My Techie twitter list is dominated today by impeachment and Star Wars

My word of the day today is ‘tingle’

Flamengo are a great and historic club but I don’t seem to be able to avoid pronouncing them ‘Flamingo’ or ‘Flamenco’

When Dickens died, a child, on hearing the sad news, is supposed to have asked “And has Father Christmas died, too?”

That may well be apocryphal…but imagine having mucked up the great man’s Christmas dinner

www.theguardian.com/books/201…

“Does your granny always tell ya That the old songs are the best Then she’s up and rock ‘n’ rolling with the rest”

This lyric made sense when I was a kid, because Granny’s old songs weren’t rock and roll songs.

They are now.

Labour politicians who say ‘we had a disastrous night’…

No…. you had a disastrous 2 years or a disastrous 4 years - you did not have a disastrous single night

Best of British to you if you’re doing this #StarWars triple bill thing tonight

Live Long and Prosper!

Or something…

My word of the day today is ‘razzmatazz’

Totally agree…but slightly perturbed by the idea of other countries also having ‘national treasures’

Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA As far as Tea Pain is concerned, you can replace every Confederate statue down South with a statue of Dolly Parton.

Replacin' the national shame with a national treasure is a win-win for everybody.

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RT @dramadelinquent: Weight watching tip.

Use LSD. You can’t get to the fridge if there’s a dragon guarding it

Disclaimer: I’m not a prof…

RT @nohwnd: Anyone in the #powershell #pester #pspester comunity who has web design skills (and ideally experience with some static page ge…

#TheRiseofSkywalker

It was a surprise when the Daleks turned up

My word of the day today is ‘husky’

These are the sort of pre-requisites I like for a course

learning.oreilly.com/live-trai…

Post-election podcast in which @IainDale weaves Nick Berry’s 1986 hit ‘Every Loser Wins’ into a discussion of the value of participatory democracy

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Ouch!

www.theguardian.com/commentis…

My sports personality of the year

If he didn’t play for Arsenal

www.theguardian.com/world/201…

RT @jenstirrup: I’m slowly changing my lifestyle to vegan. I’m only eating vegetarian if I can’t get any vegan alternative now, usually whe…

My word of the day today is ‘sinister’

My eldest singing Blue Christmas www.instagram.com/p/B58dbmm…