Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Misspelling ‘choo choo’ in a text to my sister while typing too fast, so now whenever we see a train one of us will loudly announce ‘CHO CHO’. 022
Reposted by Jenflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours. 14777121683
Reposted by JenHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Everything is political. What you buy, how you dress, the way you raise your children, what you read or watch, where you go and how you get there. The fact that sometimes you might be unaware of the political implications of your actions doesn’t mean they aren’t there. 117427
Reposted by JenKenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 15/03/2026If you look back to the various consultations in the late 10s, Scottish Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland & others’ position was “we have no issues being trans inclusive and we’ve never seen any significant incidents as a result”. A wholly manufactured problem with predictable & disastrous results. 14112
Reposted by JenToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...thepinknews.comNHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eightAn eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years. 41302327
Reposted by JenMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.aljazeera.comIsrael used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporateUS-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds. 374126626888
Reposted by JenRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months 18558272073
Reposted by JenUgla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"WE WILL NEVER BE SILENCED" anti-trans campaigners shout, while appearing on the front page of every single newspaper and interviewed on all major news platforms in the country repeatedly for the past 10 years. Pretty sure you have the wrong definition of 'silenced', but okay. 921644
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Bought one (1) children’s toy on Vinted and now the algorithm is screaming “wait, you must have a CHILD? Forgive us for thinking you want anything for yourself, here is baby clothing and nothing else”. 000
Reposted by Jenedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The language our allies need to defend us out there can actually be this elegant all the time, as long as you know what you're saying 🏳️⚧️ 124862
Reposted by JenRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 02/12/2025transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt 229187
Reposted by JenEuan @euan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025the nominees were -a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children -a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault -a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history* (*winner) 9323126
Reposted by JenAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comMore than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent careCouncil data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers 361818914
Reposted by JenIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason. 32730227
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Rich people would rather spend a fuckton of money on something shit than speak to a person who isn’t also rich. 030
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Will I ever hear a 6Music news update that doesn’t mention migrants or small boats ever again, feels infuriatingly unlikely. 000
Reposted by JenGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/10/20251. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵 37542223
Reposted by JenKeith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it. 4222685510165
Reposted by JenNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce... 41114546
Reposted by JenDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority". 4442671795
Reposted by Jenlewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I agree, and appreciate someone qualified backing this up, but also, you don’t even need to be trained in behavioural psychology to know this, this *should* just be common sense, that you can’t just frighten people into being well enough to work, that these stresses will just make them worse 2327
Reposted by JenPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I rant about this a lot but I can’t for the life of me understand why BBC 6 Music News gives a daily update of how many people crossed the channel in small boats yesterday From a news values perspective alone, it makes no sense 1301328224
Reposted by JenJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The fact that they call it DEI when it is EDI in the UK shows you how brainwormed these rightwing fucks are. 81289323
Reposted by JenFiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This is why disabled people and trans people must be in solidarity with each other at all times - transphobia cannot exist without ableism. The idea that you have the right to another person's medical details and that your opinion on their care should carry any weight at all is ableist at its core. 4463198
Reposted by Jendr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 20/05/2025ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures 191233132
Reposted by JenCal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The only European countries with worse gender recognition are Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria. Well done UK, formerly competing for best position for LGBT rights, now way down the bottom. 8218104
Reposted by JenSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response: 4918291020
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Dundee showing up. Trans people have always existed and always will. 040
Reposted by JenTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/04/2025It's still illegal to discriminate against you for being trans, but is legal to discriminate against you for any expression of that transness is a frankly absurd interpretation of the law and it's extremely evident none of these people sincerely think trans people should exist. 513347
Reposted by JenAlli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do 66162826334
Reposted by Jen⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 07/04/2025love and attraction are not just about fucking someone this is a good example of how ignorant ppl should mind their own business. yet jk rowling insists on sticking her nose in. also explains why terfs are so transphobic. they think attraction is about sex and genitals. nothing else is considered. 2431876
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Every time I hear 1 Thing by Amerie on 6Music I think both ‘again?!’ and a-Lucille-Bluth-style ‘good for her’. 000
Reposted by JenCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech 7615125
Reposted by JenRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025!!! No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal is free and going home 382879649
Reposted by JenPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown. 13893976558
Reposted by JenAnna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz · 19/03/2025Five things you might not know about PIP and a thread. 1) PIP is not a ‘benefit’ of disability, it’s welfare support to cover the additional costs of living with chronic illness or disability - medicine, transport, therapy, specialist equipment (and no, not all of these are available on the NHS) 317991
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Someone I used to babysit gets regular 6Music airplay and it makes me feel simultaneously so pleased for them and so ancient. 110
Reposted by JenJames McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025It was always clear that the "legitimate concerns" crowd were, in fact, motivated by bigotry, but recently that's all been brought into ever-sharper relief. Decent people have a duty, at an absolute minimum, to refuse to be silent. 13513
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Here’s Onion, certain that a life-sized painted cut-out of Zac Efron is offering him a treat. 030
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Midnight tonight! Government loves an overwhelming, opaque consultation – don't let them pretend no-one cares! 000
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Partner works in retail for castles and stuff, overheard that there’s been an uptick in purchases of kids’ weapons this year, the revolution is coming. 100
Reposted by JenCreative Dundee @creativedundee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Did you tune in to Dundee Radio Club's inaugural broadcast? They'd love to hear your thoughts on the 48-hour listening festival which beamed out digitally Fri 7-Sun 9 Feb. 📻✨ Share your thoughts: tinyurl.com/22udh2az DDRC is a pilot project supported by our #AmpsDundee Community Ideas Fund.tinyurl.comdundee radio club ~ listening festival feedbackhello! ~ we are dundee radio club and we have just begun our sonic endeavours ~ our 48-hr listening festival beaming out digitally between 7-9 Feb 2025 we had so much fun ~ sharing sounds ~ explorin... 011
Jen @jencollins.bsky.social · 16/02/2025For my last trip I used Airbnb as a search tool and booked offsite. Need to make this the habit. I would love to hear about good alternative directories of places to stay, though; being able to search to fit specific wants/needs is so frustrating on most sites. 040
Reposted by JenNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice. 4251801536