Steve YATES

The only (full time) Brit in the village.

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

Microsoft's entire IT department is just three guys taking turns asking Claude what the error message means

[Steve YATES @sayates]

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[Steve YATES @sayates]

990

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[Steve YATES @sayates]

That's 3 too many yucky things. Was served them once for breakfast at Edinboro airport, never going there again.

[Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft]

This counts as "one tater tot" right?

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@troyhunt You got a mention in my local paper here in France

[Steve YATES @sayates]

Why are your tweets always posted twice?

[SlashGear @slashgear]

It's practically a gift from Subaru to enthusiast drivers.

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@wise Why, when wanting to transfer money between existing accounts, does the use of the word "specs" rather than "spectacles" cause a 2 day delay ? AI slop or a deliberate ploy to earn interest on my money?

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@Darty_Officiel Trés interessant

[Steve YATES @sayates]

Merci

[Darty @Darty_Officiel]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The lowest point of land in Britain is a cast-iron post in a Cambridgeshire wood, and when it went in the ground it was level with the ground.

Stand next to it now and it is four metres over your head.

It is at Holme Fen, south of Peterborough, and in 1851 this was the edge of Whittlesey Mere, the largest lake in southern England. A syndicate of landowners drained the lake that year for farmland, and the engineer, who knew what happens to peat when you take the water out of it, drove an oak pile through 22 feet of it down to the clay and cut the top flush with the turf. A column from the Crystal Palace replaced it. Then they stood back and watched the land go down.

Nine inches in the first year. Eight feet by the 1890s. Today the ground around that post is 2.75 metres below sea level, and the post is a ruler nobody asked for, sticking out of a birch wood with guy ropes holding it up because the soil that used to hold it up has gone into the sky.

That is what drained peat does. It dries, it shrinks, and it oxidises, which means it turns into carbon dioxide and leaves. Peat takes a thousand years to lay down a metre. Under the plough it loses a centimetre or two of that every year, and the Fens have been under the plough since the Dutch engineers arrived in the 1600s. Peat soils farmed for crops are among the largest sources of carbon dioxide in Britain's whole land sector, and the fields doing it are growing lettuce.

Because that is what the Fens are for. A third of England's vegetables come out of this one flat black square: half the lettuce grown in Britain, three quarters of the celery, the carrots, the onions, the potatoes, the leeks, the beetroot. The bag of salad, the celery sticks, the chips. Every field of it is a few millimetres lower than it was last January, the pumps run day and night to keep the sea out of a landscape that is now beneath it, and the water the crops need is forecast to run short within ten years.

Before the drain this was eels, wildfowl, reeds, summer grazing, and a fen that had been quietly stacking carbon since the ice left. The cattle came and went on it for 5,000 years and the ground stayed where it was.

The salad has been on it for 170 years and the ground is four metres down. The post is still measuring.

[The Bagman 🍻🎩🎊 @yatesy_oi_oi]

@BriggsonBeer @Theakston1827 @RoostersBrewCo Two of them are IPA's.
I'm fed up of seeing IPA's in supermarkets.
All bloody the same, including hazy IPA'S, and don't get me started on fruity beers.
Fruity does not belong in a beer.
Hops, Malts, Barley, Water, maybe wheat. That's it!!

[Steve YATES @sayates]

Your soul. No-one should ever have to eat sweet-corn. RIP Lisa.

[Lisa Forte @LisaForteUK]

New game, travel edition: this is my lunch, I got it to go, I’m in Zurich.

What was the price!?! 😂🫡

[Steve YATES @sayates]

The Ibis at CdG is actually sponsored by Dignitas, most depressing place I have ever stayed.

[Steve YATES @sayates]

I guess Beauvais and Clemont Ferrand forgot to enter

[Steve YATES @sayates]

I guess Beauvais and Clemont Ferrand forgot to enter

[Lisa Forte @LisaForteUK]

Here is my motivational post for the week for you:

If Charles De Gaulle airport can win a “best European airport” award you can do anything 🤣😬

How!?! Were there any other airports in the nominations!?! 😂

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@archer_rs Lyon tourist office in the central square (Bellecour)

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@troyhunt Why bother? What % of drivers worldwide will this help 0.000001% + Troy ?

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@LisaForteUK Learn to fly a light plane and go through Death Valley upside down.
Smuggle a banana into Australia.
Plan a visit to Venice without ever seeing a canal

[Steve YATES @sayates]

@overlook61 Are they wanting to sell you something in its place? Friend had local Ford dealer pushing him to buy a new Kuga after only owning currrent car for a year and offering a high trade in price. Turns out they needed to get their new car sales figures up before year end.

[Steve YATES @sayates]

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