Mat Ford

Music. History. Internet. Sailing. Smallpipes.

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/6eWdvgH301

[Nick Woltemade’s Uncle @henningwehn]

Has Diane Abbott really lost the Labour whip for observing skin colour is visible and beliefs aren’t?!?

[Julesy @julesy_78]

Watching Peston bumble his way through this on the news earlier and my wife says "I didn't even know he was Jewish"...which is the precise fucking point Diane Abbott was making.

[OssianLore @OssianLore]

Never get into an argument with someone from Glasgow, especially one with access to lab equipment

[Mat Ford @madofo]

@mothisdev today's catdle is buggy. culprit is telling the truth!

[David Wild @Wildaboutmusic]

50 years ago this month, Bob Dylan released what is arguably the greatest album ever by him or anyone else.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

PSA: we've addressed this rumor repeatedly. Tldr there is no evidence of a vulnerability in Signal, and our code is open source.

No report of this issue was ever made to [email protected], and no CVE was filed. There is no truth to the assertion that a phone number enables access to a Signal account.

Taken at face value, what's being described is most likely an issue at the device level, via spyware or direct access to Carlson's phone. NOT an issue with Signal.

Please take care with these kinds of rumors. They can lead people who require privacy in high stakes situations to choose less secure alternatives when it matters, and thus do harm.

[Simon @Simon76_]

Queen Camilla has pulled out of a number of scheduled engagement this week due a Chanel 4 investigation.

[Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow]

Ach, Janey...

Safe travels, you beautiful and brave ball of fun; you were a force of nature.

[Mat Ford @madofo]

Sorry to hear about Geoff Capes. Anyone know how Geoff Woade is doing?

[Mat Ford @madofo]

It’s 2024 and Apple doesn’t link the text ‘this website’ to the URL in question but prefers to burden the user with the URL itself. What even is the point?

[andy peacock @AndyPeacock999]

Reasons Bribes Are OK

1. It's my birthday
2. My daughter likes Taylor Swift
3. Everyone takes bribes
4. I need to dress nicely
5. My wife likes expensive underwear

[Mat Ford @madofo]

Any chance of a RT @wearewrest ?

[Mat Ford @madofo]

Selling two tickets for @wearewrest at @TheBarrowlands tonight - face value - DM if interested.

[cora bissett @CoraBissett]

Please listen to us @AngusRobertson @JohnSwinney
Yes funds are going to the Arts but you need to understand that the Open Fund is where it starts. You can't just fund the top end. We know funds aren't limitless, but there has to better solutions here. #NoArtWithoutArtists

[Hughie McNeill @hughiemachrins]

I am not really sure how to describe the new album From Mike Vass & @MairearadG . Remarkable? Certainly. Intriguing? Definitely. A tad bonkers? Perhaps. Early Human League with added bagpipes about sums it up. Give your ears a treat! https://t.co/un5YwmUhda

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Amplifying & disseminating lies & falsehoods *is* suppressing the truth, even, perhaps especially, when done in the name of ‘free speech’. Otherwise, you make an excellent point.

[Nick Sullivan @grittygrease]

Most predictable global outage ever.

Hope all the risk folks out there had “our security vendor pushes frequent kernel updates without a staged roll-out to all our Windows devices that can cause BSOD” at the top of their risk registers.

Crowdstrike down 20% in early trading.

[Mat Ford @madofo]

Arriving at @EDI_Airport made even more depressing than usual. Imagine charging your customers to use the baggage trolleys? Maybe try providing excellent service instead of rinsing everyone for every last nickel and dime?

[Mat Ford @madofo]

Still, at least Operation Branchform can wrap up now. Job done. #GeneralElection24