Grumpy old researcher !

Berkshire UK
Joined August 2014
Prime Ministers are meant to lead by example, shine like a beacon. This one lies, breaks laws, laughs and gurns as he does so. He shapeshifts and truthtwists, as people die. Does as he pleases, while we do as he demands. And, now, the rot has seeped into others who are better.
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Have you booked for this free online talk next Thursday by my mate @KeithScobie about the Big Ben conservation project? I really think you should. I mean why wouldn't you? Go on, click the link. You'll be glad you did. ukparliament.seetickets.com/…
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Hilda Ericsson founded telecom co. Ericsson with husband. She tested inventions, developed new products & managed finances, clients & deliveries. 1/3 of workforce wound electromagnetic coils with satin-coated copper wire ("women's work") d. #OTD 3 Jan 1941 bit.ly/3kPk5Ky
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even Boris Johnson has come to the conclusion that he’s a bit shit
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Allan Green retweeted
John Midwinter - our former Head of Department @ucleeenews and Emeritus Pender Professor. Former Vice-Provost @ucl @uclnews and President IEE @TheIET Brilliant scientist, teacher and mentor. Deeply mourned. @RAEngNews @royalsociety theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Come home to Yorkshire with your heads held high ❤️
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For all your Favourite Yorkshiremen ☀️😃 🔗 yorkshireprose.com
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Is this really my country? What have we become when this level of arrant threatening bile & harassment happens at the heart of our democracy? The footage is apparently of BBC Newsnight’s being chased back to police cover by anti-lockdown protesters. xitter.cf/rebecca_morgan/status/…
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Allan Green retweeted
Pender was a visionary & a pioneer of communications infrastructure, understanding its power for international communication and trade! We @ucleeenews @UCLEngineering @ucl have much connection to Pender, not least through the Pender Chair, held by some of our greatest professors!
Our #objectoftheweek is the white marble bust of Sir John Pender sculpted by the English Sculptor Edward Onslow Ford in 1897. The bust is currently on loan to PK Porthcurno from the Denison-Pender family. You can learn more about the Cable King here - pkporthcurno.com/events/exhi…
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That’s just about the daftest thing I’ve ever heard. It rivals flat-earthers.
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Allan Green retweeted
A smile we never forget - the wonderful #Irish cameraman Simon Cumbers, gunned down on this day in 2004, on assignment for BBC in #SaudiArabia. Thoughts with his parents Bob and Bronagh, his wife Louise and his many friends in the media and beyond. #CueCumbers
Today we’re remembering Simon Cumbers, the BBC cameraman murdered in 2004 while on assignment in Saudi Arabia. He was the loveliest and most gentle of men, universally liked and admired. He embodied all that’s good in our industry. #cuecumbers
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Forget £350 million a week. Here’s Johnson in 2016, promising an extra £600 million pounds a week for British businesses if Brexit happened. I’d hate for anyone to retweet it.
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Serious reports that suggest Belarus has forced a plane to land that was en route from Greece to Lithuania carrying a journalist who ran the anti-regime telegram channel Nexta. This is huge.
The regime forced the landing @Ryanair plane in Minsk to arrest journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich. He faces the death penalty in Belarus. We demand immediate release of Raman, @ICAO investigation, and sanctions against Belarus.
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Very useful breakdown. Would be interesting to know how the major causes (particularly fishing and ‘unknown’) have changed, say decade by decade, over this 50 year period.
31MAR21 • ICPC Submarine Cable Protection and the Environment Cables faults causes observed since 1959 🦈 Shark attacks❓ Bah...Humbug❗️ 🙄 Published by the International Cable protection Committee 📰 iscpc.org/publications/subma… @MikeAClare @NOCnews #ICPC
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All too familiar situation . Have not tried Teams but feel for your dilemma......password mania rules in many apps. Keep smiling !
Told to install MS Teams for a call tomorrow. Hour and a half messing me around plus password hell. Overpaid idiots in LA think this rubbish up. Thought it would be like Zoom - easy - oh no, its a nightmare.