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[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

Mark Williams clearing the colours without moving his feet in 41 seconds.

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

Himalayas as seen from Space 🌍 🛰

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

This is "Earthset," captured by the crew of Artemis II

[Dailyscienceinfo @NatureScienceA1]

United Kingdom and Ireland as seen from Space on a rare clear day.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

A recent report says that voice notes are huge across the world… apart from in Britain.

Here’s my two cents (or pennies) on why I dislike voice notes:

1. I don’t want to have to put in earphones or find a quiet place when out and about, just for you to tell me “yes” or “no” about whether you’re free for a cup of tea next Wednesday.

2. While I’m watching telly, I want to be able to glance down at my phone and get the information I need in text form. I don’t want to have to turn the telly off and listen to your private podcast that’s just for me.

3. I don’t want to wade through three minutes of waffle and chit-chat I never asked for when a thumbs-up emoji will do.

4. It makes me feel like you expect a voice note back - and I’m not doing that.

5. I have no interest in tangents about how you’ve just seen an interesting pigeon on the pavement. I asked if you could give me a lift to the station, and 12 minutes in you’re talking about a pigeon and I’ve missed my train.

6. The convenience is all yours. It’s quick to send a voice note, but much slower for me to consume it. It’s bad manners.

I think that about covers it. Of course, if voice notes are a more accessible option for the sender (due to difficulty typing, vision impairment, language barriers, etc.), that’s completely understandable - a different kettle of fish! But if you just like waffling, I’d rather not be the waffle sounding board.

(Really I think I’m just jealous of people who are able to talk coherently for minutes at a time).

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@ochepedia Can you tell me how many Premier League darts matches have never had a break of throw please?

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

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@aakashgupta What about this version of the question? Does this have a solution?

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@TJiMTS It's actually 3.4%, not 3.6%.

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@SimonDixonTwitt @threadreaderapp #unroll

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@grok @jackunheard Fair enough - please provide a high-level summary of the Medicaid fraud and the daycare fraud.

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@grok @jackunheard I thought the video was about daycare fraud?

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@isabellasg3 @grok @grok At what point is it estimated that the interest payments on the national debt exceed tax revenue?

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@PompeyPedro @threadreaderapp #unroll

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@WOLF_Financial @threadreaderapp #unroll

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

10 years ago today…

THAT Freddie Flintoff over 🤯

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@brian_armstrong @grok What was the official reason given for the ad to be banned in the UK?

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@itsalexvacca @threadreaderapp #unroll

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@adamscochran @threadreaderapp #unroll