Ronald McCoy

Am faca tu cangaru? Chan fhaca ach chuala mi coala! #gàidhlig

@ashleysshow You were brilliant on the News Quiz. I didn’t realise I needed a good laugh and I was in tears with your answers. Bless you! ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏

@SusanPolgar I don’t think it’d be worried about the London System somehow …🤣🤣🤣

We had a friendly visitor tonight at home 🐻

@duolingo keeps offering me this. I live alone and I don’t need it. They never offer an opt out option. They’re going to have problems in Australia, as soon it will be law that they have to offer this.

✨ As we continue to celebrate the FIDE Year of Chess in Education 2026, we love spotlighting chess programs in schools that inspire children to become the best versions of themselves. The impact of chess in schools goes far beyond improving critical thinking and problem-solving.

@chesscom @anishgiri I’m not a fan - I am an admirer with total respect for your achievements and follow you all the time. Uh oh, I think that is the definition of a fan… 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️@anishgiri

tag @anishgiri below and send him love if you're a fan 👇

@SusanPolgar Ooh! Audiobook on Audible! Bought! I look forward to listening to this. I’ve got a long haul flight in two days, so now I am sorted.

Relentless training every single day — back when there were no computers or Stockfish. ♟️Everything was chess books, magazines, newspapers, and hand-written files! 😁 I wrote in detail about my training experience in my memoir Rebel Queen 👉 amazon.com/Rebel-Queen-Mi…

@yarratrams Received an email today about changes to PT this week. Map of tram changes downloads an AI generated file containing nothing. Not a sausage b*gger all. Do better!

@GMJuditPolgar @netflix Haha! I renewed my Netflix account just to watch this – congratulations! You are amazing!

#QueenOfChess is one of the most thumbed-up movies by @netflix members who watched it.👍❤ #ChessConnectsUs #chess #mystory

@duolingo I DON’T WANT family duolingo. PLEASE STOP FORCING IT ON ME. It’s totally unethical not being able to opt out. I’m already a subscriber and I don’t want anything else. You know where you can shove your family Duolingo.

@Coles C’mon!? get your act together! You can’t even access the support article. Totally useless.

@abcnews refused to call out the homophobia in Fairy Tale in New York in a story they just broadcasted. The journalist is a joke. A week in Australia where everybody is talking about hate speech, they had to go on broadcast that. Absolutely disgusting.

@joydunlop Nollaig Chridheil cuideachd!!

Nollaig chridheil / Merry Christmas! 🎄

@joydunlop @BBCScotWeather 😮🥶🥶🥶

@drraghnall @BBCScotWeather Ha ha ha, you win!

Madainn mhath dhuibh uile, we have made it to Friday! I’m back on the @BBCScotWeather early shift this morning with all your weather updates. Hope that you have a lovely day ☕️

@newscomauHQ That is very sad. I was so impressed with his clarity of thought, I bought one of his books. A real loss.

Tributes are flowing for the respected commentator, who offered a trusted voice on complex global issues for decades. Full story: bit.ly/48wspHA

Tha sinn beò!!! Cluinnear am prògram rèidio ùr agam ‘Fonn’ an-dràsta fhèin air @BBCRnG, ‘s e tighinn gu @RTERnaG Dihaoine seo tighinn - èistibh tron cheangal gu h-ìseal ⬇️ #cleachdi bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

@Noahpinion I HATE Heathrow. It’s one of the worst airports I have ever been to in terms of design – and I use the word loosely – and some of the rudest and unhelpful staff that you’ll ever meet in your life. Ignore the trollers – I know exactly what you’re talking about. #broomsticks

