iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 39m

I know I keep saying this, but Kemi Badenoch is the product of an environment where there are too few avenues where she is asked 'soft' but important follow-ups like 'okay, what are the essential public services?'

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2h

why not simply ban Amazon in that case :) if they can't obey simple rules then they shouldn't be allowed to operate in this country :)

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Edith S @wiilassie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great Spearmint gig as ever. Really enjoyed the tracks from the new album and some treats from the back catalogue. Also got some new merch! Have a listen to the new album if you're curious spearmint.lnk.to/chaseme

Shirley (singing), Ronan (drums), Rhodri (bass) and little Jim (guitar) on stage.

Me (a middle aged spectacled woman with purple hair) smiling and holding a tote that says I ❤️ Scottish Pop!

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 29/09/2026

Grudgingly using Copilot to do a boring styling task across all the headings in a long document, and surprised by how it does a load of it, then stops to explain proudly how well it's done but that it hasn't done them all. You're not a toddler seeking praise after eating each vegetable! Finish them!

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 25/09/2026

[Mysterious FT crossword setter flips August's topical news-themed puzzle, revealing multiple war weaponry answers and clues relating to bombs and breathing problems] Me: is that good

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 24/09/2026

Quite weird to receive an email newsletter from Lewisham Council called "Lewisham Market progress" which… doesn't mention Lewisham Market

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Buses v cycling? A 🧵... Too often, the bus 'industry' defaults to attack cycling as cause of buses (in London) getting slower & slower. Good to see that somewhat countered here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i... by @theguardian.com data team. 1. Bus speeds dropping is a "global problem"... 1/13

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London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised

As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 23/09/2026

Who understands Delay Repay, Oyster and travelcards and wants to tell me how to claim for a Thameslink delay to a one-train journey which started with the two zones covered by my travelcard and ended with PAYG fare being charged for three zones not on my travelcard? 🫠

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Live from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!

What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy.

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 20/09/2026

#OpenHouseLondon peaked for us today, thanks to @wiilassie.bsky.social managing to snap up a pair of BT Tower tickets last month. You can watch this timelapse on a loop to experience it for yourself, albeit at 30 times the speed we did

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 19/09/2026

This year has seen the most Open House London planning I've done, at least insofar as, of the four weekend days, two that I'd fully planned out I ended up binning for various reasons and replanning from scratch. Good job visiting 20+ buildings in two weekends isn't tiring in any other way too, eh 🫠

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 19/09/2026

Couldn't work out why there were no Lewisham to Victoria trains today, until I opened a section of @serailway.bsky.social's Engineering Works page titled "No trains via Swanley" and inexplicably found the Bexleyheath line, unrelated to Swanley, in there www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/travel-infor...

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Engineering work | Southeastern

Working in conjunction with Network Rail, we are committed to continual improvement of our tracks.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only thing I would disagree with here is that the UK is not helpless - it is a choice not to fight back against Musk. It is the wrong choice.

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 18/09/2026

This doesn't really explain what the problem was, and of course it happened in a millisecond, how long does any little action a computer does take? Maybe it was caused by a request for a flight number from a plane named by Little Bobby Tables' mum from xkcd

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The press have, collectively, stopped paying any attention to The Samaritans' guidance on how to report suicide appropriately.

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Henri @henriwords.com · 17/09/2026

In my defence it was a ‘found clue’ more than a ‘written’ one 😆 bsky.app/profile/henr...

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You can tell no transport commentator who reports on the new DLR trains has young children as it's now MUCH harder for them to see out the front At a rough guess a 5 year old could see out on the old ones. New nearing 8+9 years old This is true investigative journalism This is a 6 year olds view

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 16/09/2026

Glorified podcast latest

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The hiring and then briefing against Chris Wormald, akin to going to Steaks Inc, ordering the T-Bone and going 'wait, there's beef in this?' and then being bizarrely, aggressively rude to the waiting staff to the point you end up up with a £860k fine. (Paid for by all of us)

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 13/09/2026

To my great surprise, with some persistence and nothing but guesswork: SPNle 1716 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 12/09/2026

How many months does it take for the Central Line to cool down after five heatwaves? Asking for… me, stuck on it in a tunnel at a red signal for about ten minutes 🥵

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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy to see kids (and grown ups) can still drive the DLR with new stock.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Ros @hurricaneros.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Have fucking loathed Amol Rajan for years and, at the very least, deeply wish University Challenge had a host with even a mote of intellectual curiosity.

