Elliott Stoneham

Neurodiverse sometime businessman, fascinated since the 1970s by computer programming & Chinese (普通话).

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

Being the only person in shot to have brought his own cagoule is the most Keir Starmer thing I can imagine.

[Eleanor Morton ($8) @EleanorMorton]

Since its the D-Day anniversary I'd like to talk about one of my favourite moments/people from the invasion - Piper Bill Millin, the only piper present at D-Day (and indeed any combat in WW2)

[david D. @secretsqrl123]

on 30 August 1940 the polish air force was training in England. this was just a few months after the fall of Poland and France...
they had "new" aircraft that were old and not in the best shape.
they had new pilots that did not know that aircraft up to UK training standards.
they did not have the ability to fully fix the aircraft by themselves..
they were not expected to be ready for a year...

they had to break the rules, refuse to back down, and no one (in england) thought they were ready....

on that day (30 August 1940) they broke training, stole the aircraft, and went after german fighters ... and won!!!!

the next day the 303 squadron became operational without meeting the required british training requirements.... shooting down or destroying 600 aircraft total over the war....

sometimes its best to listen to allies and just shut up... they will find a way.. i trust Ukraine..
and yes the same was repeated in the czech air force.

[Tom Parker @tdgparker]

Using atrocity to provoke an overreaction has been an explicit and consistent core tenet of terrorist doctrine for 150 years – which makes it pretty much the oldest trick in the terrorist playbook (*a thread*)...

[Fascinating Aïda @FascinatingAida]

The Northern Powerhouse won't need to wait for us!
We'll be playing in Birmingham AND Manchester and many more fine Northern cities on this tour.
Tickets here: https://t.co/2K6FTtl113

[Elliott Stoneham @ElliottStoneham]

@FascinatingAida My wife and I, proud fans since '83, were debating how many sopranos there had been on the way home after the concert at Bury St Edmunds last night ... and Dillie, consummate professional that she is, read our thoughts and wrote us an answer!

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

There was something extraordinary about the moonlight tonight: it compelled me to venture up Borough High Street and along London Bridge, so that I might see it reflected on the Pool. As I stood, a clock on one of Wren’s churches struck nine. Perfect, I thought. But before I could turn one of those magical moments that I’ll try to never forget unfurled — as I spotted the bascules of Tower Bridge rising. In an instant I remembered what I had forgotten, confirmed by a familiar long, deep wail of sadness - the sort of sadness that could only be mustered by an elderly orphaned hand-built ship which knows it is the last of its kind and that once it is gone, there will be no more. Either side of the bridge many sat stewing grumpily in their own traffic but for me - and I suspect many hundreds more who also witnessed the mesmerising sight and sounds of the world’s last ocean-going paddle steamer glide into London upon a river of silver and its decks full of folk bright-eyed with wonder – time stopped and silence fell. Waverley had come back to town.

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again

[Elliott Stoneham @ElliottStoneham]

@awkwardgoogle The Chinese characters at the top say that it is a Thai-style massage method (泰式按摩方法)

[Bawdsey Radar Museum @bawdseyradar]

Open every Thursday & Sunday until end of October. Come & find out about the women and men who developed radar technology, in top secret, that helped win the Battle of Britain.
More visit info here https://t.co/4nWgPsdk8d
#radarlove
Photo ©Tony Horton

[Fascinating Aïda @FascinatingAida]

Seriously, at it 40 years. https://t.co/YzTsb0dMTa

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

THREAD.

It's nearly 9 May, when #Russia is celebrating "Victory Day". It's time to talk about #Pobedobesie - a militaristic fetishisation of WW2 in Putin's Russia.

1/x

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

I’m at @londonwaterloo to observe genuinely extraordinary scenes tonight as 6,000 armed forces staff arrive for #Coronation rehearsal. Scenes not seen for a generation and EXACTLY reflect Helen Mckie’s 1948 famous ‘War & Peace’ paintings pair. Some kind of glorious coincidence?🤔

[Wikipedia @Wikipedia]

One summer in the 12th century, two children with green skin appeared in Woolpit, England, speaking an unknown language and refusing to eat anything but raw fava beans.

This is the legend of the green children of Woolpit. Learn more: https://t.co/p0XEONQqvq

[Elliott Stoneham @ElliottStoneham]

@TomLondon6 . @RevRichardColes seems to prove the opposite!

[Jonathan Mills @Muinchille]

@DavidHenigUK Britain appears to be re-running the 1920s. I'm looking forward to the General Strike in 2026. My grandfather (who was there, and out, in 1926) told me he hoped I'd never see the like.

[Simon Carne @simon_carne]

⁦@FT⁩ letter from retired defence attaché. Early lesson for historians out there

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

after nearly a year of invasion, president zelensky tells a joke about the war.

a pretty good one, actually.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

In the reign of Charles III, there are still people sitting in the House of Lords because they are descended from a mistress of Charles II