Katie Fenn
@katiefenn.bsky.social
She/her from Sheffield. Talks about tech and trans rights. Former NPM, Monzo, Canonical. Train, car & bike geek for ending car dependence. Greens for HS2 and LGBTIQA+ Greens. Co-organiser Front End North.
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
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Rez (2001)
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Rez (2001)
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Girls don’t want boys, girls want to play Bloodborne at 60 FPS with shorter loading times
(Nonbinary people want a Drakengard remake)
(Nonbinary people want a Drakengard remake)
PlayStation has announced a State of Play for later tonight, so surely we are going to get some Bloodborne news... right?! www.eurogamer.net/playstation-...
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Girls don’t want boys, girls want to play Bloodborne at 60 FPS with shorter loading times
(Nonbinary people want a Drakengard remake)
(Nonbinary people want a Drakengard remake)
Had absolutely no sleep at all. What an absolutely rotten day Monday was, and it’s still going.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Had absolutely no sleep at all. What an absolutely rotten day Monday was, and it’s still going.
There is absolutely no connection between mobile phone use and Brianna Ghey's death. None whatsoever. It's completely inappropriate that her memory is being co-opted for this campaign.
This campaign should stand on its own. Please, stop connecting it to a person murdered by transphobia.
This campaign should stand on its own. Please, stop connecting it to a person murdered by transphobia.
On Brianna's 19th birthday, this morning I joined @cheshirepcc.bsky.social and the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project Phone Free Education campaign at the launch at Jodrell Bank of a new £150k initiative to make Cheshire the first county in the UK where ALL state high schools have lockable phone pouches.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
There is absolutely no connection between mobile phone use and Brianna Ghey's death. None whatsoever. It's completely inappropriate that her memory is being co-opted for this campaign.
This campaign should stand on its own. Please, stop connecting it to a person murdered by transphobia.
This campaign should stand on its own. Please, stop connecting it to a person murdered by transphobia.
Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today is one of those days where, whether or not you have any opinion on what is going on in the news, isn’t the problem.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
Days like today are awful because you know that the trans community who are going to end up picking up the tab. Things are only going to get worse.
I’m so fucking exhausted.
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iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
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It's been great to reflect on what I've learned through building this community and I'm so excited to get everyone together, for one last time. Keep your eyes peeled for when we launch on Wednesday 👀
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It's been great to reflect on what I've learned through building this community and I'm so excited to get everyone together, for one last time. Keep your eyes peeled for when we launch on Wednesday 👀
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This week, we launch the 2026 conference, signalling ten years of All Day Hey! A lot has changed in ten years, and we have a lot to celebrate. We're not holding back on this one.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This week, we launch the 2026 conference, signalling ten years of All Day Hey! A lot has changed in ten years, and we have a lot to celebrate. We're not holding back on this one.
Great, now I’m thinking of the BBC News newsroom as a terf Dwarf Fortress
bigotry festered at the BBC the same way it festers everywhere else; because no one bothered to do anything to stop it.
One person took a shit in the corner and now we're all dealing with the smell as more people shit there and noone thinks its probably time to clean it up.
That's bigotry.
One person took a shit in the corner and now we're all dealing with the smell as more people shit there and noone thinks its probably time to clean it up.
That's bigotry.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Great, now I’m thinking of the BBC News newsroom as a terf Dwarf Fortress
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No, I think it’s much the same as “the Iraq-Gilligan crisis” in the sense that it is vexatious horseshit deployed as an excuse to step on the BBC and intimidate it into obeying a bunch of malicious wankers, and the excuses for doing it are insulting drivel that should be ignored.
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
No, I think it’s much the same as “the Iraq-Gilligan crisis” in the sense that it is vexatious horseshit deployed as an excuse to step on the BBC and intimidate it into obeying a bunch of malicious wankers, and the excuses for doing it are insulting drivel that should be ignored.
suspect that anyone on the progressive side of politics who put any stock in the utterly hollow concept of BBC political neutrality is about to find out how bad it can get.
You should have listened to trans people.
You should have listened to trans people.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
suspect that anyone on the progressive side of politics who put any stock in the utterly hollow concept of BBC political neutrality is about to find out how bad it can get.
You should have listened to trans people.
You should have listened to trans people.
