Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Today someone asked if I had any LAN cables they could borrow, so it’s definitely been worth keeping two drawers full of cables for the last twenty years. 120
Reposted by Joanna LambertPatrick Samphire 🏴 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No planning, no logistics, no tech support... 152
Reposted by Joanna LambertShane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In case people are not fully across the Fairford story: What appears to have happened is that five men from London went to a small country village in the middle of the night to siphon fuel for resale. In small country villages, people notice things, especially at 1am. A farmer called the police. 35236
Reposted by Joanna Lambertjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026as an artist I'd love this but I also think everyone else should also get it. I think UBI should just be default. But I think that would transform the economy into TRULY being the free marketplace of ideas, the car capitalists chase and hope they never catch lol #politics 840693
Reposted by Joanna Lambertve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026The OpenAI "hugging face incident" is actually a perfect example of the collective make-believe acting-as-if reality magic where a bunch of people all pretend together that something is other than it actually is in order to create and accumulate power. 214535
Reposted by Joanna LambertAlastair Somerville @acuity.design · 20/08/2026Badge scheme for meta glasses. You must apply for a permit: • establish relevant need • prove knowledge of safe use • be aware of consequences of abuse • visibly wear badge when using glasses 271
Reposted by Joanna LambertMike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/08/2026This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in. 201633448
Reposted by Joanna Lambertchiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026Lol Farage is paying himself rent. 4228
Reposted by Joanna LambertKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More blockbuster reporting on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance apparatus from @wired.com An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, including labeling those identified as “LGBTQIA.” …! By @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...wired.comMadison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay CelebritiesAn MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” 13344168
Reposted by Joanna LambertRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Oh and finally! The aim back in 2012 was for individuals to bear 60% of the cost of a degree, and the state 40%. Anyone want to guess how much of the burden is estimated to fall on individual graduates now? Any guesses? 95%. www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...newstatesman.comGovernment mis-sold student loans to a generation, report findsA new Treasury Committee report has found that the state did not sufficiently communicate the terms and conditions 712145
Reposted by Joanna LambertKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse. 19556132217
Reposted by Joanna LambertKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The Australian bustard Australia's heaviest flying land bird. More commonly known in the outback as the bush turkey or plains turkey, it is a large, stately creature famous for its "snooty" walking posture and incredible prehistoric-sounding mating displays. 731508271
Reposted by Joanna LambertMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/06/202610 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️ 522549646
Reposted by Joanna LambertGlobal Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history 15446331087
Reposted by Joanna LambertLibro.fm @libro.fm · 23/06/2026Prime Day who? Sorry, I'm too busy supporting my independent bookshop 😍 Through the 26th, take 35% off all sale audiobooks (yep) with code BIGIMPACT at checkout. Every purchase benefits your indie bookshop of choice. Thanks for supporting them today and every day 💗 15800336
Reposted by Joanna LambertJack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I mean, there were at least two scandalous acts of corruption, at least two illegal wars and they themselves seem to tell us every other day about how grave the economic situation was, so... 1226
Reposted by Joanna LambertDB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country. Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties & facilitated genocide in Gaza. That is the legacy of moral & political bankruptcy he leaves behind." -Jeremy Corbyn 143
Reposted by Joanna LambertAndrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026For Refugee Day, an Iranian #refugee in Norfolk who my parents have befriended, Meisam Pourtajrishi, wrote this article for East Anglia Bylines. Worth reading. @sundersays.bsky.social @older.bsky.social @thaliathalia.bsky.social @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...eastangliabylines.co.ukStarting from ‘sub-zero’: the untold struggle to belongMigration: you remain alive, yet you are forced to endure a profound loss that is, in every sense, like death 0117
Reposted by Joanna LambertTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 22/06/2026Parents and teachers and social workers are navigating the nightmare quagmire of IEPs and lack of funding and a ton of social stigma, and you think you can throw AI at it to fix it? You don’t care about disability! You clearly haven’t thought about it for one second! 116718
Reposted by Joanna LambertRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI."nature.com 42717
