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Jenn de Jeune

@jennay.bsky.social

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Mid-life IT Nerd, into intelligent debate Trans existence & rights🏳️‍⚧️she/her Enjoys🚴🏼🎬📖🎶🐈🥂🍴🍷Tigers Rugby🏉 Wülferhampton✊ Profile background: Simon’s Cat ⛔️ No DM’s unless agreed ⛔️ ⛔️ Don’t add me for numbers, you risk being blocked ⛔️

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 5d

So you may be catching whiffs of people being unhappy about Bsky & in particular the direction the management / moderation of it may be heading.
Mods seem to be reflecting their own views / values & people are exercised because they thought they left all that behind on Xitter…

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 6d

I was Bluesky user #308, and have been a major booster of this platform since the beginning, but I'm starting to think that the skeptics were right.

It isn't too late to fix things, but I'm doubtful the team will take this excellent advice from @brunodias.bsky.social to heart:

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 8h

He can bore us senseless with food facts about eggs, UK eggs vs US eggs that have to be washed etc

Food Stannards init…

Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 10h

It’s the ‘just saying’ argument, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t be allowed to exist, why do you have a problem with that ?

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15h

He's just looking to see if you've ordered your HappyToast 2026 British TV Comedy Calendar yet.
www.lulu.com/shop/happy-t...

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 16h

Arif Ahmed (OfS) oversees freedom of speech at Universities with a £585K fine against University of Sussex for supporting Trans people (which is being challenged).
Arif ‘You should expect to face views you might find shocking or offensive’
It seems some characteristics are more equal than others…

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told

Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

www.bbc.com

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 17h

Interesting how Ministers think minorities with a protected characteristic should be protected & from what.
It’s unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus.
Yet this doesn’t apply to Trans students & Gender Critical people who attack their right to exist 🤔

Phillipson: Universities must tackle antisemitism
Bridget Phillipson says it's unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 17h

Full Fat Serving ?

Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 17h

If Dorries gets all worked up thinking Trump engages in anything even vaguely approximating to diplomacy, then she’s even more delusional than I thought…

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 18h

Some of us are scared, just like Antoninus was…

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 18h

Life…

Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 18h

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 18h

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 20h

The Coffee flows…

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 21h

But not before I get to wish you happy Monday’s eve for being a non-retired git !

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AdamBurnel @sirangus.bsky.social · 26d

Was NOT happy with that last post.
(There may have been wine)
Think this version is better….

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 21h

No, it’s not worth the risk for something you barely taste.
It’s just pretentious twattery, just ask Michael Winner.

On 1 Jan 2007, Winner acquired the bacterial infection Vibrio vulnificus from eating an oyster in Barbados.
He almost had a leg amputated & was on the brink of death several times.

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 21h

I grind every day without fail, I weigh them first to get just the right amount, then pop them in the hopper & grind them direct into the head (careful it’s hot).
Then tamp them hard with a preset before I slap the head in the machine for extraction.

An image of a burr coffee grinder machine, the main body is black oblong with a see through hopper above it.

The Mignon Specialta BL is a superb espresso grinder, with it's quiet grinding and touchscreen controls. The micrometric grind adjustment knob is one of the easiest ways to make very fine changes to grind size that we've experienced, as well.
The Mignon Specialta is a superb espresso grinder, with its quiet grinding and touchscreen controls.
Height: 345 mm
Width: 120 mm
Depth: 140 mm
Motor Traction: Direct Drive
Rpm: 1350
Power absorbed: 310 watt
Feeding: 220-240v
Digital display with 2 timer functions and continuous grind
Burrs: 55mm hardened steel flat burrs

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

A day in the life, freely reinterpreted ✊

Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

A happy hunting ground…

Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

Are you canvassing for votes ?

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

Wes Streeting complained that “women” (by which he means “transphobes”) are being silenced.

Funny how one of those “silenced women” gets an op-ed in national mainstream media while we get nothing.

6500 anti-trans articles in UK mainstream media in 2023 shows who is being silenced and who is not.

Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 1d

Literal anti-LGBT blackshirts marching in Soho today

Bindel:

Headline:
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 21 YEARS I'M TRULY AFRAID OF WHAT THE TRANS ACTIVISTS WILL DO NEXT (Julie Bindel)

✍️ 'The police must stop enabling protesters and take action to protect women from violent threats' | Writes Julie Bindel

Read the column ⬇️
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/10/afraid-what-trans-activists-will-do-next/

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

Yessssssssssss 🤣

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

No, don’t tell me…

Is this the Wizard of Oz ?

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like egg whites, a strange American concoction…🙄

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’ve got one of them !

Its the well & the mule that gave it away 😉

The spoils port has stopped anyone replying…