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RT @govindajeggy: I swing between inaccurate similes like a cake in a lighthouse

#TodayILearned that, if you are so minded, you can get the bit between the square brackets from a Powershell text object (here it’s ‘Line’) as follows:

select @{E={$_.Line.split('[')[1].split(']')[0]};L=‘Text’}

So from:

Chelsea [FC] European Champions

It would extract:

FC

Pope John Paul II, or possibly Carlo Anceolotti, or maybe Abraham Lincoln for all I know, said:

“Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.”

I’ve thought about that a bit over the last few days

Never mind hearing the first cuckoo….Cheryl Baker is on the radio shortly talking about #Eurovision

Spring is coming t.co/2ssNK10I0…

My word of the day today is ‘parish’.

Presumably @ThreeUK will be offering refunds to people who’ve bought replica shirts? twitter.com/ThreeUK/s…

#TweetOfTheDay 🥇 twitter.com/RJPJourna…

Not the main issue….but given this has turned out to be quite significant, how come Mr Johnson didn’t know whether or not sanctions were already in place a couple of weeks ago

He does sometimes seem to be a bit clueless twitter.com/BBCPoliti…

RT @CareFreeCaba: Putin is definitely gonna stop the war now that Chelsea fans can’t buy tickets! Well done @BorisJohnson !

RT @carefreecammy: Happy birthday to the best football club in the world 💙 t.co/fkRG2iZlw…

RT @DR62CFC: Happy Founders Day! 117 years old and still pissing the rest off. t.co/WCyxVf9LK…

My word of the day today is ‘behest’.

A little bit of Kid One doing Cyndi Lauper on #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZMLfRpGm8…

RT @KevinASchofield: Absolutely brutal Spectator cover. The government are getting this badly wrong. t.co/EkAWHUbu2…

Sometimes you’re the windshield Sometimes you’re the bug

#PostASongLyricYouLove

RT @kevebbs: Ian stared at the seagulls, oblivious to the threat they posed to Hooky’s chips

I dreamt I was playing 5-a-side against Bill Gates last night. He was complaining to the ref he’d got an elbow in the face.