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edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
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· Oct 18
I like to re-share this picture of me presenting at Google to an audience including the FBI, because yes, I will fight for digital rights and better privacy and security by design. And I will have great hair while I rip apart tech bro work and egos. Especially edtech egos.
Things we don’t need in UK education this year:
- Teacher Tapp surveys
- inaccessible documents
- burnout culture
- anything ai
- filming in classrooms or schools
- zero tolerance
- people who don’t want to admit the system itself is broken
- unregulated edtech
- “consultants” from Twitter
- Teacher Tapp surveys
- inaccessible documents
- burnout culture
- anything ai
- filming in classrooms or schools
- zero tolerance
- people who don’t want to admit the system itself is broken
- unregulated edtech
- “consultants” from Twitter
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Things we don’t need in UK education this year:
- Teacher Tapp surveys
- inaccessible documents
- burnout culture
- anything ai
- filming in classrooms or schools
- zero tolerance
- people who don’t want to admit the system itself is broken
- unregulated edtech
- “consultants” from Twitter
- Teacher Tapp surveys
- inaccessible documents
- burnout culture
- anything ai
- filming in classrooms or schools
- zero tolerance
- people who don’t want to admit the system itself is broken
- unregulated edtech
- “consultants” from Twitter
ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...
On the #SEND crisis: one thing that bothers me about education is how many edu folk share resources that are absolutely not accessible. Fancy fonts etc.
This guide by @martinnutbeem.bsky.social is something I think more educators should implement.
On the #SEND crisis: one thing that bothers me about education is how many edu folk share resources that are absolutely not accessible. Fancy fonts etc.
This guide by @martinnutbeem.bsky.social is something I think more educators should implement.
ukhomeoffice.github.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...
On the #SEND crisis: one thing that bothers me about education is how many edu folk share resources that are absolutely not accessible. Fancy fonts etc.
This guide by @martinnutbeem.bsky.social is something I think more educators should implement.
On the #SEND crisis: one thing that bothers me about education is how many edu folk share resources that are absolutely not accessible. Fancy fonts etc.
This guide by @martinnutbeem.bsky.social is something I think more educators should implement.
as an example of how social media has warped us: in 2018 a private landlord would only rent to me because he saw me on LinkedIn. And I was connected to people he “knew”.
My friend has an account for his CAT,I get work anniversary and promotion notifications on LinkedIn. But sure, it is “credible”
My friend has an account for his CAT,I get work anniversary and promotion notifications on LinkedIn. But sure, it is “credible”
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 AM
as an example of how social media has warped us: in 2018 a private landlord would only rent to me because he saw me on LinkedIn. And I was connected to people he “knew”.
My friend has an account for his CAT,I get work anniversary and promotion notifications on LinkedIn. But sure, it is “credible”
My friend has an account for his CAT,I get work anniversary and promotion notifications on LinkedIn. But sure, it is “credible”
Twitter like all socials is a bubble
Cambridge analytica showed that.
Something like 98% of twitter posts in 2017 were by 4% of account holders.
The average Joe doesn’t use it. But the public sector is told, for some reason, to use socials. Idk why. I can guess. But it needs to stop.
Cambridge analytica showed that.
Something like 98% of twitter posts in 2017 were by 4% of account holders.
The average Joe doesn’t use it. But the public sector is told, for some reason, to use socials. Idk why. I can guess. But it needs to stop.
Lost amid the discussion of why the Government should get off X is its utter uselessness as an engagement tool and the fact departments are wasting vast sums making content for it. Take this:
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Twitter like all socials is a bubble
Cambridge analytica showed that.
Something like 98% of twitter posts in 2017 were by 4% of account holders.
The average Joe doesn’t use it. But the public sector is told, for some reason, to use socials. Idk why. I can guess. But it needs to stop.
Cambridge analytica showed that.
Something like 98% of twitter posts in 2017 were by 4% of account holders.
