Notices by Jenny List (jennylist@mastodon.social)

Right. A ftiend of mine is trying to find a junior developer role in an EU country for a 19yo trans woman with an EU passport who has to escape abusive parents. She's at the "Writes her own operating system" level, so not your average 19yo.

Anyone hiring? Links to job specs or adverts appreciated.

Main side gig has just cratered. No worries, no hard feelings, is wot it is.

So I am looking for side gigs to keep the wolf from the door. Ideally ongoing ones, I need security.

So. High-end English language technical writer/editor/documenter seeks gainful part time work.

Here's a language question for any Czech friends I may have. In English, is it better to refer to your country as Czechia or the Czech Republic?

... or ask any Brit over 50 about the IRA.

Don't get me wrong, German hackerspace adjacent activists can be grade-a fuckwits. But if you think they are terrorists, ask your grandparents about the Red Army Faction.

I had someone tell me that Antifa were terrorists last night, in a European hackerspace. Because demonstrations can be violent.

Dunno who needs to hear this, but I grew up through the Troubles. I know what *real* terrorism is. It's not violent protests, by any means, even if they are unpleasant and you don't like them.

The inflation of that word to mean anything you don't like has to stop. Just hope and pray that you don't end up in a place that has real terrorism. You really don't want that.

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

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

If you are a British trans person, join a trade union. If they come for you in the workplace, you will need a big stick.

When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.

@aral

Something tells me this will be used to chatge black people more and keep them out of the stores.

I would like to try #Pixelfed.

But the pixelfed dot social server requires you not to post about anything illegal in the USA. So I can't.

Why? I'm a trans person. Trump has made it clear he's going to "put an end to trans ideology", which is likely to mean "Being trans on the Internet" becomes de facto illegal in the USA as the excuses to prosecute become very broad.

I'd try it if it had a European server. But right now it's problematic without one. Anyone know of an EU pixelfed server?

This has taken off, so i'd like to mention something else I am involved in. Trans Rescue is a small non-profit, we get trans people out of dodgy places worldwide. Currently that means helping American trans people leave the USA to escape Trump. Please help us if you can. https://transrescue.org/donations/bis-donation-form

There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.

If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217

This post appears to be taking off.

Please give your support to Trans Rescue, https://transrescue.org , and @trans_rescue here.

Ok, a bit of good news from this year.

Dora Richter was one of the first trans women to receive gender reassignment surgery, in Berlin.

She was for years believed to have died in the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the world's first gender clinic, because she disappeared afterwards

This year it was found that she got away from Berlin to her home village in what is now Czechia, survived the war and forced relocation to Germany, and died an old lady in the sixties.

We're used to billionaire tech company owners being dicks, because that's the way a load of them seem to roll. Not much we can do about that, except leave their platforms.

We shouldn't become used to the originators of open source software projects being dicks though. We can and should have a robust mechanism for sidelining them.

Can anyone identify this connector?

A @trans_rescue passenger made this for me, I have it hanging above my bench and I think it's really cool. They seemed surprised when we said "That's awesome, you could make those and sell them!". Would any of you buy a crochet resistor keychain from them if you could?

Getting angry on social media about the far right Israeli government's genocidal erasure of Gaza and its people feels so damn futile.

My country's government is happily selling them the weapons, making them complicit in the war crimes.

It may be futile to say this here, but not in my name.

I started with the idea of a review of the trans campaigns, but soon found something else entirely. I saw an anomaly, something that shouldn’t have been there. An otherwise promising trans candidate sank without trace, their campaign much smaller than it should have been.

There was still some hope for trans people in the campaign, as across the country there were a variety of strong candidates from our community. A few brave independent candidates took to the hustings, as well as those for Labour, the Greens, and the Liberal Democrats.