Paul Kilburn

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

@SkySports I’m watching #astars on Sky Go. The quality is like it’s 1998. Are there any plans to improve Sky Go so it’s at least close to as good as a dodgy stream? I pay £120 for this pap. It’s even buffering! Why, I’ve no idea.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

@yesihavereadit @RachelThieves @energygovuk 800w solar panel. Kettle uses about 2500w whilst boiling, so the panel will save you a third of your total kettle boil cost. Assuming it's really sunny and it's the time of day your plug in panel is facing the sun. In winter / sun isn't out, it will save you practically nothing.

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

I thought for one terrible moment they were about to countdown from 10 to the kick off. Footy is properly back! #arscov

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE BANKRUPTED A MAN FOR ASKING FOR HELP 91 TIMES

Lee Castleton spent 9 years in the RAF, then worked as a stockbroker in the City. In 2003 he and his wife decided they wanted a slower life for their two young kids. They sold their home and bought a small Post Office branch in Bridlington, on the seafront.

Within a year the dream job turned into a nightmare. His accounts started showing losses that made no sense. So he did the responsible thing and called the Horizon helpline. Then he called it again. And again. 91 times in 12 weeks, begging someone to explain where the money was going.

Nobody could tell him. The Post Office's answer to being told 91 times that their own system was broken was to audit him, suspend him, and demand he pay back 25,000 pounds he never touched.

Castleton had no money left for a lawyer so he represented himself in the High Court, alone, against an organisation with a government sized legal budget. He lost. The Post Office then chased him for 321,000 pounds in legal costs and bankrupted him.

That is the reward for reporting a fault 91 times. Bankruptcy.

The fallout went well beyond the shop. His kids were bullied at school. His daughter was spat at because people in town assumed her dad was a thief. His wife's health suffered under the strain. All because a computer system got the maths wrong and nobody at the top wanted to admit it.

In 2019 Castleton was one of over 550 former postmasters who won a group settlement of 58 million pounds. He personally received 20,000 pounds, a rounding error next to what the case cost him. He was even locked out of a mediation scheme the Post Office ran for people who believed they had been wrongly pursued.

Years later former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry under oath that Castleton's treatment was unforgivable. She also said she had likely signed off on the 300,000 pound bill that ruined him. Unforgivable is one word for it. There are others.

Castleton is now suing the @PostOffice and @fujitsu_uk for up to 8 million pounds, arguing the original 2007 judgment against him was obtained by fraud. In May 2026 the Court of Appeal ruled his case should be heard as one trial instead of being split into pieces designed to bury it in cost and delay. A small win. Nearly two decades late.

He wanted a quieter life running a post office by the sea. Instead he became one of the clearest examples of what happens when an institution would rather bankrupt an innocent man than admit its software was broken.

Sources @BBCNews @lawsocgazette @ComputerWeekly and others

[Ben Mummery🇮🇹❤️🤍 @ben_mummery]

@Saltburncc First slip clicks his fingers to imitate an edge, bat nowhere near it and given out.
This is about the worst case of cheating I’ve ever seen in cricket.
Apparently, their keeper has a huge amount of catches this season.
@talkSPORT @bbctms @SkyCricket
@TailendersPod

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

If anybody wants to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because they had to replace their record collections with a tape collection that they had to replace with a CD collection that they had to replace with an MP3 collection, and now they need a subscription to listen to music

[Julian Seiferth @juliansfrth]

the worst part about this whole thing is the gaslighting, like this wasn’t a clear red, therefore an injustice corrected. this is one of the clearest red cards i’ve ever seen, balogun almost breaks his opponent’s ankle. https://t.co/WX9THOpYmY

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

Brilliant. Rooney, Hart, Richards. Zero fucking point watching the build up. #ENGDRC

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

These Dutch players have definitely had their Ready Brek! #nedjap

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

@sulaiimanu @thee_ovie Standard tactic - waste time so there’s *only* time for the corner. Any break away is then stopped because time is up.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

Steven Gerrard is approaching a record 3.6 cliches per minute here. Fantastic stuff. #PSGARS

[Jonny Mac @JonnyMc1]

Anthony Gordon after doing 7 kick ups at his Barca unveiling in the July sun.

[Rory Talks Football @Rory_Talks_Ball]

Only right to have it by the corner flag 🤣

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Elite mentality from Arsenal. They take a moment to celebrate, then immediately go back to practising their corner kick routine.

[Paul Kilburn @PKK1973]

@slingcamp @Smudge1962 @paulafr68963440 @SouthamptonFC @Boro “Spice” doesn’t include having a go at someone’s lifelong stammer. That’s just the actions of an arsehole.

[No Context Keane @NoContextKeaneo]

Enzo Maresca’s first day of training after he takes over from Pep at Manchester City 😆

[Nozza_ @Nozza_]

Tinker Taylor Solskjaer Spy