The average Joe doesn’t use it. But the public sector is told, for some reason, to use socials. Idk why. I can guess. But it needs to stop.
The adults have spent an entire year or more telling everyone that phones and social media is bad
And yet not a single one of those very people can remove themselves from a social media app that is causing harm
It speaks volumes. And btw the kids aren’t on twitter, or Facebook. It is the ADULTS
And yet not a single one of those very people can remove themselves from a social media app that is causing harm
It speaks volumes. And btw the kids aren’t on twitter, or Facebook. It is the ADULTS
January 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The adults have spent an entire year or more telling everyone that phones and social media is bad
And yet not a single one of those very people can remove themselves from a social media app that is causing harm
It speaks volumes. And btw the kids aren’t on twitter, or Facebook. It is the ADULTS
And yet not a single one of those very people can remove themselves from a social media app that is causing harm
It speaks volumes. And btw the kids aren’t on twitter, or Facebook. It is the ADULTS
It is as if it was never about protecting children and always about surveillance and control. If only someone had warned of this.
But what do I know etc etc.
But what do I know etc etc.
January 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
It is as if it was never about protecting children and always about surveillance and control. If only someone had warned of this.
But what do I know etc etc.
But what do I know etc etc.
Didn’t some hedgehog welfare forum and some biking forum in the uk have to shut down due to the OSA, and now we can’t access DM either…..
but somehow the UK government and all the “online harm advocates” are ok with using an app that creates sexual images of women and children.
What a world.
but somehow the UK government and all the “online harm advocates” are ok with using an app that creates sexual images of women and children.
What a world.
January 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Didn’t some hedgehog welfare forum and some biking forum in the uk have to shut down due to the OSA, and now we can’t access DM either…..
but somehow the UK government and all the “online harm advocates” are ok with using an app that creates sexual images of women and children.
What a world.
but somehow the UK government and all the “online harm advocates” are ok with using an app that creates sexual images of women and children.
What a world.
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If only regulators & law enforcement fought against these platforms as much as they do encryption, which protects us all.
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
If only regulators & law enforcement fought against these platforms as much as they do encryption, which protects us all.
What a lot of people don’t understand is that Twitter or other social media “views” and paid for followers can make people money.
It doesn’t matter if they get 10k shares mocking them- they can tell advertisers or clients that they have “engagement”.
So that’s why you should avoid Twitter etc
It doesn’t matter if they get 10k shares mocking them- they can tell advertisers or clients that they have “engagement”.
So that’s why you should avoid Twitter etc
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
What a lot of people don’t understand is that Twitter or other social media “views” and paid for followers can make people money.
It doesn’t matter if they get 10k shares mocking them- they can tell advertisers or clients that they have “engagement”.
So that’s why you should avoid Twitter etc
It doesn’t matter if they get 10k shares mocking them- they can tell advertisers or clients that they have “engagement”.
So that’s why you should avoid Twitter etc
Incredible that in 2005 I was told to stop my class blogs for HW and curriculum resource on Blogspot because they were a “safeguarding risk” (they were not)
And now schools are able to sit on a CSAM generating social media app, while Head Teachers film TikTok video with students
We need a reset
And now schools are able to sit on a CSAM generating social media app, while Head Teachers film TikTok video with students
We need a reset
January 2, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Incredible that in 2005 I was told to stop my class blogs for HW and curriculum resource on Blogspot because they were a “safeguarding risk” (they were not)
And now schools are able to sit on a CSAM generating social media app, while Head Teachers film TikTok video with students
We need a reset
And now schools are able to sit on a CSAM generating social media app, while Head Teachers film TikTok video with students
We need a reset
www.canva.com/design/DAG9Q...?
Here you are, feel free to use the links included even if you don’t want to use the doc. Schools need to know. Drop it into your local Facebook mum parent groups too, challenge them! Make them think about how their use of tech is harming their children
Here you are, feel free to use the links included even if you don’t want to use the doc. Schools need to know. Drop it into your local Facebook mum parent groups too, challenge them! Make them think about how their use of tech is harming their children
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 AM
www.canva.com/design/DAG9Q...?
