Carl Draper 🇺🇦

Content, design and tech... and cars... and model making. ITFC and DHFC ⚽️

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@antoniogm @RiverParrish1 Clearly you need to experience a 5 day cricket test match.

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@Timoldland Weirdly that seems quite reasonably priced, epic car and colour!!

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Ethics over profit is a good thing. Palantir can get in the bin

https://t.co/QxKKV0BnWb

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

“Everyone wants the magic. Nobody wants to clean the kitchen.
But the kitchen is the company.”

Rock solid call to arms right here 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

https://t.co/zB1WgXzFAz

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@businessbarista AI-native

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This is really sad news. These books had a massive impact on me, the insights into Len Deighton’s creative process are also worth digging out.

Epic doesn’t even come close to describing the scale of the Bernard Samson novels end to end. One of the greatest writers.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Very sad to learn of the death of Len Deighton, who was one of the two greatest spy thriller writers of all time and in some regards was Le Carre’s superior.

Anyone who has not read Deighton should try Funeral in Berlin, Bomber or SSGB. Most of all they should seek out Berlin Game, the start of an epic 10 book Cold War series focused on Bernard Samson.

Deighton’s writing was sharp, satirical, gripping and often amusing. His office infighting in the intelligence services was delicious and his characters are beautifully drawn.

The Samson cycle starts with a meticulously plotted run of five books (Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match, Spy Hook and Spy Line) which all stand alone but tell one big story from the jaded but dedicated perspective Bernard a brilliant field operative. Len’s genius idea was to use the sixth, Spy Sinker, to retell the whole cycle from the perspective of everyone else, exposing what Bernard didn’t know and misunderstood.

There is then an origin story about Bernard’s dad during the war, Winter, and then a concluding trilogy of Faith, Hope and Charity, which is not as high quality but deals with the fallout from the events of books 1-5.

It’s an epic achievement and the greatest long series in spy fiction, accepting that the Smiley series is the greatest short series.

Do yourself a favour, give it a try

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

The winner of this website today, well played 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

My 92 year old grandad went to vote today in Gorton, and when he got to the polling station the attendants asked where he’s from. “I’m English!” He said.

He was immediately arrested.

“Just for saying I’m English!?” he shouted out, as he was dragged away from the polling station.

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@JJEnglert @Remotion Guide

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

Booking a doctor’s appointment and the form is asking:

How would you like us to help?

😶

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've been watching some YouTube videos where historical figures had their paintings re-rendered by Ai as contemporary photos, and the connection it creates with the subject is quite profund. So I tried it on some Victorian photos such as the shot below of Sir John Herschel from 1867. The potential it offers family historians is considerable, and so I thought, as a fun little Christmas present to you, I would offer the service freely to my followers during this week. So if you want to post a shot of an ancestor I will, in turn, reply with a re-rendered version for you, re-imagining them as if taken by modern photography. But just single shots (not groups or couples) and they need to be of clear enough resolution that we can clearly see their faces and not have to guess at their features.

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@benroy Really well written article thanks for posting. A version of these themes I’d like to share and discuss with my teenage children, some of the key themes and issues you’ve articulated in a very accessible and straightforward way

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

This is the content that makes this website worth sticking at, thank you Gavin

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

1/4
Dec 8 1941.
An historic day in the history of British special forces.
The first joint op between the LRDG and SAS.
Mike Sadler (pic 3rd) navigator S1 Patrol LRDG told me: “My first mission with the SAS was the Tamet raid. We met up outside Jalo & we were given our SAS team."

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@LewishamCouncil

Trying to report a missed bin collection can I DM you here?

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

Yes Monty! 🔥

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

Monty Panesar has responded to Steve Smith's comments about his appearance on Celebrity Mastermind.

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

What a hill to die on…

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

A writer so successful that today is a day dedicated to him in schools all over the country thinks it is reasonable that he travels for free due to his age. People have to stop taking things they do not need, it is wrong and it is bankrupting our country.

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

Jeremy Vine getting a sports massage live on Radio 2 might be the best thing you’ll hear today…

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@SOEhistory Hard to imagine how terrifying this would have felt, the noise, the waiting, the wind… trusting the design of the parachutes. Incredible.

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho, London, in the '60s.

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

@danmall PROJECTS

[Carl Draper 🇺🇦 @c_draper]

What a delivery that first ball was!! Need good things from Root

#ENGvSA