Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

@darkufo So what is it?

@CarolineLucas Seems a former London Mayor forgot this point about mandatory photo ID, which I think he ushered in as Prime Minister. How the tables turn.

@robb I thought that was part of the joke!

@robb Even the URL is getting in on the act!

@solderandchaos Saving mine until tonight as it's the kiddo's first election!

@robb "But I didn't think the leopards would eat *my*face!"

Listening in to EDI Town Hall at UCL. Strange to hear about #accessibility still being a design challenge when 20 years ago we were able to put up new buildings with proper toilets, access ramps, fire refuges and lifts.

@ryanhoulihan Hope it pans out according to the script!

Also at TBC is the #Retrofit24 exhibit, which I *think* I've mentioned before but some of the displays seem to have changed since I last popped through. That shows various examples and aspects of retrofitting buildings rather than demolition and new build. These including environmental considerations (lower carbon emissions through refurbishment) but also cultural if a building has a historical element and heritage of the location.

Sometimes (e.g. Houlton School https://www.houltonschool.org.uk/) it's possible to completely transform a building to a vastle different use.

Passed The Building Centre at lunchtime, always worth seeing what's on there if you're into #Architecture, #Sustainability or anything about #Urban planning.

May's #free exhibit is about the #LanguageOfSigns.
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/keep-on-the-grass-the-language-of-signs

My two favourite London signs:
"Commit No Nuisance" and "This is not a brothel. There are no prostitutes at this address." (now vanished)
1/2

On the whole the style and flow of the movie is thrilling, but suffers from poor dialogue and several scenes that seem forced in order to induce plot points, but are then rushed through without further consideration. Feels like a more experienced Director/Producer might have kept those elements tighter, allowed the story to build to a better payoff. At 1hr 49 there was plenty of runtime avalable.

I'm still trying to work out whether the still images in the movie were taken in those scenes, staged to match the action, or generated from the moving footage. Was very clever.

Watched Alex Garland's #CivilWar last night. Visceral,
impressive for a low budget movie. Manages to avoid politicising because the story is about the reporters. Hence the wierd Texas/California Union)

However, the portrayal of the war photographers as neutral observers merely documenting events for others to judge on, is naive. We have only to look at the distressing images from recent and current conflicts that are waved about without reference to the context.

https://thomasflight.substack.com/p/civil-war-on-the-complicated-power