StretchArmstrong

Data Architect, passionate about data and I love PowerBI. Is that weird?

[StretchArmstrong @StretchArm1]

Just got around to update the #powerbi youtube dashboard after some of the APIs stopped working.
Hope it helps the finding all the great learning content out there for Powerbi
Now has links to almost 25K videos on 115 channels
https://t.co/u7uTgZ8c0P

[Stockport County @StockportCounty]

It’s the end of an era at Edgeley Park, with County legend Ben Hinchliffe set to depart the club this summer after an incredible ten years of service.

427 appearances. 157 clean sheets. 3 promotions.

A true County great. What a journey 💙

[Cycliq @Cycliq]

Operation Snap is a UK police scheme that lets cyclists submit camera footage of dangerous driving directly to police - online, no phone calls, no front desk.

In 2024 alone, cyclists submitted nearly 16,000 close-pass reports. Over half led to prosecution action.

Have you ever submitted evidence to Operation Snap? Drop your story below 👇

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WERE DEFRAUDED

Imagine you are behind on your store card payments. You are already struggling. Then the bank quietly adds an extra charge on top of what you owe. Not because it costs them that much. Just because .. they can. And because they think nobody is watching.

Someone was watching.

Nicholas Wilson was a debt recovery lawyer. He goes by Mr Ethical @nw_nicholas on X. His old boss meant it as an insult. In 2003 he noticed that @HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank was adding an illegal 16.4% charge onto the debts of people who were already in financial trouble.

Store cards from John Lewis, Currys, B&Q, Dixons, PC World. Ordinary people. Struggling people. Being quietly robbed.

He told his boss it was illegal. His boss started calling him "Mr Ethical" as a joke. Then they sacked him.

He reported it to the regulators. @TheFCA ignored him for years.

When a researcher separately wrote to both HSBC and the FCA asking about the fraud...

... both wrote back with responses in the exact same wording, same punctuation, same paragraphs. The bank and the regulator were sharing the same script.

FCA's own independent Complaints Commissioner eventually investigated. He called it the worst case of regulatory failure he had ever dealt with.

FCA's response was to appoint Ruth Kelly, an HSBC director, and Baroness Hogg from John Lewis, onto its own board. The two people they were supposed to be investigating were now sitting inside the regulator.

You actually cannot make this up.

After 13 years of Wilson refusing to go away, HSBC quietly agreed to pay some money back. FCA announced 6,700 victims.

Wilson says the real number is closer to 500,000. HSBC has now set aside £223 million for repayments. No fine. No criminal charges. No one went to prison. No one was even publicly named.

Wilson has spent the last 20 years unemployable. Blacklisted. Living on state benefits. Fighting to keep his home. Someone even anonymously reported him to the DWP for benefit fraud while the actual billion pound fraud went unpunished.

The bank that robbed half a million people kept its licence.

The man who caught them lost everything.

Source: @guardian | @BBC | @PrivateEyeNews | @SundayMirror | @realmediauk | nicholaswilson com | @nw_nicholas and others.

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

I saw this video on Viola Davis' instagram this morning and everyone needs to see it.

The gutting of the VRA is the most significant attack on ALL civil rights in America in my lifetime, and after they already came for the women..

We better wake the fuck up. None of us is safe:

[Gavin Shoebridge @KiwiEV]

Petrol and diesel cars fought for their lives in Norway but, as you can see, that old technology has now lost the battle to EVs forever and I love that's happening here too.
Being able to witness the end of an automotive era and the start of a new one in real time is honestly pretty cool and it's a privilege to have a front row seat.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Big up this legend. He's spitting straight facts.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

For anyone thinking the presidency is about anything other than stuffing his pockets, take a moment to watch this.

I actually think that Trump has resigned himself to the fact he’s about to become a lame duck President. As a result he’s prepared to burn the house down, throw the Republican Party under the bus and do whatever it takes to build a legal defence fund for what’s about to happen after November.

Thanks to Steven Rattner for the instructive clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/Uj0zsHlA6c

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

'I stood on this touchline 7 years ago with Justin Edinburgh, not long after that he lost his life. We're really fortunate to do what we do, although this will hurt we'll enjoy tonight.'

Dave Challinor on @StockportCounty's Vertu Trophy final loss

Watch extended highlights on ITVX now

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@TheCinesthetic

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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark - BBC News @NewsOrFallSong

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@NewsOrFallSong 66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark - BBC News

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@AaronHowey A folding seat cushion from the 2002 World cup which I didn't attend.

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@svpino Looks interesting. Currently trying @dagster which is also open source and has deep integration with @getdbt which is key for me.

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@ATRightMovies

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@history_alice @SPAB1877 Nice work. didn't think i'd be enjoying an explanation of brickwork conservation today

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@mikecmorgan

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@RealEmirHan Infernal Affairs (2002)

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@Ashy_slashee

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@TheOscarRace Loads but these come to mind first

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@NoContextBrits Another classic from the Chestergate Pub Stockport

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