iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Just looked at this Osaka webcam clip and thought "Oh I've been right there, I think I bought a yuzu drink in a 7-Eleven just around the corner to the left of where this camera is filming from" – and, sure enough, I found it on Google Street View

Screenshot from Street View showing a camera on a building and a 7-Eleven branch just around the corner from it

100

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 23/09/2026

Oh you need all the relevant information combined into one image do you Thameslink? OK! Can't wait to find out if I'll get my £3.93

A photo grid collage of four parts:
1. My Gold Record Card for my Oyster season ticket.
2. My Oyster card journey history for today.
3. The details of the relevant journey from Oyster.
4. A screenshot of a load of text I wrote explaining my claim, which says:
• My annual Z1-2 travelcard is £1788.
• £1788 ÷ 464 = £3.85 per single journey.
• My delayed train ran from Zone 1 (London Bridge) to Zone 5 (East Croydon).
• The first part of my train was in Zones 1 and 2 and therefore worth £3.85.
• The second part of my train was outside my travelcard zones and was charged at £4, the Oyster PAYG fare for travelling through Zones 3/4/5.
• The total value of my journey was therefore £7.85
• It was delayed by over 30min
• I am therefore claiming £7.85 × 50% = £3.93

100

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

34312

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 10/09/2026

Got 15 of 21 films, a new low I think – but also made what I think was my first outright planning spreadsheet error, putting one film's screening into the wrong Wednesday and thus designing an impossible schedule with a clash in it. As it happens that film had sold out, but no retrying for it now!

Spreadsheet of film links and screening times spread across columns representing segments of days, to help pick slots which avoid clashes

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 26/08/2026

Just accidentally fed this to Google AI (phones are too keen to invoke AI!) and I was surprised to see it got a majority of them right – but it really didn't start well with the explanations

Famous Rabbits Answers

1. Peppa Pig
Clues: Peas + Paving (Asphalt) ➡️ Peas-Pave ➡️ Peter Rabbit

2. Cross / Mad / Angry + Sweets / Candy / Ecstasy
Clues: Mad + March (or Cross / Candy) ➡️ March Hare

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 19/08/2026

The fire looks to be out. Same building as in June, but possibly more of it burnt out?

221

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 18/08/2026

Thanks in advance to whoever is trying to put this out. Hope everyone is OK over there

210

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 18/08/2026

Whatever is on fire, it does not look good

Close-up on huge thick cloud of black smoke

Wide shot of smoke drifting across the whole sky

110

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 18/08/2026

Oh no, it's not another SELCHP waste and recycling centre fire is it?

A large amount of thick black smoke coming out of the London skyline around the point where SELCHP is located

131

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 12/08/2026

My wide shot timelapse video of the eclipse was absolutely hopeless for seeing anything happening at all with the sun – except in this cropped portion, where the lens flare is a tiny, green, perfect mirrored replica of the entire process

050

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 11/08/2026

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

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/08/2026

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

020

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 24/07/2026

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"

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 10/07/2026

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

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/07/2026

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."

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 26/06/2026

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

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 22/06/2026

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!"

182

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 22/06/2026

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."

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 20/06/2026

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

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 17/06/2026

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"

040

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 15/06/2026

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

2317

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 14/06/2026

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

120

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 13/06/2026

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

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 09/06/2026

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"

071

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/06/2026

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

100

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 07/06/2026

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

621

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 04/06/2026

• "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

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 02/06/2026

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"

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 01/06/2026

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...

194

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 29/05/2026

Interesting news about one of the four reliable new replacement escalators they closed Cutty Sark DLR station for 11 months to install

An escalator in Cutty Sark station, sealed off out of use by a hazard barrier

020

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 19/05/2026

29 years on from 1997, we may finally have an even better Michael Portillo moment to enjoy #GreatJapaneseRailwayJourneys

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 14/05/2026

"The results are in"

Labour List poll results showing Starmer would beat Streeting 53% to 23% in a head-to-head leadership election

020

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 12/05/2026

Definitely a puppet

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 12/05/2026

Magnificooooo (They will not let him go)

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 12/05/2026

Is Sophy Ridge… a puppet?

