Sam Defriez

Watford FC fan and network engineer

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

On this Day 13 years ago, the EFL saw one of the most dramatic ends to a play-off game ever 😲

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

A lot of people who spent a couple of decades loudly calling Tony Blair a war criminal for joining the U.S. war against Iraq are now apparently apoplectic after another Labour Prime Minister refuses to join the latest American adventure in the Middle East. Interesting.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@TBBodell You have to laugh

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@RookeryMike Pulling Irankunda when he did was unnecessary. Halftime is fine to do that, no need to publicly embarrass him. It felt like a Phil Brown half time team talk on the pitch sort of move.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@Keir_Starmer @Lionesses Bank Holiday

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@petercrouch I was at the Watford game Crouchy. Best day of my life (love you Wife and kids.)

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Facts are stubborn things. Since the beginning of this year, the Russian army has carried out attacks against Ukraine using nearly 27,700 aerial bombs, almost 11,200 Shahed drones, around 9,000 other types of attack UAVs, and more than 700 missiles, including ballistic ones. And that’s in less than half a year.

This is the pace of Russian strikes, and they deliberately set this tempo from the very first days of the full-scale war. Russia has restructured its entire state, society, and economy to be able to kill people in other countries on a massive scale and with impunity.

Many have spoken with Russia at various levels. But none of these talks have brought a reliable peace, or even stopped the war. Unfortunately, Putin feels impunity. Even after all of Russia’s horrific attacks, he is reportedly preparing yet more so-called “responses.”

It means, that with every new strike, with every delay of diplomacy, Russia is giving the finger to the entire world — to all those who still hesitate to increase pressure on it. Yet, it is Russia that should be seeking peace. It is in Moscow that they must begin to feel that war carries a cost, a high cost, and the highest one should be paid by the aggressor.

If the world reacts weakly to Putin’s threats, he interprets it as a readiness to turn a blind eye to his actions. When he does not feel strength and pressure, but instead senses weakness, he always commits new crimes. He sees such an attitude as silent permission: permission for new atrocities, new strikes, new killings.

That is why we in Ukraine are so grateful to everyone in the world who is trying to stop this war and stop Russia’s attacks. To everyone who tells the killer that he will be held accountable. To everyone who says Russian missiles and bombs must stop taking innocent lives.
Russia must bring back peace.

And today, on the Day of Remembrance of Ukrainian Children Killed by Russian Aggression, we remind the powerful of this world of the facts. If the powerful do not stop Putin, it means they share responsibility with him. And if they want to stop him but cannot, then Putin will no longer see them as powerful.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@androofrench The death spiral is the constant manager changes. It worked early on, it doesn't work anymore and that is what needs to change. Let's hope that's part of his new focus

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

On this day in 2013... 🗓

We saw the greatest moment in the history of football.

DEENEEEEEEEEEEEEEY

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@ThreshedThought Agree with much of what you say here, but how would you fund it? Further decreases to overseas aid? Or reduce welfare/health spending? Something has to give and that's the problem Starmer faces.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@ETTUTS @Leaf_Networks @JeremyChelot @youfibre Ah OK. Tests via YF network show 404 as well so it may be a problem specific to your IP. Are they running a firewall / geo-location access filter or something similar? We can try and contact them if you have a contact there.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend.

I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The brutal stalemate on the Ukraine/Russian front line makes the case for peace talks to explore what can be agreed to stop the killing.
But there are times when the Trump White House forgets who it is dealing with.
Putin started the biggest land war in Europe since Hitler. It was unprovoked and unnecessary.
His actions have killed hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians — and maimed many more.
He has fired his missiles on Ukrainian apartment blocs and train stations.
He has tried to freeze Ukrainian civilians into surrender by crippling electric-power plants.
His troops have kidnapped hundreds of Ukrainian-born children and relocated them to unknown new homes in Russia.
Ukrainian troops have been tortured and executed with Gestapo-like barbarism.
Realpolitik may mean we have to deal with this monster. But let us not forget he is a monster and presides over a barbaric regime.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@AndreasKoureas_ 💯

[YouGov @YouGov]

The British public has a very positive opinion of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and very negative opinions of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: +48 net score
Donald Trump: -51
Vladimir Putin: -85

https://t.co/tCyXAm5Q7N

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@ETTUTS @JeremyChelot @youfibre @AdGuard Hello, I've tested this URL via a few different providers (fixed and mobile) and all get a 404 error browsing to it so I think the problem is outside the YouFibre network. Is it still working for you on 4g?

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@ThreshedThought Jesus how have we let our navy degrade this badly. I hope we're doing something about it

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@JowettDave @Andy26388571 @JeremyChelot @youfibre Andy please feel free to also send info + address to me on my DMs on your issue. Ta, Sam.

[Sam Defriez @samdefriez]

@JowettDave @Andy26388571 @JeremyChelot @youfibre Hi David, I work with Jeremy on the network team. Could you DM that screenshot as with the greyed out parts its hard to tell what the asus thinks is happening. From our side I see a /56 delegated to you and an IPv6 ND relationship in a working state