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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 3h

A new study shows what we know: Journalism is failing on trans rights coverage.

70% of stories about Trump’s executive orders affecting trans people didn’t quote trans people.

They’re talking ABOUT trans people not with them.

Story / study here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-bmsg-exe...

Graph that shows that trans people and their representatives were quoted infrequently: 70% of articles did not feature even a single trans person.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back, I hope we can continue to earn your trust

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 4d

this talk is fucking amazing. the stuff of legend. the epitome of having fun with fun stuff and being a fun human. more stuff like this. less stuff like [whatever your fav problematic ai influencer is speaking about at config].

Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 5d

Hey #WDC2025, if you want a talk to watch on the way home, my talk from @heypresents.com was published today!

I make some Daft Punk with a MIDI controller and a web browser.

Hey! Presents @heypresents.com · 5d

Not only that, but we managed to interrupt a movie playing in the screen next door with the volume of the demo. It certainly woke us all up before heading off to the social. It sounded incredible! Watch the talk and find out more here:

heypresents.com/talks/around...

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 2d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know what? You’re okay, Phillipe. If you want to fly to Japan and speak to JR personnel on your honeymoon, you do what makes you happy.

A short excerpt from “If There Were No Shinkansen” by Shuichiro Yamanouchi:

4.11 From Military Researcher to Railway Researcher

Philippe Roumeguère, former vice-president of technology and development for the French National Railway (SNCF) and Director General of the International Railway Union (UIC), once shared his thoughts with me.

Japan's construction of the Shinkansen was quite a stimulus to us. That was one of the casons I chose to go to Japan on my honemoon. During our stay in Japan, l spoke about the Shinkansen with a number of people and read a lot of materials, but my strongest impression was of the leadership provided by Hideo Shima and the Railway Technical Research Institute.”

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, so I heard 🙃

That’s a very cool thing to have done though 🙂

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Is that the Mansun logo, if you don’t mind me asking?

Feel free to decline to reply if you don’t want to, for any reason 🙂

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Recommended! I’ve tried the Scotch and Bourbon one, but my favourite is the Japanese one.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Master of Malt!

www.masterofmalt.com/advent-calen...

www.masterofmalt.com

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

Yep! Just incredible.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 2d

If you find it, I’d also be interested

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2d

"Such numbers do not necessarily translate into electoral success, with Labour having had a peak of more than 500,000 members under Jeremy Corbyn, who lost two general elections."

You don't need to be a Corbyn fan to bristle at that characterisation.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d

This is electoral equivalent of being penny smart and pound foolish.

Marginal seats won’t matter if you can’t even convince your base to vote for you. Indeed, Labour can’t even agree on who its base is anymore.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 3d

I think the McSweeney strategy is the right one, because most marginal seats are Labour-Reform contests

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 3d

on the whole, writing for programmers is a deeply frustrating exercise

they read essays like they're a compiler, stopping at the first word they don't understand and spitting out error messages

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d

It’s absolutely a well-worn path to power for marginalised people in certain fields of work.

Can think of a few others.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d

Huh, pretty much like Margaret Thatcher, and Theresa May as well.

(I won’t deign the other one with a mention, she was so incredibly useless.)

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