Lin Manfu 林满福
4.3K posts
Lin Manfu 林满福
@linmanfu
I follow K-pop🎶, 🏉 league, Jesus ✝️, and other happy things to cheer me up 😇. Philippians 4:8. 为了振作精神，我关注韩国演歌🎤、联盟🏉、其它快乐的事🐏。为了敬拜真神， 我跟随耶稣🦁。腓 4章8节。
Northern England 英格兰北区 Beigetreten Mart 2018
1K Folgt156 Follower
The reason so many shows are set in the 80s and 90s is cellphones make like 50% of plots obsolete. Contact anyone at any time, find almost any piece of knowledge, it's very difficult to get lost.
Same reason Star Trek has "oh, communications are blocked" every 2nd episode.
English
@jmiester26 @jordanbhx No. Birmingham is bigger than Manchester if you measure it on municipal borders. But on that standard, Birmingham is 80 times *bigger* than London, suggesting it's not a very useful standard.
English
@jordanbhx I mean, isn't Birmingham factual Britain's second city when measured by pop size? It was the place given to me in school. 34% of people choosing another place is either because they don't know that information or have chosen to ignore it, thats fairly impressive.
English
This is curious; despite building a proper public transport network, billions in football money, skyscraper-building, huge investment in culture, nationally significant ‘local’ politicians and having more presence in the national conversation, there’s only 4% in it.
Matt Chorley@MattChorley
Which is Britain’s second city? open.substack.com/pub/mattchorle…
English
@Saberkross Yes, pretty much. I've read two autobiographies from the 1910s where the YMCA/YWCA were still very obviously organisations where Christian young people attended Bible studies, etc. But they didn't have any explicit theological standards so the national HQs became secular liberals
English
I never knew it stood for this. So was this like the trailblazer for completely abandoning your original purpose? YMCAs are like HQ for libtard women and boomers
morgan@Space_b0y_
Went to the ymca in downtown and was like oh interesting. I wonder why this building is labeled the young mens christian association. And then i was like oh
English
Arirang's Simply K-Pop will be returning on April 10th.
The show previously took a break back on August 2025 due to low viewership.
English
@1he0pposite @Discoplomacy The bus tracking data has been available for years; the hard part of getting trackers (i.e. modern ticket machines) onto all the buses had been done. But the general public didn't know. The innovation here has been getting Google's marketing muscle on board.
English
@Discoplomacy This isn't ai, though. The fact that this wasn't a thing before is strange as it is common in Europe.
English
In the coming months and years, AI companies and governments should be extremely focused on showing realtime ‘wins’ that general public can use/understand.
You will need to bring public with you. There are so so so many low hanging fruit like this. Great work across board.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The Government says bus passengers in all of England will be able to start tracking their bus in real time through Google Maps from tomorrow
English
@johnniac_3 @captgouda24 And all other natural languages. It's like sign languages are natural languages.... because they are!
English
it's kinda incredible how sign language had the chance to be a universal language of deaf people, but instead not only did we keep different languages unintelligible we also made it so that americans can't even understand british people
English
@crispsident @ChiOnwurah It's not new but you'd never know it existed unless you're a transport enthusiast or regular bus commuter. Getting Google's marketing muscle about it had worked, because the OP is just one of many tweets from people who never knew about it before.
English
@ChiOnwurah I love all these tweets thinking this is sonething new, I live up north and I’ve used bustimes.org for years, and will continue to do so. It isn’t a technological wasteland up here, you know!
English
At last! London has had it for 15 years but Geordies had to wait at bus stops not knowing if a bus was on its way. After years and years of my real time bus info campaign great to see Google and the Labour Govt finally making it happen!
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The Government says bus passengers in all of England will be able to start tracking their bus in real time through Google Maps from tomorrow
English
@RugbyLeeds Well done! Most of them would never be able to afford a match ticket so they get a taste of RL and are either potential future supporters for your club or might take an interest in RL back to their home countries.
English
We were delighted to welcome members of Leeds Asylum Seekers' Support Network (LASSN) to AMT Headingley Stadium for a special matchday last weekend🏟️
For many, it was their first live rugby league experience, made possible in our Community Hub!🏉
MORE👉 tr.ee/60lTef
English
@Creepalexx @cmw2003 Pretty much every bus in the UK already does, but you had to know about a (free) website, BusTimes. Now it will be available on Google Maps, which has been extensively advertised.
