I enjoy poems, writing, and getting others to succeed. I am from York and live in Germany. at home dot social elephant
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Robert Potter retweeted
Important research from the National Institute of No Fucking Shit.
theguardian.com/society/2026…
Robert Potter retweeted
The wonderful Robert Fagles translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey have audiobook narrations by Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen and listening to them is every bit as great as you'd think it would be.
Robert Potter retweeted
Dear David Attenborough,
Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!
Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.
Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!
With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise
Robert Potter retweeted
Fuck anyone who supports the IR regime, regardless of the reason.
#DigitalBlackOutIran
#IranMassacre
Robert Potter retweeted
Speaking of teaching: It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire. (Lee Shulman)
Robert Potter retweeted
بچههای ایران، جای همه تون دارن فحش میدم به هرچی مزدور شپشوی کون نشور بیشرف هست اینجا. زودتر بیاین، دِ نتنم، بِمردم، می بیلاوارثِ چومون دَره کورا بوستندره.
#مرگ_بر_کلیت_و_تمامیت_جمهوری_اسلامی
#بزن_کصکشو
#DigitalBlackoutIran
Robert Potter retweeted
Bookmarking this for all the things I never got around to listening to in this most joyous yet completely bizarre year.
My 🔝 70 🔝 ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL ALBUMS 🌋 2025
I can’t even describe how much I love 🪐Blut Aus Nord🪐 Absolute WINNER 🥇
#atmospheric #depressive #progressive #ambient #cosmic #blackmetal #AOTY2025
Robert Potter retweeted
The math on this image is insane.
New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.
The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.
Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.
The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.
Robert Potter retweeted
I just spent £61 in @NewLook and was told I had to give my email address to get a receipt. That is completely false and totally unlawful.
A receipt is a legal requirement when a customer asks for one and it cannot be made conditional on handing over personal data.
UK GDPR is very clear that consent has to be freely given and necessary for the service. An email is not needed to print a receipt.
What makes this worse is their target demographic is younger people who often do not know their rights.
The girls (all of them) behind the till lied straight to my face, then got shitty when I challenged them.
When she realised I was a nasty mean old bird, she finally printed mine, and everyone else in the queue suddenly asked for printed receipts too.
That tells you everything. Customers do not want this.
I will be reporting it, because this kind of data-grabbing is out of control and companies like New Look know exactly what they are doing. It is shocking behaviour.
