Alex Humphries

Any views expressed are not my own, but those of interstellar space hamsters. Any who oppose these views shall be crushed by an enormous hamster ball.

[Alex Humphries @beanabadger]

@thsottiaux I love that it just keeps working! It's a workhorse that I just can't stop using. Crazy how quickly you get used to how powerful it is.

[Alex Humphries @beanabadger]

@michelleefang Yes yes yes. Have been totally addicted to it all over the holidays! Merry Christmas!

[Alex Humphries @beanabadger]

@bbboatclub Check out his Rainbow Goblins concert from two years after this. One of the most strangely beautiful concert recordings out there (goblin masks n all)

https://t.co/n52KSSC6kD

[Plant trees•destroy lawns•decommodify food @FoodForestNetwk]

german riot police defeated and humiliated by some kind of mud wizard

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The international community

[Ilya Miskov @ilyamiskov]

This is peak UI design.

[laurinha 🦠 @ecto_fun]

charlie kaufman trying to genuinely adapt the Orchid Thief, going crazy with writers block and coming up with this movie instead

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite question in 2023:

What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians?

Here's the 9 best examples:

[jezza @extremely_wet]

some guy on r/castiron is up to 80 coats and I've never seen something going this wild on there before. happy for him

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW:

Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events

It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks

https://t.co/xJcNiCJk2b

Thread:

[The Upshot podcast @UpshotTowers]

The 1930 World Cup was absolutely mental.

The refs wore suits, the Bolivians played in berets, and the Romanian team was selected by the King... and that's the tame stuff.

From premature funerals to managers knocked out with chloroform, here's a short history of the madness...

[SydneyPadua @sydneypadua]

Old Compton Street was so magical when it was like this… then a handful of dirtbags decided they’d rather crawl their Mercedes’ through a crowd than walk for two blocks. IN SOHO. Still mad.

[Van Gothula @surrealvehicle]

People born in 1983 will be 60 next year. Let that sink in.

[Alex Humphries @beanabadger]

@SpinDoctorandus @xruiztru I think you'll find that's Luxenstein

[Daniel Hewitt @DanielHewittITV]

2 year-old Awaab Isaak died because the home he lived in was unfit for human habitation. His parents complained but were ignored.

This is not a one-off. Thousands of families are living in awful conditions.

This is just some what we’ve found in our 18 month investigation🧵1/16

[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

The Piccadilly Line is being constructed under the tram tracks, London, 1906. I can't see health & safety allowing this to happen in these days!

[Alex Heath @alexeheath]

This was sent to all Twitter staff this morning by the legal leader on its privacy team. Pretty remarkable.