Ashley Mercer

Half opera singer (bass-baritone), half computer programmer (Scala / Java / SQL) 🏳️‍🌈 He / him

[Ashley Mercer @AshleyEMercer]

@StewOConnor Whenever I read this I always imagine a "skolem" as some kind of evil troll

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#pareidolia

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@RuthElleson They look slightly green-tinged but that might be the light? Either way, nice choice :)

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@notesuponnotes @geocham I assume you already have this? 😘

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@pronouncedsham The sequel we need

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Treated myself to pizza from @PapaJohnsUK @PapaJohns

Cash back offer? Great! But...only if I sign up to your partner site for FIFTEEN POUNDS A MONTH?

(Or "£15" if you're not trying to hide monetary values as small text buried underneath the big shiny button)

Pretty gross.

[Ashley Mercer @AshleyEMercer]

@matthewsiveter1 In theory, yes. In practice, no: they'd need to be at least 60% alcohol to be effective. Here's the CDC's advice, for example:

https://t.co/WJSt6nHmUv

(Sorry for giving a boring and serious answer to your question 😋)

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@Paul_McCreesh @JKAConductor Oh I agree, it doesn't work linguistically in quite the same way.

More painful are the announcements recorded by valiant staff but seemingly without any direction or coaching: emphases on the wrong syllables, it ends up sounding like gobbledegook. Would be so easy to fix...

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@OperaCreep @MarkValencia Could people game the system though? Just leave it running and go and do something else? (Not that they should of course, but then equally, they *should* watch all the available material under the current system...)

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@Politicana @Autism You aren't the only one...

https://t.co/wztKWNMAui

[Dean Burnett (@drdeanburnett everywhere) @drdeanburnett]

OK then, where to start on THIS hot bag of crap?

'Get Well' magazine, claiming to tell you how to 'reverse #autism' by 'reigniting a child's brain'?

Literally every part of this is bullshit. A lot of it is genuinely dangerous bullshit, too. Hence this thread

/1

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@RuthElleson Rheinmaiden?

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@PositiveLad Free healthcare for all?

Would never pass the competition watchdogs.

Private medical companies would sue the govt into the ground.

What happened to consumer choice?

Etc 😋

(My point being: "free X" is a question of social norms as much as anything)

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@Veloperaptor @Thalie_Knights Each at a different pitch and temperament, I assume?

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@SoozUK A fEU of your favourite things?

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@steveklabnik Wasn't he an Asterix character?

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@SheldonKGoodman @WDYTYA_UK ...and suddenly I feel *very* old!

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@SheldonKGoodman @WDYTYA_UK They've already done it (sort of) with "Blackadder: Back and Forth" - originally made for the Millennium Dome 😀

https://t.co/9rLHyt2d0i

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@operaupclose *cough* baritone *cough* 😄