Jenny List

Engineer & tech journalist.
Contributing editor & European correspondent, Hackaday.
Hackerspaces, Parkour, Trans Rescue Foundation.
Tall, She/'Er. 🏳️‍⚧️

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2026-05-10 06:12:29 UTC

Working hard today on finishing Trans Rescue's "How to get out" book.
It's a distillation of what we know, aimed at Brits and Americans.
It's been a huge amount of work over the last six months, the reason I have done no videos.
Will be online for free, eventually also a physical book.

2026-04-20 07:56:03 UTC

I do technical journalism, writing and editing in English to a very high standard, I have a background working for a dictionary, and I'm an electronic engineer. I am told I am unique in this CV.
I can do your tech company or project's PR, documentation, and many other things.
#fedihire

2026-04-07 10:14:34 UTC

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.

2026-02-20 19:39:28 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116104479510095616
Electronic engineers of a certain age nail this.
#note1fcl…0ktd

2025-11-04 05:58:06 UTC

Please don't forget the ID card petition, it's inching towards 3 million signatures. I know they've said tbey'll do it anyway, but we've been here before under Blair. This will have the effect of kicking it into the long grass where it will be quietly abandoned.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/489/866/741/455/782/original/2874a95541a4d413.jpg

2025-10-20 09:57:40 UTC

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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.

2025-10-20 09:54:44 UTC

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.

2025-09-08 11:59:45 UTC

Do we have any #AROS (Amiga style operatimg system) people here on Mastodon?
I want to do a Jenny's Daily Drivers on it, but am having huge problems getting a bootable ISO on a flash drive. I don't have a CD-ROM.
I can make the disk, but it' s not bootable. Normal linux ways to fix this don't work.
I'd like to review it, but this is a blocker.

2025-08-12 08:58:04 UTC

I think I need to say this. The word "Drama" in the hackerspace community needs to get in the sea.
People dismiss the result of toxic behaviour as "Drama", and it allows the toxic behaviour to continue while usually the victim of the toxicity is blamed for the "Drama". How many times do you have to hear "Drama", before realising something is wrong?
If I hear that word being used in this way, you will hear me explaining this again in no uncertain terms.

2025-06-12 09:39:32 UTC

I have a #FediHire for everyone, via [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) .
American, cybersecurity grad, certified RedHat SysAdmin, network, & pen tester. Needs work urgently to stabilise situation.
I think those qualifications are attractive enough that someone out there among those of you who follow me because I write for @npub135m…490p will be looking for them. I think I'm right in saying that this job can be done remotely too, if you ain't close.
Come on Mastodon, do your thing.

2025-04-16 12:19:36 UTC

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.

2025-03-07 08:40:00 UTC

Yesterday I was in Berlin, and made a trip to the Magnus Hirschfeld memorial. It's close to the site of the world's first gender identity clinic, raided by the Nazis in 1933. Not on most tourist itineraries.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/120/238/725/254/133/original/2dcebd8d95ac52e1.jpg
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2025-01-27 08:25:31 UTC

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

2025-01-25 20:34:49 UTC

As I understand it thwre's a German phrase which translates as an innoccuous sounding "I didn't know", which is illegal in Germany because of its association with Holocaust denial.
It's possible in the 1940s when media was tightly controlled, that there were people who didn't know. That is not the case today in an era of mass media and social media. They will always have known.
A lot of people may not survive Trump. If you survive, make sure they don't get away with saying "I didn't know".

2025-01-16 10:26:21 UTC

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?

2025-01-13 07:43:24 UTC

The UK gpvernment are jumping on the AI bandwagon. What could possibly go wrong.

2024-12-30 22:55:03 UTC

I wrote about the #shittycamerachallenge for Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2024/12/30/release-your-inner-ansel-adams-with-the-shitty-camera-challenge/

2024-12-16 13:43:21 UTC

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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

2024-12-16 07:04:04 UTC

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

2024-12-06 10:28:24 UTC

"SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET, so we DEMAND you address it, repeatedly!" is from the same drawer as TERFs endlessly demanding "DEBATE MEEEEE!" to rehash the same points.
It's appropriate to evaluate and call out bad stuff when you see it. But in there lies a responsibility to ensure that what you are claiming has a basis in fact, and your primary source isn't an abuser.
Otherwise you just become the abuser too.

2024-11-11 14:36:26 UTC

It's a point worth making, if your're a European or other technology company looking to hire top American talent, Trump's election represents a golden opportunity.
A huge number of trans people are very anxious to leave the USA right now, and among them are a lot of people in the technology sector. They wouldn't normally be in the international jobs market, snap them up before someone else does.
Curious? Talk to [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ).

2024-11-09 15:16:06 UTC

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This post appears to be taking off.
Please give your support to Trans Rescue, https://transrescue.org , and [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) here.

2024-11-07 07:16:13 UTC

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.

2024-10-20 11:12:09 UTC

A long night last night, a complication with a [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) passenger somewhere else in the world to deal with. Such things have no respect for sleep.
We have more than one passenger directly affected by the war in the Middle East at the moment, and it's straining our resources.
If you support what Trans Rescue does, please consider a donation.
https://transrescue.org/donations/donate

2024-10-05 12:10:49 UTC

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this

2024-10-05 05:59:06 UTC

It's peak UK government, that they agree to hand over the Chagos islands to Mauritius at last, while also completely excluding from the process the Chagos islanders they evicted back in the 1960s.

2024-09-23 10:25:03 UTC

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thanks :)
The looking at trains bit was great, no regrets.

2024-09-23 10:18:28 UTC

My mental health is at a low point today. I took yesterday afternoon out to look at trains in the hope it would recover, and sadly it didn't really work.

2024-09-19 06:43:06 UTC

XFH users beware, there's a new lWM in the TFKW that breaks JT if you don't stick it up your BXRH.
Now, please, if you're going to post initialism laden sentences, please bear in mind that not all readers are in your bubble, and many won't have a clue what you are talking about.

2024-09-10 14:31:16 UTC

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Ooh, I missed this answer!
I'm running the WHY 2025 swap table. I'm doing it in part wearing my hat as a board member of [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) , as a publicity and I hope fundraising thing. If you don't mind, I'm using the EMF2024 source story as a hook, complete with Chinese G-M tube module and big red flashy light.
I have to ask, are you likely to be at WHY, and given your fame in this context, would you like to lend a paw?

2024-09-02 08:19:11 UTC

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just forwarding this to [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue ) , I'm wondering if anyone in our network might have some Linux leads, or if we have any other leads which might be of use.

2024-08-28 12:38:45 UTC

A [@trans_rescue](https://mastodon.social/@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?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/039/676/490/951/224/original/257686a7e17a948f.jpg

2024-08-25 13:54:55 UTC

Please. Don't bring any orphaned radioactive sources.
https://wiki.why2025.org/Team:SwapTable
#Why2025

2024-08-23 09:00:05 UTC

Sadly I am not at OSHUG/Wuthering Bytes this weekend.

2024-08-19 05:16:59 UTC

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.

2024-08-11 17:12:14 UTC

Quick question, has Radio 4 long wave been turned off yet?

2024-08-08 07:19:50 UTC

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there's also a lot of wanting to feel they're helping but not being prepared to give any real help.
Just prompted by something I saw

2024-08-08 06:34:05 UTC

Something I wish more people understood is that there's a difference between advice and help.

2024-08-07 09:41:49 UTC

Elon Musk hasn't hired me to write for him. Can I sue him for that?