Oliver Brett
@Oliver___Brett
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External comms lead @paritytech Interests: horse racing, cricket, Web3 tech & MLB. Ex-BBC (10 yrs). Wrote The Alastair Cook Story (2019).
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@Polkadot
nomination pools are a cheap, easy way to stake DOT.
In 2024 so far, pool contributors have doubled to 46,726, with 18.4 million DOT now staked in pools.
They're collecting double-digit annual rewards on their DOT and helping secure the network - hence the smiles!
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A simple mistake from a sub-editor leaves a former Girls Aloud singer craving a kebab topped with semen rather than what she really wanted
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@iandonald_psych
@DanielHewittITV
@realDonaldTrump
Indeed. I have a son who is 11 and I would be mortified if he produced an answer like this.
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@iandonald_psych
@DanielHewittITV
@realDonaldTrump
It's also an idiotic question from Morgan. Climate change is not something you choose whether or not you want to believe in it, as though it was a religion. It's a scientific fact.
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Happy 2nd birthday to the funniest 2-minute video ever produced.
a normal person explains what’s happening on the stock market:
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Just my nephew getting a hug from his mum (my sister) after kicking out Johnny Mercer. Nice one
@FredThomasUK
!!
Key moments in Devon from General Election 2024:
Labour's Fred Thomas gets emotional as he wins Plymouth Moor View constituency, taking the seat from Conservative Johnny Mercer
#BBCElection
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@realDonaldTrump
Thought you might be writing condolence letters to the victims of the
#Pittsburgh
attack rather than slobbing out in front of the baseball for the night. How naive of me.
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@JordanCrestani
@justmypipedream
@kristytshana
@chelseasomba
Yes. It's a well-known fact that kids who come from spotlessly clean households are the ones likeliest to get allergies, asthma etc. Occasional exposure to germs is a good thing.
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@patrick_kidd
If you actually know how to park, reverse parking is always the correct method. It's faster and safer too
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@idvck
Cases are irrelevant. Barely anyone in hospital with this; death rates extremely low. Stop scaremongering.
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@BBCBreaking
Tremendous. Just need an Ashes win for England and the jackpot at Royal Ascot for a full house now
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Just hearing this will be a landmark Cheltenham Festival: the first one with more preview podcasts than actual horses in it
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I've heard various bits of GOOD NEWS about things coming to the
@Polkadot
ecosystem pronto
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@redrooboy
@OFalafel
Insane. The one on the right looks more like Roy Keane than the one on the left.
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@barneyronay
If you're not allowed to state - in the Guardian - how reprehensible it is that a club owned by Putin's main London stooge will compete in a showpiece final tomorrow - then write a blog on an independent platform about it. You have an audience. It will be read.
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If that's a red Fellaini should have been sent off before half time in every game this season
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Just been to the publishers to pick up my first batch of these... it's taken deep into my fifth decade on God's green earth but I have finally had a book published!
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@RacingTV
@LimerickRaces
The follow-up question should have been "what gives you the right to dictate to other jockeys where they go on the course?" But it was about 1000/1 a RacingTV interviewer would have the nous or balls to ask it
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I had a look at the
#CheltenhamFestival
favourites priced 3/1 or shorter and assessed all of them as BACK or LAY material. Any thoughts welcome!
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A year ago, I sat down with Michael Owen and he told me of his love for Brown Panther, RIP >
http://t.co/FsSVSL7ZLW
http://t.co/PuA51Ek1uo
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I must have spent about 15 hours on my
@Coldwar_Steve
jigsaw already. My favourite Christmas present of all time...
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@ladyhaja
@LeftistLight
@OwenJones84
The policewoman is in hospital. Advise you to delete this appalling hatred.
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@Nigel33772714
@shaz1440
@PhilipProudfoot
For days after Diana's death the Queen went missing. People at Buckingham Palace put out banners asking WHERE IS OUR QUEEN?
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@MetroUK
One guy on reddit says something as a joke and you turn it into an actual story for clicks? This is unbelievably pathetic
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@Demmino0
@TrulyTayo
@Ghostofstreetp1
@grandmaitsme00
@ValaAfshar
If you think Olympic athletes are all rich enough to afford pools then you don't know a lot about sport and money
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The 2020-21 jumps season is over, and four of England's most established trainers need a stiff drink (or six) and a long holiday.
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This year, the
@Polkadot
network has covered off
🎮 Gaming
🎹 Music
🧑🏼🦰 Identity Protocols
...and now🟢Green Energy
Enterprises are examining what's on offer in Web3 and are increasingly deciding Polkadot is the best in class.
