It takes an awful lot of guts to tell someone something like this to their face. You can hear the courage in her voice. But well done you, whoever you are, I think you’re brilliant

A thread of the worst #JaneAusten covers because even when they’re terrible, they’re ALL somehow brilliant. #1 The Regency ended at least half a century ago, and Emma is totally over this shit.

i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

Twitter's San Francisco headquarters has gone hardcore tonight. #TwitterTakeover

Fellow Alexa users, who are foolish enough NOT to subscribe to Amazon's official 'What's new with Alexa?' mailing list, let me share this month's top tips :

Jon Sopel Lee Anderson BBC Nottingham Lee Anderson threatens not to give an interview to the station again if the presenter, Verity Crowley, doesn’t play the whole thing in full. So she plays it in full, including the threat. *chef’s kiss* Careful what you wish for. x.com/BestForBritain…

ℹ️ We've been informed that a duck has been left on a train at #HerneHill - staff are looking after it at the station at the moment and will arrange for it to be safely collected, however if it is yours then please make yourself known to station staff.

Hand Dryers xkcd.com/2743

An unscientific analysis of the (excellent) responses to the words and phrases you’d like to ban: 10. My bad 9. The ‘optics’ of something. 8. ‘So’ at the start of a sentence. 7. Let’s go offline. 6. Basically 5. I’m not gonna lie… 4. I wanted to reach out 3. ‘like’ as a filler

Wow, so it's been a while, free tweetdeck retired, left me scrabbling for which e-mail address we used to register this! Tomorrows virtual ukDevGroup Meeting. Excel extensions in Delphi .....

Tories out now. RT if you agree #RishiSunak #GeneralElection

EVERY TIME 😂 what a sound from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, though, & what fun working with Jader Bignamini. Excited for tomorrow’s concert!

Very sorry to see you go Tim Lihoreau, though I can see early starts might pall after the first decade. Notice the new guy has negotiated 30 extra minutes abed. Will you be freeing yourself on Friday? No shades of President Trump pardoning himself, oh no 😏

What is it with youngish people saying ‘perfect’ when they mean ‘OK’? “Can we have a meeting next week?” “I am free Monday.” “Perfect.” It bloody *isn’t* perfect! What is the matter with you? - Not-OK Boomer

Noooooh!

Prepping for tomorrows developer group meeting: The Sex Life of Functions; Web Assembly from pascal; Microsoft Power Automate. Goto the website if you want to attend.

Confused by extent of coverage for the death of a bloke who 1. Lost a boxing match 2. Endorsed barbecuing tat. But he did record those salacious songs. Why not play them in tribute? 🎵Now I go cleanin' windows to earn an honest bob For a nosy parker it's an interestin' job🎵

Thanks for the support for my "Ukraine" symphony so far, guys! Please RT (repost) for me. 🙏 It's a 30 day campaign. 🙂👍🎶 kickstarter.com/projects/12094…

As we swing into the last 2 weeks of the symphony campaign we are at 41% so there's a good chance we'll make it, if folks out there note the timing of the countdown and decide you can't resist my signed Womble conductor print (!) or the chance to be credited as an Executive