Edits @guardianletters; used to correct @GdnReadersEd; tweets non-work stuff here (sporadically)
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Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us and we can't figure out how to make them stop
Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
Spent the last two years on this project to it means a lot to me:
The Guardian has looked into its history and has discovered an uncomfortable truth: but it reveals a story of Britain's history being embedded with slavery
theguardian.com/news/2023/ma…
Writer on @BBCHolbyCity clearly having great fun with the overlapping dialogue here…
“So we just bend over and take it up the…” / “Jac sees…”
#HolbyCity
I’m still reeling from shock after reading this @guardian correction – for *38 years* I’ve been singing the wrong words @BoyGeorge theguardian.com/news/2021/ju…
“Is there any chance that I might get copies of the Guardian? Is that allowed?”
– Richard Wilson choosing his luxury item on Desert Island Discs.
He was allowed to have a subscription to the @guardian. Set up your own here: support.theguardian.com/uk/s…
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Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
This is my obituary of the bloody wonderful Paddy Roycroft, who operated the Guardian switchboard for 32 years and died last week. Any retweets hugely appreciated because for loads of us Paddy was the Guardian.
theguardian.com/media/2020/n…
Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
FREE in today's Guardian newspaper:
Part 1 of a Black History wallchart detailing 2,000 years of momentous events
(and special thanks to co-producer @gaverne, designer Urvashi Patankar and proofreader @Rory_Foster for pulling it all together)
Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
Finally some good news, scientists discovered a treatment that can reduce COVID19 transmission by 70%, and its just a piece a cloth you wear in front of your dumb fucking face
Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
The New York Times has learned that the contact-tracing contract, awarded in a secretive procurement process, cost 108 million pounds, or about $136 million.
Corruption and incompetence are indissoluble partners nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world…
“a lavishly bewhiskered figure whose wonkishness and warmongering can make him seem like an unlikely hybrid of Ned Flanders and Yosemite Sam” — superb description of John Bolton in a sparky and sparkling @nytimes book review by @jenszalai nytimes.com/2020/06/17/books…
Rory Foster 😷 retweeted
'When even Boris Johnson can say “Black Lives Matter” … well, you know the slogan’s cultural appropriation is complete' Great piece by @josephharker in @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
