Rob Young

Developer of things for for the web.

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[Rob Young @roryoung]

@SeatfrogHelp my bid has gone in for 2 tickets but I only need one. Luckily I am no longer winning the auction but how can I edit the number of tickets on the bid?

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.

Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.

US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.

A THREAD

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Wow. This is absolutely superb from @Ed_Miliband

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

OMG she’s only gone & done it 😱 @trussliz has put fossil fuel loving, deregulation-obsessed Jacob Rees Mogg in charge of both energy & climate crises -he is not a serious person & this is not a serious Government. Can only hope he wakes up in time to recognise scale of emergency

[Nayeema Chowdhury @NayeemaC]

And it is a pretty fantastic bit of the day job too. Sign up and join us on the 20th Sept! Tell all your friends in the North East too.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

This is such a powerful video…

So simple

So much sense

The Tories know this too

But they also know that it’s the millionaires & billionaires who donate to them that keep them in power

…and the sad truth is, that’s who they really work for.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Emmanuel Macron: “The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders”.

[Jesmond Dene @JesmondDeneOrg]

This in-depth article helps explain why our rivers — including the Ouseburn — sometimes stink. Tl;dr — funding for investigation and enforcement has been gutted over recent years. https://t.co/fxFOJV7QxY

[William Thomson @Williamgallus]

Cost of living crisis is a focus on how people will be affected not on the reasons why it is happening. Perhaps the poorest element is the lack of comparison with other nations. No 'meanwhile in Scotland where water is in public hands' or 'meanwhile a price cap in Spain' 3.4

[Dustin Benton / dbenton.bsky.social @dustin_benton]

sigh

I shouldn't have to do this but let me explain why the future won't, in fact, be cold and dark if we power it from renewables. https://t.co/wVoBTPbKcH THREAD

[Nayeema Chowdhury @NayeemaC]

🔔Exciting opportunity!🔔: We’re setting up a new north east digital hub at BBC Newcastle and looking for an engineering manager to join our team! https://t.co/tT1vAmP0NU

[Rob Young @roryoung]

@KatyKing2 @Nesta @theheatinghub @OctopusEnergy @CoppiceJT @davidwatson__ Should that be @nesta_uk ?

[Shayla @shaydeofgold]

I’m here for the women who get abortions just because they want to. No explanation. If she does not want to be pregnant, that’s a good enough reason to me. I truly do not care. I’m done playing this morality game.

[MotheRED @mothe_red]

Don't miss out on £2,000 to help you run for Parliament from Round 2 of MotheRED! Applications are open until this Friday 24th June: https://t.co/6v3dJgazNp

[Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser]

One of the scoops of the year in @thetimes — as foreign secretary, Boris Johnson tried to install his then lover Carrie Symonds as chief-of-staff on a £100,000+, salary before senior colleagues threatened to resign over the proposed appointment.

[Anna Shipman @annashipman]

This form is so bad; but it’s free text and very short, so you can just write (i) no and (ii) no, and maybe some extra thoughts about the value of this exercise…

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

So this is what “humble” means to @BorisJohnson - filleting Ministerial Code of principle & consequence, weeks ahead of investigation into him lying to the House - just so he can avoid requirement to resign for deliberately misleading us all

His lack of principle knows no bounds