Paul’s old tweets (2008-2024)

Came full circle in the end: I'm not impressed with X either. See you on Bluesky at @bitoclass.uk

Came full circle in the end: I'm not impressed with X either. See you on Bluesky at @bitoclass.uk https://twitter.com/bitoclass/status/839811004

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/05/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it

Bluesky signups surge in UK amid Musk's feud with government over riots Social media platform Bluesky said it has seen a surge in signups in the United Kingdom in the recent days, a sign that Elon Musk's controversial comments on the nationwide riots were prompting people to look for alternatives to X.

This makes sense - have seen a lot more activity in the other place recently. I'm not here any more but I have been over there for months and would love you to be there too 🙏🏻 https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/bluesky-signups-surge-uk-amid-musks-row-with-government-over-riots-2024-08-13/

‘Vast worldwide sewer’: Paris mayor quits X with swipe at Elon Musk ‘This platform and its owner act deliberately to exacerbate tensions and conflicts,’ Anne Hidalgo says.

Are you still hanging out in this "vast worldwide sewer"? Don't, imo
https://www.politico.eu/article/paris-mayor-hidalgo-quits-elon-musks-x-says-its-become-vast-worldwide-sewer/

The other site is ballooning with new X-leavers – but also with loads of posts correctly saying that no-one on the left/centre, nor any public service org's official comms, should still be here on this fash-run site, which feels like something better posted here, so here it is

Here's where I've been since I left this awful place, please join this much nicer place, I miss your posts, even the 4/10 ones https://bsky.app/profile/bitoclass.uk

Popping in to remind you that there's a better experience to be had on Bluesky, if the X algorithm decides to let you see this amid all the riot-stoking conspiracies and Kamala deepfakes this site's owner is keen to push at you for as long as you stick around 😬

Anyone want my spare ticket to see @SELFESTEEM___ star, tonight only, in an intriguing, innovative play in Sloane Square? https://twckts.com/QAox

Nothing I've heard about the BBC's election night show makes me regret my decision to literally put it on only in a second room at my all-night party and stick with Channel 4 and Sky News in the room I spent the night in https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/1810004914560467442

Watching LCD Soundsystem's keyboard guy playing All My Friends live at Glastonbury

Nigel Farage takes part in Question Time election special – as it happened The leader of Reform UK was questioned by an audience in Birmingham as election campaigning enters its final days

Sunak's found a backbone and is suddenly laying into not just racism in Reform but also Andrew Tate! Where has this Sunak been for his entire career thus far and why did he think it was a good idea to hide him until the last six days of voting?
https://t.co/8YKeWoVrcZ

Just when you thought the quality of conversations in That Room couldn't get any worse https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1806065401098367062

Oh no, apparently that questioner will be in the """spin room""" soon, for some reason

It was absolutely bizarre. Which members of the party are more senior than… its leader? https://twitter.com/hannahchrstina/status/1806057884788088971

https://twitter.com/Annaisaac/status/1804173522291286382 https://t.co/SIbU5tmhsA

Why did tech startup edgelords feel the need to reinvent something as standardised and well researched as the basic format of video captions/subtitles? Who wants to read one all-caps word flashing up at a time?! Exhausting

Landlords thinking they are *entitled* to steady easy money no matter what happens and it's legit to do pretty much anything to sustain that unearned income is so well illustrated here, and so ingrained almost everywhere else https://twitter.com/prstskrzkrk/status/1803470994616754238

No wonder K*vin Sch*field is all over the betting story, he was a lobbyist for the gambling industry for a few years recently (his X bio glosses over this, funnily enough), so he must be outraged that the Conservatives are allegedly trying to steal money from Big Gambling

Can't help thinking if I were Neil Kinnock, and had experienced a devastating last-minute election loss amid a scare campaign about which tax rises I might bring in, I might simply not have this conversation in public during an election campaign 🤔 https://t.co/0Aa2nS7Ejl

A friend was just Googling for Conservatives' achievements and… this checks out

Appalled to find out that, during @nsandihelp's own webchat opening hours, they don't have a queueing system to wait for an agent, but instead tell you to go and message them on a website run by a far-right billionaire.

Just embarrassing for these 'journalists' that they were just as clueless and out of touch as Sunak himself, almost completely missing this enormous story yesterday. "I suppose there is something slightly awkward about that", concludes Kuenssberg. https://t.co/m0vtiRJWvK

Can't believe I have to come back to this fash-run site just so I can share this video of Tim Montgomerie basically admitting he's just a government mouthpiece who gets told his opinions down the phone by No. 10 before he goes on TV https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1798844486254223487

Just popping in to say Bluesky is really going very nicely now, good Twitter circa 2010 vibes, but I do miss those of you who haven't made the leap, see you over there if you fancy it 🤞🏻

I did it! I stopped checking Twitter! ★★★★★, would leave a site run by a hateful billionaire again 👍🏻

I'm now mostly at @bitoclass.uk on Bluesky, but also @[first name][last name minus penultimate lettr] on Threads (and Instagram) and
@bitoclass@mastodonapp.uk on Mastodon

Called it! https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/15-behind-scenes-secrets-didn-070022465.html

Aha, OK, I'm accepting the #BBUK rumours that Jenkin's been nominated now I've seen it in this unrelated screenshot. And I'm going with my made-up explanation that those discussing never nominating each other last night were punished by having to choose one of themselves to go up https://t.co/do...

Going to start a spreadsheet of Westminster journalists with stats on how bad they are and put in some complicated formulae and conditional formatting, then watch them struggle to work out if they are in awe of me or need to destroy me https://twitter.com/politic_animal/status/1710358160475570519

'It's GB joke': Laurence Fox hits out at GB News after learning of sacking in police station The actor and political activist was detained earlier on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to ULEZ cameras - and was also sacked by GB News following his controversial comments about journalist Ava Evans.

Didn't expect the police to be so speedily amenable to our request at #HonorOak on Saturday 👆🏻 tbh https://news.sky.com/story/laurence-fox-arrested-after-video-showing-police-in-his-home-shared-on-social-media-12976589