Steve Bell

Software architecture, bass guitar, and some other stuff. Oxford commas. Views/opinions almost always someone else’s.

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

@VodafoneUK I’m paying for 900mbps broadband but am getting 3 this evening. I might as well have dialup. What’s going on?

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

@British_Airways flight from Paphos today was fine but baggage handling at T5 Heathrow truly pathetic. Completely spoils the experience.

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

@eerosupport Thanks for the response. I was trying with phone number - switching to email worked. All good.

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

@eerosupport What have you done to auth? Suddenly I can’t access the app. It won’t send an sms, when I try to create a new account it says email already in use and when I try to log on with that same email address it says no account with those details. What’s going on?

[ᴅʀ ᴛᴀᴅ @Dr_Tad]

Once a virus reaches a certain prevalence in the general population the protection & assertive treatment of people at high risk of severe illness—while it spreads rapidly among those at low risk—is the best way to minimise overall deaths.

This is a standard approach to epidemics

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

Tremearne

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

The British government is discovering that it’s quite easy to scare people and not so easy to unscare them: https://t.co/9itj8YpI6u

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

No way of making electricity other than nuclear power safely manages and pays for any its waste.

In other words, nuclear power’s waste by-products aren‘t a mark against the technology, they are its key selling point.

https://t.co/alNLvXvgT6

[National Gallery, DK @smkmuseum_bot]

Flower Piece with Guinea Pigs, Franz Werner Tamm https://t.co/CfkNiuMAsa #europeana #nationalgalleryofdenmark

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

@aardvark179 I like the feel of the pages

[Steve Bell @goatyrev]

More clouds than this in the Caribbean

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Laura Knight (Long Eaton 1877 - London 1970)

"The charm of nature, the fascinating mystery that surrounds it are perhaps the only key we have to try to open the door that separates us from the truth."

Roman Battle

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Sad they never made Triassic Park... https://t.co/Tttq7vV4e0

[C Truth🌸 @C_Truth_]

1950: I bet in 70 years we'll all have flying cars.

2020: This syrup is racist.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

The birth of #JohnTheBaptist to elderly parents teaches us that God does not rely on our reasoning and limited human abilities. We must learn to trust, to be silent before the mystery of God, and to contemplate His works in humility and silence.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Between their shadows and the sun,
The cows came slowly, one by one,
Breathing the early morning air
And leaving it still sweeter there.
And, one by one, intent upon
Their purposes, they followed on
In ordered silence... and were gone. - A.A.Milne #WednesdayThoughts

[PostcardFromThePast @PastPostcard]

We're camping in the New Forest there are wild ponies and squirrels everywhere. But you must not feed them or they break into your tent.

[PostcardFromThePast @PastPostcard]

ITS READS LIKE RAVINGS OF A NUT CASE. HAVE A NICE DAY.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Modern construction: “The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has had under construction since 2008 a water main to replace the one William Mulholland built in 1915 in a year or two using mules and men swinging pickaxes.” (thread, scroll up to get in from the start)