Reposted by Joanna LambertSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is v warm coverage of the late Jeffrey Archer on Radio 4 Today focusing on book sales & chsrity with fraud, perjury & disgrace mainly as something to bounce back from. He probably got more second, thitd & fourth chances that anybody else in British public life in the last half century. 1933351
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I had a special gadget that meant you could stack singles and it would automatically drop it. It’s been maybe 30 years since I’ve used vinyl so have forgotten all the downsides 😂 envious of your cd collection 010
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Am seriously regretting finally ditching my CD’s - I feel like old tech is making a come back now AI and adverts is destroying so much 110
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Really fucking grim :/ I bumped into one of the men a few years back with my own kids and pointed out the oldest was the same I age I had been the last time he saw me and he went white. Because whatever story he had told himself, I was a child. 010
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I found myself thinking about how many times I was sexually assaulted as a teenager and it took me a few minutes to remember them all. 110
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. 19556142217
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
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Tbh, I’m delighted when they google. Heaps better than the usual shrugging 050
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 💗 15799336
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
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Well, we can definitely agree that he didn’t take any action that would demonstrate these to be untrue assertions I guess… 040
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Exactly. This isn’t just about poor communication or attacks by the press. This is about consistently failing to behave with basic decency. 100
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026‘He’s having people arrested for protesting genocide’, ‘he’s colluding in a narrative that refugees are unhuman’, ‘he’s attacking disabled people’, ‘trans people can’t have a pee in peace’… 200
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
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Yes!!! So sick of hearing commentators reflect on the price at the pump when school kids were murdered, people were made refugees, others killed. 010
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
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This is terrifying. Checks were often crap anyway but at least they could verify someone was vaguely ok. 010
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 06/06/2026How can they live with themselves? How are we in the uk still turning a blind eye? 110
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 21612195
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This is all so interesting. I lived off grid (incompetently) for 9 years so i often can tell if something's off with the way people write light/dark/seasons but I have never even remotely considered concepts of time. 010
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