Engineer and technical journalist. Contributing editor and European correspondent, Hackaday. Hackerspaces, Parkour, Trans Rescue. Tall, She/'Er. đłď¸ââ§ď¸ https://ko-fi.com/jennylist
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Making a parkour film is a lot of work, but it's a challenge I would love to attempt some time. Not the parkour in my case as it woyld be very short but the film making. It's unfortunate that people think you have to be a top athlete, where in fact you are telling a story.
A friend of mine made this #parkour video, and I am sad to see that it has caught so little attention. Mare van Huisstede, sit back and enjoy. youtu.be/4nBvJBnXbro
Despite how news outlet may try to portray it, Graham Linehan is in court today for *assaulting a child* The fact they are trans, an activist or anything else is totally irrelevant.
When they inevitably declare Trans Kids Deserve Better to be a terrorist group, I expect this will come back to haunt me.
Indeed
My country's government is openly condoning incitement to violence against people like me. It's time to face up to it, my country is now actively my enemy.
So many people supremely relaxed about inciting people to violence - and strangely none of them with a skin colour or gender or immigration status which makes them routine targets of violent people.
The gov really are just saying calls for violence against certain demographics are okay actually, more than okay, reasonable and maybe even policy ideas
I meant, let someone else elicit the same response and take them dowm. I understand your predicament. When I came out years ago I had a good career, and was subjected to constructive dismissal. I fought it and inflicted damage, but it scarred me and my career never recovered.
Perhaps you could pass their details on to an activist or journalist who does have the cycles, who could take them to task. I could find someone who could do that if you are interested.
Local trans night in a gay bar, came along with a friend. A little fabulous for me, but low light and loud dance music make for a great ADHD working environment.
My last hope for Your Party goes up in smoke as Zarah Sultana âwelcomesâ Mark Serwotka. His wife founded a Womanâs Place UK, a TERF group constantly trying to rollback trans peopleâs freedoms and he even wrote this lovely piece calling for ârespectful discussionâ about our rights: archive.ph/iPb0L
And sadly I don't count the Lib Dems there, they may not be openly terf but they have ahied away from the issue.
At last, the UK has a party that's against transpbobia.
Can you imagine the coverage, had a well known trans activist turned up at a terf event with a friend carrying a knife, who started threatening people? Wall to wall. Yet Kellie-Jay turns up with a knife-wielding supporter who threatens trans kids. Crickets. That's instititional capture for you.
Many of my underpants are holy.
Towards Xmas the CAA/DfT/Home Office will likely try & push a story to BBC News & others about how Remote ID will stop another Gatwick (despite the fact they know there was no Gatwick drone). The US has the same system & it's next to useless in practice... youtu.be/0en9nMC-FzE?...
Ok, so Your Party are falling prey to a gender critical hate group. They had their chance, and they blew it.
We have been put through the wringer over the last few days, trying and failing to get a friends with severe mental health problems to seek help.
Odds on a meeting happening right now at the EHRC to decide if a trans person committing murder in the US is a good day to hit the UK with the toilet ban? I can practically hear jkr salivating đ
Especially nowadays, it is important as a Brit to be as international as ypu can.
The 80s was about dealing with older people from pre 1960s who hadn't understood the world had moved on, and being told tbat your home computer was a waste of time, among your parents' slightly shabby 1970s and 60s stuff.
80s nostalgia AI slop. Evidently created by people who weren't there, man.
I have to say, I toog great pride in running the tattiest Herald I could with the best possible mechanics and meticulously maintained chassis, just to piss off those people, the kind of people who wear string-backed driving gloves.
Ah that is brilliant!
If you've noticed a few of the trans people you know disappearing from here, they're appearing on Mastodon. It appears being a social media network lile Twitter is becomimg a whole-package affair.
Sadly not, today.
Fwaaah! Is the next sentence.
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Your periodic reminder that small boats in the Channel are there because Boris Johnson's goverment scrapped the Dublin treaty when they did Brexit. They didn't have to, but they did it anyway. Something members of that government are now curiously quiet about. Something something Brexit benefits.
