Lisa Riemers
lisariemers.bsky.social
Lisa Riemers
@lisariemers.bsky.social
User-centred accessible content design, communications, community, intranet and digital workplace shenanigans. Bringing people together in pubs in SE London #ItsPubOClock. Artist who frequents the London Colour Walk.
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If you're looking to make your content and communications more accessible, I have resources to help! This page has links to accessibility guidance, reports, resources and you can also pre-order my and @matissenelis.com book lisariemers.com/index.php/20... #Accessibility #A11y #ContentDesign #Comms
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On the grounds that my vet gives my cats my surname, I will argue that the monster’s name is also Frankenstein
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Back to the fuschia…
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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8th November 2025 07.03
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Hello Fedifriends in #japan 🙂

Would you like to meet for a beer?

My wife and I are going to be visiting #tokyo, #kyoto, and #osaka in a few weeks time. It would be lovely to meet you, have dinner / drinks somewhere local, and see your beautiful cities.

DM me for dates.

We did this on our […]
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November 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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It's about ethics in entomology etymology
I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant.

Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Gamergate - Wikipedia
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November 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Waiting for a bus, heard a parakeet yelling, watched how it was flying behind [maybe chasing] an entire flock of pigeons.

While at my desk earlier I saw some leaves flying vertically up past my window earlier.

Fell up the stairs at the station.

Friday is a ~vibe~
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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👏👏👏 Eltham Library

Spotter: @itspuboclock.bsky.social

#deserterism 🙏🏻
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I have the memory of an elephant. It was grey, I think.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"It’s the intangible vibe that makes a pub, not the building itself".
@thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social and The Rusty Bucket(s) are my fave spaces. One a converted bank, one a much smaller version of the former pub, one a railway arch. Immaculate vibes, like this read @pelliclemag.com #ItsPubOClock
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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i've been saying it for years: it is a moral imperative to post your lunch
Fewer people are talking, and those who are are more politically extreme. And it they're not saliva extreme, they're an advertisement for something you don't need. That the biggest change in online spaces in the last few years. We've got to bring back mundane normie posting
In short, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I regret to inform you that Knomo have a sale on mere weeks after I upgraded to my new one knomo.com/collections/...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Honey, who was sold for £400 in a car park and turned out to be both pregnant and epileptic, has single-pawedly spent our whole operations fund. Help please? 😬
Our operations fund disappeared overnight
We recently took in a beautiful British shorthair called Honey who was sold for £400 in a car park. Her new owner quickly found that she was a) pregnant and b) epileptic. She gave birth to 10 kittens, of which 8 survived. When they'd all been sold, her new owner decided she didn't want her anymore because of her (untreated!) seizures. And so she came to us. We took her to the vets and ordered some phenobarbital, which we've used with great success on two other epileptic cats. However, before it came in, poor Honey had a severe seizure and then two more in the space of a day. Our fosterer took her to the emergency vet, where she had to be kept in on an IV to get her phenobarbital level up quickly to stop the seizures. She's recovering beautifully, but her treatment has completely emptied our bank account, and we had quite a few operations planned that we still need to do: - Lemon, an old lady found on the street needs a full dental and a scan to find out why she's so wheezy - Thomasina, another golden oldie stray, needs a full dental now she's stable on her thyroid meds - Lenny, who spent 2 years wobbling on the streets, needs his neuter and jabs - Sabrina, who survived the panleukopenia that killed her kittens, needs her spay and jabs - Kirby, a sweet grey wobbler, needs his neuter and jabs - Boots, a handsome orange boy who recently spent his 14th birthday outside as his owners didn't want him anymore, needs a fair bit of treatment, plus a birthday party! If you can help with any of this, we would hugely appreciate it. I'm taking some of my jewellery to be sold at the weekend but I don't think it's worth very much unfortunately. I'm really glad we could help stop Honey's constant scary, debilitating seizures, so I know we did the right thing. It's just that the others have been waiting so patiently for their treatment so they can find wonderful new homes, and I don't want to let them down. Thank you. Love Holly and the moggies x
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October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Accessibility is more than just a checkbox exercise. Forward-thinking organisations are embedding it into their operations to unlock innovation, expand market reach, and build resilience. Check out this piece @matissenelis.com and I wrote: worldfinancialreview.com/the-hidden-b... #a11y
Building Accessibility: A Hidden Business Advantage - The World Financial Review
Learn how integrating accessibility as a core business principle drives inclusion, innovation, and long-term competitive advantage.
worldfinancialreview.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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We love @pelliclemag.com and the writing is brilliant - take a look and subscribe if you can to support more great writing about beer and hospitality and things that are interesting
Good morning from my inbox where I have 14 (fourteen) pitches I would like to commission, but I don't have the budget to fund any of them. I keep banging on about this, but @pelliclemag.com needs more subscribers if it is to continue. Please spread the word.

Patreon.com/pelliclemag
Get more from Pellicle on Patreon
Creating an award-winning drinks magazine and podcast
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October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I miss people using Photoshop to make batshit crazy images. It was funnier. There is also something special about being able to do something lots of people cannot do. Makes the final product worth looking at. You can see the work
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Useful thread that explains why basically everything relies on the hyperscalers, which in turn is why so much stuff went down when AWS's DNS threw a wobbly.
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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if the cat is going to sit in my office chair the very least she could do is some admin
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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A deeply misleading headline.

It’s a 15 site limited trial of the potential for image recognition to speed the analysis of MRI scans.

Press coverage of prostate cancer has become increasingly problematic.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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And this morning the Shed is a lighthouse, counting the slices of darkness…
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
That edgy waiting game of enough time for herding but not too long in the carrier pre-vet appt
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Join me and the crispy crew for snack chat, vents about work and sitting with actual 3d humans in proper good indy establishments in SE London
Join us for #ItsPubOClock:

Oct:
Thurs 30th - @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social in SE3 (GG)

November
Thurs 20th - Pub O'Clock x Deserter x Beaujolais Nouveau at GG
Thurs 27th - The Rusty Bucket, SE9

December
Thurs 4th - Crispmas at Rusty Bucket SE9
Thurs 18th - Alternative Crispmas Message at GG
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM