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@jennyflower.bsky.social

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Research Fellow/writing about the demise of political entertainment in Britain. Researches hate speech and for balance exaggerates for comic effect. Doctor of Media Law. https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/19789/ UK 🇬🇧 D 🇩🇪 ES 🇪🇸 ❤️EU Generally good 🥚.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · Feb 28

I don't want to live in interesting times anymore.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 11m

Sounds exactly like the kind of free thinking they're looking for.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 7h

Mr Thiel is recruiting. Just imagine all that money being pumped into representing *conservative* ideas. I'm not scared (I'm just a bit nervous).

Job ad for Mercor looking for a Conservative Politics Expert to evaluate and refine AI reasoning.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 11h

Happy days!

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 1d

When doing my law degree, an Erasmus colleague from Spain was surprised that we weren't taught about the EU and the ECHR at school. It's very surprising considering usually everyone in the UK loves banging on about WWII and everything Churchill was involved in.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 8d

Another ten important policies announced by Labour in only 24 hours. Big news on Mone, unhealthy food and cracking down on foreign influence in our politics.

1. Price or multibuy promotions on unhealthy food and drink, such as "buy one, get one free" deals, are to be banned in England from Wednesday
2. Mone ordered to repay £122m PPE money by 15/10/25
3. Extra funding for courts to deliver speedier justice for victims
4. Tougher measures on foreign political influence come into force 1/10 aimed Iran and Russian interference
5. Government’s £1 million Regional Tech Booster programme gets underway
6. Tech firms to prevent unwanted sexual images under tougher laws to protect women and girls online
7. Reform of public procurement to back British suppliers
8. High-talent visa routes
9. Youth Guarantee scheme: guaranteed work for eligible people who have been on UC for 18m
10. £500m for first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care workers
11. UK Space Agency goes global with 23 new projects
12. Military families/veterans prior

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 1d

And pass it on as a Xmas present for someone you don't much like.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 2d

I'll just pick out everything that isn't choc.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 2d

I think the British media should only use "Tommy Robinson's" real name when reporting on or about him.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon doesn't have quite the same appeal.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly no Tory brain waves.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 3d

I wondered where he'd gone, first he hides in a fridge and then the toxic mass went down the drain.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

Toxic mass chiselled out of Feltham pipes amid campaign to help stop people tipping harmful substances down drains

www.theguardian.com

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it's an elision of British and Christian so *Kime* can tick an extra right-wing box.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 3d

We've had some great skies in Madrid this weekend.

Red, mottled clouds in a darkening sky at sunset above a street in central Madrid.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 6d

Wow.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for the opportunity to publish with you, it was a real pleasure and the team was so brilliantly helpful!

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 14d

“Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging” by Jennifer Young: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection Humour as a Human Right

Dogwhistles, Discrimination, Humour and the Law: Regulating Implicit Messaging

This paper explores how implicit, discriminatory messages bypass sanctions in the United Kingdom and beyond, despite their potential for significant societal harm. Drawing on linguistic and humour res...

doi.org

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 9d

Of course, but as I am sure you know, the vast majority of carers are women and therefore will be disproportionately affected.

sure.you

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 9d

Or just tiny pricks of light.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 9d

So women who care for children or other family members are immediately discriminated against.

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 9d

Someone's got to plan a trip to the moon to harvest all that cheese before it goes off.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 10d

People here having a terrible time at a fiesta in Pamplona this weekend. You couldn't hear yourself above the laughter and the music.

Festival in Pamplona Spain with crowds of people watching giant figures parading along the square.

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 13d

If we’re making policy on the basis that “Europeans have it and it no one complains”, could we have France’s retirement age and pension scheme, Sweden’s equality, and Germany’s fan-ownership of football clubs?

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Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 10d

It's all just noise, the inane ramblings of a spoilt toddler.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 13d

Academia really can be the most toxic work environment (sometimes) and I spent over 20 years working in the media.

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 13d

Nurse! The screens!

Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social · 13d

Pretty sure I've seen this chap painting flags on sheep.

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