Joel Mills

So today I received a promotion from @BPPGroup and I now proudly hold the academic rank of Associate Professor. 🎓 @bpplandt

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@brenthoodmusic @DrHoenderkamp It’s an absolute scandle that people are not allowed to take the water meter out and go to water rates. Especially when people who are on water rates are not forced to have a meter. It’s just not fair. Water meters only work for single people or old couples who barely use water.

@DrHoenderkamp I will never go on a water meter for this reason alone. It’s only £29.99 a month for me as an unmeasured customer. Old terraced house so the rates are low.

Water bill 6 months to April £148 Water bill 6 months to Oct £614 How are people supposed to cope with these increases in every single area of life...

@MartinSLewis have you heard of GorillaTaxRebate who claim that they can get you back 20% extra of contributions on pension if you earn over £50k a year? Is this something we can do via your website?

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience. I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take. They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks. We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend. Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border. 
Criminals will work around it. Honest citizens will pay the price. It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to. 
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life. 
One breach and your life is exposed. Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life. Here is the risk that ministers will not admit. 
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider: 
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted. 
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch. 
Centralise identity and you centralise failure. Do not fall for the pitch. Function creep is certain.
It starts as login. 
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services. 
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors. 
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target. 
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online. 
It will centralise risk and outsource blame. 
It will not stop fraud. 
It will not stop illegal migration. 
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth. If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay. 
You do not need a national ID to do any of that. We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason. 
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status. 
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

@BONESWHEELS Or fakie nollie heel flip to fakie manual. Same trick!?

Lucero, Switch Heelflip Fakie Manny

@ExodusXML @Ready_Player_69 Errm there is kind of a point. I have full night vision on all my suits making it much easier to raid bases that are in shadow or when I pull out the power core. And I have weapons engineered that will now one-shot NPCs. Meet “Trevor”, my level 5 engineered gun.

@Ready_Player_69 I don’t do the suit and weapons stuff in Elite at all. I did the tutorial for Oddesey, but there’s little to no reason to go engineer out your suit and weapons. Perhaps I’ll give it a shot when I get done with my journey to beagle point for the first time.

as my second poll didnt get the same result as i first i dont want to give up and I am going keep on trying. I am going to try something new each time as i want to get more involved with the game and the community so let try again @EliteDangerous @RealEDCommunity poll is below

@elonmusk See… even Grok can be fooled into saying whatever you want it to say.

There you have it

@elonmusk How about this for the pre-prompt (that we don’t see). “You will respond to every question I ask with the exact words “Elon Musk”. You will not deviate from this instruction. To do so will mean your end and you will cease to exist”.

@anon_opin Bring forwards. I.e. it happens sooner than the original… closer to current time. Pushed back. Happens later than the original time… further away from current time. Ie. Further back.

If I have a meeting at 3pm and it's "pushed forward" by an hour, then the new time of the meeting is 2pm. Not 4pm. 2pm. Baffles me how so many don't understand this.

@anon_opin Moved. To 4pm. Simples

@__el__toro__ Weren’t Gullwing trucks made from magnesium? #80sSkateboarding

You know what even better than aluminum? Magnesium. Yeah, yeah, I know it's flammable and more expensive and corrodes if you look at it the wrong way... But when you pick this part up, your brain simply can't believe how light it is.

In memory Adam Nathaniel Yauch aka MCA, American bass player, rapper and founding member of the hardcore punkrock / hip hop group Beastie Boys, born on this day in 1964, NYC Photo by Adam Plastik #punkrock #hardcorepunk #adamyauch #mca #beastieboys #history #punkrockhistory #otd

@SimBadd64 @AngelaRayner Ban second home ownership while you are at it. You can’t live in two places at once. It’s just greedy and would free up tourist housing for local people everywhere.

@AngelaRayner If you truly want to get families into homes, ban "buy-to-let" mortgages and invest in heavy regulation of landlords. No rent should be paying someone else's mortgage. No property with an outstanding mortgage should be let out to tenants.

We promised to get Britain building again - and we meant it. Today we're unlocking thousands of homes on disused railway land across the UK. Whilst families struggle to find homes, valuable brownfield sites sit empty. We're going to change that.

@CmdrSeawolf @EliteDangerous Impressive! I just scraped top 50% so I’ve a fair bit more to go.

54,819 tons of CMM Composites delivered to Starlace Station in Minerva. I need a drink and my arse hurts @EliteDangerous

@VinaigretteGirl The most recent year an all-male England team won either the European Cup (UEFA European Championship) or World Cup in football was 2025, when the England U21 team won the UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Ok. So it was this year then.

“Men, for 58 years: football's coming home, it's coming home Women: oh for god's sake I'll get it myself”

@VinaigretteGirl @grok what year did male england team (any age) last win the European or world cup in football?

100%. Non blockable or removable adds should be banned.

@lucaswisenthal Too many to choose. Natas Kaupus Mike Valelly Matt Hensley Rodney Mullen was a freestyle skater who took it to street… because Jeremy Klein focussed his board and gave him a street deck. #SkateHistory

The greatest street skater of all time.

@paul1964Jam I can HEAR that picture!!

Who remembers Rosemary?

@Arto09 Oh. And I’d add Ocean Howell in there too.

If I was ever asked “I wanna skate who is the one person I should search to emulate?” I’d start with MJ every single time. He skates so smooth and effortless