Tom Fisher
drsamaki.bsky.social
Tom Fisher
@drsamaki.bsky.social
OfDIA/DSIT. Ex-Privacy International. PhD African Studies from University of Edinburgh. Posts on digital identity, DPI, and human rights. Views own.
You’ve earned enough credit by now that I let “favourably quoting the guy who wrote 1421” slide.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We’d miss you, Gary!
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I might be being unfair, given that the name:
A) originated, as I understand it, with African Americans;
B) it is appropriate to have a name so closely linked to a particular time and place as Thom shows; and
C) Charles Lindbergh’s views weren’t known at the time.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
But: I’m sorry, I have trouble getting over the name, and the grim irony of something so wedded to African America experience and the Harlem Renaissance is associated with an America First Nazi sympathiser.

Maybe a rebrand is in order?
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
They’ve also gone to lengths to capitalise the ‘W’, putting it at the start of a verb-less sentence - grammar be damned - after what clearly should have been a colon.
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This article also flagged to me how many US systems break with the end of birthright citizenship.
June 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It wouldn’t get very far, with great big gaps in its wings (which would be far too heavy anyway). Which means people would be able to catch them easily to harvest them for their wool. We’d end up with factory farms of woven butterflies. Not a pleasant thought.
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Calmly watch Mr Tumble with a nice glass of warm ketamine.
June 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM