Tim Packer

Musician (@driven_serious, @bpandeband, @stnicsdurham), web developer, etc. Between strikes with @UCUatDurham. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@durham_uni @durhamcathedral If these were some obscure arms I might understand, but these are the arms of the Diocese of Durham - there are dozens of copies of them around Palace Green, and probably half a dozen of them paired with Cosin's arms specifically.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

Are you still responsible for Bishop Cosin's Almshouses on Palace Green, @durham_uni?

The arms above the door seem to have been recently repainted - see my first picture. For comparison, picture 2 (on Cosin's Library) is how they should look.

Could this be looked at please?

[Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9]

Trans lives will be destroyed using the profits from this series.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@AdrianBeney @lara_wildenberg I think that column is showing the rural population of that ethnic group, as a proportion of the total population *of that ethnic group*. So it's saying people whose ethnicity is white gypsy or Irish traveller are more likely to live rurally than other ethnic groups.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@the1andonlyscog @DavidRo76728586 @ZackPolanski How would Labour be deleting things on X, owned by Elon Musk, or Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg?

How would these statistics even exist it they aren't officially published?

Maybe it shocked you because it's completely implausible?

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@the1andonlyscog @DavidRo76728586 @ZackPolanski What? No, that's not remotely true. Where are you getting this from?

The nearest I can find is arrest statistics, which show that, as of 2023, around 2/3rds of arrests were of white British people.

Are you mixing it up with number of arrests per 1000 people?

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@the1andonlyscog @ZackPolanski Imaging thinking you're insulting someone by saying they don't want Britain to be filled with a barely-trained, barely-vetted armed paramilitary force that regularly shoots innocent people and kidnaps children.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@AllyFogg @UKRegulator There is a specific carve-out for all-women shortlists, you're just looking in the wrong place - it's in section 104. Text, and explanatory note, attached.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@thomasforth I've realised I was ambiguous here
- I don't mean there is a Cambridge college richer than *each* university north of it. A single Cambridge college is richer than every English university north of Cambridge *combined*.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@thomasforth Yes - universities deliberately shut down at Northampton, Stamford, Durham (twice).

So endowment flowed from North to South - Durham alone founded three Oxford colleges.

Wealth they still have now - a single college at Cambridge is richer than every university north of it.

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

@SublimeTerrible @thomasforth At the start of the 16th Century, Aberdeenshire had MORE universities than England.

(Aberdeen, Marischal and Fraserburgh.)

[Madoc Cairns @MadocCairns]

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

(Not an objection to the cause, but they can't remove one flag saying they object to all "cause" flags, then fly one for a different cause.

If you're going to say that this has the Union Jack as part of it - I'll happily provide a UK/County Durham Pride flag if they'll fly it.)

[Tim Packer @tspacker]

Interesting to see an Armed Forces Day flag replacing County Durham's at @DurhamCouncil HQ today.

A month ago we were told no other flags would be flown because UK and Durham flags already represent us all - a change of heart, or is it just Pride that @reformparty_uk dislikes?

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

They're literally doing the meme

[Toby Forage 🤙 @foraggio]

Great speech from @DalrympleWill at the march in London over the weekend in solidarity with Gaza. If you haven't listened to the @EmpirePodUK episodes about the history of the region, I highly recommend you do ✊🇵🇸

[Emma @scousepie]

I genuinely wanted you to prove I was wrong not to trust you, now you’re taking the PIP I need to be well enough to work and blaming it on low paid immigrants and refugees

[Nick Lowles @lowles_nick]

We were told Labour is listening, but anyone on the doors in Runcorn would have heard voters complain about winter fuel allowance, cost of living and general Govt incompetence. But rather than address these issues it engages in race to bottom with Reform
https://t.co/d3JZPQhuvu

[SpeakOutSister @speakoutsister]

There is genuinely nothing more homophobic than thinking lesbians and gay men aren't attracted to people but simply sets of genitals.

It's as bad as the bigots who scream "stop discussing your sex life" if anyone even mentions they're gay.