David Priestley

@DJSnM @geerlingguy I've got a ZX Spectrum Next...

@geerlingguy I’m still enjoying games from the era where the CPU wrote bytes directly into the frame buffer

I'm glad I got to enjoy gaming in the era before you needed a $7,000 rig to redraw frames and generate slop frames to hit 62 fps in a AAA game.

@Wassupwithtwits @conspiracylives @OnDisasters Give them the Vampire first, evolve to the Sea Vixen, and finally the Venom. Then remind that the Vampire was designed in 1941, entered service in '46.

@conspiracylives @OnDisasters Oh my dude. Allow me to introduce you to the Sea Vixen. It will blow your "wuh?"

"You just have to look at it to see it's doing Mach 1!" A USAF SAC bomber pilot was quoted as saying this when seeing the prototype Handley Page Victor at the 1953 Farnborough air display in 1953. Can´t blame the Gentleman - it still looks futuristic to this day: check those engine intakes and that tail

@RedVRover @marcrileydj Easier to list who wasn't included

@marcrileydj Sad to hear. How big was the bit of paper for The Fall?

A brilliant and lovely man. Sad news! ❤️

@happygeek The advantage is your memory starts going, so you forget you are old. Plus all the good movies you can watch again without spoiling it for yourself.

It’s really weird being the same age as old people.

@ClintFiore @Starlink The first hit is free, then the dealer hikes up the price once you're hooked.

All my small plane pilot friends are big mad at @starlink today. Their plans just went up 5X in price overnight, and the data included went from 100GB to 20GB. I know it's a small group of people, but this is causing many to cancel this service as it's now cost-prohibitive especially with the lower bandwidth service. Starlink was a complete game-changer for being connected from a small plane, and I think it would be cool if they left it where it was so normal folks in piston aircraft could enjoy it, and reserve the higher-price tiers for turbine aircraft speeds, 300+mph. It's got to be the tiniest revenue difference for SpaceX either way, but it's a world of difference for safety and connectivity to the American general aviation fleet of small planes. cc @elonmusk

@happygeek It also happens when Thundercats are on the loose.

Thunder does not only happen when it’s raining.

@elonmusk You realise the "English" are named after Angles - Germanic/Danish invaders of the British Isles - islands which were populated by Britons, who are still around in the western parts of the isles such as the Welsh, and Cornish.

If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe

@tnperron @TracketPacer Relay the info via interpretive dance? Tells them what they need and saves a trip to the gym - and its all on company time.

I have to constantly remind myself that a huge portion of our population / coworkers struggle deeply with reading comprehension AND are unaware of it. They vaguely skim emails, texts, documentation, anything written, and only engage with info that’s spoken to them. Not sure what the solution is…

my toxic trait is refusing to change until i absolutely have to & then not reading any documentation about the change & forcing everyone around me to just verbally tell me how to do it

@DJSnM So Project Prometheus is semi resurected.

People are pointing out the absence of Lunar Gateway from NASA's new Artemis infographic. The last I saw the first element was expected to launch in December. But if it's cancelled maybe there's still a future for the hardware. The Power and propulsion element started as the Asteroid redirect vehicle with the most powerful ion propulsion system on any spacecraft. That in turn was supposed to be a demonstration of technologies for space tugs for Mars missions. But Jared has made it clear that nuclear reactors and propulsion in space is something NASA should be developing, so If gateway is shutdown I will not be surprised if this element ends up becoming a building block of a Nuclear electric propulsion demonstrator.

@TheChiefNerd You usually need to provide ID and Social Security to be put on a payroll...

UPDATE: To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC you must present two forms of ID, plus a social security card 😱

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani Calls on New Yorkers to Shovel Snow During Tomorrow’s Blizzard “You too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8am and 1pm tomorrow with your paperwork.”

@Michaelgrosber2 @DJSnM NG were involved in the development of Altair as part of Constellation. But it was never finalised before Constellation got canned.

@DJSnM I would legit trust Northrop-Grumman to design a new lander. If they can deliver a new stealth bomber on time and under budget, they can deliver a new LM.

NASA should go back to the companies that built Mercury, Gemini, Apollo & Shuttle and get them to build a crew spacecraft: Shuttle: Rockwell International Apollo CM: North American Aviation Mercury & Gemini: McDonnel Aircraft Corporation Oh Wait, they're all part of Boeing.

@paulbennett2018 @rob_linnett @georgiebingham @BBCSport @BBCiPlayer Same with trashing the BBC1 schedule to put Tennis on, moving the match from BBC2 - just stick to the same channel. They've enough digital channels to out sfuff on without swapping it around.

@rob_linnett @georgiebingham @BBCSport @BBCiPlayer Why not just keep an event in one channel,??

HUGEST CONGRATS TO THE @BBCSport @BBCiPlayer WHO COVERED 40km of the 50km CROSS COUNTRY THIS MORNING AND THEN JUST DECIDED THEY COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO SHOW THE FINISH. WTF

@happygeek Soap on a rope, so he won't drop it in prison

Any suggestions on what to get the Andrew formally known as Prince for his birthday?

@DalesTranslator Its not Stena Connecta - its new with its spinny wind columns to help save fuel.

Curiosity got the better of us, so the boy & I took the train to one of the UK’s least used (and grimmest) stations. Who recognises it?

@DailyHMHBLyrics ThePies

Gouranga Gouranga Yes I’ll be happy When you’ve been arrested for defacing the bridge

@C_3C_3 1490 - North America White pppulation 0%

Are you sitting down? 1970 - USA White Population: 87.5% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 6% 2020 - USA White Population: 61.6% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 59% Estimated 2026 - USA White Population: 57% Immigrant Households on Welfare: 61% It was all planned. Unreal.

@rogerefc @merseyrail Surely common sense says that you allow a number of people up the ramp no matter their mobility level purely to spread the load across the ramp and stairs and keep the numbers moving onto the platform and trains.

Hope that jobsworth fella on "security" duties at Sandhills station last night is proud of himself. The way he spoke to our friend and his disgusting attitude. 86 years old and told he can't use the easy access ramp to the platform! Absolutely disgraceful @merseyrail

@J__Bachman @IanRunkle If Canada doesn't want the Stanley Cup any more, then can send it to Stanley's home at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool, England ;-)

@IanRunkle But, more importantly, is it true that China is canceling Canadian hockey and the Stanley Cup?

@timfarron Money doesn't make you happy, but it does make misery more comfortable. As Douglas Adams said - on the whole, its not the small green pieces of paper which are unhappy.

I suspect that Jim Ratcliffe is an example of the deeply dissatisfied super rich who - having found great wealth - discover that it doesn’t provide them with real meaning or lasting joy and need to flail around for others to blame…Luke 12:13

@paynenotes1 @CottrellStephen Are you following the teachings of Christ, or the writings of Paul?

@CottrellStephen A situation which is both shameful and shameless. Is it too much to ask that the Church of England would please stick to what scripture says, rather than what 20th and 21st century secular society advocates?

Please pray for Fiona Gibson and Jean Burgess. They are consecrated as bishops in the Church of God serving in the dioceses of Bath & Wells and Lincoln. Images taken by Chris Vaughan Photography.