Paul

@bitoclass

SE Londoner, in Lewisham. Been here ages, enjoying the "2008 Twitter" vibes. Interests include: London, transport, politics, food, feminism, music, arts, culture, Manchester, the media. Hoping for Leveson 2

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Paul@bitoclass· 1d

Isn't breaking news meant to be surprising in some way

Breaking news alerts on my phone from both the Guardian and Sky News, saying that the UK is on course to have had its hottest summer on record, according to the Met Office

Paul@bitoclass· 3d

Bleakly amusing getting off a bus at a stop still called Surrey Quays Leisure Park next to this enormous expanse of fenced-off nothing where the leisure park previously stood

A blue building-site kind of fence around a large empty space

Paul@bitoclass· 7d

The legendary YouGov 2019 poll result listing the reasons why people wouldn't want to go to the Moon. I've added an extra reason to the bottom of the list, which says "Moon has clearly seen better days"

Paul@bitoclass· 19d

Comic Relief special on Tubedoku today

The three columns of today's Tubedoku grid are today labelled "Ends with K", "Contains 'ston'" and "Starts with S". I have scrawled across the grid, in clown-nose red, the word "Stonk"

Paul@bitoclass· Jul 10

Just go to Reading and see the handmade 1880s replica version instead. It's *almost* identical

Snippet of a male character from the original Bayeux Tapestry, who has very large exposed genitals; and the same character from the Victorian-era replica, who has been stitched with a pair of shorts on and nothing on show

Paul@bitoclass· Jul 4

Another @londoncentric.media story which needs some urgent government attention (but instead can't even get a comment!)

Extract from the article linked in the quoted post below, which says:

"We asked the Property Redress Scheme what checks it carried out to verify that Anchor Gate, a newly formed company, registered to a shared office address on City Road in London, was a legitimate lettings company before putting it on a government-approved register. Neither they nor the government responded to multiple requests for comment.

"The Anchor Gate website is no longer live after scamming Londoners out of thousands of pounds. Despite this, the company still appears on the Property Redress Scheme’s public register. That’s despite London Centric repeatedly telling the Property Redress Scheme more than a month ago that it is still endorsing a scam estate agency."

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 26

Seems about right

My Results:
92% Woke / 8% Chud
39% Techbro / 61% Neo-Luddite
59% Hopepilled / 41% Doomer
80% Davos / 20% Dubai
My Closest Match:
Zohran Mamdani

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 26

Looking through café photos on Google Maps, spotting air conditioning units reflected in mirrors 🧐

Photo of a bunch of parents and kids having lunch in a café. In the background on the wall among some paintings is a mirror, and in the corner of that mirror is reflected what looks like an air conditioning unit

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 22

Sky News helicopter was following the wrong taxi

The Day Today screenshot where Peter O'Hanarahanrahan says "he's in a cab" and Chris Morris snaps "Peter! You've lost the news!"

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 22

He also said it was financially bankrupt… Is that even true? (I thought it was on course for a golden headquarters)

A 2016 viral tweet which says "DATELINE 2020: EVERY ADULT IN THE UK IS A MEMBER OF THE LABOUR PARTY. NO ONE VOTES LABOUR. LABOUR HQ IS MADE OF GOLD."

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 20

Starmer has the support of multiple different Doctor Who villains and maybe a Teletubby

Small extract from the AI-generated poster in the quoted post, where a row of silhouetted buildings and people occasionally has confused shapes which are people but with building spires/spikes coming out of their bodies

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 17

I think Self Esteem is gearing up to join Bluesky

Singer Self Esteem on stage tonight in a t-shirt which says "AI is for lazy cunts"

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 15

Great to see Keir Starmer banning kids from social media as the first step towards tightly regulating all these tech companies to protect the rest of us from hate, incitement and radicalisation!

The frame from the Padme meme where she looks full of optimism that she'll obviously get a positive response to what she's saying – before she in fact gets an awkward silence

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 14

Me watching Sky playing out a clip of Lisa Nandy just before coming to @stephenkb.bsky.social, waiting to see if he'll take the opportunity to lay into her abysmal record in office

The Simpsons meme with everyone waiting for Bart to say the line, then cheering with delight when he does

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 13

Oh interesting! I don't think we are, quite – but A is the tallest tower in Lewisham and is 1-2min walk from us, I think B is another tower on our development, and C *might* be a nearby bit of our extended block 🤔

Some towers labelled A, B and C on an extract of James's photo

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 9

In front of a photo of hundreds of horses running wild and free, an amended version of the Ofcom link shared below, which is now labelled "Of-horse" and says "Statement: stable door bolting protocol consultation"

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 9

Sorry to see what's happening in Belfast obviously (including to my beloved Glider bus) but the PA's photographer must have been pleased with this one

A Glider bus is engulfed in flames in the street in the centre of the photo, while a bus stop live departure board appears at the top of the photo in the foreground and just says "Apologies for any inconvenience"

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 8

It's super-close, but @wiilassie.bsky.social (who took this pic) reports the fire is slightly further west. Although personally I'm so here for this narrative that I'm prepared to decide that the lights had drifted east on the wind before we saw them, which is not impossible

Smoke from tonight's south-east London fire, emerging from very slightly to the west of where last night's floating, smoking red lights were seen

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 7

What just happened over central London exactly?!

Dozens of bright red lights moving around in the sky over east central London with the city's skyscrapers behind them from our SE London perspective

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 4

• "Starmer accuses Musk of 'trying to whip up division' in UK following Henry Nowak murder • "Starmer backs MP suing Musk's AI bot" So Starmer will stop using the platform Musk does all this stuff on as one of his government's main official comms channels now then, and leave X himself too, right?

The final frame of the Padme meme, where the penny drops that the obvious affirmative answer to the question is, in fact, not coming

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 2

They used to say "because of a passenger incident" but Southeastern's patience has run out

A train's live departure info with a note which says it's running late "because of animals on the railway"

Paul@bitoclass· Jun 1

I had completely missed the origin of the "meep meep" that George Fouracres' Keir Starmer does on SNL UK – and if someone had told me Starmer had once literally made that noise at the dispatch box in parliament, I'm not sure I'd've believed them www.reddit.com/r/livefromlo...