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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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Giving farmers money will kill my food business in which every penny shoppers pay me for the food I stole goes straight into my bulging wallet

I think we do need to make a more earnest and public push to challenge MPs and journalists on why they’re still so active on Twitter, in the same way we would have if we’d discovered they’d mainly used 4Chan a few years ago

Let’s open Twitter and check the default feed, as a large number of Brits and public figures and the leader of the opposition will also do this morning! A strange mix of absolute certainty the Liverpool attack was false flag, Islamophobia, soft porn, and Christiano Ronaldo updates.

Sometimes think I'm so weird for being resistant to and actively turned off by this. I just hate algorithmally served content. I don't even allow Spotify to play suggested music at me when my queue ends! I want to hear from the people I choose (and those they choose to repost), and that's all.

ok I worked for a social platform that grew juuuuust enough to get sold before dying (and then got mashed up into TikTok along with other acquired apps) so I think I have some expertise relevant to the “why is Bluesky losing active users” conversation I can’t see all the metrics but…

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.

What’s particularly excellent about this is that it’s clearly a bricked up door. Effectively a forum thread being locked, continuing forever behind it.

On another #DoctorWho subject, how did Big Wett manage to release Dugga Doo three weeks before Murray Gold?? youtu.be/5OObSyQASes

Feels like a good weekend to chuck this Rochester street name into the #DoctorWho hashtag

Excellent post today from @diamondgeezer.bsky.social looking at how fares vary within London with many south of the river paying a fair bit more for journeys diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/05/lond...

Wish World is perfect. A terrifying allegory of society today. A horrifying vision of conformity, queerphobia, and ableism driven by the wishes of an elitist children's author, ultimately creating a fragile exclusionary world of uncertainty and doubt primed for malicious actors to exploit.

Great to see Confidence Man playing to the big audiences their shows deserve 🌈 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0l8z1s3 Still exactly the same as they were when we first saw them 7yrs ago this month at Village Underground. So much energy to sustain for the best part of a decade 🤩

"Yeah it's got a river through it so draw a wiggly blue line – no, no-one knows what shape it is, don't worry"

I went to the Charleston festival, and asked Lady Hale a question. I referred to human rights based on subjectivity, and her judgment in A v West Yorkshire Police: our "right to a sexual identity". I am delighted her reply is reported. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

Not everything is a leadership pitch. Most policies shouldn’t be analysed through the prism of target voters. Excessive savviness is a curse.

DarkMonalds

Yessssss Dugga Doo is life

Can't believe he made the same prompt alteration to the code running Trump as he did on Grok

And did we sell them the weapons they just fired at our diplomats or

1,553 days until the next UK general election. Perhaps Labour MPs should spend at least some of them (the next 1000, say?) arguing and thinking about things other than electoral strategy?

Oh the Supreme Court's done a newsworthy ruling has it? Who remembers when we thought those would have some kind of basis in reality? Quite hard to care what their opinion is about anything now

On top of the obvious bigotry...he's so OBVIOUSLY unlikeable. I dipped into SU politics 2010-11 and he was universally loathed back then too.

Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.

I'm going to go old-school Twitter and ask for some crowdsourced help: If you live near a London park that has lots of private fenced-off events, can you tell me if you think the site is out of bounds for 28+ days a year, inc setup/takedown? (I've been trying to get answers on this all weekend...)

Lewisham is no place for hate. On #IDAHoBiT, we stand with our LGBTQ+ friends, neighbours & community with pride, with support, and with a clear message: everyone deserves to feel safe, valued and respected.

love hearing parents say of their young children that you really do need to get them out of the house and tire them out as much as possible as otherwise they'll be a nightmare by mid/late afternoon and thinking "ah yes, so same as adult ADHD then"

It's funny when you look how often he gets in the media and then looks at the venue capacity of his tour dates (usually 250-500, which he nevertheless fails to sell out)

This line jumped out for me too and I assume is extremely disingenuous, adding together the people attending each day when a festival is on in Brockwell Park to create a giant total, in which case the equivalent figure for Glastonbury would be over a million people

It is a sad half-hearted nod to triangulation to make every policy that contains something good sound like it is bad. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

He needs to go. Labour needs a leader who'll make the most of its huge majority to improve things, not one who's turning big dials that say 'Racism' and 'Transphobia' on them and constantly looking back for approval at an audience of newspaper owners who will never applaud

You have to get a very long way through this Sun story labelling the Foreign Secretary "LAMMY DODGER" and a "THUG" before they report his fare was actually paid in full, and the taxi driver concerned admitted trying to scam him out of an extra £600 before being arrested and charged with theft

If it turns out Falkner just pulled the interim guidance from her own transphobic orifice, surely Sir Due Process Starmer will sack her like he should've last year when her term expired, and install Equality Act author Harriet Harman to explain she meant all women www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Another great read! I love how @londoncentric.media digs under surface of a problem in London, finds an enormously complex mess, then manages to distill it into a readable piece without losing the nuance

We got in a London pedicab so you don’t have to (verdict: deeply, deeply embarrassing)

CELEBRITY TRAITORS CAST CONFIRMED BY THE BBC Alan Carr Cat Burns Celia Imrie Charlotte Church Clare Balding David Olusoga Joe Marler Joe Wilkinson Jonathan Ross Kate Garraway Lucy Beaumont Mark Bonnar Nick Mohammed Niko Omilana Paloma Faith Ruth Codd Stephen Fry Tameka Empson Tom Daley

…I should call him