Jim Waterson

I last bought bitcoin when it was $120 and if I’d held it…. Anyway yeah the annoying thing is it probably is as good a chance as any of getting a house for a lot of people.

Gotta say the best case for their argument that we’re doomed is that you can’t imagine any British company spending that on an ad.

Oh no it makes total sense! I also read it *without realising it was government comms* until I noticed the weird tone.

YouTube video by Coinbase Everything Is Fine

Soooo odd to see the crypto bros at Coinbase doing a full big budget YOOKAY DECLINE MOVE TO DUBAI WITH YOUR BITCOIN themed advert. m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bm...

Weird to see the government comms department starting Reddit threads that organically pop up in your feed without it being at all clear it’s PR by the actual government.

This doesn’t really deal with the fact that there’s a ready supply of real people willing to put their real names on documents in return for small sums of money. Don’t need a fake director when you’ve got a real student on the breadline to do it: www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Israel said it would halt aid drops if journos were allowed to film from planes. The Jordanians know as well as anyone that aid drops are ineffective, a last resort in the face of mass starvation in Gaza. Palestinians have been referring to the drops as "like Squid Games." Jordanians made a call.

And if you can’t find a tweet… just pay people! You should do a thing on the weird world of the “former Labour staffers” who collect their £50s for their punching bag GB News appearances! A fascinating bunch.

This is a good post
1) Turns out Reform’s Zia Yusuf had a core role in the US “debate” about Sydney Sweeney’s jeans/genes
2) You can copy/paste tactics to UK: reactionary media is increasingly “woke person is outraged at Y” and you don’t really even need to find the woke person, just run it anyway!

That would be pretty annoying if you were growing stuff!

good policy seems fine

Sure, I mean you can buy a house in County Durham for £20k but they still don’t sell.

The two examples I've highlighted there are in Nottinghamshire, the area supposedly covered Nottinghamshire Live, who rewrote the story from the Telegraph/Express and seem to have repeated the claims with the aim of reaching a national audience. Honestly, just bring AI apocalypse on news now.

...the allotments mentioned are almost all overgrown/abandoned/not used for growing stuff.

Maybe there's a case for reviving these allotments! Maybe there's a principle at stake! But you can see they're abandoned / flytipped on Google Maps!

Look this one is in Hucknall (left) or Ashfield (right).

So this allotment story is absolutely blowing up everywhere and the government will prob U-turn soon due to UNEXPECTED VIRALITY IN THE BAGGING AREA.

But because I'm a sad git I spent 5mins chasing the aggregated Nottinghamshire Live story back through the Telegraph and the Express and found....

Respect to the India supporter in front of me dialled into her Monday morning work Teams call with her camera off. Very excited as to what happens if they ask for her input.

Raining!

Something absolutely crazy about 10,000s people queuing to get into something that might be over in about twenty minutes. (Thanks to the Indian fan who walked me in.)

It's a side point but the success of the tube fare dodging Jenrick video is lowkey one of the biggest things in UK pol for a while. All the other shadow ministers incredibly jealous, wanted their own viral video, the ideas for these videos are coming from people swilling in whatever swills around X.

I was about to buy some last night, hesitated,now there is nothing… shout if you hear of any!

Click a random school on that map, look them up at companies house, see how much debt they were carrying three years ago.

It’s ok they’ve appointed the former Sun print editor as comms chief to combat an enormous shift in audiences to extremely online and competitively extreme short form video.

I wrote that slot in WSC many years ago, I spent about two weeks agonising over every way of saying “Alty will go bust again”.

If I want to find out what my football team is up to I have to log into X. Stuff like that is sticky.

I have a Twitter blue tick I’ve never asked for tbf

Don’t think that’s the point of a reported piece like this, and your point is one of the things that was interesting.

A bloke I know licked every cathedral in Britain and rated the taste of them AND he’d know where Southwell is.

1) I think it’s just too mentally difficult for a lot of people to comprehend what’s happening
2) vested interests of remaining newspaper editors
3) There’s not really a replacement for that site (I’m happy here but it just ain’t it) so a lot of boiled frog temperature rising going on

She’s completely mentally living on that site, I think the extent of posters disease on their now is way worse than it’s ever been.

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.