Keith Mansfield📚🚀✨
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Writer #JohnnyMackintosh #FutureInMinutes #50AIideas Publisher @PenguinPress Futurist, failed astronaut, independent thinker Can't blame views on anyone else
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Joined January 2010
A while since I updated my personal blog/site, but here's an entry that talks about writing my new book on #ArtificialIntelligence, including how I worked with #AI on the final chapter. I hope "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" lives up to its title.
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@JustStop_Oil Extremely disingenuous after your original tweet, effectively claiming responsibility. But reining back after finally recognizing just how despised you are by the general population, that you've done a remarkable thing and even made people feel sympathy towards #GeorgeOsborne.
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@metpoliceuk Why not arrest at the time instead of making an appeal on social media? Why even allow yet another intimidating, violent march? This has to stop. Ordinary law-abiding people can't go into central London with this going on.
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@MPSWestminster Presumably we'll be fine if we mask up & wave Palestinian & Hamas flags? And throw in "from the river to the sea" every now & then as well as "Southgate you're the one" & "Sweet Caroline"? . FFS this might be the first time in 58 years. Just let people have fun! #London #EURO2024.
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@afneil Lammy is clearly intellectually challenged and woefully uneducated. It is genuinely terrifying that he is just factually wrong about practically everything, yet occupies one of the great offices of state!.
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@afneil Surprised, Andrew. The cartoon's inevitably going to be withdrawn. Whatever you think of the SNP, you can't depict politicians being lynched.
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@CPSUK What on earth are #LocalPanels? Why do they have a say in the law and policing? Who elected them? How are people on them replaced? This does not sound like even-handed #justice, policing without fear or favour.
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@metpoliceuk @antisemitism @rishisunak @JamesCleverly @SadiqKhan This is an unacceptable response from The Met. People don't want to organize a "march" or "protest". They simply want to be free and safe to walk about in London. To cross the road. It is your responsibility to ensure that is the case for.
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@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk Great questions Tim. A piece on the presentation including existential risk and the Fermi paradox “Starship: Elon Musk’s Space Railroad” by Keith
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@chris_delaney90 It's completely wrong. Don't incite hatred or violence by supporting it. Yours is a quite shocking tweet.
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@estherckrakue Such disdain for ordinary decent British people, left behind. If Matthew Parris is the voice of the modern Conservative Party, then this column shows why their own coming electoral annihilation can only be a good thing, richly deserved. #Clacton.
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@SteveBakerFRSA It's over Steve. The problem is your government has been so woeful it's no longer enough to simply say Labour will be even worse. It's time for a new politics and new parties, even if that means enduring a term with the completely duplicitous Starmer at the helm. Tory MPs in.
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@metpoliceuk @JohnnyMercerUK So this is official from The Met that we can all climb all over #London monuments & not be arrested? Thanks for the heads up. While it's obviously apparently fine to plant flags of foreign powers on them, might we be arrested if trying that with a Union Jack or Flag of St George?.
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@thetimes I'm confused. Why promote a story behind a paywall so it can't be read? Surely let us see the piece you think we'd like so we might want to subscribe?.
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@antisemitism @metpoliceuk @GideonFalter @SuellaBraverman @RishiSunak @MayorofLondon Thread shows shocking behaviour by @metpoliceuk, who are happy to allow other organizations to drive around London with electronic billboards, yet prevented these images of children kidnapped by a terrorist organization from being shown.
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@DavidGHFrost @Telegraph Whatever the alternatives (ie Starmer) no one will now vote Tory because you have delivered nothing. The least effective administration ever. You're all talk. And often you've done the opposite of what you've said. "Stop the boats?" In fact, you've encouraged mass immigration.
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@Seanfhear59 @KeithMillsD7 @karenievers Sean - quite terrifying that someone who claims to be a senior figure in education can espouse such antisemitic views. The world really isn't controlled by Jews. But people are kind and saw a 20 year old excellent singer, whose friends were brutally murdered at a music festival,.
