Anne-Marie Downes

Here’s a fun @easyJet travel story

@TravelSYorks One of the 51 buses has now picked me up in Broomhill

@am_downes We will try and get a further update.

Good morning, due to the snow fall some services are disrupted in Sheffield. Please see our disruption page for full information - orlo.uk/6Jrs9

@TravelSYorks Any services still running from broomhill that can get me to the station?

@am_downes The latest update for 51 is - Due to abandoned cars now at on Sandygate and Crosspool shops, having to divert service to Ranmoor

@TravelSYorks Three buses with ‘not in service’ just came past Crosspool and one driver pulled over and said to us ‘they’ve stopped sending buses up here’

@am_downes The 51 is running normal route except towards Charnock it is terminating at Gleadless Townend

It’s quite exciting really, I don’t think anyone’s ever blocked me before!

Just found out who wrote the article - I previously didn’t know who it was, have never contacted them/been on their profile - click out of interest - see I’ve been preemptively blocked for quite politely pointing out that their news story was incorrect. What a journalist…

took @Independent half an hour to take down their erroneous story about Russian blowing up Chernobyl nuclear waste facilities after myself and many others had pointed out it was a mistranslation (guy had said it COULD happen).

@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 @no_identd out of interest, has the journalist in question blocked you too?

@am_downes @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 I don't fucking know anymore at this point, guess I'll start checking remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Simple.aspx & other more directly trustable sources, but those aren't nearly as sensitive as directly local sensors 🤷‍♂️

@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Don’t know if you’ve read Terry Pratchett’s novel The Truth (you should!), but this quote from it is apt: “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

@am_downes @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Oof: twitter.com/no_identd/stat…

@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 You’re probably right! I don’t know much more because soon after that my lunch break was over 😁 I do understand how in a chaotic situation like this misunderstandings occur among folks on Twitter, but it’s rather grim that professional journalists aren’t checking.

@am_downes @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Good catch on the other tweet

@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 I only realised it was rubbish because I found people in the comments pointing out what it actually said

@no_identd @Independent @RichardEngel @RorySullivan92 Not sure that was the initial originator because it doesn’t include the screenshot of what the advisor actually said - which tweets like this one did

@davidstehle @OTCeIIy @Independent And this one’s getting way less traction, so people won’t see the correction.

@OTCeIIy @Independent Yep. I wouldn’t trust any shit they tweet.

Fighting breaks out close to #Chernobyl nuclear waste facility, says Ukrainian president independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

@Independent It would be more honest to have corrected or clarified your first post than to pretend you never wrote it. Please fact check properly. Glad you’ve fixed it though.

@Independent @Independent your mistranslation is making people panic: would you please issue a correction

@Independent No it wasn’t:

@ChameleonKamala @Independent This is just me quoting Twitter journalists though, I’m no expert

@ChameleonKamala @Independent I think it was Anton Herashchenko, Ukrainian political advisor, whose post was mistranslated