Genuine Frog, tinker-at-large

Reports of my being on Twitter have been greatly over exaggerated. He/him.

[Genuine Frog, tinker-at-large @CritTolerance]

Deeply disappointed to see that the @IMechE lecture theatre at birdcage walk was used to host Nigel Farage's speech today. Far right politicians and their vile opinions should have no place in our profession or institutions.

[thomas 🍌 @perfectsweeties]

makes no sense that women were ever labeled as being unstable. being a man is a mental illness. every 6 months i have to fight the voices from the void telling me to tear my life asunder in favor of joining a crab fishing boat in alaska. it’s insane. i dont even like fishing

[X @Pteroterror]

For British followers

1) Go to your local library website
2) Sign up for a library card
3) Download the BorrowBox app
4) Log in with your library card
5) Never pay for audiobooks, ebooks, magazines and newspapers again

[RichNeville @RichNeville]

Ideally you’d have one speaker on each side of the telly.

[jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky @JonnElledge]

so even though my predictions got literally none of these, I'm delighted by the obvious commitment to giving the Telegraph an aneurysm

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: “The capitalism of today has produced a global, digital ghost mall, filled with botshit, crap gadgets from companies with consonant-heavy brand names and cryptocurrency scams.” https://t.co/IuRxCSbWuf

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK workers must accept lower pay deals to help beat inflation, says £375k a year Bank of England Deputy Governor.

Silence on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.

Average wage unchanged since 2006. Millions already in poverty.

It is class war.
https://t.co/jjAJq5N8wr

[jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky @JonnElledge]

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you run out of other people's houses.

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

I mean if you cannot pass the very low bar of "thinking London is a good city to live in", something which actual French people manage to do, how on earth can you call yourself an English nationalist?

[Genuine Frog, tinker-at-large @CritTolerance]

@ZachWeiner @BAHFest I had been meaning to ask if you could arrange for my 27 relatives to get their tickets reimbursed but I'm glad they reached out individually!

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Hey London! Next weekend... BAHFEST IS BACK: https://t.co/Pdd0hSYqCd

[Jack Shaw @JackTShaw]

The Leader of South Cambridgeshire has confirmed that the authority will not follow the Government's new guidance on four-day working week arrangements, given it is non-statutory.

The guidance is here:
https://t.co/oRkl4QuxIC

[Jennifer Williams @JenWilliams_FT]

This time last year Avanti had cut services down the west coast. Govt provided only a temporary contract extension while it monitored performance. Then it gave it its contract back and services are immediately slashed again. So what exactly has the govt been monitoring

[Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew]

Plucky underdogs with nothing to rely on but the ability to call the date of the election, a sixty-seat majority, over a decade in power, 95% of the print media on their side, newly-restrictive voter ID laws and billionaire donors funding their campaign.

[BAHFest @BAHFest]

We’re back, and we're partnering with the Ig Nobel Awards! After a 4 year COVID-induced hiatus, we’re returning to Imperial College London. Join us in the Great Hall in the Sherfield Building on Saturday, November 18th, 2023.

https://t.co/D1XyNvXUs4

[Genuine Frog, tinker-at-large @CritTolerance]

@AliceAvizandum @JosiahTelschow Alternatively, fitted with a 6 pounder it makes a convenient artillery position.

[Genuine Frog, tinker-at-large @CritTolerance]

@AliceAvizandum @JosiahTelschow He's turning it! It was on castors on a circular base and could be turned to face the sun.

https://t.co/Dn2AZHV0jB

[John Bull @garius]

2nd July. 1863. Gettysburg.

Meade, in command of Union forces, has placed III Corps on the extreme left of his line. He’s ordered General Dan Sickles, its commander, to hold a position on Cemetery Ridge, the key to his left flank.

But Sickles is about to make a mistake. /1

[Dnd Sesame Tweet @DndSesame]

"It's about to be the world's largest artificial reef."