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Heather Burns
@heatherburnstech.bsky.social
freelance tech policy x digital rights / human rights / good trouble / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work / 🇺🇦 / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Thirty thousand
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Keep trying.
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I needed that laugh.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My all time top comment was that I was a "non-tech Yoko Ono fellating the government"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Me trying to explain absolutely anything about tech regulation in 2025
a man is standing in front of a bulletin board with a picture of a spider and the words pepe silvia on it
ALT: a man is standing in front of a bulletin board with a picture of a spider and the words pepe silvia on it
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yes, this is what happens when local libraries station a G4S rent-a-cop at the front to bounce any teenager who dares to attempt to enter the building, on the presumption of their guilt, in the hours when the library is actually open.
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
…it’s almost as if the years of hand-wringing moral panic about The Children were more about creating a captive market for AI-enabled surveillance technology vendors than protecting the actual wellbeing of young people…
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Following in the footsteps of the 50-year-long investigative journalism partnership of Duncan Campbell and Duncan Campbell. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How a proposed secrecy law would recast journalism as spying | Duncan Campbell and Duncan Campbell
Home Office plans would remove the public interest defence for whistleblowing, say writers Duncan Campbell and Duncan Campbell
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Enter a certain full time professional grieving mother who is a paid lobbyist for those companies, presenting their marketing as a grassroots campaign in her daughter’s memory.
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a non-adwalled story complete with cameo appearance by Benjamin Franklin

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Southport victims' families say killer's parents 'failed'
Reacting to the parents' evidence to an inquiry, the Stancombe family say:
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I think some people looked at me funny when I announced I’d be doing an MPhil on this topic. Now do you get it?
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Someone could do a dissertation on how the worldview which shaped the OSA, and the women/children aspects in particular, was and remains the exclusive preserve of upper middle class hobbyist white women in zones 1 and 2.
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Heather Burns
Also this video is weirdly American for a British politician to have created.

“What are u gonna wear to class tomorrow?”
- probably a school uniform, because we’re in the UK.

“I’ll pick you up in the parking lot.”
- no u won’t, Chad, because this is Birmingham and we call it a car park
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM