John Vesey 💙

Reminder: if you respect/admire/aspire to be Elon Musk what you might actually be a fan of is #government innovation & investment latimes.com/business/la-fi…

Awesome to hear Pump it Up by @endormusicuk on @BBCR1 to support @gregjames efforts for @BBCCiN

@umirf1 also are you allowed to lift teammates like in a rugby line-out?

@Ankaman616 I’m potentially doing some research on this soon and wondered if you would be interested in chatting about it? Feel free to DM if that works

Many people who took up playing Padel in the last 2 years have remarked it's easier to organise 4 people coming together to play a sport for an hour, than it is to get together a 5 a side team... x.com/i/status/20190…

Rugby union doesn't know how to generate enough money outside of a few specific sweet spots. Its gradual movement towards short money won't do much to solve bigger issues.

@thomasforth Is it that gown and gown separation then where Oxford is gown to Birmingham’s town and Cambridge is gown to London’s town??

Found the OECD Metropolitan Area Statistics anon account.

@Sargy7 Thank you so much - was such a powerful message and a great reflection on the passage. Thanks again for sharing

@jayvaysay Here you go. Last week’s has been uploaded with this mornings today. open.spotify.com/show/5IrwOvomD…

Preaching from Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well this morning as we look at How Jesus still wants to meet us even if we have ‘tried’ church and it hasn’t helped us.

@kurtstat @OptaFranz Hospital discharge as the goal at either end presumably?

Wondering if there's a way of adapting this @OptaFranz visualization so that instead of showing Harry Kane's long passes on a football pitch, the arrows show an inpatient's ward moves on a hospital 'map'. Clinically-driven ward moves in blue; *non*-clinically-driven moves in red.

@mancunianmedic Completely agree- some wild decisions and non-decisions being made in the league again this year

@jayvaysay anyway it was absolutely crackers to sack Nuno

Why on earth would they sack Nuno in the first place? Especially to replace him with a manager as stubborn as Amorim theguardian.com/football/2025/…

@mancunianmedic Ah gotcha - sorry that makes sense

@jayvaysay nope because i am saying Ange is as stubborn as Amorim

@mancunianmedic But shouldn’t your tweet reference Ange and not Amorim?

@jayvaysay the Portugese manager of Man United

@barneyrednews [non-work tweet] it was great to be able to sign up for Red News having only previously bought a copy on my rare pilgrimage to the ground but what was so lovely was to receive a personalised email thanking me for signing up to the fanzine - looking forward to the coverage

THANK YOU REDS! You did it. RedNews has reached 425 subs target + prints on for another season! Meaning we will carry on in our 39th year. Immense gratitude, pride and humbleness that you get RedNews and allow us to keep doing the fanzine. Thank you so much.❤️+ still time to sub!

@thomasforth always liked visiting or working from there - great location for events

We don't always run events in London, but when we do,...

I don't always take the incredibly expensive early train to London but when I do I take a picture of the booking level data and share it online.

@daybydayv If you could just navigate to me, that’s right I’m the “visiting thoughtshowerer extraordinaire” …no not that one, the other one with the blue icon

Care to join me on the Miro board bro?

@Ankaman616 @thomasforth do you know this one?

@mrdavidrowe Yeah I did get in trouble once for walking back with a friend from his high school, actually that was in SC too when I was visiting him, cos I think it was suspicious we were walking so far

@jayvaysay Not really, because no one lives there, nor wants to. I remember reading in a Bill Bryson book that the average distance visitors to Yellowstone walk from their cars is under 200ft. And that includes the hikers! Whereas in Britain, retiring to the country is an aspiration.

Will you be my friend? (Asking for a friend!) (No, literally, I'm asking for a friend. I want more friends!)

@mrdavidrowe Is the picture painted in Yellowstone the equivalent of that idyll??

@jayvaysay We have extended family in Miami who live in a gated community inside a gated community! Gotta keep the riffraff out! As for rural England, I agree that it is barely understood, but there is no way "Escape to the Country" would make sense in the US – there is no rural idyll here

@mrdavidrowe I’m not sure rural England is that well understood in England at times haha. But I dunno how well I understood gated communities until I spent time in one in Myrtle Beach

@jayvaysay And I think it surprised me just how 'off the radar' rural America is to most people. I remember two friends asking me where to go to experience the Real England (or something like that) and without hesitation I said a small village. They stared blankly. It didn't make sense.

@mrdavidrowe Ooh no I haven’t - will take a look thanks

@jayvaysay Yes. I certainly do presume a depth of meaning in everything – what might be called the Catholic Imagination, although I'm not a Catholic! Have you read Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? The section on small things pointing to big things: stephencrippen.com/blog/2018/6/24…

@mrdavidrowe How do you recharge your batteries? What drains them quickest? What have been some of the unexpected differences between US and UK living for you?

@mrdavidrowe As a child I had the privilege of playing team sports and even then I was learning lessons about being part of a collective and it really hit home when I recognised the traits of connectedness in me (gallup.com/cliftonstrengt…) seeing these connections and how it can change people