John Herbert

Award winning design engineer, based in Hong Kong. BEAM Professional since 2010

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

Are we gonna get a headline next year about how Chicago ended up paying a billion to Anthropic and so have to shut down all their humanities departments?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

French authorities said Wednesday that they had imposed two fines on Shein totalling more than 22 million euros (US$25.5 million), citing problems with product traceability, environmental labelling and delivery times.

🔗 In full: https://t.co/KcAHdRINqn

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

They gave her back the money they stole. At 93, she is still waiting for compensation.

[Erik Lindberg @ErikLindy]

@robinmonotti They’re still teaching this nonsense in schools. And the kids believe it.

[csz @cszabla]

look that server space and power is needed for AI to rot brains

[Brandon @b3108]

🇭🇰 UPDATE 3-Jun-2026

"Potty-mouthed" LEE Cheuk-Hing is school principal no more, with immediate effect - sacked by the school board which has rejected his letter of resignation (which he had proposed to come into effect on 31-Aug-2026).

https://t.co/MeMUTR6ndo

[Brandon @b3108]

I cannot possibly imagine what @nivayau will make of all this "closer integration" between the two...

[Patrick 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇭🇰☦️ @welshpaddy92]

@johnherbert Now they need to learn Arab and Kazakh? Most drivers don’t even like up picking up gweilos because they don’t want to speak English lol

[anon743 @anon7431]

@johnherbert @CindyWan19 I wonder what the point is as well, esp. since some garment material has little to no effective ventilation and such. Maybe the inner liner is meshed instead?

[Brandon @b3108]

@johnherbert @CindyWan19 Have seen this sort of gear being rolled out in some construction sites over the past year.

[Phil Lo @PhilLoHKG]

@johnherbert Seriously John, are you expecting our bureaucratic to come up with new ideas?

[Mr EfffSola @MrEfffSola]

@kjoules @johnherbert Someone should check in with the maintenance contractor

[The Grouch @TheGrouchHK]

@johnherbert Let's start with English...

[Cindy Wan @CindyWan19]

@johnherbert Exactly

[John Herbert @johnherbert]

I reckon taxi drivers have enough problems trying to drive without learning Kazakh to cope with the influx of tourists #tourisum

https://t.co/2Lad9zKlWl

[Lee @LP1980AA]

@johnherbert Correction : HK leaders willing to take advice from anybody other than experts. What legionella problem there is no problem!

[John Herbert @johnherbert]

New Delhi hotel fire killed at least 21, and 40 injured #firesafety

https://t.co/iuKroyAk6F

[Unfelt Sorrow 🕊🕊🕊 @unfeltsorrow]

@AJEnglish As of June 1, over a million Lebanese have been displaced & more than 3,300 killed since the beginning of March. On the Israeli side, 24 soldiers & 4 civilians have been killed in the same time period.
https://t.co/zXRsyo9EZa

[Old Bear @BigBearButt]

I went to the Asian buffet at 1:30 today, and as I grabbed a booth I looked around and thought, “wow, there sure are a lot of old people here. In fact, it’s all old people.”

Then I stopped for a moment as realization set in.

“Oh. Oh no. Ah fucking hell, man.”