A trans person not revealing that they are trans before sex is not sex by deception. Trans people are not responsible for anyone's internalised transphobia.
I'm on a train this morning, taking pictures of older trains.
Mind you, you did change Marathon to Snickers back in the 70s. That was what started the rot, imho.
Getting incandescent with rage as though the entire fabric of society is crumbling, when a restaurant changes its logo a bit. America, you know the rest of the world laughs at you for this stuff, right?
Mastodon
Hey everyone, @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social tells me her account has been restricted so she can't post or reply. Seems the Dementors got her.
I am having real difficulty getting any focus today. Trying playing with dodgy camera projects to get focus, ain't working.
There are other possibilities.
If you need to talk escape options, it's what I do.
I would be lying if I said it wasn't an influence.
New camera project taking shape. Will become a YouTube video in due course.
Some time soon the EHCR guidamce will land, in other words, the path to a British bathroom bill. I worry that there will be a spate of trans suicides when that happens. Keep an eye on your friends, and watch out for yourselves. Reach out before it happens, don't wish you had afterwards.
She's made the point that it's as much about the pressure on the UK government of the case being under way as it is about verdict day.
I am fascinated, watching the Swedish sport of church racing live on TV.
So completely this. The UK is full of dilapidated hotels that once had a star rating, which are now filthy doss-houses for refugees. But they once had a star rating, hence "four star hotel" etc.
I've just sent an email asking them how they're going to distinguish between trans women and other women & why they've decided that trans women don't need their services. I've pointed out this remains illegal under the Equality Act and I will support any trans woman who wants to take them to court.
This. And this.
Gender Critical is an ideology of hate! Pass it on.
I woyld find a vintage Japanese kei van.
Depends on tge fiat
This is just absolutely incredible. This is like Fred Dibnah wearing a 'protect the chimneys' t-shirt
Part of me would have another 1983 Panda. But it's not the sensible part.
Oddly the original square boxyPanda from the 80s would fit the bill. I had one, back in the day. Simultaneously the best and worst car I have ever owned. Worst, because unimaginably bad build quality. Best, because small Italian car. Like a go-kart, you hooned around in a hail of revs.
I am eyeing up cars. The FIAT Panda is a sensible choice and is a small Italian car so will still be bucket loads of fun. But I can't help wanting the weird, the wonderful, and the different.
All my life, I have been told that the Holocaust is a warning ftom history. Here in 2025, we are watching fascism unfolding again. And for some unfathomable reason people seem unwilling to take that warning seriously.
The original Raspberry Pi might feel like ancient history at this point, but Jenny's still using one in 2025... hackaday.com/2025/04/14/j...
This platform is getting some people concsrned.
We've all abandoned a microblogging social media network en masse once before, and it was easy. We can do it again. Just in case anyone is listening, y'know.
The 8 rules haven't. As I said, evaluate each one.
No expert will give advice, because it's not a black and white issue. Look at the 8 criteria test, and come to your own conclusions at the moment you evaluate. Have those arguments watertight. Sadly I don't think we're at that point yet. transrescue.org/asylum-for-t...
I also need to pick up a remote shutter release, that handle is detachable for tripod use.
In other camera fun & games, a friend gave me this beautiful Double 8 camera. I have to figure out a little power supply to take the place of its mercury battery, but I see at least one roll of double 8 in my future.
I am building a camera for my next YouTube video. Now waiting on an AliExpress order.
We have to keep the receipts.
This
Generally these people don't think in terms of consequences.
I am in the odd position after five years without one, of needing to buy a car.
Someone's *so* gonna have "paying reparations" in their future. "https://goodlawproject.org/what-have-i-done-wrong-trans-kids-go-back-to-school-bathroom-bans-in-scotland/
I would agree, sadly. I never expected the jackboot to wear a Labour flag.
I think what's happening in Washington DC right now needs tp be the wake-up call. Please, if you're trans and American, get out if you at all can.
For your information. Daylight balanced super8 film by Kodak have no filter notch so you should be safe when it comes to the correct use.
