Jen
@jenmackessack.bsky.social
PhD student interested in (psych of) politics/social policy. Working on discourse and conversation in women's homelessness services.
I like running (trail), biking (mtb/gravel) and skiing (whatever I can get).
Tired.
I like running (trail), biking (mtb/gravel) and skiing (whatever I can get).
Tired.
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A small thing, but I am noticing every news outlet that refers to Renee Good’s wife as her “partner.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A small thing, but I am noticing every news outlet that refers to Renee Good’s wife as her “partner.”
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So far the BBC’s coverage of the Minnesota killing seems really, really off
Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that
Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that
Evan Davis faux scratching his head on PM as to how there can be such different interpretations of clearly documented incidents (the shooting in Minnesota), right after platforming someone from the Heritage Foundation giving a deliberately false interpretation of events, barely challenged.
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
So far the BBC’s coverage of the Minnesota killing seems really, really off
Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that
Get Verify to verify what happened - NYT, Bellingcat etc already have - and report that
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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If Russia can't participate in international sports, why can the US?
Ban them, and move the World Cup to Canada/Mexico.
Ban them, and move the World Cup to Canada/Mexico.
January 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
If Russia can't participate in international sports, why can the US?
Ban them, and move the World Cup to Canada/Mexico.
Ban them, and move the World Cup to Canada/Mexico.
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LLB (Oxon), BCL (Cantab), QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Police Board.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
LLB (Oxon), BCL (Cantab), QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Police Board.
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If Mexico, who border the mad colossus that is the United States, can unequivocally condemn this as an action of aggression then the EU, sheltered by the Atlantic, can do the same and not offer this subservient drivel.
Following very closely the situation in Venezuela.
We stand by the people of Venezuela and support a peaceful and democratic transition.
Any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter.
We stand by the people of Venezuela and support a peaceful and democratic transition.
Any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter.
January 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
If Mexico, who border the mad colossus that is the United States, can unequivocally condemn this as an action of aggression then the EU, sheltered by the Atlantic, can do the same and not offer this subservient drivel.
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A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies.
Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision
The ECHR questions whether it was considered if Shamima Begum was a victim of grooming and trafficking.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 4:44 PM
A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies.
Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
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Hot dog man singularity
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hot dog man singularity
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As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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And it really emphasises how our media just cannot be normal about trans people.
Constant descriptions of Dr. Upton not as a trans woman, but as "a man etc," it's a warped definition of impartiality where acknowledgement of transness at all is "taking a side."
Constant descriptions of Dr. Upton not as a trans woman, but as "a man etc," it's a warped definition of impartiality where acknowledgement of transness at all is "taking a side."
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
And it really emphasises how our media just cannot be normal about trans people.
Constant descriptions of Dr. Upton not as a trans woman, but as "a man etc," it's a warped definition of impartiality where acknowledgement of transness at all is "taking a side."
Constant descriptions of Dr. Upton not as a trans woman, but as "a man etc," it's a warped definition of impartiality where acknowledgement of transness at all is "taking a side."
I just find this obsession with "content" and image so *boring*. Yeah sure good comms are important but they don't really work if you've not got anything substantive to say.
Also inoffensive is not the first word that leaps to mind...
Also inoffensive is not the first word that leaps to mind...
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
The Prime Minister can only re-establish authority if he learns to command the message
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I just find this obsession with "content" and image so *boring*. Yeah sure good comms are important but they don't really work if you've not got anything substantive to say.
Also inoffensive is not the first word that leaps to mind...
Also inoffensive is not the first word that leaps to mind...
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Dreadful news.
Where are the media in all of this? UKHE, one of our few great export industries, as well as a vital part of our socio-economic national infrastructure, has been slowly collapsing and now rapidly so.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social asleep at the wheel.
Where are the media in all of this? UKHE, one of our few great export industries, as well as a vital part of our socio-economic national infrastructure, has been slowly collapsing and now rapidly so.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social asleep at the wheel.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Dreadful news.
Where are the media in all of this? UKHE, one of our few great export industries, as well as a vital part of our socio-economic national infrastructure, has been slowly collapsing and now rapidly so.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social asleep at the wheel.
Where are the media in all of this? UKHE, one of our few great export industries, as well as a vital part of our socio-economic national infrastructure, has been slowly collapsing and now rapidly so.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social asleep at the wheel.
We're near an old silver mine and explicitly aren't allowed to keep any silver we find in the garden.
Also allowed one 'well behaved' cat or dog. Not sure what we're supposed to do if our cat's a prick.
Also allowed one 'well behaved' cat or dog. Not sure what we're supposed to do if our cat's a prick.
The house we are buying has a covenant from the 1950s banning us from carrying out any… immoral acts.
two owls are standing next to each other with their eyes looking at the camera
ALT: two owls are standing next to each other with their eyes looking at the camera
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
We're near an old silver mine and explicitly aren't allowed to keep any silver we find in the garden.
Also allowed one 'well behaved' cat or dog. Not sure what we're supposed to do if our cat's a prick.
Also allowed one 'well behaved' cat or dog. Not sure what we're supposed to do if our cat's a prick.
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Copilot is a slightly more advanced spellchecker and i just fundamentally don’t think that’s a good enough proposition to build the entire economy around
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Copilot is a slightly more advanced spellchecker and i just fundamentally don’t think that’s a good enough proposition to build the entire economy around
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I'm sure you're very proud of yourselves in the journalism space though, eh? Off you went to learn the trade, bright eyed and idealistic about speaking truth to power, and here you all are just doing The Gay Agenda Is Out To Get Everyone again but subbing in trans people as the target. Mortifying.
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I'm sure you're very proud of yourselves in the journalism space though, eh? Off you went to learn the trade, bright eyed and idealistic about speaking truth to power, and here you all are just doing The Gay Agenda Is Out To Get Everyone again but subbing in trans people as the target. Mortifying.
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.
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That's not a compromise. There is no compromise position lurking somewhere between "treat trans people as full and equal members of society" and "treat trans people as second-class citizens". Labour have chosen the latter option.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That's not a compromise. There is no compromise position lurking somewhere between "treat trans people as full and equal members of society" and "treat trans people as second-class citizens". Labour have chosen the latter option.
Bleary-eyed today after a great few days in Cardiff at the #EMCA Doctoral Network meet-up and MCA workshop. Highlights include analysing the I Think You Should Leave hotdog sketch, a burrata and truffle pizza, and a chat in the pub that solved a problem I've been having re. defining key concepts.
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Bleary-eyed today after a great few days in Cardiff at the #EMCA Doctoral Network meet-up and MCA workshop. Highlights include analysing the I Think You Should Leave hotdog sketch, a burrata and truffle pizza, and a chat in the pub that solved a problem I've been having re. defining key concepts.