Russell Shedden

"If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life."

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

been thinking things over and wonder if i’ve taken this whole longevity thing too far

[Ben Eisenhart @BEisenhart]

Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

I'm self employed.
I've just worked out that I have to charge my customers over £900 per week in order to take home the equivalent yearly wage of someone on the new national minimum wage.
So I need to charge over £1,000 per week to be £100 better off than a minimum wage earner.

I have 12 individual costs associated with running my one man band business. No holiday pay. No money if I'm off work due to illness or anything else.

And this doesn't even take into consideration all the time spent on visiting new customers, pricing work, producing quotes etc, some of which is a complete waste of time when you don't get the work. All time that can't be charged for.

This is why, for many self employed people, it's just not worth it any more.

I've been self employed for 30 years and it's never been this bad.

[Russell Shedden @blueandwhite82]

@realpeteyb123 A visit to Hiroshima is a must. Far more relaxed than Tokyo and even Kyoto. Bullet train is a cool experience.

A visit to Miyajima (Shrine island) well worth your time.

Japanese baseball game is a fun experience.

[Russell Shedden @blueandwhite82]

@WingsScotland @Loretta37311 He also famously railed AGAINST anti-vaxxers and those against lockdowns early on, and subsequently changed his mind on that a couple of years ago.

I'm not sure any of this qualifies him as anything other than someone who changes his mind, on occasion.

[ceern @NotoriousBAG_]

Doak fucked, McLean on. Telly off.

[Russell Shedden @blueandwhite82]

@dieworkwear The pleats just below the waistband/in front of the pockets assist here as well. It allows the tapering of the fabric from the waist without producing further wrinkling/folds.

[MILO @Nero]

What a test of character this is

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

I try to avoid ever wishing ill on another human. But tonight, I have failed.

As ashamed as I am for it, I wish ill upon those who are celebrating the senseless murder of Charlie Kirk. It is evil personified.

[Kilmarnock FC @KilmarnockFC]

On this day 2️⃣8️⃣ years ago...

We lifted our 3rd Scottish Cup trophy following a 1-0 victory against Falkirk!

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Three interesting findings:

1. While men are nearly 18 percent faster than women in 5K races, they are only 11 percent faster in marathons, 3.7 percent faster at 50 miles, roughly even as they approach 100 miles, and then women routinely outpace men at races 195 miles and up.

[David Mitchell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇳 @dm180914]

😮 CEO of Octopus energy on Sky News yesterday morning -

“If we did location pricing, every region would be cheaper

Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe - to the cheapest.”

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

radio 3 vs classic fm

[Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton]

@MTabarrok @gfodor Humans have a biological minimum wage — 2000 calories per day, i.e. 100 watts

It costs about 50 gigajoules bare minimum to raise a human from baby to working age

What happens when the cost of building a new human-equivalent robot+compute is lower than 50 gigajoules?

[Russell Shedden @blueandwhite82]

@Athens_Stranger @Nero In that case, @NiallHarbison is definitely worth a follow.

[Bill Moon @BigBillMoon]

TRIGGER WARNING: Nuance

Having looked at a lot of the reporting and inquiries into the grooming scandal, I think there are several things that can be said for certain.

1. There wasn’t much of a ‘complete’ government cover-up, mainly just government inaction.

[Raghu @IndiaTales7]

5. George W. Bush dancing to a Russian folk song with Vladimir Putin in the background. This occurred in Sochi in 2008 but was made public recently to commemorate Putin's 20th year in power.

[Russell Shedden @blueandwhite82]

@HodgesBoots @ladies4pd @CapelLofft I'm not a churchgoer, nor into organised religion - whatsoever.

You couldn't be more wrong.

[Matthias Mueller💙 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MatthiasMuell15]

This.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain built a 385.9 mile high speed train line from Madrid to Barcelona it cost £8.1bn.

The UK is still building a 140 mile high speed train line which will cost over £100bn.

Who is stealing all the money?