Gary Patchcott

@matthew_abbott_ @AzureSupport Yeah, it is for me and all of my colleagues

Is the #Azure portal, and infrastructure misbehaving for anybody today? I'm getting intermittent timeouts when either using the portal directly, or connecting to Azure SQL from my local box. For apps on Azure, all fine. Nothing reported on Azure Status though? @AzureSupport

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505 signatures away from 10,000. We’re sending the letter tomorrow! Can we find those 505 brilliant people, to make a crowd of 10,000 speaking up?🤞💙🤞💙🤞 actionnetwork.org/petitions/worr…

IMPORTANT🚨💙 I've just signed an URGENT petition. Please sign too ⏬️ The GMC has a public consultation about the regulation of PAs (physician associates) and AAs (anaesthesia associates) which closes on 20th May. actionnetwork.org/petitions/worr…

Unelected bureaucrat David Cameron explains how we need the Rwanda plan because of Brexit 🤦‍♂️ Anushka Asthana, "Hand on heart. If this had come up when you were PM, would you have gone with this Rwanda policy?" David Cameron, "We had a situation where you could return people directly to France.. People land on a beach in Kent, you take them straight back to France.. You therefore break the model of the people smugglers" Anushka Asthana, "Shouldn't you be trying to get that?" David Cameron, "That's not available at the moment" Anushka Asthana, "Because of Brexit?" David Cameron, "(Yes) Because of the situation we are in (having left the EU)" The UK has participated in the Dublin process since it was inaugurated in 1990. When the UK left the EU, the UK left the Dublin agreement and we no longer have the automatic right to return asylum seekers back to France. So Brexit was to take back control from unelected bureaucrats, and here we have David Cameron an unelected bureaucrat in charge of our foreign policy. And Brexit was about taking control of our borders and asylum seekers, and we've lost the ability to return asylum seekers to France, and instead have to spend over £1,000,000 to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, in a 1 in 1 out policy i.e. for every asylum seeker we send to Rwanda, they send us one of their asylum seekers, so we don't have fewer asylum seekers, we're just shuffling asylum seekers around. Hundreds of millions for a PR campaign to appease racists while there is a cost of living crisis in the UK and millions of Brits living in poverty. Disgraceful.

2024: Rishi Sunak, "We're going to test shifting the responsibility for sick note assessment from GPs and giving it to private companies" 2014: BBC News report "ATOS was not up to running assessments of whether people were fit to work" and MPs blamed "poor decision making by assessors" ATOS was given a £500 million government contract to assess workers. From Sept 2024 ATOS will no longer do assessments, this role has been passed on to a number of other companies, including Serco Serco made so much money from the failed covid test and trace system that it paid out over £100 million in shareholder dividends - Churchill's grandson, Rupert Soames, was the CEO of Serco from 2014 to 2023. And his brother Nicholas Soames was a Conservative MP and is now an unelected bureaucrat in the House of Lords I put it to you that the best person capable of determining whether you are fit for work is your GP, outsourcing to private providers has consistently failed, causing undue stress for patients, inaccurate judgments, and created a layer of bureaucratic red tape If there's a shortage of GPs, the solution isn't outsourcing, the solution is hire more GPs And if 1.9 million are on waiting lists for mental health services on the NHS, then how about funding the NHS properly, getting those 1.9 million the help they need, so those whoa re able to return to work, can The Conservative party creates problems, then finds ways to monetise the problems they've created, presenting that monetised program as the solution. These are services for the benefit of the British people, this is profiteering Everything this government has privatised has failed, and ended up costing tax payers even more I'm all for private business and enterprise, we absolutely need this. But profiteering and providing poor quality of service to tax payers is shameful We've got to do better as a country

Here's a really slow clip of the penalty incident. How did VAR not see it was a blatant dive, manipulation, and cheating from Elliot? Wan-Bissaka made absolutely NO contact with him. Still fuming man.

Why do private companies want to win NHS contracts? Because the NHS provides them with a steady pipeline of public money which is reliable. They’re turning the NHS into a cash cow🚨 If this concerns you, RT 💙

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Michelle Mone's husband Barrowman has issued a "statement" this morning after @thetimes report showing the National Crime Agency is investigating a £3 million payment into Mone's Coutts bank account, which would prove her direct benefit from the PPE Medpro contract as well as indirectly through trusts. The statement is full of "look over there", fundamental lies (we saved the govt £100 million - they didn't) & obfuscation. Who'd have thought it? Obfuscation is where he doesn't mention that he didn't declare his interest on company filings- nowhere on the Companies House declarations at the time. She didn't declare her interest on official documents, she lied consistently (par for the course), threatened press with libel, lied to her lawyers, lied about her lawyers "they told me to lie" - they didn't. Now their defence about getting £65 million profit and pandemic profiteering is saying "I'm not the only one who robbed the public, they're picking on me, it's not fair" There is so much which needs to be investigated with other companies too. We've been saying this for a long time. @RachelReevesMP has promised a Covid CORRUPTION Commissioner to investigate them if Labour win the next election. More to follow with data..... Don't forget to follow "The VIP Files" with @GoodLawProject and I here. We have access to huge amounts of data through FOIs and are putting it together about numerous contracts given through the infamous VIP Lane. It's a Tory mess which stinks and they're still trying to hide a lot of the evidence.

Rishi Sunak has claimed that voters are fine with him spending £50,000 a day on this ridiculously large private jet. If you aren’t fine, RT and tell him to spend his own £720,000,000. Jeremy Hunt will clamp down on your meagre benefits, but not their ridiculous excesses

This is an interesting stat. How VAR has impacted net number of goals scored so far in the Premier League. While VAR has awarded Man City 2 goals, it has denied Man Utd 5 goals. But Man Utd get all the decisions. 🤷‍♂️

Do you think that a private commercial property company should be running an ambulance service for the NHS? If your answer is no, RT 🚨💙 We’re lifting the lid on the private ambulance companies infiltrating the NHS. #NHSPrivateAmbulances🚑🚨 👉everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/priv…

@chaseleantj How do you get these images without running into copyright issues?

As mentioned in the post above, adding the words "full body, lying down" and "cinematic" can have a very big difference on the image. Left: Without Right: With Which one you prefer is up to you.

You can use DALL-E 3 to make some amazing knolling style images. Here's the prompt I use: Knolling photo of [person], surrounded by [objects] arranged neatly. Examples in ALT. 3 tips to get the best pictures: 1. Use ChatGPT to give you inspiration. Here's a very effective GPT prompt to make as many variations as you like: As a professional prompt writer, can you give me 10 suggestions of characters and relevant objects based on this template? "Knolling photo of [character/job], surrounded by [objects] arranged neatly." It should be around 30 words long. Place objects that are more relevant or visually appealing first. If you have DALL-E 3 inside ChatGPT, then you can make the images directly. Otherwise, just copy and paste the prompts it generates into Bing. Moving on to tip #2: 2. Sometimes the images DALL-E creates don't contain the entire person. Solution: Add "full body, lying down" to the prompt. 3. Sometimes the images can look fake and cartoonish. Solution: Add "cinematic" to the prompt. That's all for now. Show me your pics below! Follow me at @chaseleantj for more interesting ways to use DALL-E 3 (there are a lot!)

Jeremy Hunt would prefer it if you didn't share this around...

At conference, Sunak said: Nobody wants an election NOBODY This petition says otherwise Yes, they'll ignore it But the more signatures it gets ...the bigger the bell he looks. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6419…

Rishi Sunak says we don’t want a General Election. If you disagree with him, RT this💥