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Awww, happy to hear it! 🎉 Also, good to see #TICTeC doing its job! 👏

So, working backwards: here's a set of @mysociety.org
reports we've have published in the last year🧵

A tribute to Mark Longair It was with immense sadness that the mySociety team learned of the death of our much loved ex-colleague Mark Longair. Mark first came to mySociety as a volunteer, contributing his time and coding kno...

Three incredibly touching tributes to the unmatchable Mark Longair here, from @mysociety.org, Steve Day, and @symroe.bsky.social – www.mysociety.org/2026/01/15/a.... Just seems so unfair that we get stuck with all these terrible people in positions of power, and lose the good guys like Mark. 😔❤️

More 'free speech' over at the Reform event. Farage jumps in - again - to answer a question on vaccines directed at Zahawi. Then Zahawi adds that "the question is stupid and does not deserve an answer".

They all long to be mini-Trumps. ~AA

Is generative AI the key to better public services? Find out at our FREE webinar where experts discuss strategies for reliable and trustworthy AI in government services. With @emercoleman.bsky.social @richardpope.org @elenasimperl.bsky.social & Andy Dudfield from Full Fact buff.ly/ciFXp7r

Tell me, grandfather, what is this “coin”? Was it like a physical representation of a Bitcoin?

My devious “say a digital thing should exist so @dracos.co.uk feels compelled to make it” strategy worked! 🤣🎉

Geeks for Social Change We are a collective creating community technology in anticipation of a world without billionaires. Led by trans and disabled people. Join us today!

GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled
social order.

Read what all these folks had to say and subscribe to our newsletter:

gfsc.community (10/10)

Geeks for Social Change We are a collective creating community technology in anticipation of a world without billionaires. Led by trans and disabled people. Join us today!

Geeks for Social What?! (1/10)

All years are grievous and troublesome, but this one was fruitful.

23 people have volunteered their time with GFSC, working on everything from codebases and livestreams to volunteer coordination.

8 new voices contributed to our blog. Check 'em out!

Have you added a question to our Reddit AMA yet?
We'll be answering questions large and small about TheyWorkForYou - how we run it, why we run it, features we've added, maybe why we haven't added that particular feature you think would be great... pile in and ask away! www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

Worth it though! Lovely case study!

Democracy Club We build digital tools to support everyone’s participation in UK democracy.

And finally @democracyclub.org.uk who have been quietly getting on with creating and running a bunch of services that make getting information about when, where and who for uk elections both easy and possible. democracyclub.org.uk/donate/

Next are @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social who we've done a load of work with and produce the Council Climate Scorecards so people know what their local council are doing about climate change. It's also a really lovely bit of crowdsourcing. bsky.app/profile/clim...

Support mySociety A small charity making a big difference. Donate today!

It is, apparently, giving Tuesday so here in decreasing order of self serving are some suggestions. Firstly @mysociety.org, the people that pay me. While that's surely reason enough, we also make websites, data and reports that make it easier to be civic minded in the uk - www.mysociety.org/donate/

Some really thoughtful questions starting to appear on the AMA thread that my colleagues @alexparsons.bsky.social and @juliacushion.bsky.social will be answering next Monday. If you’ve ever had questions about @mysociety.org’s parliamentary transparency work, now’s your chance to ask!

As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.

The Meowth is out of the bag.

I am currently researching and writing my next book, 'Space Invaders' a queer history of videogames.

Just like 'Queer As Folklore' this is a subject very very close to my heart. It's very bloody exciting. What a lucky sod!

Thanks @manchesterup.bsky.social!

Apparently there's another woman from Leeds with a brunette bob talking in a Parliament building about something or other today?? 😅

Anyway, I'm at the Senedd and excited to be appearing alongside @jessblair.bsky.social @lauramcallister30.bsky.social & Mark Drakeford!

Notice that the red bar is bigger than the green bar in this picture. We also suspect it has got worse already. We really need people coming to our fantastic coworking space, if you’re bored at home, come by and say hello!

festive cards of golden stags with oak leaves

only a handful of these sets of festive recycled golden antler boi cards left 👀

shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/gold...

Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).

"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.

But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.

1/8🧵

The Role(s) of Civil Society and the Public in Public Procurement and Government Contracting

Involved (or interested in) in procurement, contracts, and how public bodies spend money?

On Nov 25, our own @zarino.co.uk will be bringing insights at this event from Government Outcomes Lab: golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk/community/ev...

#procurement #publicmoney #government #contracts #accountability

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Careful Consequences Check Let's make technology work for 8 billion people not 8 billionaires

New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

Three big events coming up from @mysociety.org this month, for anyone delivering #techforgood projects. Free and online!

One year of freelance — mynameismartin Notes and lessons from my first year working for myself — money, rejection, overwork, and the ongoing experiment of doing what you love for a living.

www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/year-one

I pre-ordered this beautiful book from my multi-talented colleague @myfanwytristram.bsky.social a few weeks ago and May 2026 can’t come quick enough!

Noisy Valley tells stories of protest from the Rhondda. It is social history… it is a defence of the right to protest… it is a love letter to this feisty community.

Just gonna pin this to the top of my account - with a reminder that pre-orders really help (bookshops order stock in if they see pre-orders are high). Coming out in May ‘26. Thank you! www.waterstones.com/book/noisy-v... #graphicnovels #books #rhondda #protest

Me, in this presentation: "This is Durham Cathedral. Now let me tell you why she's transgender."