Trade union Head of Data ; #dataArchitect ; #autistic ; she/her
Reformed oceanographer, turned #DataManagement professional, turned #TradeUnion officer. Now doing data (infrastructure/strategy) for a UK union. I’m interested in data as a tool of union activity, and union activism as a moderator of workplace data & tech
Likes #tradeUnions ; #data ; science ; dogs ; #sewing ; equalities. Fundamentally ungovernable.
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Last Notes npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Oh… are you FUCKING KIDDING??? 👀 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Back to school: new pencil case! 📏🖋️ I don’t make the rules 💁♀️ https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/536/128/236/546/944/original/71262a99841d8832.jpeg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 Sales calls… be still my beating heart. 😐 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 This sounds almost as tempting as when they play on my [checks notes] ‘passion for effective project management’ 💀 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub150l…r96e you do such a beautiful job with the fit at the neckline and straps… that’s not trivial, especially with a drapey knit! npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1qk5…jlda EEEEEE! I love tiny things! npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Quick update. This is the skirt I managed to eke out of the leftover fabric. It’s fine. Nothing very exciting, except maybe for the mini, 3rd pocket, which is a bit fun. #ItHasPockets #sewing https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/321/682/435/659/619/original/451f2220721424f4.jpeg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/321/682/920/571/085/original/d7488c7357826924.jpeg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Friends, I have finished the checked jacket! The lining is attached everywhere, and I only did a fixable fuck-up on the front buttonhole, so I’m calling this one a success. #sewing #tailoring #iMadeItMyself #StopFakePockets https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/293/194/409/146/661/original/835d472ac44fc208.jpeg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/293/194/881/777/389/original/530e63442ca20ce6.jpeg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew I just went on #LinkedIn (killllll meeeee) to be told that people who use LinkedIn premium are 2.6 times more likely to be hired than people who don’t… Which, I would guess, translates as people who are paying these ludicrous monthly subs, mostly because *they are trying to get hired*, are 2.6 times more likely to people who mostly just aren’t trying to get hired. And that, my friends, sounds like pretty wobbly evidence of value for upwards of £20/month when you may not even be getting paid. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Holy shit, this article on workplace #sexualHarassment is WILD: "We have had instances in the past where… certain behaviours in the workplace have not been as we would expect. But when we have been told about those, we've been taking decisive action using the right policies, the right procedures. To be able to act proportionately and appropriately, to deal with those and make sure there's a clear message that such behaviours are not expected in our workplace," https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-68714480 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Wowwww… what an unbelievably shitty thing to do! How did anyone think this was a ‘prank’ rather than libel??? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68717659 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Good people: if someone told you they had shingles, or motor neurone disease, you probably wouldn’t tell them that someone you know cured that with yoga and fermented foods… …for the love of God, don’t do it with chronic fatigue syndrome. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Wanna see a pocket? #sewing #tailoring #iMadeItMyself #itHasPockets https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/163/633/097/156/333/original/593e9bb21e03c189.jpeg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/163/633/583/861/344/original/ac2c7cff883f7dd5.jpeg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/163/634/054/029/439/original/edfbac42dfdbcf13.jpeg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Big fan of the Guardian/Observer’s effrontery in going for the moralistic stance about how social media has a lot to answer for, for all the world like they didn’t gleefully play their own part in the conspiracy circus of the last couple of weeks. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/23/princess-of-wales-social-media-apologies-for-kategate-will-restraint-last npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Happy #StPatricks Dog from Feargal. #KerryBlueTerrier #DogsOfMastodon https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/112/112/685/885/639/681/original/7640f03b40bc4f51.jpeg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew UGH! Bloody tech-solutionists, here to ‘solve #climateChange’ with all the strategic thought, finesse, and likelihood of success of my sister’s Irish Terrier digging up the kitchen cupboards in the hopes of getting the mice hiding underneath them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68206309 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 We may never know… so I’m following the drama. Not literally following it: arachnids are the one thing that scare me even more than mushrooms. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 I’m sorry, but when something improbable happens to the testicles of a man in a vegas hotel, I consider it EVEN MORE IMPROBABLE that it happened when he was asleep. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Oh really do fuck off, dear… 🙄 Does ANYONE believe that diversity programmes even flicker the dial in council spending? Compared to - I don’t know - social care and bin collections? This is boomer economics at the macro-scale… diversity programmes are to councils what avocado toast is to millennial renters. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68477450 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew “One Tory MP said people needed to see an improvement in their finances ‘sharpish’. ‘It’s not enough to make a statement saying how much you love this country. They need to show it with a 2p tax cut.’” Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a 2p tax cut. 💕 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/04/budget-plans-risk-second-lost-decade-of-living-standards-jeremy-hunt-told npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Wikipedia article on wolves: “Shepherd dogs are not particularly aggressive, but they can disrupt potential wolf predation by displaying what is to the wolf ambiguous behaviours, such as barking, social greeting, invitation to play or aggression.” I can’t stop thinking about that wolf, coming to eat a sheep, and getting freaked out by a big, hairy idiot doing play-bows and woofing a joyful song. It’s like me when I run away from a shop because of the over-attentive assistants. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew “Mr Sunak is expected to say £220m will be put into new food-productivity schemes, farm technology and automation to ‘reduce reliance on overseas workers’ during the next financial year.” BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH ROBOTS That’s a winning election slogan, you barefaced bastards. