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[Reposted for anybody who missed it on Friday]
With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at https://t.co/BAroWPOH0e or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at https://t.co/My1ADl9hPc
I’ve wanted to go to Highclere Castle since I was a child; I think it’s now possible to visit without feeling the need to stage whisper ‘I’m here for the Egyptology, not the Downton Abbey’ all the time https://t.co/tgjJ4uIEmH
@misterunderwood @priddy I suspect Richard may be the friend of mine and @VermisstPfarrer ‘s friend Alison, who taught both of us quite a lot of what we know about mediæval and renaissance music.
Death metal is very much not my genre. (Pseudo-) Irish folk is very much not my genre. I won’t say Dutch death-metal-pseudo-Irish-folk fusion *is* my genre, but add a hurdy-gurdy to it and it at least becomes an effective and intriguing ear cleaner. https://t.co/6rVBin4UbN
@priddy I’ve always wanted to go to one of the Breton folk festivals in Brittany with my bombarde, but what with one thing and another never got around to it. The nearest I’ve got is a weekend event at Burnley Mechanics about 25 years ago I went to with my parents.
@priddy It’d be rude for there not to be. (The ensemble in question I’ve discovered because a German hurdy-gurdy player I follow on Facebook has just joined them)
@DC_Breslin @RachelTobac@OSINTtechniques You’ve kind of missed the point of what she’s saying there. She’s not saying paying for things online is dangerous, she’s saying making it so all a Bad Guy needs to gain access to accounts is pay $8 to look like a legit customer support channel is dangerous.
British electricity mix at 3am on 4th Nov 2022
Nuclear 20.2% Gas 30.3% Coal 0.0%
Wind 12.0% Solar 0.0% Hydro 3.3%
Biomass 9.5% Import 24.1% Storage 0.0% Other 0.5%
Generation 23GW
Carbon intensity 212 gCO2e/kWh
vs 50-100 gCO2e/kWh target by 2030 #Import
So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...
here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...
@apmbsd They were never my genre but I do remember once at 2am a concert film coming on telly and the group of us suddenly stopping chatting to pay attention because of the kicking backing band and it gradually dawning on us it was Bros
Eastwood (Nottinghamshire) Council By-Election Result:
IND: 43.1% (New)
LAB: 41.7% (-0.1)
CON: 15.2% (-31.2)
No LDM (-7.9) or GRN (-5.0) as previous.
Independent GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.