Since the name change I have thought
"This is an x-account Bereft of life, it rests in peace, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is an ex-account"
I will be elsewhere from now on.
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James O'Neill (@james-oneill.bsky.social)
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James O'Neill (@james-oneill.bsky.social)
@jamesoneill
Dormant here. Microsoftie emeritus, Scuba diver, father of 2, pentax camera lover and F1 nut. @james-oneill.bsky.social
Oxford Katılım Şubat 2009
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Since I was being bolshy about customer service, for balance... @UKVolkswagen one of your people went really above & beyond for me on Friday: just wouldn't give up if he could make the customer (me) 100% happy.
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Wanted to change tariff with @ScottishPower but a key system couldn't see smartmeter readings their others saw.
In trying, I met a 7 day turn round on email; a callback that never came, a glacial web-chat, & dreadful IVR & this.
I concurred & switched to @OctopusEnergy
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@lovinorris This explains it pretty well. Max exploits a loophole: if he gets to the Apex first & overshoots, then the other car can't turn in without hitting him, so must go wider than him: and [some] stewards don't accept that a car trying to overtake can be forced off.
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@autosport @Nauckas See where the car is pointing in the photo. Max does the same in dive bomb overtakes: when on the inside he will go as wide / turn as late as possible, going off track and forcing an opponent further off, & stewards punish the car on the outside.
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Max Verstappen clashed twice with Lando Norris at the #USGP, with the latter penalised for passing the Red Bull off the track
But there’s enough evidence to say that was wrong, as well as why Verstappen’s tactics need to be curbed, @Nauckas explains ✍️
autosport.com/f1/news/why-ve…
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@dochertysean1 @F1 I think he said "Correlation", it does look like specific stewards play favourites.
There's also a max trick of staying away from the Apex to force a car on his outside off the track (Ham in Brazil) which is never penalized & worked against NOR
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Toto basically saying #RedBullCheats and that @F1 are corrupt. Good on him for calling it out as much as he can!
Sky Sports F1@SkySportsF1
"It's inconsistent" 🤔 Toto Wolff on penalties this weekend in Austin ⬇️
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@F1Alye I hate to say it, but when there decisions seem to favour Verstappen, Derick Warwick seems to be on the panel of stewards, and when they don't he isn't. This may have been what Toto meant by correlation
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so Russell gets a penalty for forcing a driver off the track . Verstappen does the same, and Norris gets a penalty for gaining advantage off the track. What absolute bo***cks. The FIA never learn. #RedBullCheats #USGP
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@autosport Worth looking at where VER's car was pointing, it's the classic Max dive-bomb: get between the other car and the Apex, go straight on, and force the other car off the road - assume they can and will avoid crashing into you.
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THEY TOUCH!
Verstappen goes way wide and loses a place to Leclerc, Hamilton continues in P3
#F1 #HungarianGP
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James O'Neill (@james-oneill.bsky.social) retweetledi
Mad Max was bitching all race long, eventually Gianpiero Lambiase had had enough #HungarianGP #HungaryGP
#F1
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Only the very foolish say "See how the other lot screwed up - we'd never screw up".
The wise know understand say "There but for the grace of the God go any of us".
This will make people will laugh twice as hard when it's you.
Kaspersky@kaspersky
You wouldn't see this with any of our products (just sayin.) 🤷
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James O'Neill (@james-oneill.bsky.social) retweetledi
And with that the internet has been won for today
NewsThump@newsthump
Trump claims he was saved by divine intervention, but I don't buy it. If God was going to prove his existence, he'd probably wait for the hottest, sunniest day of the year and then break everyone's computer so they had to spend the day in the garden.
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It's coming home... One of the things I remember from my time working for @MercedesAMGF1 was seeing the Trophies, and this trophy is special.
We were asked to NOT touch it, so I couldn't photograph @LewisHamilton's name on it... Congratulations Lewis
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@pjbryant Indeed - usually the party with the most votes gets to form a government (1974 IIRC was the exception). But the swing in votes to swing in seats, is odd. And compare the votes shares this time with 2016, then look at the seats. Plain weird.
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@jamesoneill 2/2 I looked at this a lot at Uni. The main issue is disproportionate power post election (small parties being key to a coalition & wielding power way above their support) - & the time it takes to conclude.
Belgium, Italy and Israel come to mind as ones we've seen in our time.
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We know UK voting system is weird. Lib dems (who always said so) increased their share by 0.6% & got 8x the seats (greater % of seats than votes for once). SNP lost 1/3 of share & 80% seats. Labour get a landslide with 1.6% share increase vs their previous disaster.
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@lowwintersun And people no longer vote the same way for life. Brexit and 2 of the last 3 general elections have mostly been electorate sticking two fingers up at something they didn't like more than voting for something they did
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Good and bad stuff happens mostly in-spite of governments, not because of them. We've appointed a new scapegoat to blame when we don't get more than we pay for.
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#ElectionResults Brexit, for Corbyn vs Johnson & yesterday been more electorate saying F*** Off, than voting for things the SNP got a huge F*** off, ex Tories voting Reform as a F*** off were a huge cause of the landslide.
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A little bonus from my current contact, the client had a lunch time lecture by the brilliant @FryRsquared that I got to watch. Some stuff I knew shown in a way to make me go "I never thought of that". A superb explainer of stuff.
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@autosport @Nauckas Dirtiest driver to pick up a WDC since Piquet. FIA won't touch him. Even this weeks penalty was chosen to not cost him a place.
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The Max Verstappen and Lando Norris #AustrianGP clash had similarities to the Red Bull driver’s tactics against Lewis Hamilton in 2021
But really it showed exactly how he hasn’t changed or matured, as @Nauckas explains ✍️
autosport.com/f1/news/versta…
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