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68342314 #UKpolitics npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Love to be reminded that, as women wrestling with health issues that affect (among other things) our physical appearances, however shit we feel about how we look, there’s a whole world of people out there just waiting for an opportunity to make us feel shitter. Amy Schumer, I don’t even know who you are but… solidarity 🫡 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68315509 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew This must be a niche problem (at least in its severity) but surely not hard to solve. My desk setup has my mouse (trackball) on my left, but when I work away from home/at the dining room table etc, I use a portable trackball which is good and neat, but only available in a asymmetric right-handed version. I am right-hand dominant, so I *can* switch, but I have to change the mouse settings (primary button/scroll-speed) on my Mac EVERY TIME 😭 Can I make it remember the settings for each device? npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew "Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal." How dare you, #ElonMusk… you vacuous, arrogant little shit. Who is the man, who would cause less social and material damage if he had a time-lock and an editorial board on his own fucking communications, to claim that Stephen Hawking could have, and presumably *should* have done more, if only he could have communicated faster?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68137046 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew C’mon guys… I know you’re there to catch the eye of your next employer/engager/whatever, but it’s neither emphasising your value to sell your knowledge so cheap, and nor are you enriching your peers: you’re just doing free work for one of the top 10 biggest and most rapacious corporations in the world. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 were totally still in the amnesty period npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1cus…6789 Yowee, that’s plenty cold enough! Here in the UK we’re pretty well buffered against that kind of cold… there was one Christmas it got to -15°C in Northern Ireland, and 2 of my friends showed up for their family Christmas dinner with broken noses and a pair of black eyes apiece, having fallen on the ice on the way out of midnight mass… everyone thought they’d been fighting after the pub! 😝 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Today has been equal parts covering buttons and Christmas pudding. #WeekendSewingClub #sewing #tailoring #handmade https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/111/642/740/769/789/322/original/b363e2006716c6bd.jpg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew “But some of [Keir Starmer’s] closest allies frankly recognise that calls for a ceasefire from an opposition Labour leader will have no effect on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, never mind Hamas in Gaza. So in that sense, there's little logic to calling for it.” Dear Keir Starmer allies: Netanyahu won’t see your calls for a ceasefire, but your core target voters will. This is where you show us what kind of government you intend to be. 🧐 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67432393 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew “We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved with more technology.” (Marc Andreessen) “We can't solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” (Albert Einstein) Place your bets now… https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/when-was-the-last-time-marc-andreessen-talked-to-a-poor-person/amp/ npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 also, if we better support education for the plebs they might compete with our own privately educated children… can’t have that, eh? 🤨 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew That kid was not lost; she was EXACTLY where anyone would choose to be 😭 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/lost-michigan-child-sleeping-dog-pillow npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew IDK who needs to hear this, but standard dress sizes are an mass-production convenience for the clothing industry, and in no way a reflection on how human bodies ‘ought’ to be shaped. I can’t pretend I don’t have hang-ups about my body, but I am so fucking OVER spending a fortune on clothes that fail to reconcile my waist-to-hip ratio, then allowing the rag trade tell me it’s MY defect rather than THEIRS. (Yes, this is the main reason why I got into #sewing/#dressmaking. That and the pockets.) npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew I have done my bit to save the planet this morning, by giving this stripy boi a drink of syrup to revive him. 🐝 https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/110/978/197/772/467/598/original/3367a2e716486115.jpg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub150l…r96e @npub12w4…3ppq @npub17ll…7f43 Beautiful job, and what great fabric! (Can I confess that the idea of fitting a unitard scares all hell out of me… I still bear the scars - possibly physical - from my one misadventure in making a too-short-in-the-torso jump suit 😱😳) npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Apropos of horrible crimes I don’t want to talk about, UK news/politics is full of outrage at criminals refusing to appear for their own sentencing I don’t really get it. The punishment is what’s described in the sentence. No part of it is the convicted criminal’s public display during the sentencing, is it? Haven’t we moved on from pillories? And YES, victims/society should “see justice done”. That’s answered by transparent, public proceedings inc the sentencing with or without the convicted npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1aka…zzz2 it looks amazing - I would drink (eat?) the hell out of it, but surely one of the least Irish things I’ve seen for a while 😍 npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Kitchen supervisor! #dogsofmastodon #kerryBlueTerrier https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/110/759/135/177/614/069/original/759b4663c163ba24.jpg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew @npub1hpc…hjn3 Your Irish pal checking in here… Me too. Me too. npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew #[0] final update. Still a bit of finishing to be done on the fly opening, but I’m ready for an evening off! I’m pretty satisfied with how these turned out. I love a woven selvedge, so I was pleased to think of keeping it visible on the inside waistband. And I’m definitely more of a shorts-suit person than anything more grown-up, so Will actually wear this lot. #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/110/130/023/906/836/850/original/9fe6e30eef3401d1.jpg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/110/130/024/323/290/325/original/7b1e63dab477c5fb.jpg https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/110/130/024/675/254/517/original/ba43b83e0bf488a2.jpg npub1durj0ngefwsx5p220ps2qjnd789zypytc3fnmj6dcq00fpnu8hksntj7sa Jenny Andrew Dentist this morning: - Two fillings; two patches of eroded enamel - One honking great bill I can’t decide which is more painful.