Geoff Poole

@RayoVallecano/@NUFC, 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🟨🟥/⬛⬜, bad bass player, failed social media recusant, soi-disant lecturer in the philosophy of linguistics. He/him

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

Since some people have asked: the source of my Twitter handle is at about 2:12

Firesign Theater - 40 Great Unclaimed Melodies! https://t.co/dYxsDXnmnM via @YouTube

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@supergeekmike Capaldi yes. Liked his run much better when I watched it again. Whitaker weirdly I liked *less* on rewatch, having liked at least S1 originally. 3 eps into Gatwa S2 and I just couldn’t any longer. (I *loved* Gatwa as The Doctor and liked a good bit of S1 in spite of things.)

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"Universities are especially valuable in this project: they offer AI companies legitimacy, scale and access to future workers, and can be presented as proof that AI is not merely speculative but an essential part of public life. The problem is that they are now treated as a cog in machinery built to generate profits for Big Tech, while students and graduates are made to feel like pawns in the quest for AI’s financial viability."
https://t.co/cMSaWg9eSq

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

Do *not* know how I missed the City Hall gig he mentions, but seen Martin a couple of times at the Cluny and he’s *terrific*. Absolutely, positively if you have any interest in Prefab Sprout in any way don’t miss a chance to see him.

[feliks_culpa @CulpaFeliks]

Was lovely talking to Amy and the crew at Tyne Tees yesterday https://t.co/GEK9UFFTt5 via @ITVX

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@NorthEastTweets True story: 🇺🇸 friend transiting through Heathrow.

Immigration officer: What's your final destination?
Friend: Newcastle.
IO: Why would you want to go there?
F: I'm visiting a friend who lives there.
IO: Can't they just visit *you* wherever you live?

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@Super70sSports I *think* the salesperson is Katie Layman -- the luggage salesperson in Say Anything who John Mahoney tries to pick up before his credit card is denied.

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@edzitron

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@NCL_Guide @NorthumbriaUni Still remember taking an afternoon off to go see Attack of the Clones there (and to go to Chiquito's - was great not to have to go to the Metrocentre if you wanted bad tex-mex food).

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@TrilbeeReviews It’s an interesting question to think about where exactly it all went wrong, but certainly the accident of Peter Capaldi having been in the show earlier being seized upon to facilitate lazy and bad casting decisions has to be in there somewhere.

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@stoneandthestar They also called their album “Solo Album” https://t.co/hx9cMccM4P

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@lawrencepatihis "We have, as a society, reframed all business leadership...to be the equivalent of a mall cop, a person that exists to make sure people are working without having any real accountability for the work themselves, or to even understand the work itself." https://t.co/eAZLt0vviR

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@gem_ste

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@muxsin2003 The realest of the real though know him from VR.5

[UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT! @UCUNUbranch]

One 'senior manager' is now VC @NorthumbriaUni - cutting the pay of staff who stay in TPS, offering rounds of 'voluntary' severance, and buying and doing up property like nobody's business. Our Chancellor may be TV's lovely @MrGeorgeClarke, but even he'd have a job fixing this.

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Today we remember Cheick Tioté who tragically passed away nine years ago.

Never forgotten. We miss you, Cheicky. 🖤🤍

[UK HE News @HigherEd_UK]

Wait, so Nottingham paid millions to this consultancy for a failed IT rollout, after already wasting tens of millions on another failed student system, while wasting tens of millions to renovate a corporate campus site it couldn't integrate?! Then blamed 'external factors'!?

[21group @21percentgroup]

A vanity project turned into a money pit at Nottingham University

Staff pay the price

Those at the top? CBEs, not consequences. Those who didn't understand "listed building" status have moved upward

This tells you everything about UK Higher Education

https://t.co/oL8AC6vtYN

[Geoff Poole @happyplunderer]

@wtfcetialpha5 He really did have a lot of divorces to pay for, didn’t he?