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Joined March 2008
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Hey @BBCNews calling Laurence Fox an “actor-turned-politician” because he failed at a single election four years ago is like calling everyone “embryo” because they were one once.
Some genius email marketing from #LEON this morning, sending what looks to be an internal discussion about reintroducing a dish to their entire email list
Sat outside watching (and listening to) the maybugs swarming around the crown of the horse chestnut tree. Can’t find any info describing this connection - what’s the relationship? @ChrisGPackham
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Rishi Sunak's Big D-Day Snub - A Definitive Thread...
Rishi Sunak skipped out on the main D-Day commemorations yesterday to rush home and record an ITN interview that won't even air until Wednesday next week.
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Before Twitter locked down its API, I started an analysis to figure out (empirically) "the 'greatest' tweets ever from intellectuals."
Here's an abbreviated version based on the analysis I was able to do:
[24 'greatest' tweets from intellectuals megathread] 🧵
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Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵
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IN BRUGES was released 16 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great black comedies of the century and the film that kick started the McDonagh/Farrell/Gleeson triumvirate, the making of story is as beautiful as the city it’s set in…
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This is such a powerful video…
So simple
So much sense
The Tories know this too
But they also know that it’s the millionaires & billionaires who donate to them that keep them in power
…and the sad truth is, that’s who they really work for.
I have a #Laravel job which often fails 5-6 times (due to external dependencies) but is managed by backoff, expiry etc. What’s the best way to only notify when it finally fails? ie hits max retries, expires, etc? Does `failed()` run every time or just the last time?
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A 90-year-old housebound pensioner is convicted of not keeping up with his car insurance.
He doesn't have email, struggles to walk, can't write anymore & cares for a wife with dementia
In our flawed, secretive, fast-track justice system, this kind of prosecution keeps happening
If there was a function that took an array of strings [“this”, “that”, “the other”] and returned it as a string “this, that & the other”, what would that be called?
@BBCRosAtkins book looks good - great that it’ll help me with databases too!
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Jack Monroe explains how the cost of living crisis is a cost of Conservatives/austerity/underfunding crisis.
If you watch one clip from #BBCQT tonight, make it this one. - follow for more.