100

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 11/05/2026

Sky helpfully rounding up the key figures Starmer has sacked before running out of other people to blame

Key figures who have resigned or been sacked since Keir Starmer entered No. 10:
• Olly Robbins, Foreign Office Permanent Secretary
• Morgan McSweeney, Chief of Staff
• Sue Gray, Chief of Staff
• Chris Wormald, Cabinet Secretary
• Matthew Doyle, Head of Communications
• Stephanie Driver, Head of Communications (ioint)
• James Lyons, Head of Communications (joint)
• Tim Allan, Head of Communications

021

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 11/05/2026

Love that Sky News is now coming live from inside a special portrait gallery of people who've called for Starmer to go

Sky News desk inside a set made of screens covered in grids of photos of MPs

031

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 10/05/2026

It's bleakly funny comparing the puff pieces from two years ago about what an absolute pantheon of capability and leadership the Starmer project had assembled to fill Parliament with, with how the resultant party in Parliament is now dealing with this crisis inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Extract from the linked 'i' article, which says:

“The standards for candidate selection in the Labour Party have never been higher,” said a party source. “We have worked hard to bring in big political experience as well as people who are working at the top of their professions. From prison officers, shop owners and police officers to scientists, economists and fund managers we have a wealth of real-life experience hopefully coming into the next parliament.

“Candidates have gone through an intense training programme with several sessions a week so they are ready to go out the blocks when the firing gun on an election is called.”

010

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 10/05/2026

Oh no, not you too Ange. *You* need to "meet the moment" by meeting the reality that Andy Burnham is not in Parliament

Sky News alert which says:

"Angela Rayner says Keir Starmer must now meet the moment` and allow Andy Burnham back into
parliament"

000

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 09/05/2026

This was around the point the BBC went back to Lewisham for the actual newsworthy moment of the Greens now taking control of Lewisham council, which is apparently now going to be the last council in the entire country to declare its result

BBC News channel showing the breaking news that the Greens have gained Lewisham from Labour, in front of live footage of the Telegraph Hill ward result being declared

Screenshot from Sky News which says:

Greens take Lewisham council amid collapse in Labour support.

Result declared!

We have just learned who will control Lewisham council - the last of the 136 where elections took place on Thursday to declare.

With 39 of the 54 seats declared, it is confirmed that the Green Party will take majority control from Labour.

It is a humiliating loss for Sir Keir Starmer's party, which until today held almost every single seat.

Labour has had control of the council since 1968, aside from a four-year gap of no overall control between 2006 and 2010 when a wave of anti-Blair, post-Iraq War opposition swept in lots of Lib Dems.

The Greens had been in second place in wards containing 37 of the 54 seats, and amid a national surge for Zack Polanski's party, have converted that to a majority.

230

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 09/05/2026

Just put on the BBC News channel for the first time today at 7pm and it randomly went straight over live to Lewisham for what turns out to be Forest Hill and Hither Green wards' results being announced as if it is a big national news moment, quite strange tbh but I'm glad I tuned in 🤷🏻

BBC News channel with full "BREAKING" banner across the bottom and Lewisham's returning officer reading a result out

360

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 09/05/2026

Wow Starmer really is intent on speed-running the entire 1997-2010 Labour government but in a single term (including of course having done some very good things that no-one outside the party gives them much credit for because of… all the objectionable stuff)

Guardian politics live blog headline which says: "Starmer gives Brown and Harman new roles as pressure grows over election mauling"

030

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/05/2026

Oh wow, I see now why that last ward was so late declaring. What an absolutely beautiful work of art this result is. Thank you, 1033rd voter for Donna Briant

Slade Green and Northend ward election results, showing Labour's Stefano Borella came first with 1106 votes. After this, Labour's Donna Briant was the only other person elected, with 1033 votes, while Reform's John McDermont got 1032 votes, just 1 less, failing to be elected.

1124

Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/05/2026

Oh wait, silly me, I forgot, that Guardian exclusive the other day told me Burnham does actually have a "plan" to get to Westminster "within weeks" (see my attempt to understand it below). I'm reassured. Are you reassured?

Joe Lycett on Laura Kuenssberg's show, saying how reassured he was about Liz Truss

100