The Mail have a fondness for undercover reporting. If they employed someone to pose as an asylum seeker and clain asylum, their story would contradict this list in almost all ways. Which is why they will never do that.
I spend a lot of my time as part of the running of a refugee non-profit. This list is highly distorted rubbish. The UK is one of the worst places in Europe to be an asylum seeker. It constantly amazes us that people go to such great lengths to become one, from countries with far better systems.
Your daily reminder that if youâre talking freely on the radio, being widely quoted in newspapers and properly interviewed in magazines, youâre not actually being at all cancelled.
(It's usually Americans, btw)
If I'm honest I think my country is unfixable, and its people would be best served by the devolving of its constituent parts. But that's for us to worry about, not you.
God knows there are enough Brits with a paternalistic idea of Empire still floating about, after all past greatness is used to deflect from current failings, but you certainly aren't going to fix that in that way.
If your mission is to annoy, you have succeeded, but if it's to somehow make a point about the colonial legacy, you're not going to succeed in anything else but making the person you ate directing it at think you're a dick.
There comes a point though, when delivering unsolicited lectures and making all your interaction with the Brit who has wandered into your life about it, simply means you are being a dick.
Sadly, like all countries almost certainly including yours except perhaps if you are German, there's a lot of embarassing history which isn't taught in UK schools. This is wrong, like everyone else we have to face up to past injustices even if we ourselves are not responsible.
I and many other Brits are only too aware of our country's colonial legacy. It's something whose aftermath I deal with a lot through one of my endeavours.
I met one of those people a few days ago who decides to bang on about the injustices of the British Empire every time they meet a Brit. It's something on which I have thoughts.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
Whereas the reality is that there are legions of trans journalists who can not get any work because nobody will employ a trans journalist.
I was once approached by a ceaft-baeed imprint who offered me an advance of ÂŁ1500 for a 100pp book. I had to pay for editing and photography myself. But once they sold 20K copies, I would start getting 10% royalty! No.
Being a Brit, I am watching my own country take the same path. In some ways we are behind America, in others such as an impending nationwide bathroom ban, we are ahead. We get people angry at us because they think we don't understand the challenges, when in fact we wrestle with them every day.
It might seem odd expecting Americans to listen to a Brit on this subject. It's my work with Trans Rescue that informs it. Ameroca is on a dark trajectory that is mirroring the 1930s point for point. It's not a case of waiting for someone to call it, because by then, it will be too late.
I was talking to a friend last night, about how German Jews who got out and survived did so early. Looking at Trump's America, I am thinking about that a lot. Trump's America is not the one you grew up in. All the protections, checks, and balances, are gone. Be the person who got out early.
Dear Politician, You cannot show trans people âdignity and respectâ while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise. Just saying.
It's tempting to say that Britain is broken, but the sad truth is that it isn't, in the context of how it is run. My country has always been run by its ruling class, for their benefit alone. In that context it's doing fine. The rest of us don't matter.
Time to assemble a manual describing ways to block a toilet. Not all direct activism is on the streets.
Labour's trans toilet ban will fall apart when cis women who don't look like tradwives get routinely hassled for using the loo. After all, They Can Always Tell.
Bullying a tall woman is not the flex TERFs think it is.
I'm so worn out by this news cycle
Decided I need GB News in my trend analysis tool. Feel I now need to wash my hands.
This is very true. A personal annpyance is seeing 5% hipster beers described as "session".
(Looks... it's still 5% in NL. The UK version is probably brewed in Burton rather than Enschede.) I had some of their bock in Tkkrlab once. Rather nice.
Also, whatever you may call him, he is not a fool, and he knows that on the doorsteps the ordinary voter couldn't give a toss abput trans women. The other parties diving down this rabbit hole is how he will get his fascist government elected, and he knows it.
I am fascinated by the terfs calling Farage woke for not being concerned about trans women in jail. It says so much about how out of touch with reality they have become, that Farage of all people becomes the most sensible person in the room because he's recruited a prisons expert.
Well, yes.