Lori Topper
@lipsticklori.bsky.social
Midlife work-in-progress human. Writer in search of a new project. Works in HE. Attempting to navigate perimenopause in style (51, bi, polyam, agender, she/they)
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2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution
2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party
Protecting women and children, is it?
2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party
Protecting women and children, is it?
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution
2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party
Protecting women and children, is it?
2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party
Protecting women and children, is it?
Okay, let’s try this writing thing again. lipsticklori.substack.com/p/twenty-six...
Twenty Sixteen
Is 2026 the new 2016? I think not.
lipsticklori.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Okay, let’s try this writing thing again. lipsticklori.substack.com/p/twenty-six...
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza. One of Palantir’s founders is also openly against the NHS. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza. One of Palantir’s founders is also openly against the NHS. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
Sad news, but what a wonderful body of work he leaves is with. www.vogue.com/article/mart...
Photographer Martin Parr, Chronicler of the Beauty and Banality of British Life, Dies at 73
The British photographer has passed away, leaving behind a humorous—and highly saturated—legacy.
www.vogue.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sad news, but what a wonderful body of work he leaves is with. www.vogue.com/article/mart...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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Zack Polanski with the truth.
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Zack Polanski with the truth.
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I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”
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Reposting a day late. Mostly because the rejection sensitive dysphoria played me hard yesterday and I wanted to see how people felt about the piece first. Thank you to so many of the wonderful comments and emails so far! ☺️
🛋️ We’ve refurbished & redecorated… and our blog’s back! A new home for big ideas in Research Culture 🎉
First through the door is our very own @emilyennis.bsky.social . Her first post for Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🩷💜💙 explores what research culture can learn from living in the in-between…
First through the door is our very own @emilyennis.bsky.social . Her first post for Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🩷💜💙 explores what research culture can learn from living in the in-between…
September 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposting a day late. Mostly because the rejection sensitive dysphoria played me hard yesterday and I wanted to see how people felt about the piece first. Thank you to so many of the wonderful comments and emails so far! ☺️
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Cats say a £22bn investment in Dreamies and new Catnip technologies will boost Britain's economy in the next few years
Microsoft says its new £22bn investment in the UK's AI sector should boost Britain's economy in next few years
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
AI could boost UK economy by 10% in 5 years, says Microsoft boss
Boss Satya Nadella said it was the biggest investment the firm had made outside of the US.
www.bbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Cats say a £22bn investment in Dreamies and new Catnip technologies will boost Britain's economy in the next few years
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In London, hate will never win.
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In London, hate will never win.
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
Fancied learning something new today so I opened up LinkedIn Learning. The clearly AI generated “career goal” thing is useless. Assistant Researcher is not my current role. It’s taking “Personal Assistant, Research and Innovation Service” from my profile and failing to understand 🙄
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Fancied learning something new today so I opened up LinkedIn Learning. The clearly AI generated “career goal” thing is useless. Assistant Researcher is not my current role. It’s taking “Personal Assistant, Research and Innovation Service” from my profile and failing to understand 🙄
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Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain
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i've joined @wearequeeraf.com as their lead investigative journalist. it feels exciting and timely to be coming on board now given how vital it is at this moment for us to have independent and rigorous queer media.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
i've joined @wearequeeraf.com as their lead investigative journalist. it feels exciting and timely to be coming on board now given how vital it is at this moment for us to have independent and rigorous queer media.
read my stories in the QueerAF newsletter – it's free!
wearequeeraf.com/subscribe
read my stories in the QueerAF newsletter – it's free!
wearequeeraf.com/subscribe
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June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’ve received an email about this survey now, so will be ensuring that I also ask for this.
Dear BBC I know you are doing a survey, a pointless ‘seen to be consulting us’ survey. Do you know what I want on my BBC?
A proportional representation of political parties. Based on their seats in parliament, not their click bait ratio.
Stop doing free PR for the Reform party on MY licence fee.
A proportional representation of political parties. Based on their seats in parliament, not their click bait ratio.
Stop doing free PR for the Reform party on MY licence fee.
May 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I’ve received an email about this survey now, so will be ensuring that I also ask for this.
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I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The people refusing to use AI
Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.
www.bbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
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Ladies: if you were on Twitter but have your account dormant, please delete all your selfies and any other photos where you’re visible (and thus able to be edited on Grok). If you’re about to delete your account make sure you delete photos of yourself too.
the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
www.404media.co
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ladies: if you were on Twitter but have your account dormant, please delete all your selfies and any other photos where you’re visible (and thus able to be edited on Grok). If you’re about to delete your account make sure you delete photos of yourself too.
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So the EHRC wants to turn the clocks back to 1969, and now I'm blogging like it's 2012:
cnlester.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/t...
I had too many thoughts on the transphobic direction of travel to fit it into one message. I hope it helps.
cnlester.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/t...
I had too many thoughts on the transphobic direction of travel to fit it into one message. I hope it helps.
Turning the clock back on trans rights
If you’re a trans person in the UK – love one, or even like one – then you will have already seen the transphobic guidance released by Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC): a cowardly releas…
cnlester.wordpress.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So the EHRC wants to turn the clocks back to 1969, and now I'm blogging like it's 2012:
cnlester.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/t...
I had too many thoughts on the transphobic direction of travel to fit it into one message. I hope it helps.
cnlester.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/t...
I had too many thoughts on the transphobic direction of travel to fit it into one message. I hope it helps.
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Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l
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You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Just heard the news headlines on 6Music and the story about today’s supreme court ruling was accompanied by a clip from trans-exclusionary group LGB Alliance. When will the BBC realise that providing “balance” shouldn’t mean platforming hate? (Also, trans people’s right to exist is not a “debate”!)
April 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just heard the news headlines on 6Music and the story about today’s supreme court ruling was accompanied by a clip from trans-exclusionary group LGB Alliance. When will the BBC realise that providing “balance” shouldn’t mean platforming hate? (Also, trans people’s right to exist is not a “debate”!)