Here you are, feel free to use the links included even if you don’t want to use the doc. Schools need to know. Drop it into your local Facebook mum parent groups too, challenge them! Make them think about how their use of tech is harming their children
Here you are, feel free to use the links included even if you don’t want to use the doc. Schools need to know. Drop it into your local Facebook mum parent groups too, challenge them! Make them think about how their use of tech is harming their children
I am making a document you can email to schools if you wish, will post shortly - but this is one example article
metro.co.uk/2026/01/02/t...
metro.co.uk/2026/01/02/t...
January 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
I am making a document you can email to schools if you wish, will post shortly - but this is one example article
metro.co.uk/2026/01/02/t...
metro.co.uk/2026/01/02/t...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
We need more people like Tressa and fewer who think that everyone admires a selfie in front of a royal palace and and empire title.
We need more people like Tressa and fewer who think that everyone admires a selfie in front of a royal palace and and empire title.
Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
We need more people like Tressa and fewer who think that everyone admires a selfie in front of a royal palace and and empire title.
We need more people like Tressa and fewer who think that everyone admires a selfie in front of a royal palace and and empire title.
Please do email the main info address at your local schools and also the DfE and inform them that Twitter is being used to make CSAM as well as sexual images of adults, and that they shouldn’t be using it.
Because I guarantee they don’t know.
Because I guarantee they don’t know.
January 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Please do email the main info address at your local schools and also the DfE and inform them that Twitter is being used to make CSAM as well as sexual images of adults, and that they shouldn’t be using it.
Because I guarantee they don’t know.
Because I guarantee they don’t know.
This is something all education staff should listen to
Most-listened Tech Policy Press podcasts of 2025: In June, Justin Hendrix spoke to Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.
Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins.
buff.ly
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
This is something all education staff should listen to
The Samsung and Google ai assistant ads really are for a world where no one has friends, or listens to experts such as chefs, or museum guides.. so basically most tech men. Checks out.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The Samsung and Google ai assistant ads really are for a world where no one has friends, or listens to experts such as chefs, or museum guides.. so basically most tech men. Checks out.
Just a reminder that it takes about ten minutes maximum to change your newsletter from substack to another more ethical provider.
And that should matter to you in 2026
And that should matter to you in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Just a reminder that it takes about ten minutes maximum to change your newsletter from substack to another more ethical provider.
And that should matter to you in 2026
And that should matter to you in 2026
Love it: even more reason to stay home and avoid people.
Also I have playground duty when it is -5 next week. Someone close the schools
Also I have playground duty when it is -5 next week. Someone close the schools
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January 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Love it: even more reason to stay home and avoid people.
Also I have playground duty when it is -5 next week. Someone close the schools
Also I have playground duty when it is -5 next week. Someone close the schools
Now Twitter allows you to make deep fake naked images of any image, why are schools and teachers using it? Let alone meta products ?
buttondown.com/Risu/archive...
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
Teacher? Say no to social media and edtech this year
In 2026, choose joy, stop using ai, social media and please, just use books. I have been thinking about what to write to respond to the latest school...
buttondown.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Now Twitter allows you to make deep fake naked images of any image, why are schools and teachers using it? Let alone meta products ?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is why we can’t have proper online harm and misogyny debates in the U.K. : letting CAMILLA be there, a woman who bullied 19 year old Diana, and who is married into a family that were close friends with Saville, Epstein and more. This family deserve better.
This is why we can’t have proper online harm and misogyny debates in the U.K. : letting CAMILLA be there, a woman who bullied 19 year old Diana, and who is married into a family that were close friends with Saville, Epstein and more. This family deserve better.
