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John Lockhart
@drjohnlockhart.bsky.social
Social sciences academic · community educator
Academic interests: international social work · community work · critical pedagogy · social economy
Advocacy: progressive internationalist · social justice · climate justice · global justice
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Labour let the last Tory Govt pass repressive anti protest laws.
Some of us Peers tried to stop the worst measures with a Fatal Motion I tabled, but Labour refused to support it.
Now in power, they are happy to use these laws against us.
February 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"Meta’s latest microblogging platform tops the list of invasive apps that collect and share 86 per cent of the user data with third parties.... The report also suggests that Threads... is said to collect 72 per cent more personal data than X."
indianexpress.com/article/tech...
Facebook, Instagram, & Threads reported to be among the top invasive data collectors app list
As per the report, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger collects 86 per cent of personal data
indianexpress.com
October 31, 2023 at 9:36 AM
This post by Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, looks back thirty years and includes part of a speech he gave in 1994:
"Once unbottled, mass resentment can poison the very fabric of society — the moral integrity of society.”
post.news/@/rbreich/2X...
Thirty years later
By Robert Reich Friends, As Israel readies a ground invasion of Gaza — which in my view is likely to be a dreadful mistake, substituting revenge for strategy and killing many more thousands of innoc...
post.news
October 23, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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"Good morning"

Replies:

Mastodon - "Depends what you mean by good, and which time zone you're in"

Threads - "Please leave that passive aggressive stuff at the bird site, thank you"

Bluesky - "Yay, this is just like Twitter in old days when we said good morning to each other whatever time it was"
October 9, 2023 at 7:35 AM
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Sharing plates, tapas etc give me serious anxiety. I am crap with social cues and have serious issues with food textures. They leave me in a panic about how much I should or should not eat, why people are eating what I ordered etc. I end up not eating and just wanting to curl up in a ball and cry.
October 21, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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There's a delicious sense of justice here. The Uxbridge win led Sunak to adopt a posture of increasingly aggressive climate sabotage - cancelling HS2, weakening carbon commitments, inventing imaginary wars on motorists and meat-eaters.
October 20, 2023 at 8:31 AM
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Yet again, I continue to marvel at the persistence of the human belief that a better world is just a few more murders away.
October 11, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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When Sarah Waters and I heard that a headteacher had killed herself after an Ofsted inspection we started digging. What we found was deeply concerning. Ofsted must accept a duty of care to teachers and all work-related suicides must be investigated

https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1147
Ofsted: a case of official negligence?
Ruth Perry took her own life on 8 January 2023. She was the headteacher of Caversham Primary School in Reading, England, and, six weeks earlier, her school had been inspected by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). The previous assessment, which had graded the school as “outstanding,” was downgraded to “Inadequate,” 1 and Perry’s family believes that the associated stress led to her suicide.2 Whenever events at someone’s work seem to be linked to their suicide, it is reasonable to expect that everyone involved will want to find out what happened and how a similar event can be prevented from happening again. Yet, even though the link between adverse working conditions and suicide is well established, regulations requiring reporting of work related deaths to the Health and Safety Executive in Great Britain specifically exclude suicides.3 This is different from many other countries.4 In France, for example, if there is even a suggestion of a link between suicide and working conditions, the burden of proof falls on the employer to …
www.bmj.com
May 22, 2023 at 5:29 AM
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National Trust Members! The organisation needs you and your votes to head off efforts to take over the board by candidates promoted by Farage & REES Mogg

These are who NOT to vote for

I shall take you through voting & the NT memberahip board’s recommended candidates next.

It doesn’t take long!
September 20, 2023 at 9:16 AM
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social makes a powerful case here for how Sunak's lies are even more damaging than Johnson's youtu.be/jqxz3IML7wg?...
Rishi Sunak: A Liar and a Conman
Rishi Sunak is lying to you. He is lying through his teeth. And he's trying to throw your future under a bus for short term political gain. Don't let him get...
youtu.be
September 22, 2023 at 9:35 PM
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Love him or loathe him, Rory Stewart’s book (Politics on the Edge) is entertaining and appalling in equal measure. Yes, it’s telling us things we already knew to be true; no, that doesn’t soften the impact. British politics is unsalvageable. Scots, get out as soon as you can. Sauve qui peut.
September 21, 2023 at 10:26 PM
New Statesman: Liz Truss’s return is a gift to Labour
Some Tory voices want Rishi Sunak to bar Truss from standing as a Conservative candidate at the next election. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023...
September 21, 2023 at 10:04 PM
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ICYMI, I have a new article in BJPS: "Social Pressure in the International Human Rights Regime"!

Building on two ISQ articles, Zvobgo et al. (2020) and Eldredge & Shannon (2022), we explain why states lift treaty reservations and improve their legal commitments. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

#polisky
September 21, 2023 at 5:24 PM
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Everyone, when the Tories use the word 'Free', it means the opposite of what most people associate, it means private, it means charter, it means deregulation, it means beyond big Govt, it means destroying the public sector, it means far-right libertarian.
August 23, 2023 at 10:27 AM
For Mastodon users, some significant improvements are coming in the new release @nwhyte.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/m...
September 21, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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“If they go after Trump for this, they could go after anyone!”

Congratulations! You have accurately summarized rule of law.
August 2, 2023 at 3:38 PM
This report on Channel 4 News yesterday gives a shocking account of the demolition of the homes and businesses of Muslims in India under the BJP
www.channel4.com/news/modis-b...
September 6, 2023 at 12:05 PM
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Social media in the age of Mastodon and Bluesky

fromtheheartofeurope.eu/social-media...

X/Twitter is still going, but on life support. I get the sense that the ownership cares little about providing a good user experience. As Hemingway put it, the end comes in two ways: gradually, then suddenly.
Social media in the age of Mastodon and Bluesky
Dear H, You kindly asked me to contribute my thoughts on social media in the Brussels bubble following the decline of X/Twitter. I’m afraid I’ve missed your deadline – first week …
fromtheheartofeurope.eu
September 3, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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Thanks to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling this May, the EPA was forced to remove protections from most of America's wetlands this week.

Harlan Crow's firm lobbied for the rollback while he secretly plied Justice Thomas with gifts.

Anyone see a problem here?
August 31, 2023 at 7:14 PM