Dinesh Fernando

Working at Internet's coalface with Music at Serial tea drinker. I am not a cat. #nffc #ecb #slc

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

Taking the plunge with regard to streaming my tunes. Here's a sampler of the first official single 'And when you go (reprise)'. The brief was Nick Drake's Northern Sky meets This Mortal Coil's Song to the siren, so no pressure then. https://t.co/EGSaenNDAj

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.

Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital

He ran off and killed himself

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Australia v Egypt is the World Cup Round of 32's only game featuring a genuine tropical tussle.

The Tropic of Capricorn cuts Australia in two, whereas the Tropic of Cancer lies close to Egypt's southern border with Sudan.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[FFSForest @Forest_No_22]

Vitor Pereira’s 4 wins & 5 draws in 12 PL games kept us safe with games to spare.
Spanked Sunderland, Spurs, Burnley & Chelsea.
Took MGW to another level.
Reunited the fans.
Top top guy. Not a bad word from anybody.
Mission accomplished. Thank you 👏
#NFFC

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

@BrexitStewart @RhonddaBryant Except for the prominent Leave campaigners like the buffoon Hannan https://t.co/2Hs0XChSsa

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

*Breaking*
Farage has released this photo of him watching the England v DR Congo game next Wednesday evening.

[Dana Scully Fella 🇺🇦 @danascully1984]

Ukraine vs Ruzzia

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Disgusting story of a sickening rape gang. Yet it’s receiving hardly any attention from those who’ve led (rightful) outrage over the grooming rape gang scandal. I wonder why?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Alan Turing was 41 when he died. Two years earlier, the country he helped win the Second World War put him on trial for being gay, then gave him a choice: go to prison, or take hormone injections that would chemically castrate him. He chose the injections. And in those same final years, he was quietly working out the math behind how a tiger gets its stripes.

Start with the war. At Bletchley Park, Britain's secret codebreaking base, Turing led the team that cracked Enigma, the machine the German navy used to scramble its messages so no one else could read them. He built his own machine, the Bombe, to crack the code faster than a room full of people ever could. That work, some historians think, shortened the war by two years. It may have saved as many as 14 million lives. Then in 1950 he wrote a paper built around one question: "Can machines think?" He even laid out a way to test it. We call it the Turing test today, and every chatbot you have ever used goes back to that page.

He did all of this in secret, and the country he saved never knew. In 1952 the police found out he was gay, and back then that was a crime in Britain. He was convicted, lost his security clearance, and was put on the injections. That same year, he published a paper showing how two chemicals, spreading and reacting across a surface, can cover it in spots, stripes, and swirls all on their own. It started a whole new field: using math to explain how living things grow. A codebreaker had just handed science the rules for how nature makes its patterns.

He was still working on that puzzle when he died in 1954. He was 41. Ten more years would have taken him to 51, in 1964, right as the first working computers were being built and the field he imagined was taking off.

He never got to see any of it. The patterns he predicted on paper were not proven in a lab until 1990, 36 years after he died. It took the British government until 2009 to say sorry, and 2013 to pardon him. In 2021 his face went on the 50-pound note, with a sunflower on the back, a nod to the pattern work he never finished.

Turing asked "Can machines think?" in 1950. The field built on that question got its name, artificial intelligence, at a meeting in 1956. By then he had been dead for two years. He never heard the words. The machine he dreamed up now sits in your pocket, and it answers when you talk to it.

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

Very concerning that #England have given Panama 3 or 4 really good chances. Better strikers are mopping those up.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

@Jeremy_Hunt The Tories will forever be tainted by the debacle and will forevermore be punished by the electorate and reputation until you apologise.

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

@henrywinter He's not the finished article but, as a Forest fan, I'd say he's definitely worth the money. He needs to add more goals and better set piece delivery to his skill set but I'm sure he'll thrive wherever he goes. We have loved having him at Forest and wish him well.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Curaçao v Côte d’Ivoire is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both team-listings need either a cedilla or a circumflex.

Curaçao brings the ç. Côte d’Ivoire brings the ô.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, diacritically-based World Cup analysis.

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

Our social media team have won the Internet with the Ceefax style playing 11 posts Oakfield & Rowland United CC #cricket #cricketlovers #cricketlover #villagecricket

[Nick @nickcricket]

Ollie Robinson:

[UFO mania @maniaUFO]

How can you say no to that face?!🤪

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nigel Farage is not the most attacked politician in the UK. He had a milkshake thrown at him.

Jo Cox and David Amess got murdered.

[Dinesh Fernando @dineshfernando]

@Nigel_Farage Simpleton. All slogan, no solution.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The only possibly result of two teams playing on the 0 degree longitude line was 0-0.