Today, I made the mistake of flying from Dublin to Paris via London's Heathrow Airport. This was a remarkably stupid move on my part, given that London, and by extension Heathrow, is located in the failing formerly-developed country known as "the UK". I almost paid dearly for this oversight. My layover was 1 hour and 30 minutes. As soon as my flight from Dublin arrived at Terminal 2, I began looking around for my connecting flight to Paris, which was located in Terminal 5. A helpful immigration officer pointed me in the direction of a free train that I could take to Terminal 5. After walking for about 15 minutes through a labyrinthine maze of tunnels, I arrived at this train. The train required me to get a ticket for the free trip to Terminal 5. After standing in line at a machine, I pressed a button that dispensed this ticket. I then used the ticket to go through a turnstyle. Once on the platform (which was poorly labeled), I discovered -- by asking some locals -+ that the trains for Terminal 4 do not actually go to Terminal 5. (This had not been apparent from any signs or other information in the train station.) I would thus have to wait 17 minutes for the dedicated train to Terminal 5. And so wait I did. About 20 minutes later I arrived at Terminal 5, and discovered that I was in the Departures area. Despite the fact that I was transferring, I would have to go through airport security again. So I waited in line for security, watching other people struggle with the automated boarding pass scanners. Finally I reached the scanners, and when I scanned my boarding pass, it registered an error, and told me to see a British Airways employee. (Sadly, my Aer Lingus flight was operated by British Airways.) So I went to the British Airways departures counter, and after a while I found the line I was supposed to stand in. I waited 10 minutes in the line, and was finally allowed to see a British Airways employee. The British Airways employee informed me that I had already missed my flight, since boarding was at 12:15 and it was now 12:17. I argued that boarding would probably last more than two minutes, and that I might still have time to make the flight, whose departure was scheduled for 12:55. She seemed skeptical of this argument, but I finally persuaded her to help me give it a try. Returning me to the security line, the British Airways woman told me to wait in the line (which would have taken 15 minutes). I begged her to let me jump the queue, and she did, explaining my plight to a South Asian security employee who let me through the rope barrier to the front of the line. This South Asian man is actually the hero of our story. When I cut to the front of the security line, a security employee barked at me to get back. The lovely South Asian man then barked at her to let me through, and his confident air of command carried the day. I was let through, and the South Asian man even showed me how to use the security machine so that it would definitely not stop me from entering. He told me to tell his colleagues at the baggage scanner that I was allowed to jump to the front of the queue. I raced to the baggage scanning line, which looked like it would have taken an additional 20 minutes, and simply ducked under the barriers and cut to the front of the line. I apologized to the employee there and told him my flight was already boarding. He told me that in that case, I had already missed my flight, and it wasn't even worth continuing. But I told him that his colleague (the aforementioned South Asian man) had instructed me to go through security anyway, and he accepted this and let me through. I had to do an extra scan of my shoes, but made it through OK. I then ran to my gate, ducking and weaving around various travelers. When I made it to the gate, I found that the flight was still boarding, and they let me through. I then spent 20 minutes standing in line on the jetway. Naturally, my bag didn't arrive in Paris.

@Matt_Camenzuli Bless your heart, Pet! What are your qualifications to decide whether or not someone is an activist? Just asking.

When the Governor General is an activist, the role is pointless.

How do you report ridiculous puzzles @chesscom ? That's just wrong… I knew that and didn't have to use the chess engine to know that.

@standupmedium @page_research “weak”? I detailed key report faults. Science and ideology? – I hope that insult was not aimed at me, because that’s not very nice. In response, a hiding no-name has flung abuse, and provided no rational discussion. I know whose argument is stronger. Better try next time.

@drraghnall @page_research My apologies for the harsh words But ur rebuttal is weak. Science doesn’t follow ideology And time will tell this is true

We are demanding a full retraction and public apology from the ABC. Last night on 7.30, the ABC deliberately misrepresented our report that led to the National Party abandoning Net Zero in an attempt to discredit our thorough research into the Australian energy market, net zero policies, and their effects on households, businesses and our environment. Our paper, Delivering a High Energy Australia, is a meticulous, evidence-based discussion paper built on more than 160 detailed references. It lays out, in full, how Net Zero is driving up energy prices, crippling Australian industry - and what we can do about it. But instead of engaging with the facts, the ABC tried to smear our work by claiming that our modelling came from Coal Australia. This is blatantly false. Our energy numbers both in this report, and the report we released earlier in the year have come from analysis of a number of sources, including but not limited to; the CSIRO, CIS, AEMO, Australian Energy Regulator, Australian Bureau of Statistics, DCCEEW, Net Zero Australia, Arche Energy, Adept Economics, the World Bank and the International Energy Agency. It also contained our own internal calculations based on publicly available data, and this too was made clear in both the body of the report and in the footnotes. The modelling Coal Australia commissioned from Clean Energy advisory firm Arche Energy merely reinforced our earlier findings, which is why we cited the work as an additional, supplementary reference in the report. And the ABC knew this. Before going to air, they reached out to us for clarification, and we made this clear. Yet despite knowing the truth, they ran the false claim anyway, and in doing so they knowingly misleading their audience to cast doubt on legitimate research. The ABC needs to be held accountable. We’ve demanded a full retraction and apology. Australians deserve to hear the truth, not taxpayer-funded lies designed to undermine real, legitimate research.