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@theAliceRoberts As the son of an English teacher and someone who's spent a lifetime working in publishing (editorial) and has authored four books, I have no idea what this means. Why are people doing this to our children? What are they trying to achieve? Stop the madness!.
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@glastonbury You are joking me. After I (and doubtless millions of others) had cleared the decks for tonight and Sunday. Terrible decision.
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@TheSun @MartinDaubney If I recall #TheSun supported them, telling everyone to vote Labour. Surely you must have known these new puritans will ban all fun and try to control your thoughts as well as your speech?.
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Apparently Amazon is filming a "high concept" William Gibson adaptation in my street over the coming weeks. Set in the year 2100, I'm guessing it's #ThePeripheral. Might see if I can be an extra!.
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Extraordinary @FA_PGMOL/@EFL decision to have ex-Barnsley academy player Bobby Madley referee the vital Barnsley vs Derby promotion clash on Saturday. After his previous reffing of @dcfcofficial in another vital promotion game, he should be barred from future #dcfc games to.
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@Fox_Claire #Labour gave very strong support to raising the age at which you can buy a lottery ticket from 16 to 18, but clearly voting in a #GeneralElection isn't such an important decision. /s #VotingAge #Sixteen
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@emollick Twitter is fine as long as you curate your feed properly. But remember other people should be free to do the same for theirs - live and let live. It's clear there is richer information on the network now that, akin to Brin's transparent society, we weren't privy to before, and.
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@OwenJones84 Owen - I find this very surprising, especially when you've been attacked yourself. When 2 MPs have been murdered in recent times. No one standing in this campaign should face assault in this way. Surely, on reflection, you realize that & will now delete & apologize for the tweet?.
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@bbclaurak Her cynical strategy has been to deliberately delay things as long as possible so she thinks we'll have to accept her terrible remainer-led and remainer-defined Brexit. Which isn't Brexit at all. We won't. We'll still argue for our country.
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@emilyca5 *Critical thinking - to always check original sources of information and know how to look beyond the web. *Obvs math & science. *History in a new deep way. *But perhaps most importantly, how to disagree. To understand people have good reason to hold different views from your own.
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@NASA @SpaceX @NASAArtemis #BlueOrigin should not be allowed to bid. A clear message must be sent to the space industry that gratuitous lawsuits cannot and will not be tolerated. You cannot sue your way to the #Moon. #NASA mustn't reward this company that's never put anything in orbit for yet more hot air.
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Given the #PostOfficeScandal there should be no new UK Govt contracts to #Fujitsu unless & until it meets the compensation payments for the Postmasters in full. I'd say £1 million each. Why are our Government & courts so spineless, useless & wholly ineffective, @10DowningStreet?.
New 🚨: There is ‘sufficient evidence’ for police to investigate Post Office scandal bosses. * Lawyer: "More than enough evidence" to open criminal inquiry. * Police watching "every day of inquiry". * CPS appoints specialist KC to the case. Full story 👇.
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@Johnny_Marr I'd be surprised if Johnny has the power to stop it. Even Neil Young (mentioned in the article) dropped his case. Once music is licensed it's out there for people to use. On another note, fascinating to see how far The Smiths have travelled.
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@GarrettPetersen @robinhanson I'd suggest it's because the western alphabet has such a small number of characters, whereas there are thousands in Chinese. So movable type wasn't useful in a China. It's like how some notation or systems of units are far more powerful than others.
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Amazing to hear @MartinSLewis talking about the origins of #TuitionFees with #AdrianChiles. Tony Blair's to blame for the disingenuous label. The nominal amount (currently £9k) is irrelevant as 83% never pay it off. It's just a tax on earnings above £25k if you went to university.
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@metpoliceuk every.single.week. The only purpose these marches serve is to foster and raise tensions across communities here, while preventing ordinary decent Londoners from accessing our city. I don't know who has the power to say, but for everyone's benefit, let's hope this is the last one.
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@elonmusk @Erdayastronaut @sivanithu @tobyliiiiiiiiii @cabral_psyd @imatsb @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee @RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck Everything crossed for SN4. This time!.
