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Quit my job at Meta to write a newsletter: @EdinburghMinute + now @TheLondonMinute too. Ex- @instagram , @CondeNast , @Vogue , @Guardian & @CodeClanScot . He/him. ✌️
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Dozens of tiny snow people appeared today on the Bell’s Brae Bridge in Edinburgh
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After four years in London, we’re back in Edinburgh and woke up to this view 🥺
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A frozen Ross Fountain just now in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens
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Visiting the Leeds club shop to get something for my mate while I’m in town and bumped into Javi Gracia. He confirmed: “Good news yes”
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My friend is having a baby. LinkedIn has made a button making it easier for me to reply with “Oh no!”
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Heard a double crack of thunder or a sonic boom above
#Edinburgh
about 0440. Anyone else??
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@Quicktake
If you’re ‘escaping’ to see your family, you’re potentially part of a super-spreader event.
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Edinburgh snow under moonlight this morning at 05:33
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@mosseri
@KoolJeffrey
The data might show people interacting with suggested content and reels etc but that’s mainly because it’s now quite hard to find anything else. I use other apps for ‘entertainment’ and loved when Instagram’s heart and soul was community first. Sad to see
#communityfirst
is gone.
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There’s an anti-AFTV, and it’s
@LatteFirm
. Disproves the lazy stereotyping of Arsenal fans online. Always thoughtful, humble, patient and logical in reviewing where the club is at. Great work in setting the tone all season,
@fkhanage
.
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Blast from the past: pal just sent me a vid of
@gerardway
recalling the time I asked him to sign a bit of wood out the back of
@kingtuts
in 2004. We were big fans of vampire-themed music back then!
@MCRofficial
went from Tuts to playing the Hydro tonight!
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Shakespeare puns should be bard, but this is the Second Gentleman of Corona, The Taming of the Flu, The Merchant of Virus... but where does he live? Tier three or not tier three, that is the question.
Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry - would you believe it....William Shakespeare from Warwickshire
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@GoonerTaIk
I saw these episodes as total vindication for brave Arteta sticking to his and our club values 👍
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🚲
@Casey
has a new version of his legendary Bike Lanes video. Includes some hilarious but well-made points:
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@Arsenal
Was not prepared to be welling-up at 9am but this video… hit straight in the heart 🥹❤️
@gabimartinelli
👏
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Breakfast time for the horses in the glen here in Auchendinny
#midlothian
@penisnow
#snow
#uksnow
eh26 5/10
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@Casey
You could ask your audience to list something they love/admire about her, then print their replies off real small and stick them around the house. Even if there are hundreds. Imagine feeling surrounded by compliments and kindness. Could be sweet.
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@JillFilipovic
@nycsouthpaw
If you had location on, and so did the bag owner, there's a chance you've been served ads of items the bag owner bought. We sometimes think our phones are listening while at the same time giving away heaps of our behaviour data, which is usually what explains these oddities.
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@Arsenal
The next
@Babablueh
reference I wanna see from admin is: “I’m looking for a GOAT, I’m looking for a baahhh… bahhhh!” 🐐
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@David_Ornstein
@TheAthleticUK
If they want international growth, they should improve streaming.
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@Anarchist_Max
@Quicktake
I agreed freedom is important. But you won’t have freedom if you’re dead. Maybe research how viruses spread and don’t be selfish.
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GEOFF LINTON’S IDENTITY IS REVEALED!
Matt Berry taking things to the next level. And is Train Guy now revealed to be named Dick, or is he just calling him a dick?
This story has legs.
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@JohnLewisRetail
John Lewis advertising execs choosing a song to cover this year:
“OK so we’re going for Blink 182… we’re thinking about All The Small Things but oh, what’s this ‘Family Reunion’ song like? Let’s give it a spin…”
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@centrallakesGP
@SRDorman
So rather than coordinating with your staff, the govt are just opening the floodgates and forcing your already overworked staff to deal with it?? Shameful. Sorry for y’all. Good luck.
