’t coordinate with Bash Back. Our organising centres community safety and collective empowerment.

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Jenny List @jennylist.bsky.social · 6d

True