Given all the worry about big data mining, artificial intelligence etc, I find it rather re-assuring that Twitter thinks it’s worth promoting a Tottingham Hotspuds advert into my timeline

#ProbablyNotTheRightTargetAudience

RT @neal_sousbois: My new year’s resolution is 1024x768

Largely the same

Jochen Mader @codepitbull@chaos.social @codepitbull I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:

  • mechanical locks
  • mechanical windows
  • routers using OpenWRT
  • no smart home crap
  • no Alexa/Google Assistant/…
  • no internet connected thermostats

Just realized ‘The Beast’ on the Chase is a pun on La Bête / Labbett

We went to the same school and I thought he was pronounced to rhyme with Abbot. Not sure if I remember wrong, or he changed it to make the pun work better

RT @willkirkby: There are only two hard problems in computer science:

….a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.'"

Mentions a nice RR quote: ‘I’ve spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace;…

#TodayILearned that when they were both working in the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan and Olivia De Havilland both suspected each other of being secret Communists www.nytimes.com/2018/11/0…

Denying Mr Bercow a peerage….another May-ite scheme spectacularly backfires

#QueenMidasInReverse

www.theguardian.com/politics/…

If anybody at work tomorrow mentions the football, I’m getting straight on to HR and reporting them for bullying

#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay

David Schneider@davidschneider Latest insanery from the school of We Hold All The Cards: we’d have more leverage over the EU once we’ve left. In the same way as you have more leverage over how your ex spends their Christmas once you’ve split up.

Great picture

www.theguardian.com/artanddes…

#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay

David Schneider @davidschneider A reminder of where we are:

We voted narrowly to go on a picnic.

Now we’ve arrived we can see the venue’s a rubbish tip, it’s pouring with rain and someone’s pissed on all our sandwiches.

Surely we should check we still want the picnic. Time to have another vote. #PeoplesVote

I love “the Great Land of London”!

#NBALondon

RT @petercmoore: Me: Did you enjoy your school trip to Stonehenge? Z: YEAH! [thumbs up] Me: What was the best bit? Z: Lunch!

I’m going to miss jogging through these lights @SalisburyCath t.co/cOhZ3Bkqw…

The only purpose of that was to make Mr Corbyn look bad

If it goes to a penalty shootouts, the manager should have the opportunity of taking one

I’m sure Derby fans would agree

#SOUDER

This fella, in my favorite editor, always cheers me up (via @MasteringVim) t.co/0niQMiJRZ…

‘Brexiteer’ puts me in mind of ‘cavalier’ and ‘buccaneer’ and ‘privateer’…and it’s all quite exciting

‘Brexitter’ puts me in mind of ‘bullshitter’

I’m not sure which is more appropriate