Nick Haines

Freelance science editor/subeditor with more than 30 years at leading science publications, mainly Nature. I love Scunthorpe Utd, indie-pop and real ale.

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Remember and use this special ballot box if your thinking of voting for Reform UK on Thursday 👍

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@poet_yorkshire @RAF_Luton No, that’s the Liberator from Blake’s Eleven!

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@Trubrit100 @RAF_Luton You say b17s, I say 717s

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@Artemisfornow We’ve got lime marmalade, orange marmalade, Dundee marmalade, thick cut orange marmalade and loads more, and I don’t remember anyone getting upset about any of them.

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@FraserNelson @G_S_Bhogal On the surface, it seems obvious: engaging with tweets triggers the algorithm to send more of the same. But seeing the numbers is a game-changer. So we should reply more to the kind of content we want to see more of, rather than just liking it, which is why I’m replying to this.

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@Threadscenes @fwkingsman The last line of the question can be viewed as asking whether the father’s name is What, but it certainly doesn’t say it is. There is therefore insufficient information to answer the question.

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@KevinASchofield @Femi_sorry Voting for Reform could mean not actually voting for them, I suppose.

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@fesshole To be fair, it is tricky with a banana.

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@simons_tweet @fesshole Bethenickedit Cumberbatch

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@RAF_Luton Are you sure it’s a 747? It looks to me like two 717s next to one another.

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@SoVeryBritish My local Chinese is shut on Mondays. Still, who needs food? I went to the pub instead.

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@NoContextBrits You’ve heard of shrinkflation? This is an exaggerflation.

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@WealdstoneFC Sounds like the ref and the league both said the game should continue, but you cheats refused to finish it. You're a disgrace. You should forfeit the game (3-0) and I hope you get a points deduction and a whopping great fine for failing to fulfil your fixtures.

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@OrkneyLibrary Some people say a building can't love you back, but a tin mine has hidden depth.

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@LizWebsterSBF @BorisJohnson One of the things we learnt from COVID is that Boris Johnson doesn't know the difference between work and a party.

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@AdamCSharp I've got a couple.

Dashing people's hopes

and

No, there isn't a second.

There, you see, I've got quite good at it.

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@AdamCSharp Algerian the Pacemakers
Belizea Stansfield
The Bhutan Rats

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@AdamCSharp Malta'd Images
A Flock of Seychelles
Saint Vincent & the Libertines

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@AdamCSharp Wham!sterdam
Frank Sumatra
Lithuenya

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@ScunnyBusLady It's funny, I remember that you missed that game. Is that an old copy of Iron Filings?