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I'm not a fan of BBC News; since the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003, the corporation has been too cautious about opposing the govt that manages its funding.
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I'm not a fan of BBC News; since the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003, the corporation has been too cautious about opposing the govt that manages its funding.
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded
observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
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"Why aren't you talking about the good stuff Labour is doing such as the railways?"
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Why aren't you talking about the good stuff Labour is doing such as the railways?"
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The side effect (or wanted effect I suppose) of linking menstruation and pregnancy with womanhood is that you’re lumping in children as young as 7 with full grown adults. It’s gross and a betrayal of the promises of feminism, that woman are more than baby making machines.
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The side effect (or wanted effect I suppose) of linking menstruation and pregnancy with womanhood is that you’re lumping in children as young as 7 with full grown adults. It’s gross and a betrayal of the promises of feminism, that woman are more than baby making machines.
Does this open the door for SEEN-style anti-Islam staff networks?
(To be clear, I strongly believe the moral and legal answer ought to be NO)
(To be clear, I strongly believe the moral and legal answer ought to be NO)
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Does this open the door for SEEN-style anti-Islam staff networks?
(To be clear, I strongly believe the moral and legal answer ought to be NO)
(To be clear, I strongly believe the moral and legal answer ought to be NO)
We’ve gone from “where’s your poppy” to “you have too many poppies”.
“Oy, do you ‘ave a licence for that poppy, mate?”
“Oy, do you ‘ave a licence for that poppy, mate?”
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We’ve gone from “where’s your poppy” to “you have too many poppies”.
“Oy, do you ‘ave a licence for that poppy, mate?”
“Oy, do you ‘ave a licence for that poppy, mate?”
Quentin Willson, man. The only man who could go toe-to-toe with Jeremy Clarkson for saying “…in the world”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68
The presenter and campaigner was described by his family as a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Quentin Willson, man. The only man who could go toe-to-toe with Jeremy Clarkson for saying “…in the world”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More austerity from the “change” guy
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
More austerity from the “change” guy
I took an afternoon off to watch Only Yesterday, and was very pleasantly surprised. A beautiful Studio Ghibli slice-of-life film that’s well worth your time if you’ve watched all the hits.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I took an afternoon off to watch Only Yesterday, and was very pleasantly surprised. A beautiful Studio Ghibli slice-of-life film that’s well worth your time if you’ve watched all the hits.
Quote with a 10/10 album
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Quote with a 10/10 album
Every time this happens I get the same feeling of sitting at the back of the classroom, minding my own business, and then the teacher suddenly shouts my name.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugz...
Everything you need to know about the Railways Bill | #Railnatter 281
YouTube video by Gareth Dennis
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Every time this happens I get the same feeling of sitting at the back of the classroom, minding my own business, and then the teacher suddenly shouts my name.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugz...
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The BBC are under fire over "censorship"of right wing views lately but here they censor the language of their own executive complaints unit, replacing the neutral and internationally accepted term "trans identity", with the politically partisan and inherently trans-skeptical term, "trans ideology".
In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".
Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The BBC are under fire over "censorship"of right wing views lately but here they censor the language of their own executive complaints unit, replacing the neutral and internationally accepted term "trans identity", with the politically partisan and inherently trans-skeptical term, "trans ideology".
In the article reporting the BBC ECU’s rebuke of Martine Croxall for changing the wording of a press release, BBC News change the wording of the ECU’s findings report to add the phrase “trans ideology”.
The unrepentant lack of professionalism from BBC News is, sadly, not surprising.
The unrepentant lack of professionalism from BBC News is, sadly, not surprising.
In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".
Martine Croxall broke rules over 'pregnant people' facial expression, BBC says
The BBC newsreader was reading out a news bulletin about research on groups most at risk in UK heatwaves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In the article reporting the BBC ECU’s rebuke of Martine Croxall for changing the wording of a press release, BBC News change the wording of the ECU’s findings report to add the phrase “trans ideology”.
The unrepentant lack of professionalism from BBC News is, sadly, not surprising.
The unrepentant lack of professionalism from BBC News is, sadly, not surprising.
“That looks revolting”
“Do you want one?”
“Please!”
“Do you want one?”
“Please!”
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“That looks revolting”
“Do you want one?”
“Please!”
“Do you want one?”
“Please!”