English
This is actually quite good, I live in a village and ppl have to wait a full 1 hour for the next bus if they miss one because it passed through the stop too early.
I would dread having to get a bus where I live so hopefully this is a bit of help.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The Government says bus passengers in all of England will be able to start tracking their bus in real time through Google Maps from tomorrow
English
@CoKeynesian @bryancsk It would make sense if they used a dredger to keep the harbour or a sea lane clear and then dumped the spill into the Changi reclamation.
English
@bryancsk Perhaps it got mixed up in the earth that used to reclaim the land?
English
Can someone explain how this is possible? This place is on *reclaimed land that was in the sea in WWII*
The Straits Times@straits_times
WWII bomb found at Changi Airport worksite successfully disposed of; airport operations not affected bit.ly/4ti15nL
English
@mattdavis276 @harry_jrh Isn't yesterday's announcement aiming to change things like that though?
English
@harry_jrh Google bus tracking is leagues behind BusTimes and other open source platforms. It takes weeks for changes to bus stop locations, names, etc to feed through and the data feed for times themselves is updated far less frequently than the BODS feed into BusTimes
English
@tc1415 I meant as a particular design of branding, not just as a sentence.
The "Funded by UK Government" branding has been around for a few years. "Powered by Levelling Up" was used alongside it before the election.
English
That's becuase the branding was originally supposed to be "HM Government" where "the" makes no sense, and has been hamfistedly altered.
Elshad 🇬🇧🇪🇺@ElshadKarbasi
“Funded by UK Government” Not even Funded by *the* UK Government Might as well say Funded by Yookay Government
English
@TheOtherSeru @Greg01000111 @ElshadKarbasi Yes, it's a leading content management system and it's open-source so they can use it without being locked in to a single vendor. That's one of the best IT decisions they've ever made.
English
@Greg01000111 @ElshadKarbasi UK government website uses WordPress?
English
“Funded by UK Government”
Not even Funded by *the* UK Government
Might as well say Funded by Yookay Government
English
@Columba521 @ElshadKarbasi I use HMG, but it infuriates Irish Nationalists and causes confusion in international contexts and with less well educated people here. If you use "UK Government", everybody immediately understands, which is the main aim.
English
@BruvverEccles @ElshadKarbasi I use HM Government, but it infuriates Irish Nationalists and is confusing in international contexts, so the UK Government is probably sensible to use it as a compromise that everybody understands immediately.
English
@ElshadKarbasi In any case it's His Majesty's Government, funded by the taxpayer.
English
@AaronBastani @ElshadKarbasi It was introduced to emulate the EU's similar requirement that projects that they funded say so. The Eurosceptic members of the coalition government hated the fact that people could easily see the tangible benefits of EU membership.
English
@ElshadKarbasi The local authority is also funded by / an extension of HM government. It’s about distinguishing LA and Westminster funding I imagine.
English
@PurpleMixPrint @RBW_MAMAMOO The US already has more than half the shows and there are entire continents without any at all. Not very tactful IMHO....
English
@privatemarkg @esc_asia But they have a thousand hours of footage that doesn't show contestants holding European flags (which is only a tradition dating back to 2015 anyway). If I was trying to persuade some Vietnamese Communist Party official to let me broadcast, I'd want zero European flags.
English
@Simon_Gleaden @rorysutherland According to Ofcom, this is enough for broadcasters to prove that they have announced to viewers that the programme content may have been changed for cash. It's a mockery.
English
@Simon_Gleaden @rorysutherland It's a symbol of a P for "Product Placement", shown briefly in the opening seconds of the intro. It's always shown translucent so even if you know it's there and you're looking for it, it's very easy to miss.
English
I was once on a BBC programme when an assistant came on shortly before recording began and ripped the labels off the Ashbourne water provided to the panel.
It was a radio programme.
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart
The BBC's obsession with avoiding product names and trade marks was comical at times. Offending labels were often covered by first aid plasters and coloured sticky tape. It is, therefore, oddly hypocritical that the Corporation turns a blind eye to film producers, publishers, West End theatres, record labels, and visual artists, all of whom are frequently invited on air to plug their money-making schemes.
English