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Chuntering from a sedentary position

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@LNRailway feedback: thoroughly enjoying the running commentary from the train manager on the 0846 out of Euston while waiting for the incoming driver, please pass on to him that it's both informative AND entertaining 🙂

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If you lost a phone at the Panathaneic Stadium in Athens, it has been handed in at the Welcome desk.

Als u uw telefoon bent kwijtgeraakt in het Panathenaïsche Stadion in Athene, ga dan naar de welkomstbalie bij de ingang.

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@izzyslovenian I mean The Athletic are talking about him replacing Salah, I suppose he might want to replace Jack Clarke instead but it would be on the surprising side.

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I'm closer to knocking Twitter on the head now than at any time in the last 15 years, so I might leave this as the last one - there is no situation in the world that can't be improved by listening to @neverstraysfar @nedboulting. Especially when he puts the Grandstand theme in.

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No point adding a comment really

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This morning's feeling is entirely predictable and expected. It's just a shame we had to have a week of relatively credible people arguing that the opposite was likely.

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@izzyslovenian @craig_johns It's a 2 match ban. There's a "worst case" scenario given in the FA handbook of someone who gets 15 yellows in a season (3 match ban) then gets sent off for punching someone (3 match ban) - they would serve all 6.

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see this thread from seven years ago, and allow me to introduce multiple #Waymo vehicles acting it out https://t.co/Hi4wdqtArx

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I've had another thought about autonomous cars. I might find the previous threads shortly, if you want boring to death.

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I think in that case I might have to start the Build Sustainable Infrastructure, Tax Wealth Properly, Get Back In The EU And Shut Up About Migration Party

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

So @JamesCleverly says: 'Vote for the thing you want, don’t vote against the thing you don’t want.'
And Greens say that too. Voting for what you want gets us elected.

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untrained actual #Budget observations pt 3: decent stab at restoring investment after 10 yrs of stupid Tory games, could at a push have gone further and restored employee NI back to 10% at least, blaming Tories leaving things in a worse state than realised when manifesto written.

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#Budget observations part 1: if "the markets" flap when you cut taxes and flap when you raise taxes, it's probably the markets that are the actual problem.

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#Budget observations part 2: I notice the 2022 version was "the Truss mini budget" and this one is "Rachel Reeves' budget" and it's almost as if the office matters less than the sex of the office holder when it comes to apportioning criticism.

[Gideon Futerman @GFuterman]

Over the summer, I went to the very North of the Isle of Lewis on a field trip to map the geology there with a close friend of mine. The google street view car went past. We had a geological hammer. The following masterpiece, now on google street view, was the result

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Inadvertently watching SpongeBob in Spanish and the theme tune from Terry and June starts playing. (A) I haven't had cheese and (B) I'm reasonably confident I'm awake.

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could legislate against the umbrella company system which as far as I can see has zero benefit to anyone

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Worth a moment for those who have no choice but to work for Umbrella Companies, and will therefore pay their own employer National insurance and thus will see a direct personal tax rise #Budget

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Your annual reminder that you can't complain about governments not paying for things and also complain when they try to.

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which is understandable but I think there was the opportunity for using the state of things to get personal NI back to a vaguely sensible level

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Chancellor "I have made an important choice to keep every single commitment we made on tax in our manifesto, so say to working people I won't increase your VAT, National Insurance or Income tax"

So she isn't reversing the 2% Tory NI cut to employees, but shifting it to employers.

"Employers National Insurance will rise by 1.2% from April 2025, and they will start paying it at £5,000 (rather than £9,100)." #Budget

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"Hi this is the voicemail of Neil Bausor. Sorry but I'm not taking calls this year. Please call someone else." #boro #mufc

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@nedboulting Ned. This might sound like absolute madness but whatever. I've always thought the Tour would benefit from a TMS-style on-site radio broadcast. No idea if it's feasible, but if it is, you're the man (with enough support) to do it.

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When you start to wonder if you might have backed the wrong side