I can’t help feeling I’d be better protected if I’d had a jab in each arm, rather than both in the same one

The Poet Laureate on ‘Tainted Love’

“I felt like I was hallucinating. It was so sexy, sleazy, cheap, luxurious, lush, intimate. I’d never heard anything like it”

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Enjoyed a trip this morning up to Andover, which is where I work, or used to work, or work for contractual and legal purposes or something

Disappointed that one of my favourite buildings in the world is all scaffolded up, though

Much like @petercmoore’s foot

:)

I’ve only seen two of these.

Must try harder.

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I’m going to need to revise my Christmas list

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Six short months ‘til Christmas 🎄

My word of the day today is ‘shoestring’.

Today I am wondering whether the phrase ‘Space Invader’ was much used before David Bowie put it in Moonage Daydream and Taito used it for their computer game

I like the sub-title of the @humanleagueHQ’s greatest hits anthology record

My word of the day today is ‘curdle’.

This likely applies only to my environment :) ….and just to be clear I really like Windows Terminal!

To make it more search-able, it’s

Windows cannot find ‘C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.8.1444.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WindowsTerminal.exe’. Make sure you’ve typed the name correctly, then try again.

#TodayILearned that to run Windows Terminal as admin, I have to temporarily grant admin to my ‘normal’ user, then run as admin, then revoke admin from the normal user. #WindowsTerminal

I don’t want to go back to commuting regularly but today’s jaunt was rather lovely t.co/SZA4wkACh…

Compulsory patriotism is the least British thing in the history of un-British things twitter.com/Liam_Holm…

Today I will be avoiding the phrase ‘distinct possibility’, I will be Fermi-izing' like crazy and I will be externalising my ignorance

The latter is not such a novelty, to be honest

…but he’s not he wrote this book, beloved of Dominic Cummings t.co/D2rSCwGdr…

If I was to try to forecast who a chap called Philip Tetlock was I would guess he’s a minor character in Corrie or Emmerdale…

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With a tip of the hat to @Sumblokeintheuk

My word of the day today is ‘ethereal’.