Thomas Bourke

MiF/PRIIPs Data Supply Chain@ Fin Cos; Rest. Biz (Battello;Saku;) and... 'yeah I got a cable for that in my bag' #travelswithwhiskey #T2D @[email protected]

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

Get to the website and make it happen people! (it's next door to Mulligans if anyone gets lost!)

[SeanDrugan @vintagekitchen2]

https://t.co/4r53ME3dRE Good lord it is like opening for the first time. Click and collect from Next Thursday. An old retweet would be most appreciated. As always i am very thankful of your support.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley has been fired by CBS just 1 day after he called out Bari Weiss for "murdering" the program:

"Your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately."

[Antonia Leslie @antonia_leslie]

Hi John, Irish Jew here, daughter of a German born Holocaust survivor and no, I have never experienced antisemitism here in Ireland. I'm very happy with our boycott of the Eurovision and Richie Sadler's comments re the football match. I'm extremely proud of my fellow Irish and their stand against genocide. As my late mother taught me.."Never again means never again..to anyone ..anywhere... ever.." I hope this clarifies the issue for you.

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@StJohnsPriest @Delta Alas common sense, and some travellers, don't mix very well - and wait until the puffer jackets 'have to be' stored in the overhead... until the airline staff indicate their dim view of that stupidity!

[Ruth Cannon @RuthCan75563366]

Delighted that lovely Irish tweeter David O'Brien (below) formerly @thepainterflynn and now tweeting from @oddweirdadvice is doing better after a lengthy and stressful hospital stay in Tipperary. The hospital wants to discharge him, but David has nowhere to go. He would prefer to avoid going into a home if possible. Is there anyone who might be able to help?
Also, David, who had a huge amount of followers, lost them all when Twitter recently closed his account. Give him a follow at @oddweirdadvice and say hi. You won't regret it - David's former account was one of the most uplifting on Irish Twitter.
PS David's story demonstrates that as a country we are failing the elders among us. They have immense wisdom and dignity and deserve more support. Seems crazy that they receive so little when we will (if lucky) all be elderly ourselves some day, with no guarantee that our children, if any, will be even in the same country!

[kate @leftinista]

This is a shot in the dark but if anybody would be willing to have me, I’m looking for temporary digital comms work this summer/ comms internships. Particularly interested in doing political digital communications & have experience with video editing & producing digital content!

I’m London based & am available for the majority of the summer. Please please get in contact if you are willing to have me- I would be so appreciative!!

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@mark_cummins We lived in NJ for the guts of 8 years (and I've been back regularly), all I'll say is, it ain't called the garden state for nothing (except for that smell around the oil refineries near Newark(!))

[Jason Jeandron🐝 @Jeandron]

@BBCNews From @airtransat 😂

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops.

These are sick, corrupt people.

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Dump @plex, use @jellyfin

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@PMc276 Well Bailey's was created in a lab outside London - the father of (a long ago g/f) was a chemist on the team...

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Charles Dickens fought his depression by walking through London at night. One October he set out at 2 in the morning and walked 30 miles, all the way to his country home in Kent. In 1860 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 150 years to catch up.

Dickens called his bad spells "spectres." They came back every time he started a new novel and sometimes hung on for months. His mood would fall apart, his sleep would collapse, and the only thing that pulled him out was walking.

He explained his method in an essay called "Night Walks," published on July 21, 1860 in his weekly magazine All the Year Round. He had tried fighting his insomnia from bed and lost. So he changed the plan. The fix, he wrote, was "getting up directly after lying down, and going out, and coming home tired at sunrise." A worried mind cannot fix itself by worrying more in bed. You have to get up and move.

Most nights he walked 12 to 20 miles. A friend called it "violent walking." Dickens wrote that on these walks his wandering self had "many miles upon miles of streets in which it could, and did, have its own solitary way."

Today, walking is one of the most powerful tools doctors have against depression. In 2012 a team of researchers pulled together eight high-quality studies of walking as a depression treatment. The effect was as strong as the antidepressants doctors actually prescribe.

The biggest test came from Duke University. The SMILE study took 202 adults with serious depression and split them into four groups: supervised exercise, home exercise, the drug Zoloft, or a placebo pill. After 16 weeks, the people who exercised did just as well as the people on Zoloft. A 2024 review of 75 studies covering 8,636 patients confirmed it. Walking should be one of the first things doctors try.

The reason is the thing Dickens stumbled onto in the dark. Depression runs on rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches. In 2015 Stanford researchers scanned people's brains before and after a 90-minute walk in a quiet park. The walkers had less activity in a part of the brain called the subgenual prefrontal cortex. That spot, deep behind your forehead, is the brain's worry loop. After the walk, the worry loop got quieter. The walkers said they felt less stuck inside their own heads. The brain scans agreed.

A walking body shuts up a noisy mind. The street takes attention, the walking rhythm fills the head, and the dark spells lose their grip. Dickens called the streets his cure because they gave his brain somewhere else to be. The science 150 years later says he had it right. Depression hates a brain that is moving.

[Brandon Thought @ThoughtBrandon]

I can’t speak to whether there are foreign agents in Utah stirring up protests against the data centers, but I do know the reality on the ground. My parents are retired in the exact county where that facility is being built. It’s my mother, her neighbors, and fellow landowners who have organized these protests. They are frustrated with the lack of representation and worried about the impact on their community. They simply don’t want it. This isn't outside interference, it's local residents standing up for their land the moment they found out what was happening. Those are the facts.

[Dammit @GeoffMarcs]

@YourAnonNews @YourAnonNews Be supportive and boost their actual pages bud.
https://t.co/xeWFGc0bML

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@theliminalqueen @GordonKao123 @tmuxvim And we won't even mention the great vowel shift that came a little later

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@GTCost A ***REVVL*** to boot! One born every minute !

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@levelsio This might be of interest... https://t.co/K6NjOSRgLC

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Thomas Bourke @davork]

@seafoid19 JR!