@almurray It’s now considered rude to mention The Mail at dinner parties.
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Nick Weston 💙
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Nick Weston 💙
@wesigoglet
nobody, really
bandit country Katılım Kasım 2013
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This is the key point. X is basically unusable now unless you pay. The latest wheeze is ads that appear in your eye-line as you stop scrolling, so the post you want read jumps out of the way.
Culture warriors on both sides claim its Musk’s politics, but X is now just shit.
Hugo Rifkind@hugorifkind
@TheSimonEvans @BordeauxCanary ...there's no predictable link between somebody following you and seeing your stuff. For work sharing, it's worse, because it seems to limit the reach of tweets with external links in them. It's also not much good for coming across genuine expertise you might have missed...
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So ... comfort movies. What films do you turn to if you need to lift your spirits? Let me know and we'll turn your thoughts into a @BBCRadio3 Sound of Cinema. They don't have to be *feelgood* movies. The producer claims to have been measurably relaxed by Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
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@SteveDoherty1 @IanMartin @quantick @jennylandreth Reference to Profumo retiring to lounge about in a sack made me want to try this being old thing one day.
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This is great. And new. And only half an hour.
It’s a new podcast from @IanMartin and @quantick with the brilliant @jennylandreth. A podcast for and by older people who still give a damn.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/33gAeE…
Other apps to follow.
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@SteveDoherty1 @IanMartin @quantick @jennylandreth I’ve subscribed to see what I need to prepare for, should I ever become old.
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@thepaulwilliams They did, they just happened to be called Llanelli at the time.
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This won't be popular.
But the Welsh rugby squad of the 70s.
They still didn't manage to beat the All Blacks.
HistoryExtra@HistoryExtra
Which figures from history do you think have an overinflated or undeserved positive reputation?
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Spectacular soup of charged particles and ionised gas, trying to melt a magnetised rock hurtling through space
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Oatcakes which are not really cakes but actually pancakes, are better than oatcakes which are not really cakes but actually biscuits.
Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (waitmanwbeorn.com on 🟦)@waitmanb
Bacon (American bacon) is superior to ham in all its forms.
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We're putting the next tour together and it's time for me, once again, to ask you to suggest venues. On this current tour there are (I think) fifteen shows that came from tweets like this. Ideally UK but I do sometimes do mad things. Let's go!
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@almurray Could I have my assisted death with a side order of soylent green please?
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@markmiodownik Epoxy a new switch in the right place then use some fine transformer wire to directly route to other pads on the same connection nets - what have you got to lose?!
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Headphone surgery update: unsoldered switch but had to use force to get it off the board. In the process destroyed connector pads. No hope i fear to resolder another switch.
Stuart@Torquepen
@markmiodownik @Tnargeel I would agree with @Tnargeel as I’ve just done exactly that on another type of device. Uable to ID a side actuated, surface mount, momentary switch, even with the help of C&K Switches. I fitted some from an old unit. ckswitches.com/media/2222/ck_…
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@TheSimonEvans He was actually only The Venomous Bede if you recall your Sellar & Yeatman.
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Nor that St Bede’s School, as it was when we moved to Sussex, is now just “Bede’s”.
Tom Holland@holland_tom
It’s not an incidental detail that the first history of England is an ecclesiastical history
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@DavidPaternostr @quantick Still bollocks, whoever the words were first uttered by. We shouldn’t need to invoke a magic sky pixie to realise the shame, short sightedness and stupidity of wrecking our only place in the universe.
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The British monarch proclaiming to the realm the words of a Jesuit. We are so back. Guy Fawkes could never imagine how back we are.
Edmund@Kulambq
King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.' The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
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Guy is set to become to the first Durham old boy to play for Bath this weekend 🤝
Bath Rugby@BathRugby
𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦'𝐬 𝐮𝐩 🔥 The wait is finally over, we're back in Premiership Rugby action as we kick-off the 2024/25 season at The Rec! Johann van Graan has named his first squad of the new campaign, with Miles Reid set to become a Bath Rugby centurion on Friday 👇
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@TheSimonEvans @ernest_malley @georgeegg Read it when it came out (30 years ago?) - from what I remember it is bollox - the only fugue involved is how many times it disappears up its own fundament.
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@ernest_malley @georgeegg Does it explain the origin of life though, as a kind of biological fugue? That’s the bit I found difficult!
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I have started it, several times. But somehow I never seem to really latch on.
The cover always reminds me of @georgeegg.
Physics In History@PhysInHistory
Have you read this book? ✍️
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