James Somerset

The only good thing in politics right now is @Ed_Miliband 's twitter handle. "Chaos with Ed Miliband" #chaoswithedmiliband

@SarahForRuncorn @SadiqKhan “Would you agree that that is a show of force and intimidation from the Muslim community?” No. Next.

.@SadiqKhan taking part in a mass public act of Islamic prayer in the heart of the British capital is deeply divisive. This domineering show of religious authority should not be tolerated.

The “Everyone is 12 now” theory truly is foundational for our times.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 In this special episode, Nick and Dave were joined by the only County captain to win at Wembley - Gaz Owen. Gaz joined us for over an hour of chat about his career. From his early years at hometown club Stoke, to his time working in the youth setup back there, via everything in between. He discussed being knocked out by Dean Windass, those celebrations after Wembley and the reaction to Adam Proudlock being named as a goalkeeper. Aside from the above, we covered the Port Vale coach incident and learnt about the effect Jim Gannon had on his career. 📺 bit.ly/4upqJby 🔗 linktr.ee/SK3TVPod #stockportcounty

@Nathan_Gillmore @aakashgupta I’ve started getting ads on premium today…

@aakashgupta I've been a Premium member since it existed. I honestly don't remember or even know what YouTube is like with ads. Greatest subscription I have, by far.

YouTube just crossed $60B in revenue for 2025. $40B from ads. $20B from subscriptions. Both numbers are growing double digits. The math here tells you everything about how Google actually views its users. 2.7 billion people use YouTube every month. 125 million pay for Premium. That’s 4.6% of the user base generating a third of total revenue. Google’s own executives said on their Q4 earnings call that a Premium subscriber generates “meaningfully higher gross profit” than an ad-supported user. So YouTube’s real optimization function is straightforward: make the ad experience painful enough that the 4.6% who can afford $14/month convert to Premium, while keeping it tolerable enough that the other 95.4% still watch long enough for advertisers to extract value. This is a toll booth that charges both directions. Advertisers pay to get in front of you. You pay to make them go away. And YouTube takes a cut of both transactions on the same piece of content, from the same viewer session, off the same infrastructure. The subscription business alone is now generating ~$20B annually across Premium, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV. That’s bigger than Spotify’s entire revenue. And it grew 25% year over year, adding roughly 2 million new paying subscribers per month through 2024. The advertisers aren’t getting scammed either. YouTube controls 12.4% of total TV viewing time in the US. Shorts pulls 70 billion daily views. The ad side grew 9% to $40B. Both sides of the market are expanding because YouTube is the only platform where the product being sold to advertisers (your attention) is the same product being sold back to you (your attention, uninterrupted). That’s a $60B business built on one insight: attention is the only asset you can sell twice.

@Mathew_scfc You should be grateful, if his final ball was more reliable we’d have sold him to Derby in January.

Just wish he could shoot or have better decision making atleast #stockportcounty

@JayExci You should be showrunner. Then cast me yeah 👍

(give the show to one of the MANY talented writer/directors who have expressed an interest, rather than whichever of the BBC's neolib writing drones happens to be next in line. Let them cast the role themselves bc people will actually want to work with them)

So this is where we are then. Turns out if you sink a ship for 8 years it... Ummm... Sinks

@A_m_w5732 @davescounty @StockportMBC If you’re going to use ChatGPT for this then you can ask specifically for schools. It’s legal speak

@davescounty @StockportMBC

@SK3TVPod @Chillsons Can we just pretend it doesn’t exist please

We need to talk about the person going round Edgeley with hard copies of memes. 📷 @Chillsons #stockportcounty

@AskWithings I did reach out via DM. Please respond

@JSomersetActor Hello, thank you for your message. I’m sorry to hear that your steps have disappeared. Please ensure a stable connection between your tracker and the Withings App when syncing. For further investigation, please reach out to us directly via DM. Thanks -Mo

@AskWithings can you explain to me why my step tracker has suddenly got rid of thousands of my steps from the 3rd of February. I am doing a charity fundraiser and was relying on it to make sure I kept on track. The steps have suddenly disappeared today.

@danielscfc1 @dave_philbin @BantamKiwi They’d do us. They have our number. Our games against Orient almost went exactly as the league fixtures did last season. Just like when we beat Rochdale and Wycombe in 08, lost to Carlisle but beat Salford, lost to Chorley. We tend to do very similarly in playoffs

@JSomersetActor @dave_philbin @BantamKiwi a team we have beat twice are due a win and vice versa. play offs are also a completely different game to the league

Why do I keep seeing all these #StockportCounty fans saying they fancy us in the playoffs, when they won't even finish top 6? Everyone knows the 4 teams who'll make the playoffs are Bolton, Reading, Stevenage, and Lincoln. #bcafc #backtobackbantams

@danielscfc1 @dave_philbin @BantamKiwi Huddersfield who we have done the double over or Bradford who have done the double over us? A team whose number we have or a team who has our number? A hard choice clearly Would hate Bradford in the playoffs.

@dave_philbin @BantamKiwi playing bradford would be the best option.. yes they have beat us twice but realistically bolton would be horror and huddersfield would turn up mega

We absolutely do not apologise for the amount of Matty Warburton posts you're going to see over the next few days 🧤

@Nickma1991 @StockportCounty They’d batter us. First team to do the double on us back in league one. Alexander knows exactly how to stop us playing.

@StockportCounty disappointing because they aren’t very good. i’d take them over two legs in the play offs

It ends in defeat at Bradford. #StockportCounty

Here’s a screenshot from earlier in the month of my steps on that day

@Mike_Ellsmore Most appropriate use of this meme

@Goldbuguk1 @RupertLowe10 Vast majority of my work has been doing work that cannot be done from home. I had a spell where I had an office job which could - those days at home were so much more productive. No more random chats taking up half the day, no more distractions. And no more 4 hour round trip.

@RupertLowe10 I agree with you on most points Rupert but this is absolute horse shit. I ran teams pre and post covid & there is no doubt that home working negatively affects productivity, efficiency, workplace culture and professionalism. 4 days in, 1 day at home is a good balance.

Farage blaming ‘work from home' for Britain’s troubles is just so lazy, whilst attacking the idea of youngsters seeking a work-life balance. It is predictable and it is boring. For young men and women in modern Britain, finding their way in life is incredibly difficult. No use people of my age telling them that if they stopped buying cappuccinos, they’d all be able to afford a home within a few years. It’s just not true. Wages are stagnant. House prices are high. Interest is excruciating, on mortgages and student loans. Everything costs SO much. Rent bleeds them dry, how on earth are they supposed to save 20k for a deposit, if not far more? What, to buy the leasehold on a dingy flat? They don’t even own it, then get done by service charges and whatever else. Raising a family in Britain is brutally difficult. Childcare is extortionate, so yes - working from home does make that more possible. Good. If British men and women want to have more children, we should be making that as easy as possible. A lawful relationship between an employee and a private employer is none of our businesses. If they decide working from home is workable, then good for them. If not, that’s fine too. From my experience in business, happy workers are good workers. They care. They want the business to succeed. That benefits everyone. A healthy work-life balance is essential. Absolutely essential. Anyone who has run a successful business will tell you that. Politicians of my age are so far away from what young men and women are dealing with. Of course there are many who take the piss, and we should brutally crack down on them. But the good majority of British men and women want to work hard, contribute to society and build a prosperous life for their family. If they do that from their desk at home, or one in the office, I really don’t care.

@McDonalds interesting chocolate milkshake

@duolingo xp boosts for daily quests are a lot better than chests with 6 gems in…