Horatio McSherry

Yorkshireman, architecture victim, sport junkie 🎪, book whore, science geek.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

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[Endurance22 @Endurance_22]

Endurance is Found

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

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[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

This paper remains one of the most astonishing feats of data wizardry I’ve ever seen. They inferred the roughness of every road in America from how much the driver’s phone bumped up and down! Every single one!

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

PROJECT 222 SMASHED 🔥

In front of his home crowd, 🇬🇧's Josh Kerr lives up to the hype by breaking Hicham el Guerrouj’s 27-year-old one mile record in 222 seconds as he targeted, with 3:42.66 😤

Flash 🔗 https://t.co/WB2cFm3Yh5

#DiamondLeague

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Lose two elections and fall into the sea?

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@FlashForFreedom Yes. That's what makes me think it could be the original chimney running diagonally across the top of the book case and there's a brick pier and a beam the meet at the top left of the door.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@FlashForFreedom I'm not sure it is AI. You can't really tell from two photos but it could be they've extended the house (seen from the other photo) and it's the original chimney route. The boxing out above the door could be concealing a related structural element. Bit of a bodge, but possible.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@thesundaysport I think there’s room here for a new competitor to Pokémon GO 🤔

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Councils? More power?
It would be more sensible to give flamethrowers to monkeys.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

I've figured it out; UK politicians are trying to replicate their childhoods from the 1960s and 70s.

Will they play the national anthem and display the BBC logo at midnight too?

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@worstall @sejhudson 'Jobber' always reminds me of the furious Cato letters early on😄

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

The scale of the coming disenchantment may well shift the earth's axis

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🔸 Support for a social media ban plummets to just HALF if enforcing it requires uploading ID
🔸Support sinks below half if would require banning VPNs too, according to new data.

The public has spoken - no to sweeping internet restrictions & intrusive ID checks to post online

”The mass collection of ID information and biometric data will not keep children safe, but instead creates an entirely new set of cybersecurity risks that threaten the rights and freedoms of children and adults alike…

Rather than forcing British users to consistently put their sensitive personal data on the line, the Government should stand up to Big Tech directly, and tackle its harmful business practices at the source.” - Maya Thomas

Read⤵️
https://t.co/GcDdc6eGTU

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@worstall A couple of years ago a mate asked me to do a Pre-App for three houses on some derelict land he owned. I reluctantly accepted - I don’t generally do resi work as it’s a nightmare. Took 6 months and had 24 conditions to satisfy before a full app could even be started.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

I didn't know this was a Tory idea too. Has Labour introduced any of its own policies yet or is it still going through the backlog?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister.

He has led the most authoritarian government in more than a generation, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech. Indeed, he seems determined to make social media censorship his legacy.

In the process, he has proved to be an effective recruiting sergeant for the Free Speech Union, with our membership growing from 14,000 at the time of the last General Election to more than 45,000 today.

But there is little reason to believe things will improve under his likely successor, Andy Burnham.

It is believed that the former MP for Makerfield and former head of Labour Together, Josh Simons, who resigned so Burnham could fight a by-election, is set for a plum job at the heart of Downing Street. The Free Speech Union recently exposed Labour’s ‘misinformation mafia’ that Simons led, targeting journalists and others that challenged Starmer’s technocratic managerialism. We anticipate an escalation in Labour’s efforts to suppress dissenting speech on social media in the forthcoming Representation of the People Bill, assuming Burnham doesn’t abandon the legislative programme outlined in the King’s Speech.

Burnham is also keen on bringing forward a ‘fully trans-inclusive’ ban on ‘conversion therapy’, which may mean criminalising parents who ‘misgender’ their confused adolescent children or who withhold consent from their children embarking on irreversible medical pathways.

No doubt there will be numerous other assaults on free speech which we’ll be keeping a close eye on.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@gloshartpury @FranceRugby @ThePWR @EdgeNetworksUK Holy moly! 😯👊🏻

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱There's no such thing as a social media ban for under-16s

It means we will ALL face a “papers, please” demand to get online.

Holding platforms to account and giving parents the tools they need are the answer for child safety - not government-issued bans and digital ID checks for all.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels.

Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails.

I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@James_Athletics When we went in 2023 I got sunstroke 😄 Still the best DL of the ones we’ve been to. Everything about it is spot on.

[Horatio McSherry @HMcSherry]

@JimTheGlawsFan She’s not the reason Glos lost (they were a shambles) but not sure which game she was refereeing either. Clearly not the game in front of her.