No longer likely to be found on this platform - look for a similar name under bluer skies...
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19 Nov 2024
Ok, I'm also becoming part of the exodus from this rampantly far-right hellscape - you can now find me at [at]johnprovis.bsky.social for more "content" and/or sarcasm. It's been fun here (well, up till the Musk takeover at least), hoping to see you all on the other side!
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11 Nov 2024
New paper time! Some very cool work led by the amazing Susan Bernal and her Leeds team, with me plus U.Manchester and ESRF, watching carbonation of cement by XRD-CT - call it 5D materials analysis? Crystallography/3D space/time... Hope you like it! authors.elsevier.com/c/1k4ivβ¦
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5 Nov 2024
"What's it like to live in Leeds?", people may ask. This basically summarises it, I think....
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John Provis retweeted
26 Oct 2024
π΄ LATEST: Journalist Has Meltdown While Reporting The News.
ππ» #BrokenNews would like to apologise about this #SaturdayMorning update.
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Cats: Look at us!
Me: Could you mind out the way? I'm on a zoom call.
Cats: We know! Cooee! It's us! Hello people!
Me: I'm on a serious work call here. Please move!
Cats: Hey you on the screen, what do you think of our bums?
Me: O please!
Cats: We're so lovely, aren't we?
Me: No
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14 Sep 2024
Every single morning.......
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24 Aug 2024
Ditto.....
24 Aug 2024
I can only follow a movie if I have its Wikipedia page open on the plot. I have a PhD.
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Cats: What's that you're eating?
Me: Lettuce
Cats: Why do you eat it? Lettuce is pointless. It's green
Me: I've seen you eat green stuff. You eat grass
Cats: That's so we can sick up stuff for when you give us rubbish. Does lettuce make you sick?
Me: No.
Cats: So it's pointless
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22 Aug 2024
Australia is finally leading the world in something other than cricket (or dangerous animals)...
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15 Aug 2024
Yep, basically this....
15 Aug 2024
Should I quit Twitter? Probably. But I donβt have the energy to start over, writes @JohnHyde1982 β¬οΈ
lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-β¦
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John Provis retweeted
22 Jul 2024
Addition recommended at the end of sentence βfor the rest of your lifeβ.
#AcademicChatter
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π OUTRAGE: British Man Arrested For "Complaining About Weather."
π The #BrokenNews team have the harrowing details π
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11 Jul 2024
Porsche Formula E team with quotes from the "classics" to liven up the cockpit surrounds a little...
ALT Where's your car, dude?
ALT Dude, where's my car?
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24 Jun 2024
Blargh.
Ah well, T20 isn't real cricket anyway, is it? At least that's what we can keep telling ourselves...
#AUSvsIND
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23 Jun 2024
Gee I'm glad Australia getting thrashed at cricket by Afghanistan came after the collapse of any meaningful social interactions on this site... the Twitter of old would've mocked me mercilessly, whereas the current flood of random bots seem to be leaving me largely alone.
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19 Jun 2024
Well worth a read through this thread; the guy makes an astonishing set of comments about his life/"adventures".
If he were alive today, with such a stellar list of academic qualifications and refined attitudes, he'd doubtless end up being appointed to Cabinet by the Tories...
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9 Jun 2024
Having visited London recently with the 7yo, this seems a fairly (depressingly?) standard attitude there, regardless of the size/age of the person "getting in the way"... going for a walk on a Saturday afternoon was more like a combat sport than anything remotely enjoyable.
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6 Jun 2024
Is there any reason, other than pure evil and/or perversity, for the keyboard shortcuts for common formatting things (e.g. subscripts) to be different in the MS Word offline and online versions? It's maddening.
Oh, and PowerPoint also has different ones of its own.
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