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My parents' friends actually own a second home there. … No, I think it's unjustifiable in a time of housing scarcity

The instant anyone mentions Dorset, my mind goes into unstoppable overdrive working out a way to ask a question to which someone will reply "In Dorset?", which I could then meaningfully answer as if they asked "Endorse it?". (And I will not hear another thing they say until I've cracked it)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 5h

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

Now it's doing them all, with explicit instructions not to stop until they're done – and I actually think it's going at exactly the same slow speed as a human scrolling through my document, selecting each heading and clicking the style palette on it would. Is Copilot… some guy in a low-wage country?

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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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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 25/09/2026

Came here to recommend David Mitchell too, excellent and affordable, I'm lucky to live a short walk from them!

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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

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

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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 · 21/09/2026

I've now uploaded to YouTube a perfectly looping UltraHD version, at half the speed of the one I posted here, should you wish to enjoy the revolving view from the BT Tower in more detail: youtu.be/pWqGId9WEKo

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Perfectly looping timelapse video from the revolving 34th floor of London's BT Tower on 20 Sep 2026

YouTube video by bitospud

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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

I fear it may never… but we can hope

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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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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 11/09/2026

I saw @alexpartridge87.bsky.social's typically clear and accurate posting on here when I'd had the first Sky alert, and thought "oh, hang on, those figures for going to a vote look familiar, and the actual results look wrong". BBC sticking to "accurate, not first" (dare I add "for once"?)

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 11/09/2026

Sky News push-alerted the first vote as the bill passing and then had to push-alert an awkward correction

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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

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

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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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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

If there's a cloud backup that would restore a whole bootable Windows environment exactly as it was a day ago quickly with a few clicks whenever anything breaks, I would be interested in it, once these next drives finally fail, I'm not investigating now in case I realise I've made a mistake 🫣

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

The OS does a clever storage pooling thing a bit like RAID but more flexible and easy to use/swap drives out in etc, so my plan with an existing 8TB and these two new ones should mean I never suffer data loss from these drives again

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

This is for essentially a NAS but with really simple and reliable Windows backup and restore built into the OS. So I was looking at reliable NAS-oriented drives (Seagate Ironwolf/WD Red) and they cost a lot more than £400 for 16TB. Ended up getting an 8TB and a 10TB for redundancy, £795 total

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

You do if the motherboard (a) has no onboard graphics and (b) dates from when the card I mentioned before, which couldn't handle 4k, was in it. I don't think motherboard graphics would ever have been better than discrete ones, even if the motherboard had them

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

I had a very old card before that one! This is a PC which has been going for a very long time with all its parts gradually being replaced, Ship of Theseus style

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Paul @bitoclass.uk · 08/09/2026

I'm looking in the 8-16TB space and the inflation since 2021 is eye-watering! (And the graphics card is for our media PC, which struggled to render 4k stuff until I got a better one a few years ago…)

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