Katie Fenn

yes, it's people who have extracted value from ai vs. people who have only seen it extract value from them. i don't think people who have been exploited owe any grace to those evangelizing it to them, which is why i wish enthusiasts would leave the skeptics alone and stop acting like the underdogs

100% correct.

I think it's worth restating again and again because most of my followers aren't trans, and need to know that other examples of competence to make decisions on our own behalf are at urgent risk.

BBC and tbh national news in general in the UK doesn't give a shit if it doesn't happen in the capital

From the glasgow community on Reddit: Corner building with dome now well alight Explore this post and more from the glasgow community

Heartbreaking scenes from Glasgow Central this evening. The famous WH Smith is inside the station on this side. To lose it would be devastating.

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Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Several of these violent men were out with LGB Alliance a few weeks back in Manchester.

Yep. After 16 you’re assumed to be competent.

Yep, after 16 you’re assumed to be competent.

Human beings are worth more than the fucking tech and tools we use.

The idea that anyone will be “left behind” because of their particular skills and experience, and become “irrelevant” is revolting.

“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”

Those words matter now more than ever.

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.

I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

YouTube video by Tom Scott I rode the world's fastest train.

That video’s also been altered to make it appear to be much faster.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still rad as hell!

youtu.be/4ZX9T0kWb4Y

42 billion pounds so far, and it won’t be finished until 2035 at the earliest. Over 150 miles of tunnelling under the Japanese Alps.

This is an absolute must-watch if you want to be brought up to speed on the state of trans rights in the UK.

Ever wondered why two successive governments have promised to ban conversion practices and then reneged on those promises?

This video reveals all.

I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

Thank you for sharing. I go to bed worrying about this so often these days, even though things mostly seem okay in the daytime.

You’ll be great!

Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes:

- Twin brother
- Gestating a child with a Y chromosome
- Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome
- Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

It talked Eddington into joining the Maquis

That and it’s being included in workers’ performance metrics. The sheer amount of money that’s being thrown around is aligning greed across the org chart.

My comment on GCN’s recent videos promoting tourism in Saudi Arabia. It has been upvoted 194 times. It refers to the killing of Turkish journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi state. “You know what Saudi Arabia’s track record with journalists is like, right?”

All going well at GCN at the moment.

They’re actually replying to women in their comments saying that they’ve been told by the Saudi state that restrictions on women wearing cycling gear have been lifted.

Complete fools running their production and PR.

"Sheffield Saturday March 5th" intro screen from the film Threads (1984).

Happy Threads Day 2026 to all who celebrate 🙌 #Sheffield #AlmostThere #ThreadsDay

Ponytail Tom! I *may* have been at a BarCamp with him at around that time.

Even when I’m typing code, I’m using the code to structure my thinking about the requirements and what it’s supposed to *do*.

Why do they always behave like jerks and insult the experience of everyone else? It’s like their best friend has been slighted.

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3mgaqaaisfs2e Why @why.bsky.team Oh interesting, people who don't know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

In my entire 15 year career in software development, “typing syntax into an editor” has never been the primary time sink.

Most of the time was spent on understanding what the software was actually supposed to do and to resolve conflicting requirements.

Joani Reid being a terf, predictably

[average British politics couple, year 2026]
wife: it’s cool how there’s men in all of our female spaces. normal world
husband: do you think the Chinese intelligence officer really likes me or am I just being parasocial

Four carriages between some of England’s biggest cities has been absolutely criminal, to be honest. It really should be at least eight, with minimal short-forming.

I’ll take this W though.

FINALLY