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 10/09/2026

Looked at X to see how others were doing on the #LFF hashtag (mostly better than me, 17,000th in the queue). Awash with scammers offering "spare LFF tickets" (to what?!). Reported them for illegality, got an almost immediate follow-up saying automated systems found them not illegal. Goodbye again, X

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Frankly, I am unclear why it is being allowed to continue? The events of the weekend were clearly illegal, he's literally advertised his participation?

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

labour government quietly effective factoid actually just statistical error. average labour minister actually incredibly useless. Ed Millerbind, who lives in cave & actually does 10,000 things with power each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

New DLR train rollout news coverage always calls the trains "state-of-the-art", but are we absolutely sure that this particular art's state hasn't moved on at all since 2019, when they were ordered, or 2024, when they were originally due to be rolled out?

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Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I firmly believe that the decision of the post-Johnson Conservative government to try to capitalise on the mess it had made of the asylum system and make "Small Boats" a cypher for all immigration will go down as one of the most corrosive in modern British politics, and that's a crowded field.

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 07/09/2026

AI downside number 36276: my 2021 backup storage drive has died, and I just compared what it cost, adjusted for inflation, with what it would cost to replace it now: it's more than doubled! And it was even worse when I thought I needed a new graphics card recently (thank goodness I found a spare)

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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New DLR trains are back in public service. The TfL employee who informed me it was happening - see this post written over the weekend - was bang on the money. Great news. Big improvements on the way when all enter service. www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/09/06/n...

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New DLR trains could re-enter service imminently - Murky Depths

New DLR trains which were removed from service last year could begin operating once again in coming days and weeks

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 07/09/2026

TfL have seemingly been waiting to make absolutely sure the air conditioning won't be of any use to us before they let us have the new DLR trains www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/09/06/n...

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New DLR trains could re-enter service imminently - Murky Depths

New DLR trains which were removed from service last year could begin operating once again in coming days and weeks

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 05/09/2026

How many times do Reform have to give Chris Mason lies to publish before he stops treating them as a reliable source?

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/09/2026

Love living in a world where I need to look up an address on Google Maps and use Street View and aerial view to decide whether the window shapes, shutters and facing buildings could be the ones in the photos inside a flat on Booking Dot Com or whether my parents were about to get scammed (yes, scam)

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/09/2026

Ooh, it's time for the next episode of Channel 4 News, everyone's new favourite comedy True Crime show! Hope it's as good as last night's

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage is making it very plain that if Reform wins power they will permit no change or scrutiny to their plans from parliament, the judiciary or officials, under a state of emergency. Anyone who objects will be replaced.

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/09/2026

If Farage is this reliant on Jukes, do we think he's actually stepping down, or just Morgan McSweeney stepping down?

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/09/2026

Lots to enjoy indeed, but the list of names feels like one of the most significant bits of the whole thing to me, yet seems barely mentioned in non-C4 coverage. A long list of other illicit donors seems pretty important in a context where the party is trying to blame the stingers for 'hoaxing' them!

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 03/09/2026

What an enjoyable episode of Channel 4 News to come home and savour in full, absolutely delicious

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s a crowded field, but the jaw-dropping moment for me is when Orr reels off all the other illicit donors who have illicitly donated one to Reform via illicit means, like this is helpful

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is much better than the Channel 4 coverage btw as its from the person who did the investigation (full kudos to C4 broadcasting and checking it, wouldn’t have the attention it needed without) m.youtube.com/watch?v=RugP...

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My Year Undercover in Reform UK

YouTube video by Verbatim Investigations

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Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Plus the totally wild bit where Dan Jukes reels off a list of every other donor who has engaged in exactly the same subterfuge - bleeped out on C4 but presumably not in the film being passed to the Electoral Commission and the police...

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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