My word of the day today is ‘tousled’.

“the Football Association is trying to get clarification over whether captains will be booked if they wear the OneLove Armband in matches in the World Cup.” www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…

RT @hated_and_dead: To mark the start of the @FIFAcom World Cup in Qatar, today’s episode is about Sepp Blatter. @martynziegler joined me f…

RT @JordanOrdix: Want to know why I use #PowerShell to connect to #Oracle? Have a look at my use case: blog.ordix.de/powershel…

My word of the day today is ‘minion’.

#TodayILearned that ‘domain’ in a coding sense is the broad subject area that the code does stuff with

( Via @felienne’s Code Reading course on @OReillyMedia )

Politicians surely aren’t all the same

The long form interviews that these guys are so good at proves it.

An appreciation tweet

I’ve listened to lots of i/views by the likes of @iaindale, @mattforde and @bbcnickrobinson

Today’s was with an MP who turns out to be an ex-priest, who had acted with James Bond, & whose family moved to Spain because his dad ‘quite liked Franco’

Etc.

Jeepers

“One of the reasons we moved to Spain was that he [my dad] quite liked Franco”

@RhonddaBryant talking to @bbcnickrobinson

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

This is the book

uk.bookshop.org/books/lon…

Really interesting chat with Tom Chivers (@thisisyogic)on @littleatoms

Lovely stuff about tracing London’s lost rivers and islands. There’s a magic in names like Effra, and Walbrook and Neckinger

Fans of @Ben_Aaronovitch would agree, I’m sure

littleatoms.com/podcast/l…

Without Bullshit - Why Elon Musk can’t control Twitter

withoutbullshit.com/blog/why-… via @jbernoff

My word of the day today is ‘hoik’.

RT @nlitchfield: @salisbury_matt The World Cup does have it’s first good news story though. www.goal.com/en-gb/new…

I suppose I’ll be happy enough when Mason Mount goes up to lift the World Cup…but still not feeling it atm

Our running in the dark. An overhanging twig hoiks my specs off my face and they land somewhere

Spend the next 20 minutes, in the rain and the dark, half sightless, crouched down with my phone shuffling through leaves trying to find my glasses

Not my finest moment, really

it was like a challenge in a really low-budget version of #ImACeleb

RT @govindajeggy: Apparently AN ENTIRE MONTH’S worth of rain fell in the UK during October

My word of the day today is ‘banjaxed’.

RT @amphlux: @nixcraft Once you figure out Vim, you are required to use it out of pure spite for the non-Vim using normies