Daniel Watts

@cnagele grateful for your sharing your January 25 outage rfo. Did you get to the bottom of this with Percona? Mind sharing learnings anywhere? We are also a Percona shop so would be interested in understanding pitfalls.

Keeping up with AI trends. Seems a promising event. Free: join me & 1,000+ AI experts, startups, investors & digital professionals at AI SKILLS'2026 Virtual Conf on Jan 22 (Zoom). Register: conf.cosprints.ai

@ninapaley @crunchytarian @jk_rowling That's beautiful Nina. And just won me over as a new follower.

@crunchytarian @jk_rowling I didn't sign any of my "Mimi & Eunice" cartoons as a kind of spiritual practice. Yes I claim them as my work, but I wanted to let go of proprietary tendencies that can interfere with creativity, and put the work/content ahead of my ego.

'He has a point, but he's too blunt.' From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step. Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?' As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist. Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.

@virginmedia your engineering team has now stood me up 5 times in 2 weeks to fix a major service fault. This is unacceptably disrespectful. Whilst a complaint was raised a week ago ( C-3110252379) I have had no reply or update since. Does anyone actually work at Virgin Media?

Hi @mostlydj is retune.so still being developed and supported? Not seeing much change recently and the contact support chat options have all disappeared. Has it become abandonware after the appsumo campaign?

@AluminatiNews our US Azure servers are currently being rebooted for unavoidable emergency maintenance. Service will be restored as soon as possible. We will update again within 30 mins.

@mirashowers we've enjoyed your Mira Platinum Dual Digital Shower but recently it has become 'possessed' and repeatedly switches itself on! One time this resulted in a severe flood. Is this a known problem? Is there a solution you can offer us? We're now scared of our shower!🚿👻

Not just full, not even standing room! 😄 Audience spilling out the doors at our "Networking Is Not Dead! Supercharge Connections for Alumni-ready Graduates" session with the fantastic Maria Gallo, Janneke Hermans, James Davis and Johana Canda-Fisrova. #ceac23 #biggerRoomNeeded

"Digital transformation is not just taking what you're doing offline and putting it online". Very accurate words from Priya Lakani and an all too common mistake to make. #ceac23

Back with my team in Edinburgh at one of the highlights of each year: CASE's Annual Europe Conference! Look forward to reconnecting in person with my alumni and fundraising friends. #ceac23

@SimplyHostingUK Just lost all Reading DC services. See you are doing UPS maintenance. Has something gone wrong?

@HillsRdAdultEd when are you releasing your next courses please? My wife's tutor said it would be 10pm today but no new courses are showing as available. Thank you.

Saw my first Aurora Borealis in the skies just east of Cambridge. Magical. Just snapped this on my phone. Hopefully the solar activity keeps it up for another two weeks when I'll be hunting these Lights in Norway with the wife! 😄 #Auroraborealis #NorthernLights #Cambridge

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@JennyCookeSmith shares the mathematical formula for Alumni Engagement Rate. #ari23

@TristanAlltimes introduces a helpful pyramid to understand where Events sit within the engagement life cycle from In Touch >Informed > Involved >Contributing #ari23 #events #alumnirelations

@CASE_Europe #ari23 Day 2 kicks off with a quote from @NathalieEmma. Alumni Relations is Communication.

Love that former faculty are still following the @CASE_Europe ARI hashtag. Hello @JasonCoolman @PhilJSteel! This 10th institute is in excellent hands. (10th year can you believe @NathalieEmma! ) #ari23

An unexpected but pertinent statement from @rossmunnelly of @DCU "The #1 challenge facing alumni relations at our institutions is cybersecurity". Given relationships are built on trust, ensuring you keep your alumni data secure is critical to maintaining that trust. #ari23

Back at our 10th CASE Alumni Relations Institute! This year in Aston University. Great to see a full house for this important initiative. #ari23