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@BBCSimonJack @rayner_susannah Simon, it read as a puff piece for Coutts earlier, full of holes and leaving a million unanswered questions. It was incumbent upon you to be massively more (or even just a little bit) sceptical in your "triumphant" twitter thread. I hope you'll now pursue this properly, and won't.
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@BBCNewsnight Terrifying. A scene from a dystopian nightmare. The NHS is to the UK what the Second Amendment is to the US. When will the madness end?.
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@bbcquestiontime There's probably never been a more politically biased #BBCQT audience. Shouldn't you issue a statement/apology? Risible programme. This is why everyone thinks traditional media is completely out of touch and out of step with the country.
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@metpoliceuk Seriously? London is on its knees, *desperate* for a Christmas boost. But will be closed down yet again on one of the busiest weekends of the year. By not banning these marches, you're creating a future ghost town. The capital cannot survive this, week after week after week.
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@SpaceX Huge congratulations to the #PolarisDawn team and #SpaceX. What an achievement. Humans further from Earth than any time since #Apollo.
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@KateEMcCann But he does have the #Labour 2017 report on his desk saying withdrawing #WinterFuelAllowance would cause the deaths of 3850 #pensioners.
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@SophyRidgeSky I feel that's possibly the least insightful analysis I've ever read. The Tories did nothing whatsoever to keep red wall voters. As it happened, Covid broke the country and the Tory Party, but once that was over, their abject governance and retreat into the SW1 bubble did for them.
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@afneil As the largest shareholder, UK Govt led by @10DowningStreet needs to say they have no confidence in her (and the rest of the board for that matter if they back her). Alison Rose must be gone by tomorrow, not Christmas. With no payoff as that must be gross misconduct on her part.
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@TrevorMahlmann Did you see this too? The main first stage nearly hits something a few seconds into this video.
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@GBNEWS @CityPolice obviously this cannot be allowed and I presume you'll take all steps necessary to ensure it doesn't happen.
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@JonnyGeller @MarinaHyde The call for boycotts was intellectually vacuous from an anonymous protest group. I do blame the festivals for immediately cowtowing & dumping their sponsor -who's contributed so much to the literary scene. Why not simply blackball the authors who left & replace with better ones?.
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@SteveBakerHW As my MP I hope you will follow suit @twocitiesnickie. The French are calling it #PassDeLaHonte or #PassOfShame and that's exactly right. #NoVaccinePassports #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere.
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@BorisJohnson How dare you! I will not comply with your #MedicalApartheid. The point of (such fantastically effective) vaccines is they work whether or not specific individuals have been jabbed. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere #NoVaccinePassports.
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@RickParkin @JamesCleverly @Conservatives @trussliz Bray's exact words on the video (posted by #SteveBray himself) were "the sooner you're out of the UK the better", which is what Cleverly claimed. Shouldn't we expect honesty from you, Rick? Here's the clip.
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@TheCanaryUK No one's been banned. Women have been allowed their own category to compete fairly against each other, rather than it becoming futile for them to try to participate in competitive sport. Science, common sense, fairness and women are the winners.
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@kylegrantham @taylorswift13 Kyle - "about time" sounds a very odd perspective. No one should feel pressured/compelled to express their political views publicly - it's a secret ballot. Would you have said "about time" had Taylor come out for the GOP? How she votes is up to her. Fine if she wants to share.
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@LBC @AndrewMarr9 OMG. I hope Andrew challenged this. Terrifying antisemitism from a supposedly respectable national public figure, trying to promote the idea of a Jewish conspiracy. The rest of the Union and Labour movement should come out and condemn these remarks.
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@OwenJones84 @MarkFieldUK's my MP. I think he's hopeless & would love to be rid of him but calling on the police to enforce your political opinions is incredibly dangerous & not what we need. Someone has illegally trespassed & disrupted an event & reasonable force has been used to remove them.
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And to show the power of the #ABBAVoyage concert, here's the unbridled joy of #ABBA fans at the tube station on the way home, singing #MammaMia
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@metpoliceuk Every single week you let masked crowds march through London dressed in the garb of terrorists, & do nothing. Today with a different group of people, you demand faces not be covered. It's as if your #TwoTierPolicing is designed to create a confrontation. Why the double standards?.
