Dermot Jones
@dermotjones.bsky.social
Innovation & Development lead/founder @therepairooms.bsky.social
Maker and Facilitator
I also draw, write, strum and holler a little too
Founder: @Repairclub @LDN_Makerspace @LDN_MakerFest | views r mine, all mine
Maker and Facilitator
I also draw, write, strum and holler a little too
Founder: @Repairclub @LDN_Makerspace @LDN_MakerFest | views r mine, all mine
The return of the UCL repair café - I have great memories of a previous one where a mech eng technician fired up a lathe and turned new bushings for a broken pram wheel on the spot...something we can't do in a church hall(!)- so good to see these skills and resources shared with the local community
We have people booked to bring broken food processors, favourite jumpers with damaged zips, and ailing plants. Don't miss this opportunity to repair your stuff with the help of 40 technicians and makers. Repair Café | Sustainable UCL - share.google/2qFlWYPHRPLs...
Repair Café
Bring your broken or damaged possessions to our UCL Repair Café event at UCL East Marshgate on Friday, 7th November.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The return of the UCL repair café - I have great memories of a previous one where a mech eng technician fired up a lathe and turned new bushings for a broken pram wheel on the spot...something we can't do in a church hall(!)- so good to see these skills and resources shared with the local community
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500+ orgs from around the world - including US PIRG, @therestartproject.org, @ifixit.com, Euroconsumers, Repair.org and Consumer Reports - are advocating for repair and reuse by signing an open letter to @microsoft.com, calling for them to extend free and automatic updates for Windows 10
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
500+ orgs from around the world - including US PIRG, @therestartproject.org, @ifixit.com, Euroconsumers, Repair.org and Consumer Reports - are advocating for repair and reuse by signing an open letter to @microsoft.com, calling for them to extend free and automatic updates for Windows 10
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I have a whole range of observations about digital ID, but the main one is it's a mistake to launch a complex, measurable, highly scrutinisable infrastructure project to achieve a specific measurable target when there is no evidence that the complex project will result in the measurable outcome
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have a whole range of observations about digital ID, but the main one is it's a mistake to launch a complex, measurable, highly scrutinisable infrastructure project to achieve a specific measurable target when there is no evidence that the complex project will result in the measurable outcome
This is at least a small bit of good news - only in the European Economic Area, and only for a year...but it could be the start of a U-turn...
#righttorepair
#righttorepair
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is at least a small bit of good news - only in the European Economic Area, and only for a year...but it could be the start of a U-turn...
#righttorepair
#righttorepair
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🚨4 weeks until @microsoft.com ends free support for Windows 10, making 400 million PCs obsolete. And - ironically - it's happening on #EWasteDay, just days before #RepairDay.
We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below
We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨4 weeks until @microsoft.com ends free support for Windows 10, making 400 million PCs obsolete. And - ironically - it's happening on #EWasteDay, just days before #RepairDay.
We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below
We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below
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As someone who has been Extremely Online for more than 25 yrs, whose working life is one long hunt for weak signals/what's next, my advice for folks in the UK who don't really need to be on top of the news on an ongoing basis is to spend some regular time tuning out over the next few days
September 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
As someone who has been Extremely Online for more than 25 yrs, whose working life is one long hunt for weak signals/what's next, my advice for folks in the UK who don't really need to be on top of the news on an ongoing basis is to spend some regular time tuning out over the next few days
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When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Looking forward to FixFest 2025 this Friday and Sat
I'll be there representing The Repair Rooms, and share a decade of experience in community repair, and setting up permanent fixing workshops
Keen to meet like minds from across the fixing firmament
#righttorepair
fixfest.therestartproject.org
I'll be there representing The Repair Rooms, and share a decade of experience in community repair, and setting up permanent fixing workshops
Keen to meet like minds from across the fixing firmament
#righttorepair
fixfest.therestartproject.org
Home - Fixfest
Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, and companies from all over the world.
fixfest.therestartproject.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Looking forward to FixFest 2025 this Friday and Sat
I'll be there representing The Repair Rooms, and share a decade of experience in community repair, and setting up permanent fixing workshops
Keen to meet like minds from across the fixing firmament
#righttorepair
fixfest.therestartproject.org
I'll be there representing The Repair Rooms, and share a decade of experience in community repair, and setting up permanent fixing workshops
Keen to meet like minds from across the fixing firmament
#righttorepair
fixfest.therestartproject.org
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The global repair festival Fixfest begins next Friday. Highly recommended! I will be there talking about Right to Repair. fixfest.therestartproject.org
Home - Fixfest
Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, and companies from all over the world.
