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

Joined May 2007
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Ian Smith retweeted
🎵 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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26 May 2023
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why the current AI fuss isn’t driving UBI to the forefront of political policy discussions?
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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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19 Jan 2023
UK people - nominate your favourite local indy shop!
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"Why didn't we save the planet when we had the chance?" "Bad marketing" 🤯
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18 Dec 2022
I’m interested to try this: Sign up for Post Prod! post.news/?r=vzq2u

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15 Dec 2022
I’m a big fan of Readwise, and this great new app. I will be pushing as much of my reading into it as possible.
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Huge news: after 1.5 years of private beta, thousands of testers, and a looot of incredible work by the team... @ReadwiseReader is finally in public beta! Save everything to one place, highlight like a pro, and replace several apps with one. readwise.io/read
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10 Dec 2022
ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.
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21 Nov 2022
Why is it so fiddly to get @Xero’s own invoices into Xero? Surely this could be automated?
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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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20 Nov 2022
Curiously, participants in the “reinstate Trump” poll have voted to reinstate him by the same margin as our referendum had in favour of Brexit. At least the Trump decision will easily be reversible if it turns out to be a catastrophe.
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19 Nov 2022
Reinstate former President Trump
52% Yes
48% No
15,085,458 votes • Final results
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