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@soniasodha @MalmaisonHotels For those people who may not have read the article, the #ThoughtCrime #Malmaison is investigating is that "men are men and women are women". Not just a legally protected belief, but pretty basic biological science. I hope someone at Head Office gives this short shrift & drops it.
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@afneil Yet we also heard on @BBCr4today this morning that GDP per capita fell 0.1%, due to the massive immigration figures. Is there any reason we should care about #GDP anymore, rather than its more nuanced "per capita" cousin?.
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@SuellaBraverman Given the UK Government owns 38.6% of NatWest (which owns Coutts), presumably you can use your power to remove the board if they don't stop policing customers' thoughts? It's not rocket science.
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@ElectoralCommUK In the interests of balance and fairness please will you immediately list all the other political parties and campaigning organizations this statement could equally apply to. You wouldn't want to appear partisan, surely?.
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@MCCOfficial I hope @CricketAus comes out with an equally fulsome apology after the despicable on-field behaviour and appeal we saw today. Never in a long life of playing and watching cricket have I seen such a shameful dismissal. So very distant from the spirit of the game, it was on another.
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@KayBurley When they came for @KayBurley there was no one left to speak for her.
Utterly terrifying for democracy in the UK. Anyone dumb enough to cheer this authoritarianism on should try to have an ounce of self-awareness and consider what would happen if their own accounts were closed because of their political views. This is a prime example of why it is.
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@Otto_English Of course the @brexitparty_uk MEPs have been to Brussels. They're MEPs-elect! Who pays? The EU pays. From our money but better spent on @Fox_Claire's travel than EU detention camps in Libya or Junckers' booze account. This is weird irrational stalking behaviour. Look at yourself!.
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@jk_rowling @darewecan Here's further disturbing UK context for those who can't read behind the paywall. How has it come to this? @alexchalkChet should see to it that this is stopped, and the pernicious influence of stonewall needs to be removed from across the public sector.
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@metpoliceuk @MPSWestminster The question must be asked why there are no outdoor screens showing #EURO2024 in #London? In the height of summer? Why exactly do the Metropolitan Police and London's Mayor seem institutionally anti English? 🏴🏴🏴 Where is the joy and celebration on London's streets, after.
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@EUFlagsTeam @EUflagmafia Bizarre, sad and pathetic that EU flag shaggers attempt to take over a cherished British institution - a night of fun and joy. All so that you can cheer on a supranational failed state, run by Goldman Sachs, for the benefit of bankers and capitalism.
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@FinancialTimes There has been no greater advocate for the EU27, working against UK national interest, than the FT. Here's yet another example. It argues from the EU perspective that Brexiteers don't understand the EU. Maybe so but the flipside is the author doesn't understand the British people.
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@hopenothate Why do you seem full of hate for leavers? The only hope being offered in this election, the only positivity, is coming from @brexitparty_uk. Ordinary people, left & right, gay & straight, black & white, standing up for democracy despite being subject to hate crimes from remainers.
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@metpoliceuk @DCMS Good to know, but today's misinformation on social media about flags being removed is a direct consequence of marchers being able to access the Cenotaph freely over recent weeks, which should never have been allowed. The ideal would be not to allow any non-UK flags in demos in.
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@tomhfh It's a terrible situation that a lot of people want Brexit to go badly wrong so they can say "I told you so". A shame as it has a much better chance if the whole country accepted the democratic vote, got behind leaving and resolved to make a brilliant success of it.
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@_CryMiaRiver I do get the sense that things are changing in the UK. Keir Starmer, despite his massive poll lead, knew the coming election was imperiled unless he changed his stance on what a woman is. "The spell has lifted" is a lovely way of putting it and also pays homage to @jk_rowling.
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@elonmusk A lesson in #transparency to every other company on the planet. And one of the coolest videos ever.
