Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026friday is for kafkaposting 4771521696
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Mob rule must not dictate the awarding of public contracts” said Tom Watson. “Tech companies’ own excessive lobbying power and a revolving door to political influence must instead drive the decisions”, he added* * he did not say this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comPalantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contractsFormer Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns 000
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I know, right? What a joyless existence these people want to create. 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It also completely misses the point that reading to your children is one of the most wonderful times you have with them, cuddling up together, and it does wonders for your wellbeing as a parent as well as the children. 3265
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do I want to read an article in the Spectator by Jo Williams about all that is wrong with students and universities? Or shall I just stick pins in my eyes? Decisions, decisions…. 050
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Something that’s been bugging me for years. On train announcements why do they say things like “next calling station” and “station stop” rather than just station or stop? 🤔 101
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.linkedin.comAVAILABILITY FOR WORKHello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ... 01729
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reading details of the City findings while waiting for Bohs -v- Bohemians Praha to kick off really highlights the two sides of football 000
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Even as the last immigrant is strapped into a boat and “sent home”, people are being left to drown in the channel and the country’s public services and tax take have completely collapsed, immigration will still be a top issue in the minds of those responding to opinion polls. FML. 000
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is what suppression of free speech really means. Not when some student society disinvites a speaker but when a political party uses its power to allocate public funds in local government to withdraw funds from charities who criticise it. 030
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It feels like a new form of deference to the plutocrat whose views should be heard, respected and influential because they are obviously better than the rest of us. Rather than “here is an entitled ingrate who has done very well out of the country & now seeks to bad mouth and short change it”. 171
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The irony if the nearest RNLI site was closed for rescues due to his “patriots” 030
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This interview made my heart ache. My circumstances are very different (I am the brown person in our family and live in thankfully a still tolerant area). But her sense of fear, loss and betrayal at what is happening to the country she loves I can totally understand. 021
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If this was *any* other community, people would be demanding to know what they are doing about their extremists & holding then responsible by association. In Britain, they are listened to & told their concerns are genuine, whilst the majority congratulate themselves on how civil and kind they are. 092
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059832392
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026OMG. I agree with Trump about somethingstatic.klipy.comHow Did This Happen David RoseALT: How Did This Happen David Rose 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Watched Finding Emily tonight. Absolutely loved it. Spike Fearn in particular was an absolute delight. 000
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is infuriating. It’s not a peaceful protest if it leaves people scared to go about their business (or volunteering). These idiots need to be stopped. 113
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There definitely is two tier policing in this country. Deference to right wing thugs being one tier and the rest of us being the other. 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If he couldn’t see what was so blindingly obvious maybe he should retire from public life and never foist his ignorant bile and ill-informed opinion on us again. But of course he won’t. 042
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit. 1064231848
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026TIL that there’s a Great Lakes acronym Also, if order doesn’t matter, he’s turned it into SHAME 011
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America changes the Great Lakes acronym from HOMES to HAMES. Which, ironically, is exactly what Trump is making of the USA. 120
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Looking at my TL tonight, we should all aspire to live our lives so people talk about us like they are about Dolly Parton. Rest in peace. 060
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Paul Norris @pauln1964.bsky.social · 22/08/2026What @smitajamdar.bsky.social said. Plus your regular reminder that Boris Johnson was born overseas. As was David Gower. And many others of all ethnicities who are British citizens. 362
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There’s something deeply ironic that this group, feeling that existing academic structures exclude them, are demanding that specific, some might even say affirmative, action is taken to recognise their diversity, give them equal opportunities and generally include them. 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Vile and despicable- they deserve no benefit of any doubt anymore. 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I say this every time this moronic criterion comes up. I was born overseas. I am a British citizen. I have paid taxes for decades. Why, if I needed it, should I not be entitled to social housing and what does being from “the third world” have to do with it you ignorant dog-whistling ghoul? 2175
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We saw Cyrano de Bergerac on Saturday with Adrian Lester in the lead role and it was hands down the best thing I have ever seen on a stage. On till 5 September if you get the chance. 110
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Institutions aren’t able to reveal everything about their decision-making in staff & student cases even if they want to because they owe legal duties of confidentiality to pretty much everyone involved and those commenting without seeing all the evidence are almost certainly missing key information 0132
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Surely simply revive missed opportunities otherwise it feels like a missed opportunity 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Went to see Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noel Coward Theatre today. Honestly possibly the best show I’ve ever seen. Adrian Lester was magnificent. 000
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026*laughs hollowly then curls into a foetal position and sobs uncontrollably* 010
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Went to watch the eclipse from our local park and it was so lovely - a real community feel. Shared experience is so gratifying 020
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In which “plays havoc with the mind” means “having to reflect on my prior world view a tiny little bit to make things a tiny bit better/safer/more accessible for other people”. Bloody snowflakes. 100
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is lovely…. #BookSky 11541621068
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is just shameful. We have treated these people appallingly - excluding them from a vote on their own futures, ignoring the commitments we had made that led them to be here in the first place and now THIS?!! 050
Reposted by Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New blog - Regulatory Policy Impact or Coincidence? @hepi-news.bsky.social published a blog in June from @smitajamdar.bsky.social and me about the need for some significant regulatory housekeeping at the OfS - there have now been some changes... wonderfulhighered.com/2026/07/28/r...wonderfulhighered.comRegulatory Policy Impact or Coincidence?A blog about some regulatory housekeeping in the form of long overdue updates required to the OfS Regulatory Framework was published by HEPI in June. In July, there were some very welcome changes t… 011
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026So weird that America has destroyed itself all because so many people couldn’t cope with a black man in charge. 020
