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Halimah

@halimahexe.bsky.social
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they/them • apprentice software developer • freelance proofreader & copy-editor

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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I worked on this map!
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Thank you to every Member of Parliament who has signed EDM 240, we are now at 106 signatories against the EHRC code ❤️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Over 100 MPs call to scrap 'dangerous' EHRC code that segregates trans people
Over 100 MPs across parties including Labour have called for the updated Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) code to be disapproved as it would "exclude trans people"
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Soad is struggling every day and her son Omar's not getting enough to eat. Can you help with a small donation? xx
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 05/06/2026
I think Mumsnet should be blocked in the UK for radicalising and grooming parents into being transphobes.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Can you help Suad and her son Omar? He really needs nutritional suplements - as well as all the normal basics of life.
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Use our tool to email your MP and ask them to support motion EDM 240 and reject the EHRC’s harmful Code of Practice: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode Sending an email only takes a few minutes. Once you've done it, please ask 3 friends to do the same.
Text which reads "Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240" above the Scottish Trans, TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance logos
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
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Alera @starlit-siren.at.madoka.systems · 31/05/2026
I'm not saying we should abandon electrical technology, it's very good. But I will say I think we should return to mechanical means for many things. You do not need an app for your door lock. You do not need a smart fridge. You do not need a coffee machine with a camera. Bring back the mechanical.
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
thebaffler.com/odds-and-end... I found this really thought-provoking and it forced me to consider my own attitude to reading and dis/comfort with moral ambiguity.
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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Really great to have our cool spaces map featured on the BBC (apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/) and a shout out for London's water fountains (apps.london.gov.uk/water-founta...). Both built by @halimahexe.bsky.social using our London City Data Design System (LCD-DS) and #svelte component library!
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I can only imagine the emotional overload of living through this. If you can help Jamal a bit today, he has a fundraiser here: chuffed.org/project/1781...
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Help Jamal's family leave a war zone and rebuild their life!
Hello! My name is Jessica, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and rebuild their lives.
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I really despise that stadiums have started enforcing app downloads to access tickets, which inevitably includes forced sign up (including unnecessary collection of personal data). Even if it's supposed to protect from scalpers, it feels like a shameless data grab.
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm still looking for a new job and I've updated my portfolio with more details about my career history and additional projects I've worked on! I'd be grateful if you could check it out and share: halimahexe.vercel.app
halimahexe.vercel.app
Halimah Manan
Portfolio website for Halimah Manan
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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
One of our most visited apps (in the summer 😎) is the "Cool Spaces" map 🧊, which helps Londoners find shelter from the extreme heat 🥵. @halimahexe.bsky.social migrated this from a very old codebase to a slick new #svelte app 🥳 : apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/ 👉 Hire Halimah!! 👈
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Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 29/03/2026
MORE OF THIS 👇🏻 New York City’s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm’s government contract
theguardian.com
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Please share Soad's appeal - bluesky, in their infinite wisdom, have closed her account again. FFS!
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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Another great project built by @halimahexe.bsky.social. The Mayor's Community Weekend Map, is a searchable map of all the events happening across London over a weekend in September 2025! Built with #Svelte #DeckGL and our #LDNVizTools components. apps.london.gov.uk/community-we... 👉 Hire Halimah
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Mayor's Community Weekend
This map shows events taking place on the Mayor's Community Weekend.
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm on the hunt for a new job - please think of me if you have any software dev roles going. (And check out my very WIP portfolio: halimahexe.vercel.app)
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Please give Soad and omar a little something for christmas, and help them keep hope alive x
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm looking into GDPR for my apprenticeship project and I found that Lawful Processing means giving users a real choice of whether or not to share their data. In which case, the advent of websites charging for the privilege of not sharing user data is surely not compliant with GDPR?
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I pair programmed this project!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/06/2025
If you’re out and about in today’s hot weather, our cool spaces map shows you where you can take respite from the heat, cool down and find any nearby water fountains: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/03/2025
Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
80 euro for a breakfast. 80 euro! It's unimaginable (but reality for so many families). 💔
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I wish I could repost this a bunch of times for emphasis. The way society is ignoring long covid - and government is defunding support for long covid - is maddening. And then they ask "why are more ppl on disability benefits"? I WONDER COULD IT BE THE MASS DISABLING PANDEMIC?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Can anyone help out rebuild this business? They don't need loads, so please help if you can, or share.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🍉🍉🍉🍉💗💗💗💗💗
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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Friends, please boost share and donate to Linka’s wheelchair fund if you can. The amount needed has tripled, which means we need youse to help get this out of our little circles to people who will help Linka get a wheelchair to leave the house independently for the first time in five years.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Why do people in public toilets use water to wash their hands but no soap? What's the point? Why must I witness this depravity? 😭
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/12/2024
NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 16/12/2024
The #W3C ARIA in HTML specification has been updated: www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/ These are the authoring rules for using #ARIA when #HTML is the host language.
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ARIA in HTML
This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 ...
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Can you help Aya and her family? 🍉💔
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Halimah @halimahexe.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Attending a tech conference for the first time! Looking forward to meeting new people and the talks #ffconf
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