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Millions spent, South Bridge still has pavements that are too narrow, cars parked in bus lanes & bus ‘trackers’ showing nothing more than a mouse arrow icon. Queue of tourists & locals standing in rain on road nearly getting hit by traffic. Love Edinburgh but it’s run like shite.
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‘Dynamic pricing’ on Ticketmaster, explained brilliantly by
@doctorow
Struggling to buy
@taylorswift13
tickets on Ticketmaster? You're not alone.
Ticketmaster is destroying live music.
Their scam fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket. They control the events, the venues, even the artists.
@Doctorow
explains.
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Now is the winter of North Berwick’s discount tents.
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This guy has made a ‘cathode ray telecaster’ replacing a plectrum with a coil picking up static electricity. The pitch changes depending on how many on-screen stripes he ‘strums’ 🤯
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The first day of the ‘Edinburgh’s Christmas’ events and we have our first bit of nonsense. There’s six weeks of this to go!
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Cycling through Holyrood Park down the big long hill road from the Commie is terrifying. Cars tailgating and aggressively overtaking each other for not going over 20mph. Most cars are speeding. If a ban goes through, it’s going to become a much more attractive place for exercise.
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@donturvLDR
"Supposing I was not to get my licence, I will not sell. Do you know what I’ll do? I’ll rent it out to students, and they won’t even get council tax."
Pretty embarrassing when people out themselves as being against paying tax.
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Bukayo Saka encouraging schoolkids to do their homework, eat home-made food, stay healthy and respect their parents is the wholesome content we all need today.
@ArsenalAcademy
@BukayoSaka87
"Hello, boys! It's nice to see you all." 🙌
📚 Balancing school work
🍽 Favourite Nigerian food
🎧 Pre-match routines
🦁 Representing the Three Lions
💬 Arsenal and England star
@BukayoSaka87
gets quizzed by the Academy players! 🙋♂️🤩
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@Humane
has filed new patent applications:
New user-interface details:
the Humane logo as what appears to be a home button(!) plus Twitter & email clients:
This suggests sending tweets from the palm of your hand 🤯
Plus…
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If you built it right, they will come. If you build it like Leith Walk’s bike lane, they probably won’t.
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#StormCaira
brought a plane in from NY to London almost two hours early overnight. A new subsonic record 🚀
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Now is the winter of sweet discount tents.
Mountain Warehouse relocating their Princes Street store from the current site to the New Club complex unit formerly occupied by Kingdom of Sweets.
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Edinburgh council has released what it claims is "the first destination website in the UK to launch a Chat GPT powered chatbot" and it's... clueless on basic local questions 🙈 If you have any luck or LOLs, share your screenshots below mine.
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Last night’s sunset in East Lothian looking towards Edinburgh. Straight out the phone with no editing.
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Any time you see ‘influencers’ posting their hashtag sponcon from the W hotel, just remember the reason they say it has “the best views in Edinburgh” is because it’s the only place in town you can’t see the golden 💩 building 😛
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Failing Turnberry hotelier tests positive for coronavirus
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Alasdair Gray seemed immortal. We hardly deserved him.
Huge respect to him for this: “In keeping with his principles Alasdair wanted his body donated to medical science, so there will be no funeral.”
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@BBCNews
Repaired this headline:
The UK media observes a national minute's silence in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth II
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Seeking new work after 3+ fun years at Vogue. Cuts right now are tough. Keen to stay in digital journalism / community / social production / team management if possible. Open to contracts / remote work too.
If anyone has openings: michael
@mmacleod
.com
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Was hoping the Queen would broadcast the way everyone else has during this:
“Hi guyyyyys, just waiting a few mins to let people join”
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“Can you hear me ok?”
“Oh, is the sound not... hang on”
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“There is that better?”
“Oh my god your cat is so cute!”
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Just had confirmation tomorrow is my last day at Condé Nast. No hard feelings, cuts happen & I’m enjoying seeking new work. Already had some exciting early discussions. If you need someone with my profile, say hi 👋🏼 Open to remote work or moving anywhere 🌏 To new beginnings!
