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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️

@quinnmx@tech.lgbt

Leeds Unitarian non-binary (aporagender ) non-monogamous sewing karaoke software engineer.

I created https://name.pn and I am also the co-organizer of https://www.y-open.org.uk

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Joined April 26, 2022

Name & pronouns:

https://name.pn/quinn-daley

My website:

https://www.quinn.mx/

Pronouns:

they/them

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Feb 05, 2026

Replying to @quinnmx@tech.lgbt

@diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt @cas@social.treehouse.systems Should add I've also coordinated volunteer projects outside of tech many times, including my current role as chair of Pride Place.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Feb 05, 2026

Replying to @diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt

@diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt @cas@social.treehouse.systems I've not got exactly this experience but I love governance questions and open source, and I _have_ done technical governance work with private sector projects. Even if I'm not the best fit, I might be helpful as a rubber duck / awkward question asker! You can book time with me on my website there - currently annoyingly only available on Wednesdays because I'm working on a contract the other four days.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @spodlife@sunny.garden

@spodlife It's so genuine otherwise, huh?

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @tobyleaf@mastodon.social

@tobyleaf I haven't used Tidal but I hope it's been a good experience too!

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @xylophilist@mastodon.online

@xylophilist Oh that's good to know!

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

I can't believe it's taken me until this week to switch from Spotify to Qobuz. Like many people I switched for ethical reasons but the experience is so much better!

Before switching to Qobuz, I genuinely thought my speakers were shit but it turns out that was Spotify's compression/clipping and my speakers are fine!

And I hadn't realised how much I was craving music recommendations from actual people not algorithms. Qobuz doesn't make such a big deal out of the magazine in their marketing but it's revolutionary to _read_ about music from within my streaming platform.

Also I was expecting to lose loads of my music but I haven't found anything missing yet, including (for example) a relatively obscure local band who split up before Qobuz even existed.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @jen@cultofshiv.wtf

@jen If ever there was a use for AI this is it

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Dec 19, 2025

Just misheard a news story and now I'm imagining a Christmas dinner with a giant bag of roast Takis as the centrepiece.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Sep 17, 2025

Replying to @xylophilist@mastodon.online

@xylophilist ooh no! Maybe I could stand to follow _one more_ etymology Youtuber 😅

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Sep 17, 2025

Etymology TIL: all uses of the word "check" (check your work, check your coat, check items off a list, check please!) and even "cheque" originate by analogy to the chess situation, which originally gets its name from the Persian "shah" meaning "king".

The chess term is from c. 1300 (although it originally referred to the game itself) and the first other use (stoppage or restraint) is from the 1510s.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Aug 20, 2025

Victoria McCloud and Trans Legal Clinic are taking our case to the European Court of Human Rights and using an all-trans legal team. This is the same court that required the government to introduce the Gender Recognition Act a couple of decades ago and with the right funding there's a good chance this case will succeed (and yes, the UK is still subject to this court's jurisdiction).

I gave them some money and if you have money to spare please consider doing so too: https://www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Aug 07, 2025

Replying to @tobyleaf@mastodon.social

@tobyleaf We have the same hairdresser so I can very much relate!

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Aug 07, 2025

Replying to @tobyleaf@mastodon.social

@tobyleaf Yes! I get very obvious dysphoria from my natural hair colour but I pay someone to do mine because only a professional job can fight the dysphoria there!

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Aug 07, 2025

Eyebrow plucking is so weird.

I can look at myself and think my entire aesthetic is off - my face looks the wrong shape, my eyes look tired, my clothes don't fit properly...

Then I pluck my eyebrows.

And suddenly all those things look right again! Like some sort of magical eyebrow spell.

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Quinn 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnmx@tech.lgbt · Nov 25, 2022

Replying to @vbatts@fosstodon.org

@vbatts@fosstodon.org I have shown variants of this diagram to people with impostor syndrome many times in recent years and so many of them said it was really helpful perspective. It helped me too!

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