Paul Thexton

Average runner.

5k: 23:55
10k: 52:10
HM: 2:00:31

Slightly sarcastic, Rugby League nut, professional geek. Originally from Warrington.

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

Drag race to the line between @realleonhaslam and @67shakey in @OfficialBSB race 1 at @ttcircuitassen today, great stuff!

[Mike Key @1337hero]

NGL but the Ai promoters are starting to sound a lot like gurus and get rich fast guys.

There is always a new trick you need to be doing to become "successful"

But they can't tell you what it is....

Course coming soon I'm sure.

[Holiness @F1BigData]

Lance Stroll has managed to receive a track limits penalty on a circuit that is almost entirely enclosed by walls

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@_Dan_Castell Bernie's great, very much appreciate her input to the coverage!

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

Time for my annual rant about @Apple (and everyone else to be fair) showing event times on websites. It's 2026, there's NO REASON why this can't render in my browser using my locale settings so I know what time MY TIME it's happening without having to do conversions

[Silverstone @SilverstoneUK]

“Don’t push me mate, I’m nearly famous”

Martin, you dropped this 👑

#MonacoGP

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@geerlingguy I think it's a really interesting chip and look forward to seeing benchmarks from people like yourself for how it actually performs. I don't understand where the hype is coming from though, not as ground breaking as is being portrayed.

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Lotta people out there thinking N1X is some newfangled chip that's going to change Windows PCs forever.

I don't think they realize the same chip's been in DGX Spark for a while (and even that was delayed).

Microsoft trying to hype this thing up like it's the next M-series

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Max Verstappen at the start

#MonacoGP

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

Karen Gillan showing the rest of the haughty celebs how to behave when asked to interview on a Grid walk. She's great.

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.

In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’

It’s not some woke conspiracy.

[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.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The Teams programmer who thought it'd be utterly hilarious to put the "share" button next to the "leave" button was a fucking comedy genius, and should be honoured.

[Mathieu Ropert @MatRopert]

I beg you to turn optimizations on instead of trying to do something the compiler can trivially do for you.

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

I hate these half time interviews, no value at all, just asking knackered out of breath players to recite from the cliche book

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@BocaBola_ That’s the AI running the hotel security system shouting “FFS man it’s too warm!” 👍🏻

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@Maddie_L_C @BocaBola_ 🤣

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@BocaBola_ Problem in the UK in high temps is not the temperature, it’s the humidity which means the body’s sweat doesn’t evaporate as easily, which makes you realise that it is, in fact, hot as balls. We don’t hate air con, we love it, it’s that we don’t need it for 50 weeks of the year.

[Paul Thexton @PThexton]

@JayzTwoCents Watched your initial video Jay and honestly I don’t understand how it’s in any way controversial lol. Also agree with you re: thumbnails, they don’t really matter. But I’m from a generation that was taught (and learned) to never judge a book by its cover.

[The Cynical Crusader @Cyn1calCrusader]

So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long...

First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here.
The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry.

In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures.
Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it.

Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It.

UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth.
During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs.

Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US).
It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare.
Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings.

This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling.

Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation.
Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day.

Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat.

We're properly white!

So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation.
Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight.

You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc.
Drier US heat often cools significantly at night.
That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating.

Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Levie’s Law of AI Psychosis:

The farther away you are from the actual work the more confident you are that humans are no longer needed

I like it