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Talking to myself: That's gorgeous! Echo: Gee Oh Ar Gee Ee... Startled: Alexa, you give me the creeps! Echo: Requesting specific songs is only available with an Amazon Music subscription. Here's a station based on...

@cerysmatthews you've probably been into them for ages but just discovered Al Massrieen and West El Ghabat could be a show opener music.youtube.com/watch?v=cgyOR-…. Half the album sounds like instant hits at first listen, it's unreal.

When said Chinook had a look at Holborn

And give us our daily Chinook

@hughbon @BBCiPlayer Blimey! youtu.be/nirr5CvseNI

@hughbon @BBCiPlayer Bee Bee Cee! Bee Bee Cee??? Yes exactly no. Christ! Love it! Do another one. Now I don't wanna be funny or anything... You need to think of yourselves as more of a Ben OR Jerry. Who's that girl?

@hughbon @BBCiPlayer Yeah no crap!

@hughbon @BBCiPlayer Lovely Claire!

All I can find is the winter NATO exercise in Estonia, which this year is a bit different, in training Ukrainians to use the new tanks with which they hope to break through Russian lines: edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2…. It looks like more than that to the untrained but curious eye.

Any number of military planes were at it across Europe: US, UK, German, Belgian, Canadian. A seemingly commercial flight out of Rzeszów landed at Brize Norton. On 1st Feb, the same high levels of activity, except with fighter jets, too. Is there something we should know?

An aircraft that's not on the radar has been circling central London since sundown. A commercial flight into Gothenburg declared emergency. A commercial flight out of Gothenburg declared emergency. UK Apache helicopters were up. Dutch Apache and Chinooks (and so on) were up, too.

@Countimounti @mrp @boringcompany @LVCVA @CES In other words, inappropriate technology.

Was our privilege to provide transportation for @LVCVA at an amazing @CES convention. Fun Loop stats: average ride time < 2 min, average wait time < 10 sec, 94k+ total passengers, 10k+ passengers to/from Resorts World, and average Q4 LVCC Customer Experience Score > 4.9/5.0!

@boringcompany @LVCVA @CES What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

@AGORACOM @boringcompany @elonmusk @LVCVA @CES Because flying locally on Mars is challenging at many levels.

@boringcompany @elonmusk @LVCVA @CES I love all of the Elon companies ... but wondering why the focus on Boring as opposed to autonomous flying transport? Boring requires huge CapX and, most importantly, time to build a network Wondering if autonomous flying network would be faster, cheaper and more flexible

Best thing I read in a long while. And a good reminder as to why I trained as a journalist in a previous life.

@NPASLondon @nerissky @MPSCommunities Can you define neighbourly in specific terms? This was 1h ago but it's very common any time of day and night, particularly quiet ones: midnight, 3-4am, Sunday afternoon.

@nerissky @Mikey_r1 @MPSCommunities @MPSEnfield @MPSHaringey @MetTaskforce @EssexPoliceUK All 4 of our aircraft produce the same amount of noise/pollution. We typically only have 1 flying at any one time, occasionally 2. We are fully aware of how noisy they are & always fly as neighbourly as possible (ATC/weather restrictions), especially at night.

Crew spotted a 🚙 in @MPSEnfield tonight they didn’t like the look of. It failed to stop for 🚔 . Followed by 🚁 , driver decamped and 🏃in @MPSHaringey, detained by @MetTaskforce 🐕. Vehicle on false plates, confirmed stolen from @EssexPoliceUK in December. #CoppersNose 👍

@UKMeteorNetwork Is that a Starlink train next to it? And another one at the bottom?

Did Elon Musk buy them?

@DanielPinchbeck Interesting points. The answer is yes, and no. The multiplanet species dream has been poked, rolled (out) and smoked (out) by many a good author, not least Kim Stanley Robinson. The Mars trilogy suggests many answers, raises even more questions and remains valid food for thought.

Since we live on a planet that functions perfectly for life to flourish and thrive, wouldn’t it make more sense for us to fix our problems here first of all, as otherwise won’t we carry them with us into space? /8

@elonmusk believes in “longtermism” or “effective altruism, but this ideology is suspect… /1

Some English folk get quite irate if I say 'fall' (thought American) instead of 'autumn' (French import). The article below doesn't explain why this choice became so divisive, but it does acknowledge it, looking back at where and why both words come from: slate.com/culture/2018/0…