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@metpoliceuk @antisemitism Well done to the Met for trying to address this. But the sad subtext is @metpoliceuk is saying it is unable to protect Londoners from the mob, so instead has to prevent decent people doing their lawful business. We've seen it several times in recent years, cops too scared of or.
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@reluctantnicko I remember no one stood by Luton Town after their cruel and unusual punishment several years ago. The @EFL treatment of #DCFC is shocking & football should unite against it, but fans rarely see beyond their own noses.
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@heidiallen75 @HouseofCommons We have to be able to trust our politicians. Just leaving this here:.
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@esa @esa_sts @ArianeGroup Great to see. By the time this comes on stream the fully reusable stainless steel Starship will have a capacity of >100 tonnes to LEO, so the reality is this will not be able to compete commercially, but it will be able to deliver cheaper launches for state-subsidized missions.
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@MichaelLCrick The words pot and kettle come strongly to mind. If you're going to criticize others. There was a time when C4 News was the great in-depth place to go. Nowadays it's a woke socialist worker remainer central & I'd hope you're embarrassed to be part of it. Maybe time to move away?.
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Nearly at the fundraising target for Noah's family to investigate the truth about his awful and horrific death. A young boy, naked at the bottom of a normally locked storm drain in Belfast. Which the police for some reason didn't find suspicious, so didn't investigate properly!.
£142,510 donated towards Noah's investigation!!! .£150,000 target. 8 grand left to go EIGHT GRAND 🙌🙌💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️💙⚡️.Omg so amazing xxxx .Noah's voice is being heard!!! 🙏🙌🙌🙌
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@statto @ZonePhysics I was about to say this, but thought I'd look at the replies first!. ZonePhysics - why spread misleading stuff like this when you could be telling followers some actual physics? For instance, the transition from laminar to turbulent flow is one of my favourite things.
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@BylineTV I think Jo has better things to be doing. This is only a big thing in India's mind.
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@JimBridenstine @SpaceX It's a good point and important we see your new regime determined to hold people to deadlines. Thank you. It also seems manifestly unfair to the outside world that SpaceX was given billions of dollars less than Boeing to deliver on the same, difficult goal. Yet it's doing better.
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Being played out by @nilerodgers, pundits @stephenbush & @KateAndrs sneaking back on set to dance, Portillo & Johnson jamming on their toy guitars & @afneil with the weird hat, is everything that makes @bbcthisweek the best show on TV. Who needs #Bodyguard when you have #bbctw?.
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@metpoliceuk The 11th (Remembrance Day) is on the Saturday. This seems a very frightening prospect for Londoners. I don't know who has final say, but surely The Met must do everything in its power to have the Palestine march banned. There's a clear and obvious risk of significant violence.
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@HeidiBachram @JamesCleverly Please watch the footage around this, @metpoliceuk seemingly complicit in supporting a proscribed terrorist organization, along with the marchers. In this example of #TwoTierPolicing, the peaceful protester criticising Hamas is forcibly led away, not his attackers.
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@itvnews @stevescott_itv Extraordinary by @fa. Fairness has to be at the heart of sport, and letting biological men play against women is manifestly unfair - as well as manifestly dangerous. #SaveWomensSport.
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@TheOxfordMail @WeAreFairCop OM: Your paper also "gaslighted" the Oxfordshire public by saying the alleged offender was a woman (even in the headline). I think you should edit this piece to reflect that. Let's hope @ThamesVP understand their mistake in such a serious case and stick to the science and.
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@DrPhiltill I don't expect any nozzles were lost. Isn't it simply a contrast issue with the image?.
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@MirrorPolitics The world was similarly rooting for the buried Chilean miners, and the junior Thai football team cave rescue. All people trapped below the surface with time running out. You'd say this was gutter journalism from the Mirror, but it's not journalism.
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@AllisonPearson Football clubs have to pay for their own policing. Why aren't the organizers of these weekly demos billed in the same way? @metpoliceuk? The cost to #London is immense.
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@simon_price01 In the video there's a lady on the platform being very brave and intervening to stop the protesters having their heads kicked in. I thought she did well.
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