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Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Since 2019, freelancer and FRSA.

Ilkley, UK
Joined May 2007
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🎵 Coming up this Friday and Saturday (12 & 13 July), it's Ilkley Live Garden Music Festival 2024! 👉 ilkleylive.com/ 🎵 It's a free event with more than 80 acts 🎵 Visit as many locations as you wish - full programme on the Ilkley Live website (link above)
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REMINDER: The BBC run one of the most valuable and beneficial "dark web" websites in the entire world, for the benefit of all the peoples of the world. bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50… /Cc @BBCNews @BBCTech @bbcw
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Will Hutton has an article in The Observer this morning saying that Britain is bust. It isn’t. The UK has total wealth of more than £15 trillion. A short thread....
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I'm now onto the last of the Lake District Mysteries "The Ullswater Undertaking" & I've 3 of the Cotswold Mysteries next to start by @RebeccaTope published by@AllisonandBusby I still think #lakedistrictmysteries would make a brilliant TV drama ...it really would!! #tvdrama
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"Why didn't we save the planet when we had the chance?" "Bad marketing" 🤯
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Ian Smith retweeted
ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.
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I had a long discussion with a radio producer yesterday on what I thought was wrong with the Autumn Statement. We discussed the numbers but what I said is most important is not what was said, but what was not. That’s where the frightening bits are. A thread…..
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Ian Smith retweeted
Reinstate former President Trump
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48%No
15,085,458 votes • Final results
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Here's the sociology: 5 coders form startup. Least embarrassing one becomes CEO. The other ones, CFO, COO, CMO, and best coder becomes CTO. Company gets big; CFO, COO CMO hold a dick measuring contest to hire the biggest dept. CTO still wants to be the only coder.
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The Official Anti-Growth Coalition Membership List 👇 As compiled by Colin from Portsmouth.
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I bought an old ordinance survey map of the area where I live. Barely readable was a marking for Castle Grit. I'd never heard of this mysterious place before, so I led the family on a day long hike to explore it. It wasn't a castle. It was a cattle grid.
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Please note change of date 👇👇👇 Car Free Festival #Ilkley 👉 Sunday 25th September 👉 Grove and all access is closed 9-5 👉 The Car Free Festival is on 11-4 @ilkleychat @IlkleyGazette @RombaldsRadio @Discover_Ilkley Please share
Dear @trussliz / @RishiSunak the cost of living crisis has left millions worried how they'll make ends meet. I'd like to formally invite you, as the new PM, to join me asap once you take office for a special hour's @itvMLshow discussion/Q&A to answer/ease people's concerns.
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Why don’t we build better places to live in the UK? A bit of thread so bear with me. 9 years ago I started trying to develop innovate styles of housing to create more sustainable places to live in not only urban and suburban areas but rural areas without the need to build apts
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1/5 This is a Facebook post by Oliver. I won’t give his surname. He works on the Railway, not on my part of the network, though. It explains what is going on.
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Once again.
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