James Gascoigne

@Santana17Sep @nickimoraa "Excuse me sir? Would you mind switching seats? There's this family, all sitting together. And they really don't want to sit together."

@nickimoraa Family members that want to sit together in a plane. But they get home, they sit everywhere but together.

Flight attendant comes up to me before takeoff, very gentle voice: “Hi, would you be willing to switch seats to help a family sit together?” I already know. I just know. Me: “What seat is it?” Her: “It’s a middle seat toward the back.” I said, “I’m happy to help if it’s the same type of seat or better.” She smiles that tight customer-service smile and goes, “It would really mean a lot to them.” I said, “It already means a lot to me. That’s why I paid for it.” She just nodded and walked away. Respectfully, too. Because what argument is left?

@slbsn Stadium of light St James Park Villa Park, Elland Road soon to be 50k. And two Manchester stadiums that aren't exactly hard to get to.

Not a popular opinion but given we only have ONE 40k stadium outside of the North West and London (St James Park is not convenient for anyone) Semis need to be at Wembley just to meet standard demand. City’s success distorts the issue

@bbcwritersroom Do we know what the genre will be for the next Open Call?

Did you enter a script into our latest Open Call, which closed in December? One of our reading team gives an update over on our blog bbc.co.uk/writers/blog/o…

Using my phone to Google buying a new phone. My current phone is like "wtf man??"

@tompatt1989 @GCP1989 And why does anyone care if their club is 'big' or not

@GCP1989 I don't get the big club stuff what do you get for being it also what is the criteria that makes you a big club

I’m 36 in my head Aston Villa are the biggest club relegated in the premier league era, and they’ll remain that even if Spurs are relegated

@magicinthealps I love that part of the story too. I'd read a whole trilogy of just that! But....not so 'cosy' the Black Riders are after you!

I have a soft spot for the first half of the Fellowship of the Ring. It is atmospheric, cosy, and the pace is perfect + careful.

@horses54321582 @henrywinter So if you're not winning, do you just ....not bother?

@horses54321582 @henrywinter Na, beyond enjoying an exciting game, football is about nothing else if not history. Otherwise, why bother being involved in a club? Bring on the murals and statues of club legends who are part of its history.

Interesting meeting of Everton supporters and their Fan Advisory Board last night. One point of discussion was how do you make a new stadium a home? Statement performances and results, atmosphere. Also making it obviously your home with signage, murals, statues... #EFC 1/2

@Footballtweet 8 PL titles. 2 old first division titles .

Happy birthday to Manchester City, which celebrates its 132nd anniversary today! 🎉🩵 🏆 10 Premier League 🏆 9 League Cup 🏆 7 FA Cup 🏆 1 Champions League 🏆 1 UEFA Super Cup 🏆 1 FIFA Club World Cup What is the first thing you think of when you see this badge? 🤔

@ick_real Crone.

I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?

@unknown12819 @lawrence_bury Think what you like about today's Man City, but you can't say the club has no history.

@lawrence_bury Your history starts in 2016. And will end when this bald headed manager leaves. 115 charges and corruption. With all the trophies your "rivals" don't even rate you. Thhey are glad you are winning cause everyone know city is a plastic club.

Man City vs Arsenal is Arsenal’s biggest game in 20 years since the Champions League final. For City it isn’t top 30. That’s the difference in the levels of the clubs.

@Barry_19967 @daviddownie17 Got him for free so 🤷‍♀️

@daviddownie17 How? He’ll likely go for double what you got for him.

We got some deal for this lad, didn’t we? 😂 #EFC

@RBairner The continuing drive to make everything bigger and increase revenues, at the expense of the integrity of the competition.

Ligue 1 isn't the Premier League. It doesn't benefit from the millions upon millions injected into it in TV revenue. In recent years, it's worked to make itself more nimble, reducing the size of the league to 18 teams but also scrapping the league Cup. This has been partially driven by a financial need, but one of the spin offs has been fixture flexibility. Unlike the Premier League, it's not in the thrall of television. French domestic football has to protect itself in a way that's unimaginable to Premier League clubs, whose income simply materialises simply by virtue of being in the league. It has to rail against constant 'farmer' accusations. If that means maxing out PSG in the Champions League and using their quality as an advertisement for Ligue 1, that's a path it's willing to take. My personal opinion, as I expressed previously on here, is that the Lens fixture shouldn't have been cancelled; it was too important a game in the context of the title race at the time and Lens were dead against it. But to make a sweeping statement that leagues shouldn't be flexible with domestic fixtures misunderstands the context of a league struggling financially and needing to take every opportunity it can to enhance itself.

@black_bile @RorySmith The number of domestic fixtures had declined. It's the increasing number of European fixtures which cause yhe scheduling headaches.

@RorySmith It makes sense from a League’s POV to want their teams to do well, just in case the rising tides raises all boats. If English schedule wasn’t made with no breathing room, they should prob do it too.

You probably know that PSG had the weekend off before coming to Liverpool after Ligue 1 postponed their game with Lens. If it feels like a minor squabble, it shouldn't: scheduling leagues to make life easier for the biggest teams is a real problem. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

@Samking20202 Ever hear of the Intertoto cup?

IF they go down and ofc a big IF, will Tottenham be the first championship side to play European football?

@TheEvertonEnd No

Think he waits for a big job, but if given the chance, would you part way with Moyes in the summer to make this happen?

@lush_amorelli @AI_evangelist42 @NinaDSchick Would imagine it can produce all the slop you like...

@JimmyGazman @AI_evangelist42 @NinaDSchick I know average humans poo — look at my profile pic — so I take Mythos is not AGI since it can't poo?

Claude Mythos. Ten trillion parameters: the first model in this weight class. Estimated training cost: ten billion dollars. On the hardest coding test in the industry (SWE bench) it scores 94%. It found a security flaw in a system that had been running for 27 years, one that every human engineer and every automated check had missed. It found another bug that had survived five million test runs over 16 years. (It did so overnight.) It is so capable in cybersecurity that Anthropic will not release it to the public, instead it is launching Project Glasswing along with 100m in compute credits to help secure software. Only twelve partners currently have access: Amazon, Cisco, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Crowdstrike, Palo Alto, AWS, The Linux Foundation, Broadcom. (I'm sure the Pentagon is on the line?) This is not a product launch: it is a controlled deployment of a system too powerful to distribute freely. Tell me this isn't (very expensive) AGI?

@lush_amorelli @AI_evangelist42 @NinaDSchick You don't know?

@AI_evangelist42 @NinaDSchick Ok, next question: What can an average human do?

@slbsn @andrewjquinlan Something more likely to cause insolvency than the existing debt would have been relegation caused by points penalties.

@andrewjquinlan Everton debt was expensive and ultimately contributed to the near insolvency of the club

@SketchesbyBoze I'd also recommend Thomas Constain's 'Pageant of England' series.

If you’re keen to become obsessed with the Middle Ages, these books are an excellent place to start.