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@nickvann1987__
@StopThatTiti
Haaland can only dream of scoring a fraction of goals as good as these. Henry truly had it all.
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We can blame drivers and Google maps all we like but until Leith Walk’s cycle lanes are properly segregated and bollards come in too, all modes of transport are being mixed together. It’s a recipe for disaster worse than this, sadly.
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Today I start a 12 month contract with
@meta
, working on community operations for a specific project. Five years since I did the same for Instagram. Surprised to find my internal tools login profile photo from 2016 is still there and my hair has got lot more grey since then! 👴🏻
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@TransferChecker
Cheers for the update. People rage at you when things aren’t confirmed but you’ve always reported at the real speed things happen.
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Edinburgh news Taylor Swift just now is Taylor Swift littered with Taylor Swift Taylor Swift SEO and Taylor Swift clickbait Taylorburgh Edinswift.
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@David_Ornstein
@gunnerblog
@TheAthleticUK
Maybe Auba should do his tests 15 mins before the rest of the squad so he gets there on time.
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Lots of anger about parties in No.10, yet Hogmanay, the biggest party of them all, is still scheduled to go ahead. Scotland could look pretty silly by hosting a super-spreader event. Kudos to
@Summerhallery
for postponing theirs for everyone's safety.
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#Arsenal
All Or Nothing, episode 8:
Voiceover: “After a difficult transfer window, Mikel meets his first team squad ahead of Wolves.”
Arteta; “So, you five will play midfield, and I’ll go up front. We don’t have a defence. Or a striker. We sold everyone.”
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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUDENTS? Some left jobs or put their life-savings into this career-changing course. Also sympathies with the staff. But if anyone can rescue CodeClan or take on highly-invested and investible students to a different course, the time to step in is now.
Absolutely awful, sickening news:
@CodeClanScot
, Scotland's web development academy, has gone into liquidation and shut down, mid-courses, with immediate effect. I enjoyed training students on privacy years ago, and wish I could have done it more.
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Maybe I’ve not been on Princes Street for too long but I didn’t realise there was now fruit & veg on street.
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We're lucky in Edinburgh to have some masters of local history who are also masters of Twitter threads (
@cocteautriplets
of
@Threadinburger
for example). And that's because there are stories behind every door, as
@diarmidmogg
proves over and over again:
189 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh—built around 1900 with four storeys of flats above ground-floor shops. One of a row of seven tenements that replaced three 19th-century villas.
Notable former residents include:
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It seems GW called me a crazy motherfucker to 14,000 people tonight - and I missed it 😅 anyway if anyone wants to help me find the person who bought the stake from the 2004 gig story in this thread, DM me.
#MCRGLASGOW
“This town is full of some crazy motherfuckers” gerard cuando vengan a buenos aires aaaaa soñaba
#MCRGlasgow
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Happy opening day to the Eco Larder’s latest shop 💚 at 19 Howe Street
#Edinburgh
#SupportLocal
#shoplocal
#zerowaste
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Even tourists are noticing the absolute shite state of Edinburgh roads.
#BestSeatOnTheGravyTrain
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We hit another million-based milestone for Vogue but none of the team is in the office, so I’ll take all the balloons kthnxbai.
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Now here's a subscription strategy. Get them to score on their debut.
It’s not every day a
@GoonerFanzine
subscriber scores for The Arsenal. Well done
@CharliePatino10
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LOVING Jerry from Big Jet TV making a broadcast TV producer wait a few mins on the phone while he watches a behemoth A380 land. Big Jerry energy putting telly in its place.
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The view from
@edinburghcastle
just now. Still and silent, apart from the odd gull or snowplough.
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It’s so cold in Edinburgh that penguins are emerging from the snow
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I’ll try find a photo of it. He drew spiders and webs on it. I sold it on eBay for £50 much later when moving house. Hopefully it found a good home 😅 Love the fact GW remembers. Afraid my memory is hazy but he was a good sport.
#mychemicalromance
#mychemicalromanceglasgow
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