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Torben Nielsen

@tkndk

Agile software professional; wrangler of people, culture, tech; dog lover. If you can’t read a tweet, it’s probably in Danish.

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Joined October 2009
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NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news. The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the *total* number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be
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My management style consists mostly of telling folks to delete Teams from their phones and go away when on vacation
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Most of the code that runs your life is just someone’s for loop and they are thrilled that it works.
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@RayRedacted8 Nov 2020
What is one thing in your area of expertise that the general public is completely unaware of?
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Death Star PR@DeathStarPR8 Nov 2020
Organising a press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping company for after the Battle of Endor to explain how we weren't owned by a bunch of Space Murder Bears and, in fact, WON BIG TIME, actually.
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Eric ✪@Ericneedsabeer10 Oct 2020
Replying to @AnneWheaton
From my neighborhood:
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Mark Hamill
@MarkHamill31 Jul 2020
NOW it all makes sense! #EverythingYouThoughtYouKnewIsWrong
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surround yourself. with those who would flip your ear back for you. if it ever went inside out
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trish@ultragloss12 May 2020
oh to be a labrador retriever sleeping in an ivy-covered windowsill overlooking the canal
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Soona
@soona4 May 2020
Each time I view this clip, I think of Clarke’s third law. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Frank and his red balloon. 🐶 🎈 A tragic love story. Thread 👇
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Joanna Stern
@JoannaStern22 Apr 2020
Look, weird things happen in quarantine. The iPhone SE arrived for review and started talking to me about its deep identity crisis. So we made a video about it: on.wsj.com/3eH64c9
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I @jyllandsposten kan man læse at Anders Holch Povlsen slås for at redde Bestseller, der lige nu mister 100 mio kr om måneden. Artiklen nævner ikke at AHP personlige formue kan dække det tab i 30 år, så slåskampen behøver ikke være så hård finans.dk/erhverv/ECE1204543…

Bestseller-ejer stifter nyt firma midt i coronakrise

Anders Holch Povlsen har fornylig stiftet et nyt selskab for første gang i knap et år. Selskabet er oprettet ved apportindskud, hvilket er en manøvre, Anders Holch Povlsen ikke har gjort brug af...

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This week I asked you all to send me #SomeGoodNews ... And look what happened! youtube.com/watch?v=F5pgG1M_…
Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 1

Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 1

John Krasinski highlights some good news from around the world, inc...

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need everyone to see this sign at my neighborhood strip club – at Phoenix, AZ
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NPR Music
@nprmusic27 Mar 2020
From NPR Live Sessions: If you are going through live music withdrawal, here's a collection of entire concerts from I'm With Her, Jason Isbell, Graham Nash and more that you can watch while staying away from crowds. trib.al/BYngi12
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Uncrate
@uncrate26 Mar 2020
Lego resurrects its beloved late '80s pirate ship as an island shipwreck lair. @LEGO_Group uncrate.com/lego-pirates-of-…
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One of the best epidemic visualization so far. xitter.cf/SiouxsieW/status/12414…
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Holy shit. Katie Porter holds the CDC Director's feet to the fire and gets him to commit to FREE TESTING for coronavirus for ALL AMERICANS. Watch every second of this.
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Gurwinder
@G_S_Bhogal6 Feb 2020
Peter Principle: People in a hierarchy such as a business or government will be promoted until they suck at their jobs, at which point they will remain where they are. As a result, the world is filled with people who suck at their jobs.
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[Carrie voiceover from Sex and the City] He’s well-dressed, suave, politically active, and handsome. But I couldn’t help but wonder: is dating a dapper guy in the alt-right.... alt-wrong?
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