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026BBC world service platforming Americans to talk about Iran and once again they seem to only talk about things like gas prices for Americans - no mention of bombed school kids or medication shortages they have caused or homes destroyed. It’s disgusting. 020
Reposted by Joanna LambertDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18/06/2026They also increase when England win. Supporting the England team isn't going to tackle domestic abuse. Tackling domestic abuse tackles it, something Reform has been pretty shy about doing. 38014
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A horse fly has come in my kitchen and chased me out :-/ Hope to be allowed back in soon cos am really hungry :( 040
Reposted by Joanna LambertScribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026In today's UK eugenicist, aggressively anti-disability environment, this is a wrong and dangerous thing to do. The scrapping of deprivation of liberty safeguards and wellbeing checks on disabled people in care. 195
Reposted by Joanna LambertHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/04/2026In news that absolutely everyone predicted…futurism.comPolice Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk WomenThere have been 14 documented incidents where police officers used automatic license plate readers to stalk romantic interests. 4229581291
Reposted by Joanna LambertAndrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adultsallbrainsbelong.org 21613195
Reposted by Joanna LambertPete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Make it make sense... I've always been wary of using the 'f' word. But if ICE isn't a tool of the fascist-adjacent at least, I don't know what has ever been in my lifetime in the Western world. 175
Reposted by Joanna LambertKit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/ 111043475
Reposted by Joanna LambertRobin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Old Soviet joke: They rewrite history so much, you never know what's going to happen yesterday (please use alt text, it's a small way we can all be better than the Fash) 1204
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 03/01/2026BBC traitors really highlights how much white people love to justify racism 010
Reposted by Joanna LambertNikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 02/01/2026'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light. 581503183
Reposted by Joanna LambertShellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Nice of genitally-obsessed bigot to use #NotInOurName 70,000 women have now signed, saying clearly that exclusion is not in their name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging. 🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnitenotinourname.org.ukHome - Not in our nameNot In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community 02010
Reposted by Joanna LambertLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇dr.eamer.devReCalibriThey always make us do everything ourselves, anyway 732093916
Reposted by Joanna LambertAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea 21325168916846
Reposted by Joanna LambertAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/02/2024On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo 90368924065
Reposted by Joanna LambertCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/12/2025In occupied East Jerusalem, the United Nations has condemned a raid by Israeli forces on the headquarters of the U.N.’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA. A spokesperson for the secretary-general said the raid directly violated international law. 14268151
Reposted by Joanna LambertMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I grew up in a suburb, West Drayton, where it was (rightly) news if there was a far-right protest every couple of months. Now there is one of them each week. inews.co.uk/news/inside-... 0222
Reposted by Joanna LambertPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025100 of them will use enough energy to power 10,000,000 homes: "Figures shared with BBC News in August showed an estimated 447 data centres currently in the UK, with that number set to rise by about 100 in the next few years." Profit is being prioritised over people. 01613
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Enchanted today to discover I am listed on Twm Siôn Cati’s Wikipedia page as the author of a reference. It’s a nice reassurance as I try and wrest my re-telling into some kind of shape 😂 020
Reposted by Joanna LambertEsther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025This is how our government treated nurses with long Covid.. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis... From 2023. Still no preventions in place.dailyrecord.co.ukThousands of Scots nurses 'with Long Covid left destitute begging for handouts'Nurses who quit their careers due to illness they got caring for others are pleading for Long Covid to be treated as an industrial injury so they don't have to beg for handouts. 22312
Reposted by Joanna LambertAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump." 40659164
Reposted by Joanna LambertMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/09/2025In London, hate will never win. 23576532173
Reposted by Joanna LambertZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide. 64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent. Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that? 28653231
Reposted by Joanna LambertIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/09/2025“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.” 113047
Reposted by Joanna LambertNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 17/09/2025UK "Free Speech" latest: Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this. 56929