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@OscarBarbera7 @DoctorLemma Yeah, it literally says that in the post above.

@DoctorLemma 🤔 Fun Fact: To get that "heavenly" effect, Enya records and layers her own voice up to 500 times on a single track. She doesn't use synths for choirs; it’s an army of Enyas built note by note in the studio. 🎤 Did you know? 🤯

She has sold over 80 million albums, won four Grammys, been nominated for an Oscar, and has never once gone on tour. She lives alone in a castle outside Dublin with her cats, her neighbour is Bono, and her own uncle has said “We don’t see much of her. She lives like a queen. She is a recluse.” Enya was born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin in 1961 in Gweedore, a tiny Gaelic speaking village in County Donegal, Ireland, one of nine children in a musical family. She joined the family band Clannad at 19 and left at 21 to go solo with the band’s producer Nicky Ryan and his wife Roma. The three of them have worked together ever since. She records vocals layered hundreds of times over each other, sings in ten languages including Irish, Latin, and languages she and Roma invented from scratch, and creates music so distinctive that when asked what genre it belongs to, she simply said “Enya.” In 1997 she bought a Victorian castle in Killiney for €3.8 million, outbidding Michael Flatley, and renamed it Manderley after the fictional house in Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca. After stalkers targeted her repeatedly, including one who broke in and tied up a maid while Enya locked herself in a panic room, she raised the stone walls to over nine feet, added timber gates and surveillance cameras, and largely disappeared from public life. She has been seen in public only a handful of times in the past decade. In 2001, CNN used her song “Only Time” as the backdrop to their coverage of September 11 and it became one of the defining sounds of that moment in history. The Fugees sampled her. Metro Boomin and The Weeknd sampled her for “Creepin’” in 2022. She has an asteroid and a fish species named after her. She has never married and once said “My affairs are with melody and words and beautiful sounds. People think it sounds sad, but believe me, I’m happy.”

@NOELreports Yeah, he knows all about it. He can tell them about the electrical energy required to heat his swimming pool.

Rishi Sunak has begun advising President Volodymyr Zelensky as a member of the International Advisory Council for the Economic Renewal of Ukraine. The unpaid role will focus on rebuilding Ukraine’s energy sector and boosting investment ahead of next winter. #Ukraine

@TomLondon6 @ZackPolanski Just to say you tagged the wrong TonyPatterson.

I think you are wrong @tonypatterson What @ZackPolanski does above all is to challenge the orthodoxies & assumptions of decades of political & media thinking in the UK These are too often very wrong and have led us to our current polycrisis Polanski is the UK’s best hope

@elonmusk I'm hoping this will be an improvement. X's current algorithm gives me too much of what I don't want. I mostly see AI voiceover clips from movies. I don't want that.

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@WarMonitor3 Are you sure you were not just watching the new Mission Impossible movie?

What happened between the Russian sub and the American carrier… serious incident by the looks of all the NATO led flights.

@fesshole Your technique though makes the mug handle too hot to handle.

I prefer the microwave for making tea. I put the tea in a mug of cold water and microwave everything until boiling. I have a kettle on the kitchen counter to allay suspicion but the kettle has not worked since 2011.

@BGatesIsaPyscho A university degree

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@NoContextHumans The Liver Queen

New special issue out on Health Technology Revolutions. Our editorial is available here: La révolution est là : Réfléchir à la capabilisation des technologies de la santé doi.org/10.1177/076737…

Hi Smiths fans, in order to celebrate getting 5K followers I'm giving away a copy of my book about The Smiths in London. Just give this a RT and I'll pick a winner at random next Saturday at 10am (UK addresses only) #TheSmiths amazon.co.uk/Did-Really-Wal…

@Irf11I Yeah, true. What a relief.

@TonyPatterson You just need to hit the reset button . You’ll be fine.

One of my biggest fears about being cryogenically frozen and then defrosted 150 years later is: "Will I still remember my email password?"

@jentakhar Phew, thank God. I can head straight to the freezer then.

@TonyPatterson that kind of data will be uploaded into a machine---

@Ross_Dachraoui HaHa. That's good advice. AntPat it is!

@TonyPatterson This is why it’s good practice to have one very simple password for everything. I suggest AntPat1 for all things from now on. Although now this is public, maybe change that number to another between 2-9.

A new special issue of JCB on the theme of World’s Reimagined, guest curated by Astrid Van den Bossche, is out now. You can read it for free for the next two weeks at: researchjcb.com

Rachel Spence, @RachAshman, @TonyPatterson, and Philippa Hunter-Jones explore the affective capacities of self-tracking in fostering wellbeing and forging meaningful relationships. Read the article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/003803…

On Repeat: 690) FILLY - Fruit Punch (official video) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=In3p1T…

We have launched what we believe to be our finest issue yet. It's a thing of beauty. Come see for yourself researchjcb.com/content/ It's free to access for the next fortnight. There is much to enjoy.

A new paper: Beyond the Body Productive: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Self-Tracking - Rachel Spence, Rachel Ashman, Anthony Patterson, Philippa Hunter-Jones, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Today, on #InternationalMensDay, we’re shining a light on often overlooked topic - #WorkingFathers 👨 How can leaders better support the diverse needs of #FathersInTheWorkplace? Find practical solutions in our free toolkit: futurefamilieswork.org.uk