Alyn Still

Former NHS data nerd transplanted to the US @[email protected]

[Alyn Still @alynstill]

Which town is it that throws you out of the town square for mentioning that you sometimes hang out in a different town’s square?

[worms cited @christapeterso]

i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun:

DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

[Dr Duncan Robertson @Dr_D_Robertson]

This chart was recently published by the DHSC. It is misleading, and I have reported my concern to the Office for Statistics Regulation.

A thread, setting out the points in my letter. 🧵

[FCNL (Quakers) @FCNL]

Some things worth naming:

◼️ Voting proceeded in a largely smooth and orderly fashion around the country
◼️ Despite organized efforts at voter intimidation and suppression, people turned out in droves
◼️ New and first-time voters showed up in a big way
https://t.co/TafKYk5Suw

[Richard K Herring @Herring1967]

Money is wasted on billionaires.

[Alyn Still @alynstill]

For anyone confused how many nominations @BorisJohnson actually has, I’m reliably informed it’s 350 million a week

[Dissent Games @DissentGames]

Who wants to play a race game? You’re one of candidates for PM. Collect your promises, pledges, and pratfalls before making your way to No.10!

[Dr Florence H R Scott @FlorenceHRScott]

People talk about what activists ‘should’ do with no acknowledgement that activists are just people who decide to do something. Any one of us can organise and take action. ‘They should do this instead’ is delegating the problem to other people while happily doing nothing

[Richard K Herring @Herring1967]

Can’t believe he tricked Liz Truss into those stupid policies. Now she’s back in charge I am sure it will be plain sailing.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Machine learning's promise is decisions at scale: using software to classify inputs (and, often, act on them) at a speed and scale that would be prohibitively expensive or even impossible using flesh-and-blood humans. 1/

[Ohm-I (Oh My) @mcohmi]

AIGHT FAM.

Y'all can stop dropping #cyberawarenessmonth music now. I've destroyed them all.

[Laurel Mac 🇺🇦 @MAWoodlandLady]

The MAGA right talks about Black Lives Matter as if it’s some sort of equivalency for 1/6.

These talking points have a way of spreading. Let’s correct them every single time.

📚Researchers at Harvard gathered statistics from 7,305 BLM events.

Here’s what they found:

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Please don’t act like everyone loved my father then or authentically honors him today.

He was assassinated.

A 1967 poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in America.

Most hated.

Many who evoke him today to deter justice would have likely hated him then.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

To the person who first said “cheer up, it might never happen!” - I hope you’re happy, now that everything has indeed happened.

[Alyn Still @alynstill]

@VanHyningV where do Nuns, Crowds, and the things they both created fall on this distribution?

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

In Your Classroom https://t.co/Ki3rL8eeHh https://t.co/78ScME4HCm

[Alyn Still @alynstill]

@VanHyningV Ahem...

[zaкovsкa @sanjazakovska]

Devs watching QA test the product

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Reminder that no one is functioning normally right now and it’s ok to extend some grace toward each other.🌸