Neil o'Riddleford

🧵Three short writing exercises that I value and appreciate highly. They take no time at all, and I think the effects outweigh the effort by a factor of 300 to 1. #wellbeing #MentalHealth #Happiness #MeaningfulLife

Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

Did not know this thread would lead to an inspirational surfing story.... Worth a read.

@GailMyerscough So sorry to hear this. I really feel for creatives. It's horrendous. I compose music and I recently worked with someone who gloated about staging musicals "written" by AI. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

My husband has lost most of his work to AI. If you want a great speech written by a human (not generic AI slop) have a look at his website mathew-owen.co.uk Please retweet far and wide.

Sir, don't make me embarrass you in front of your children. That is a £6500 bike you just took off the display without permission. Put. It. Back.

Singing along to Craig David tunes between sniffing detergent boxes at Tesco really is top tier.

🤣Dying! Someone replaced The Spice Girls’ vocals and removed the music.🤣😂🤣 H/T: sergiolotauro

Toxic Christianity is witnessing horrible people do horrible things but supporting them anyway just because they occasionally shout out Jesus in between atrocities.

David Goffin’s torso knowledge will not be forgotten 🕊️🕊️

@MuscularEnglish Yes, they very much did. So yes, Twitter will correct you for this. See also "Jerry Springer the Opera" which was also protested by Christians in much more recent times than Life of Brian.

Also correct me for this but when Life of Brian came out Christians didn't go off their rockers and call John Cleese a "Christophobe" Muslims need to learn that mockery, criticism and questions or comments they don't like are part of living in the West. They're not special. They're just one group with one ideology that is as open to scrutiny, mockery and scrutiny as any other.

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)

Dr Sam Beckett made his first 'Quantum Leap' on this day back in 1989. - Jamie

Quantum Leap premiered 37 years ago today. Scott Bakula debuted as Dr. Sam Beckett, jumping through time and inhabiting different lives, guided by Al (Dean Stockwell), to fix history’s mistakes, one leap at a time. It's one of the best sci-fi premises of all time. "Oh, boy."

What a title. What a thumbnail. 🎥youtube.com/watch?v=eK6w6M…

It’s 09:30 on a miserable March day and the solar fleet that is “useless in the UK, especially in winter” is currently generating 3.5 times the electricity of the entire GB Gas fleet Electricity just £5/MWh

No representation without taxation How about removing the right to donate to UK parties or vote from anyone who refuses to be registered in the UK to pay tax? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I am right now discovering that d'Artagnan was a real person.

Really worth sticking with this for the group dancing. "Finnish guy teaches how to disco" youtube.com/watch?v=ZJj6d5…

Today is the feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, 'Lady Day'. In England it was once the spring quarter-day, when contracts would begin and servants took new jobs, and until 1752 it was also the start of the New Year. A day for new beginnings, new life of many kinds.

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