Adrian Midgley

Suppose Twitter was one instance of Mastodon in the Fediverse. And the admin, and machine support, deteriorated. People would look for another instance, move their account, carry on doing what they are doing, with the same friends, contacts, information sources. Works...

@jessicaelgot ... electoralcommission.org.uk/research-repor… Turnout though: lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgasta… 31% turnout for England. So of franchised population nearly 31% managed to vote. 8% didn't try because of ID requirement. No 10 "almost everyone" is hard to see as true. Tell them please.

@jessicaelgot Today's Guardian: No 10 spokesman said “Experience from the last local elections was that 99.75% of people were able to cast their vote successfully.” This is of course entirely untrue. Perhaps not a flat out lie. 4% of people who didn't vote said it was this...

@matthew_weaver The Hester/TPP/Systm 1 affair is an example of a hazard with closed source software in healthcare. If you require all the software to be Open Source then if a company maintaining some or all of it goes unsatisfactory you can replace them.

@BBCAmos Dust kicked up on the Moon, yes. "To hang just above the surface before finally settling down" That's a really new statement as far as I can see. Unless we are hearing about some electrostatic repulsion keeping particles a millimetre off the ground or something. #Galileo

@ZamleeShop They'll think you are stupid and unpleasant.

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When I was growing up we had no money to buy books. All I had was my local library. I must have spent hundreds of hours in it. But for that library I might never have become a lawyer. 800 have closed under Conservative Governments. It’s almost like they don’t want us to read

@Otto_English I suspect following money and encouragement back would lead to an assortment of our enemies.

This is what happens when you activately promote anti-vax nonsense.

@SubsonicMonkey @HNTurtledove She does seem to have trouble remembering about slavery.

Please make this go viral. It’s never been articulated better than this.

@charlesarthur Closed Source helps them stay wrong.

If you’ve worked on big computer projects, and know why they go wrong, please feel free to slide into my DMs (or email me, charles.arthur at gmail). For a piece I’m writing. Can remain anonymous if you want/need.

@Ross6040 @vivamjm You use that word, but I think it foes not mean what you think. If it did, it would be true... ...either. statista.com/statistics/284….

@SimonFoxWriter "Not wonderful" will be a great improvement on the current gov. Actually, "riotous clown-fest" would be a distinct improvement on the current gov. "Writer": No, can't call any of your material to mind.

I do actually feel a little bit sorry for all those younger people who are eagerly looking forward to the incoming #Labour government. They think it's going to be SO wonderful! To put it very mildly, they're going to be disappointed. What a riotous clownfest it will be! 😆😅😂🤣

@HNTurtledove I suppose that might reasonably call forth a response, not in entire agreement, from the Catholic hierarchy.

Why does Piers Morgan exist? He seems at best unnecessary.

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."— William Gibson, Count Zero @GreatDismal wired.com/story/mark-zuc…

@SandyofSuffolk You grew up. And some other things happened.

I went to school 1963 to 1975. In all of that time, I never came across another child who had: ADHD; Autism; Anxiety; Obesity; Confusion over their gender; What changed? Social media? The Internet? Parenting? Teaching? What?

@jamesjpdrake You have acquired the appearance of lying. You might wish to repair that.

An ex-chief medical officer for England now acknowledges damage done to children by lockdown. I worry that WFH for the young is like self-imposed lockdown and could have similar long-term effects. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@AndrewSparrow I'm disappointed that the consultants have not declared that they will not provide services to Tory MPs as private patients. Those MPs have decided what level of service is sufficient for us, and therefore the NHS is entirely appropriate for them, and sufficient.

@AndrewSparrow ... or indeed, all the sub-prime-ministerial MPs.

Atkins says she called junior doctors 'doctors in training' because its term used by BMA itself - #block-6584337d8f08abff3716a96f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/politics/live/…

@AndrewSparrow She was an MP in training until recently, no? All the ones that are not Ministers.