Mark Walmsley

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Very sad. Labour through and through, a fine mind and gifted writer, a loyal and hard working deputy to Neil at a vital time in Labour history, and a critical friend to New Labour. Sheffield Wednesday to the very end! RIP Roy

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

I am shocked - shocked! - to discover the entire “exodus” story was nothing more than lobbying on behalf of the mega-rich.

Wealth tax now!

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

this (and the elevator example below it) truly captures how LRMs “reason”.

[Jonathon Porritt @jonathonporritt]

The Government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.

This review is a sham-but we still have a chance to be heard.

Sign @labourlewis’ open letter: https://t.co/igLHCJjg5q

[Paul Graham @paulg]

When you consider that you could run a fleet of 100,000 Twitter accounts with blue checks for less than $10 million a year, a foreign power that wanted to influence US politics would be pretty slack if they didn't try to create one.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I asked @grok to analyze the last 1,000 posts from Elon Musk for truth and veracity. More than half of what Elon posts on X is false or misleading, while most of the "true" posts are simply updates about his companies.

[Financial Times @FT]

People briefed on the matter said the billionaire believed 'western civilisation' was under threat, and that he was interested in building support for parties such as Reform UK to force a change. https://t.co/3H2ECocPCP

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

How Musk is being radicalized by his own "For You" feed

from @FT

https://t.co/oCizRVjx4C

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.

[Polly Toynbee @pollytoynbee]

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow @GONUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit https://t.co/TEA61OjR7N

[Mark Walmsley @Mr_Rokesmith]

@WestMidRailway Had a delay repay claim declined because "the ticket you have supplied is not valid for the journey you have entered", but I can't figure out exact what is wrong with the data I've entered. What's the next step please.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday.
He wrote this in 1995.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

[Joni Mitchell @jonimitchell]

Celebrating 52 years of Joni’s fifth studio album, 'For the Roses,' released in November 1972. Featuring her first Top 40 hit, “You Turn Me On, I’m A Radio,” which she wrote sarcastically out of a record company request for a radio-friendly song.

Revisit the album and listen here: https://t.co/ootJAMBYkI

Photos by Joel Bernstein

[Mark Walmsley @Mr_Rokesmith]

@mjohnharrison tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate of Viriconium, the Pastel City, who imagined himself a better poet than swordsman, would certainly think about putting in an offer.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

This man was the living embodiment of artistry, integrity, creativity, and dignity. James Earl Jones is the sole reason I became an actor. He stirred a vocation in me that gave voice to my unsung heart songs. By example, he led me on the exploration of my own personal humanity and the study of human behavior in others and the intangible, ever-present soul. He was a once in a generation talent that has left an enormous legacy in American culture.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

First they came for the weapons grade imbeciles who, unbelievably, compared an actual Holocaust to the idea of stopping people from smoking in pub gardens.

And I did not speak out.

Because there are literally no words to describe the utter awfulness of these hideous people…

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has been that the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be found in biology - complex biological systems are rare. I’m increasingly of the view that the reason for The Great Silence is that civilisations are inevitably crushed by the weight of nobheads shortly after inventing the internet.