Jamie A. Thom

Living and loving life in Singapore!
Joining the exodus and tootling off to Mastadon: @[email protected]

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

RT if you’d rather swear allegiance to Count Binface than King Charles III.

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

Important enough to come out of Twitter retirement to post!
I can be found on the elephant-related social media alternative with much the same username. Come on over, it's genuinely much nicer!
But retweet this 👆 first please!

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

The Doon Valley Railway is a wee hidden gem of preserved steam in Ayrshire and have been given an almost impossible ask: buy the land you are on or lose... everything.
Watch this wee video to find out more: https://t.co/PLDZ1xdWUr
#steam #heritage #railway #ayrshire #pleaseRT

[GrumpySkeletor @GrumpySkeletor]

On the twelfth day of Christmas Evil-Lyn sent to me

12 fucking arseholes

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

@ohmz All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
My local book clubs number 1 highest scoring book of all time.
https://t.co/2O4nvoC8kD

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

@elonmusk How about $1 per month for API access to the backend so I can build my own app with Twitter features and $2 per month for advanced mode of that access: no promoted content and more levers of control over what The Algorithm gives me.

[John Bull @garius]

One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone.

So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

@CountBinface As the new member (in waiting) for West Suffolk, do you have any position on the important "How many kangaroo anuses should ex MPs on I'm an Etc. be made to eat?" Question?

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

If Matt Hancock would rather go on I'm A Celebrity than serve his constituents while being paid lots of money to be an MP, he should face an immediate by-election. Against me. RT if you agree.

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

800+ teraflops dedicated to "go ahead with BBQ or not". This is the kind of technological innovation I'm totally behind.

[The Register @TheRegister]

HPE supercomputer to tell Singapore that it's hot, humid, probably going to rain https://t.co/OM8HIoNEU0

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

@TheLlamaGod That would indeed be perfect.
But I'm prepared to accept "Dice that Transform" as a brilliant addition to the world none-the-less!

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

😮

[Christian Hoffer @CHofferCBus]

Hasbro Reveals Dicelings, New Toys That Transform From Dice to Dungeons & Dragons' Monsters:
https://t.co/SJaaIZpYCS

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

Bet you £100 he wins it.
He's the most ridiculous option from a short range of stupid options, it's almost a given that's who they'll pick.

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

... and if they just wait a week, the Tory party will have worked that problem out for them.

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

Normally I'd be concerned about this sort of thing, but have difficulty seeing how Russian hackers could possibly make a shitier choice than the conservative party.
I mean, step one for them would be to choose which of the prospectives might be the *most shit*.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

As I said just now on @itv, deep concern that rapid electronic voting by Tory members for new leader brings risk of overseas bad actor, like Russia, hacking the poll and choosing Britain’s new prime minister

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

@ashleystorrie Renowned anti-monarchist and student Lib Dem leader Liz Truss went undercover as a Tory to kill the monarch and bring down the Tories from within.
Apart from the risk of being hung for high treason after killing the Queen, this would defo be a good book for Liz to put out.

[The Register @TheRegister]

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister by online lettuce https://t.co/TEPAmBBkyD

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

The bookies all have Rishi as their favourite, clearly expecting this will be a coronation with no chance of another gamon intervention from the membership.

[Jamie A. Thom @jamieathom]

On recent evidence, the Tories will pick the worst possible option available as a "compromise candidate".

I therefore would put my money on the 14:1 outsider Boris Johnson.