@carlinparry
Writer and translator with a background in information management. No longer separating my personal and professional accounts. Fortean/weird stuff (no ethno-numpties please), coffee ☕, LGBTQ+, progressive politics, gym, ballet, opera, open source software.
Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
📚 Paid opportunity to catalogue an #LGBTQ #Library collection ⬇️
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Protect VPN use in the UK action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
We're sorry to announce the imminent closure of NetIKX. Unfortunately, attendance at both in-person and virtual events has decreased since the pandemic, and we've been unable to attract as many new members as we would have liked.
We'll shortly be closing down our social media channels and the website. The NetIKX committee would like to thank you all for your support over the years. We're hoping to hold a farewell 'celebration of NetIKX' event in London later this year and will announce this to members in due course.
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to email MPs on the Council of Europe and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats.
The more they hear from us, the harder it’ll be for them to ignore us. goodlaw.social/9f10d1
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Urgent - ask your MP to join Wednesday's debate on how new asylum proposals will affect LGBTQI+ people. We need them to speak up for LGBTQI+ people seeking safety. Join me & @rainbowmigration.bsky.social:
rainbowmigration.good.do/speakupforlg...
If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads.
Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>
act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...
High electricity prices are threatening industrial jobs across Britain and holding the country back.
I've just signed this petition asking the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cut industrial electricity prices at the Budget. Add your name too! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/cu...
Article 8 of the ECHR is the protection on which not only all positive trans law rests but also most LGB rights to, as well as those of families where one parent wasn't born in the UK. It prevents asylum seeking families from being split.
It is utterly monstrous for Labour to want to weaken rights.
Workers at Airedale Hospital do NHS work. But the Airedale Board is refusing to give them full NHS pensions, pay and conditions. I just signed this petition to support these frontline workers. Add your name too. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/de...
Finnola is a supermarket worker, and one of millions of workers who will benefit from the Employment Rights Bill. Please read her story and sign her open letter to the Prime Minister letter.megaphone.org.uk
Outsourced Mitie workers at Sellafield are fighting for fair pay, while their CEO earns £14.7 million - 575 times the average worker's salary! Can you sign the worker's petition? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/su...
I've donated to the crowdfunder to keep Bristol's radical bookshop @bookhaus.bsky.social open, please consider contributing if you can #bristol www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-tru...
Countless children are forced to risk their lives at sea to reach safety & family. I won't stand for this.
I just donated to @safepassageintl.bsky.social to fund life-changing support & reunite child refugees with loved ones. Join me and DOUBLE your donation:
act.safepassage.org.uk/double-your-...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
🚨 Thursday’s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...
Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!
We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science
(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Today marks two years of brutal war in Sudan, which has taken countless lives and put the future of children like Syed on hold. Read his story:
www.safepassage.org.uk/syeds-story
We're sorry to announce that the upcoming seminar on "Innovative, high quality discovery and retrieval systems for libraries, information centres and digital archives", scheduled for Friday 28 March, has been cancelled due to lack of bookings. We hope to reschedule this seminar for a later date.
Just booked for this @folkloresociety.bsky.social online conference. Looks amazing. #folklore #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation
I'll be attending remotely, other committee members will be at Canada Water Library. Do please join us! #libraries #TDNet #Koha #ResourceDiscovery
Two weeks to go! "Innovative, high quality discovery and retrieval solutions for libraries, information centres and digital archives using Koha and TDNet" 28 March 2025 at Canada Water Library and online www.netikx.org/events/ #TDNet #Koha #libraries #ResourceDiscovery