Queen praises Hunt family for their bravery after triple murders
Her Majesty shares her own experience of assault in a discussion with John and Amy Hunt about violence against women.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is why we can’t have proper online harm and misogyny debates in the U.K. : letting CAMILLA be there, a woman who bullied 19 year old Diana, and who is married into a family that were close friends with Saville, Epstein and more. This family deserve better.
This is why we can’t have proper online harm and misogyny debates in the U.K. : letting CAMILLA be there, a woman who bullied 19 year old Diana, and who is married into a family that were close friends with Saville, Epstein and more. This family deserve better.
I agree.
I have often been thanked for speaking out. People won’t do it loudly but every time you speak out, calmly say no, it gives others the confidence to do the same. That’s what terrifies tech and gets us the hate- we are stronger together than they are as a few ceo and grifters
I have often been thanked for speaking out. People won’t do it loudly but every time you speak out, calmly say no, it gives others the confidence to do the same. That’s what terrifies tech and gets us the hate- we are stronger together than they are as a few ceo and grifters
Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work).
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December 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I agree.
I have often been thanked for speaking out. People won’t do it loudly but every time you speak out, calmly say no, it gives others the confidence to do the same. That’s what terrifies tech and gets us the hate- we are stronger together than they are as a few ceo and grifters
I have often been thanked for speaking out. People won’t do it loudly but every time you speak out, calmly say no, it gives others the confidence to do the same. That’s what terrifies tech and gets us the hate- we are stronger together than they are as a few ceo and grifters
We used to say Twitter was where you are honest with strangers, Facebook was where you lied to your friends
Now they are all of them apps where your use of them, especially professionally, shows your contempt for anyone marginalised.
Don’t like that? I’m not sorry I said it.
Now they are all of them apps where your use of them, especially professionally, shows your contempt for anyone marginalised.
Don’t like that? I’m not sorry I said it.
December 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We used to say Twitter was where you are honest with strangers, Facebook was where you lied to your friends
Now they are all of them apps where your use of them, especially professionally, shows your contempt for anyone marginalised.
Don’t like that? I’m not sorry I said it.
Now they are all of them apps where your use of them, especially professionally, shows your contempt for anyone marginalised.
Don’t like that? I’m not sorry I said it.
buttondown.com/Risu/archive...
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
Teacher? Say no to social media and edtech this year
In 2026, choose joy, stop using ai, social media and please, just use books. I have been thinking about what to write to respond to the latest school...
buttondown.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
buttondown.com/Risu/archive...
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
Finally finished this after I saw a blog on substack about leaving twitter- educators need to make better tech choices in 2026
No excuses. You can’t give lessons on online harm and then publish on substack or post the football team on Facebook. Or use WhatsApp.
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An analysis of X posts from the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology suggests it is overwhelmingly pro-AI.
I analysed the sentiment of every X post from DSIT that mentioned "AI" this year. Of 122 posts, 110 were positive about AI, and only 7 mentioned its downsides.
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I analysed the sentiment of every X post from DSIT that mentioned "AI" this year. Of 122 posts, 110 were positive about AI, and only 7 mentioned its downsides.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
An analysis of X posts from the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology suggests it is overwhelmingly pro-AI.
I analysed the sentiment of every X post from DSIT that mentioned "AI" this year. Of 122 posts, 110 were positive about AI, and only 7 mentioned its downsides.
🧵 1/2
I analysed the sentiment of every X post from DSIT that mentioned "AI" this year. Of 122 posts, 110 were positive about AI, and only 7 mentioned its downsides.
🧵 1/2
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I created an edtech governance guide which might be of interest to anyone wanting to convince teachers to move away from meta/ twitter/ edtech
I created an edtech governance guide which might be of interest to anyone wanting to convince teachers to move away from meta/ twitter/ edtech
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December 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I created an edtech governance guide which might be of interest to anyone wanting to convince teachers to move away from meta/ twitter/ edtech
I created an edtech governance guide which might be of interest to anyone wanting to convince teachers to move away from meta/ twitter/ edtech