Joe Turner 💜

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

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[James Cook @BBCJamesCook]

President Obama in his farewell address: “Democracy does not require uniformity…it does require a basic sense of solidarity.”

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@mrjimBob Amazing show, brilliant set list and cracking performance from you and the whole band. Hoping we'll see you back again soon xx

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)?

One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century.

Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science.

Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here.

My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess.

BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@jeremysallis Top move Jeremy. Huge respect to you. Have really enjoyed the show. Hope we'll catch you somewhere further up the dial

[Simon Page @moneight]

First proper listen in years .. still an absolutely cracking album! @mrjimBob @fruitbatUSM #CarterUSM #TuesdayTunes #vinylrecords

[Cambridgeshire County Council @CambsCC]

🟣 Enjoy a safer night out! 🟣

👉 Trust your instincts and #AskforAngela at venues - it's a discreet way to seek assistance, if you’re concerned.

🚶‍♂️ Stay aware, be alert to your surroundings.

[Prostate Cancer UK @ProstateUK]

Make the most of the warmer weather. Cycle 100 miles over August to help save men’s lives.

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

May week was in June

[Casey Rain @CaseyRain]

Nice to see Robert Smith rocking a Sign O The Times tee at The Cure show in Minneapolis last night! #Prince #TheCure @EmilyGracieee

[LGC @lgcplus]

Congratulations to @LewishamCouncil winners of the Campaign of the Year Award at the 2023 #LGCAwards. #Localgov #Localgovernment #Lewishamcouncil #LGA

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

#ivoted

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

Michael Lerner as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991)

"We're only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing?"

[David_Suchet @David_Suchet]

The wonderful Christopher Gunning has passed away this morning. Such a gifted composer of TV and Film music. He composed the very well known and loved theme tune for POIROT. I am dedicating this matinée performance at Hampstead Theatre to him.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself👏

[Cambridgeshire County Council @CambsCC]

Full Council will now take a break until 3:20pm.

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@CambridgeIndy Moustache

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@Swissss I take a combo: 1x Cetrizine, 1x Loratadine (from various pound shops) + on a bad day 1x diphenhydramine. Plus a Beclometasone Dipropionate nasal spray #toxicology

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@crockpics Belong

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@crockpics You May Be Right

[Joe Turner 💜 @feelingmawkish]

@Swissss The most cathartic experience. Fella at work told me he had his house scaffolded so he could jet wash his roof tiles! I'm all for it!