1/ 🚨🚨 Enterprise adoption is truly an unstoppable force in this ecosystem!
Polkadot and
@energywebx
will together help big names like
@Shell
,
@VodafoneUK
and
@Volkswagen
on their path to decarbonization in an exciting new development.
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Me at school in the 1980s - organised massed snowball fights between kids and teachers
My son's school in 2019 - one hour detention for forming a snowball
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@SkyCricket
Eoin Morgan and it's not even close (also arguably the best ODI captain ever too)
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@StuartFrazer
@ejnagouse
@worhoose
@northumbriapol
Stuart, don't try to mansplain this if you don't actually know anything about English law.
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@narayanantweaks
Thanks for flagging this up. I too thought DRS had got that wrong, definitely seemed to be sliding down. All the grief Joel Wilson got afterwards too! And he had a good match overall.
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@robelinda2
West Indies murdered the Aussies in this series and didn't need hit wickets to help them out along the way. In 5 Tests the Windies didn't lose a single second innings wickets. Men against boys.
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@j_brimicombe
@SharlandNM
@FredBoycott
The poppy: out of date, racist, and hypocritically grasped to the bosom of Brexiteers. Not for me, nor Moeen it seems.
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@carolecadwalla
Peston and Kuenssberg have done no actual journalism since being hypnotised by Cummings and put on his WhatsApp broadcast group for special mates. And the very notion that anyone could have been "missing" him. What a weird bubble they live in.
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@WhoScored
An almost useless stat. A much better one is the % scored out of clearcut chances presented to them. Why does football still struggle so badly to provide meaningful statistics?
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There he is!
@gavofyork
arrives on stage to announce the radical new governance process for
@Polkadot
at
#PolkadotDecoded
in Buenos Aires
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"The
@Web3foundation
is about giving siloed blockhains the ability to communicate with each other and to realise this vision the
@Polkadot
network was built. The native token DOT should be thought of as the orchestrating tool used to secure and govern Polkadot."
@d_schoenberger
Earlier today,
@Web3foundation
's
@d_schoenberger
presented the Polkadot network and Web3 vision before the House
@FinancialCmte
&
@HouseAgGOP
.
Check the Foundation's thread and blog to learn more about the hearing and the importance of a comprehensive legislative and regulatory
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MAD MOOSE, a bit of a monkey in his racing career, says hello to the Aintree crowd. He now hunts with Sophie Burkin.
http://t.co/UrBKD3dHj9
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Only the NFL, as in the actual NFL coming to Polkadot........ Been waiting to announce this for a while.
1/ 🚨🚨Mythical Games (
@playmythical
) — the
#1
gaming blockchain — and the
@nfl
are coming to Polkadot! It’s time to move the chains…
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@mikegreen3tw
@UxbEconomist07
@AmazingUmbrella
This is the moment in the debate where the so-called Brexit expert "trust me bro" loon goes quiet...
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@_CHRISWATTS_
@GuidoFawkes
1. Guido's not going to shag you
2. Maybe next time don't shoot your load too early
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@CouchNish
@FourNaanJeremy
Fielding standards in MLB stand up very well with cricket, and exceed them when it comes to throws from the deep.
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Elliott again. Absolute monster.
#Panorama
Nicky Henderson will be mortified about Vyta Du Roc
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@DrRosena
Ben Bradley was horrible on BBC1 this morning too. Said it was the "duty" of small food stores to help out the local community. What a lot of balls! It's their duty to make a living for their own families. How dare
@BBradley_Mans
belittle people like this!
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There's only one first-class ground in Britain where rain is currently an issue. Guess where
#WTCFinal2021
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@DarrenOBrian1
@JanRizlarTHFC
@ChrisssFCB
@brilliantbusi
@GaryLineker
You need to educate yourself on Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank since 1967. In fact most people on Twitter need to read facts before spouting nonsense.
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@george_tak
@heinzmayo
Not burger sauce at all, Marie Rose. Perfect with peeled prawns/lobster/crab, iceberg lettuce, lemon juice and black pepper
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@PettittEmily
If I'm on a train in the UK the "no catering" thing is the very least of my worries. I just want something that runs on time, that provides a seat and doesn't cost the same as a business-class flight.
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@geniuswriter1
They won't and nor should they. If the son has autism then clearly that creates challenges but what is more familiar than his own house in London? What is more disruptive than multiple trips up and down the country? Didn't think that through did you?