fixfest.therestartproject.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The global repair festival Fixfest begins next Friday. Highly recommended! I will be there talking about Right to Repair. fixfest.therestartproject.org
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Indonesia’s 100 GW solar + 320 GWh BESS push is world-beating—bringing clean power, jobs, and energy independence to 80,000 villages. A giant leap for rural access & socioeconomic growth, and a massive step in the nation’s energy transition. ⚡🌞 #Renewables #BESS #LFP #Lithium #Solar
Indonesia new programme targets 100GW solar PV, 320GWh BESS
The government of Indonesia has launched a programme that aims to build 100GW of solar PV and 320GWh BESS in the coming years.
www.pv-tech.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Indonesia’s 100 GW solar + 320 GWh BESS push is world-beating—bringing clean power, jobs, and energy independence to 80,000 villages. A giant leap for rural access & socioeconomic growth, and a massive step in the nation’s energy transition. ⚡🌞 #Renewables #BESS #LFP #Lithium #Solar
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Happy Age Verification Day! I'm quoted in this vg Wired piece on why it's all sort of a hot mess. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...
The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.
www.wired.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Happy Age Verification Day! I'm quoted in this vg Wired piece on why it's all sort of a hot mess. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...
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🧐 𝗙𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹'𝘀 𝗣𝗥 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝟯𝟬.
In a bizarre choice by the United Nations, one of the world's most notorious greenwashing agencies will be working on COP30. 🧵 1/7
In a bizarre choice by the United Nations, one of the world's most notorious greenwashing agencies will be working on COP30. 🧵 1/7
PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract
As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...
www.climatechangenews.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🧐 𝗙𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹'𝘀 𝗣𝗥 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝟯𝟬.
In a bizarre choice by the United Nations, one of the world's most notorious greenwashing agencies will be working on COP30. 🧵 1/7
In a bizarre choice by the United Nations, one of the world's most notorious greenwashing agencies will be working on COP30. 🧵 1/7
Oh, this is delicious!
I’ve written about TV’s best and worst historical epics
TV’s best (and worst) historical epics: from Wolf Hall to I, Claudius
July 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oh, this is delicious!
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Our Big Repair Project results are published today. Our data shows that citizens want repairable electricals, they want them to last 5-10 years and are keen to repair them. Data here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
May 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our Big Repair Project results are published today. Our data shows that citizens want repairable electricals, they want them to last 5-10 years and are keen to repair them. Data here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
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If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill in this survey and share with others www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
Survey: Society for Hopeful Technologists — Careful Industries
Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Complete this survey to help shape the Society for Hopef...
www.careful.industries
April 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill in this survey and share with others www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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We want to make this HUGE!
Together with allies we are calling on Keir Starmer to deliver a transition plan for oil workers to move into secure green jobs,
Sign the petition to show your support
act.foe.scot/help_stop_ne...
#JustTransitionNow
Together with allies we are calling on Keir Starmer to deliver a transition plan for oil workers to move into secure green jobs,
Sign the petition to show your support
act.foe.scot/help_stop_ne...
#JustTransitionNow
Urge the UK Government to stop new oil & gas for good
Urge the UK Government to stop new oil & gas for good. ✍️ Sign the petition
act.foe.scot
April 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We want to make this HUGE!
Together with allies we are calling on Keir Starmer to deliver a transition plan for oil workers to move into secure green jobs,
Sign the petition to show your support
act.foe.scot/help_stop_ne...
#JustTransitionNow
Together with allies we are calling on Keir Starmer to deliver a transition plan for oil workers to move into secure green jobs,
Sign the petition to show your support
act.foe.scot/help_stop_ne...
#JustTransitionNow
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If you are a British trans person, today join a trade union. If they come for you in the workplace, you will need a big stick.
When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.
When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.
April 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you are a British trans person, today join a trade union. If they come for you in the workplace, you will need a big stick.
When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.
When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.
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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW: "Rep. Keith Self decided it would be appropriate to quote Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels....I think his intention was to compare *me* to Goebbels....For next time, Rep. Self: If you have to explain why you’re quoting a Nazi, perhaps don’t quote a Nazi."
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com 🔥
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com 🔥
Republicans Are Obsessed with a Censorship Lie
They’re even eager to namedrop Goebbels—but they blithely ignore the urgent First Amendment threats posed by Trump.
www.thebulwark.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
NEW: "Rep. Keith Self decided it would be appropriate to quote Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels....I think his intention was to compare *me* to Goebbels....For next time, Rep. Self: If you have to explain why you’re quoting a Nazi, perhaps don’t quote a Nazi."
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com 🔥
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com 🔥
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.