Rory Foster 😷

Edits @guardianletters; used to correct @GdnReadersEd; tweets non-work stuff here (sporadically)

[fleckaz @fleckaz]

nine chicks all hatched now and HUNGRY

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

@rognbrow Congratulations to you both!

[fleckaz @fleckaz]

testing out some new material

[Simon Willison @simonw]

We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us and we can't figure out how to make them stop

[fleckaz @fleckaz]

guess who's back

[Joseph Harker @josephharker]

Spent the last two years on this project to it means a lot to me:
The Guardian has looked into its history and has discovered an uncomfortable truth: but it reveals a story of Britain's history being embedded with slavery
https://t.co/gN5vK0L0wO

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

@prospect_clark @ottocrat @dotski_w I wish I could claim credit for such a nice piece of subtle subbing genius, but no

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

Wordle 280 2/6

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[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

@prospect_clark @BenHouchen @williamnhutton @SebastianEPayne Also worth checking the spelling of Teesside in your headline 😉

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

Writer on @BBCHolbyCity clearly having great fun with the overlapping dialogue here…

“So we just bend over and take it up the…” / “Jac sees…”

#HolbyCity

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

@MartinBelam Change your policy to Googling “site:https://t.co/2ob6RZEFUz inurl:guardian-observer-style-guide some phrase” – works every time 😉

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

I’m still reeling from shock after reading this @guardian correction – for *38 years* I’ve been singing the wrong words @BoyGeorge https://t.co/UUHytzUAp8

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

“Is there any chance that I might get copies of the Guardian? Is that allowed?”
– Richard Wilson choosing his luxury item on Desert Island Discs.

He was allowed to have a subscription to the @guardian. Set up your own here: https://t.co/u8PmqiH7mN

https://t.co/YLhl6JZAqb

[Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone]

This is my obituary of the bloody wonderful Paddy Roycroft, who operated the Guardian switchboard for 32 years and died last week. Any retweets hugely appreciated because for loads of us Paddy was the Guardian.
https://t.co/WIvHSBla3z

[Joseph Harker @josephharker]

FREE in today's Guardian newspaper:
Part 1 of a Black History wallchart detailing 2,000 years of momentous events

(and special thanks to co-producer @gaverne, designer Urvashi Patankar and proofreader @Rory_Foster for pulling it all together)

[bob mortimer @RealBobMortimer]

Train Guy ... Bobble Hats

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

Finally some good news, scientists discovered a treatment that can reduce COVID19 transmission by 70%, and its just a piece a cloth you wear in front of your dumb fucking face

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

The New York Times has learned that the contact-tracing contract, awarded in a secretive procurement process, cost 108 million pounds, or about $136 million.

Corruption and incompetence are indissoluble partners https://t.co/MObMTgAgPG

[Rory Foster 😷 @Rory_Foster]

“a lavishly bewhiskered figure whose wonkishness and warmongering can make him seem like an unlikely hybrid of Ned Flanders and Yosemite Sam” — superb description of John Bolton in a sparky and sparkling @nytimes book review by @jenszalai https://t.co/7lReNkF6Du