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Hardly any cryptocurrencies have got close to creating cards that allow you to go to the shops and spend your crypto. But
#DasCoin
is almost there:
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@Squawka
@MrMCRobinson
I hear he was battling a heavy cold tonight too. What an extraordinary player he is
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Cricket Australia's "integrity unit" that thinks this behaviour, by the men's team captain to a female employee, is entirely above board. Tim Paine was not in breach or its code and was fully exonerated. Incredible.
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@Anaxo456
@NoContextBrits
You guys are closer to that what with folk casually wandering around with lethal weapons.
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@neilcallan78
As a member of the
@PJAOfficial
board you would do well to think very very carefully about spreading this posion online.
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@TheDarkNight090
@davidschneider
Very much so. And having worked as an education reporter in the late 90s I can tell you she was exactly the kind of minister that headteachers deeply admired and respected.
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@DebbyHylton
@ChristieLinford
Cressida Dick. I still can't believe a woman who ordered the murder of an innocent man 15 years ago rose to where she did.
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😂😂 Slightly embarrassing sign-off but fair play to have a live two-way with Oisin Murphy just before
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"The
@Polkadot
ecosystem should be at the forefront of everyone's minds when people think of Web3"
@JamesPrestonZA
of
@ZeitgeistPM
at
#PolkadotDecoded
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@JC980BirdsFan
@philipttirino
@BigTuna6
@realDonaldTrump
Your "great nation" is literally burning. Do you have eyes?
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@PoliticsForAlI
Here's another stat: the 1-month fatality rate of positive cases in the UK is 0.1%, one of the lowest in the world with only NZ, Australia and China officially lower.
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@humanmale1984
@FritzyMcFritz
@EscottStacey
@TrishBo38710828
@andyroddick
She also composed herself afterwards to not only congratulate her opponent with good grace but to give a really beautiful speech afterwards. Like her a lot
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@piersmorgan
@theresa_may
Except you didn't interview him. You did what you so neatly depicted with that photo, chum
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Andrew Balding now has Group 1s in five countries, which is pretty impressive for a trainer who rarely has the very best ammunition
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If you're thinking of going deep on Cue Card or Native River tomorrow, this is C Tizzard's Festival so far: P0P8PP002P86P00
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@NoContextBrits
Queuing with a smile
Drinking several pints of tea in a day
Eating uncooked bacon
Paying all your taxes
Drinking alcohol at 7am at airports
Being dangerously sunburnt
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Amazing how good GMB is with Richard Bacon hosting as opposed to the usual twat
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@Sarah_Cundy
She liked a tweet from someone suggesting that "individuals with a cervix" = women ...and as a result you say she "needs booting"? Did they not insert brains in humans born after 1990?
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@joannaclarke0
@HadleyFreeman
That's a good point. It's both a derogatory and sexist term - and come to think of it used widely out of context as it is here. She does not need "to be maintained" at all as she earns her own money.
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@JoetheDilo1917
@rafi111rafi
@WelshSocialism
@sperma435
By which a time half a MILLION people had been killed in a violent Civil War
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@robelinda2
Imagine trying to hit 400 to beat Pakistan against Waqar and Mushy with Mark Ealham batting at six. Should have just shaken hands and gone to the pub.
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Where am I with
@Polkadot
memecoins?
DED partially distributed via snapshot/airdop
PINK fully distributed via airdrop
MYTHOS snapshot taken, awaiting airdrop
INVARCH (as above)
Anything else?
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@ghosh_annesha
Funny because you're the one that's drawn attention to this when nobody else had
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Giotto on an upcoming
@TheKusamarian
interview with
@GldnCalf
plus some assorted
@Polkadot
brains... that'll be an episode worth waiting for.
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@PeterDellaPenna
Don't much like mankads but the non-striker went a time zone too early there!
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Insane numbers to reflect on as we start the formal process today of focusing on
@paritytech
on one side (where I am delighted to be staying) while allowing
@Polkadot
to flourish in a truly decentralized way.
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Wave 3 of Polkadot Blockchain Academy brings
@gavofyork
@shawntabrizi
and co to Berkeley, California 🇺🇸 (after 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇷). The next two waves are already being planned - this is the future of education in the tech/engineering space.
🚀Just 7 days until the next wave of the
#PolkadotBlockchainAcademy
begins!
Get ready to witness a groundbreaking chapter in blockchain education. Follow our journey and join the revolution that's shaping the future of
#BlockchainEducation
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#Web3
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