Well, it's been fun. I'm assuming Twitter will just crash at some point soon, now there's no one left running it.
See you irl / mastodon, I guess.
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youtube.com/watch?v=4_j7AU…Joined October 2015
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How appropriate to end my last week on twitter with a man yelling at me about how wrong I am about blockchain, on a thread that robert smith is tagged in. Perfect. Bye twitter, I'll miss you 🤪
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Right, I can leave Twitter now.
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@RobertSmith
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Money does make you happy.
Sharp knives are much more dangerous than blunt ones.
What other stupid sayings are wrong?
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36:00: "I think there’ll be revolution in Britain. […] The Queen’s gonna die on September 7th, and there’ll be a huge uprising, and I’ll be made king."
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* Tax the rich
* Tax the living shit out of oil
* Proportional representation
* Reform the monarchy
* Reform the connection between church and state
* Remove high stakes assessment at 16
* Free school meals
* Later starts to the working day
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Imagine if Robert Smith was prime minister.
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Trying to explain why the storyline of A Room With A View is worth a whole book / movie to the boy, and struggling.
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Should have just used wordpress instead of writing all this code
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[writes third css checkbox hack this year] yep, all problems have been solved forever [goes back to putting form fields on a hand-rolled web page]
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5. Even most of Big Tech’s domain knowledge is commoditized.
How to do search is known.
How to stream video is known.
How to build social graphs is known.
How to do eCommerce is known.
People moved around and taught each other. Elon is banking; he can rehire this knowledge.
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But most of all, I am furious that I am not in class teaching.
Despite everything, I love teaching. I have amazing students who deserve all their tutors can offer. I am furious that I have been so wiped that I have little to offer them.
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I am furious that people who know better have participated in this bullying. I am furious that I have been targetted for harassment and bullying. I am furious at the hypocrisy and cowardice of the many people who have made careers of pretending that they care about injustice
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This stuff has a name by the way: Stochastic terrorism. It employs mainstream media to target people while retaining plausible deniability when a ‘lone wolf’ acts against that target.
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In light of UK press’s continued bullying (including naming me and my professional affiliation but never contacting me for comment or extending right of reply) starting this Monday with a short thread on #stochasticterrorism:
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I kind of feel like writing a web app where you create your own home page on the internet. Links to things you like; your email client; your usual rightmove search; news sources; blogs you like; etc. Whatever you want to see when you open a browser.
Maybe it already exists.
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A lot of us moved our blogging to places like Twitter, because it was convenient and easier to be seen.
If this meltdown leads people to going back to their blogs, or at least learning the essential downside of centralization, that will be a positive outcome.
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The very first accountant I hired for Snowbooks spelled "royalties" like this when they set up the ledger, and I couldn't change it for about 10 years.
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Bye, . For all its stupidity, Twitter is the closest I'll ever get to be able to say thanks to you. So: thanks, for it all. For making the music that's been a rock, an inspiration, a solace, a lovely part of what matters in life. See you from afar, from the crowd! xx
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So all this is god's fault, is what I take from this. ok, checks out.
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PUBLISHERS. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY. LEARN REGEX. Or, at least, learn how to write down the words "run spellcheck"
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reposting my most viralest tweet as my twitter, forgive me, swansong
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My frankly genius son pointed and said "look, a clusterduck."
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This place has been hugely important for so many of us. The only way I can cope with its decline is the same way I always coped: gallows humour as a way of avoiding dealing with my real feelings about it.
But we're all losing so much.
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leave twitter on a high
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Tweet, tweet against the dying of the light.
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This wasn't just a hell site, it was a hell home
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No, not at all. A *place* is dying. Some people we'll fall out of contact with. Not everyone will be in the new places. There'll be something left here but it will be sick and not the entity we remember. Just as in life and for people, we pre-grieve and hope for miracles
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FRI 25TH NOVEMBER AT 11PM GMT - WISH 30TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER ON TWITTER. #Wish30 #WishListeningPartyTim #TheCure
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do you think anyone will get the regex joke, top left
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what's this? launching the feature we've been working on since 2018? ok sure no big deal
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'Twas the week-or-so before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that the 
new metadata page soon would be there.
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'Twas the week-or-so before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that the 🎉new metadata page🎉 soon would be there.
RSVP now, treasured clients! See your email for details
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Did you know that 1 in 7 state primary schools in the UK don’t have a library? Today we launched a new report into libraries and are in Parliament with the Primary School Library Alliance, working towards a library in every school.
literacytrust.org.uk/news/one-in-se
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A moment of silence for the absolute MAGIC space industry photogs are creating right now. You are bringing this mission to life with your art. Thank you. 🙏🏼 here’s a thread of some of the best photos taken of Artemis 1 👇🏼
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Some days I don't know what comes over me but I just can't BEAR to look at emails. The weight of expectation, of potential horrors contained within, it's overwhelming. It's like a torrent of brown-envelope post.
Don't send me an email today. I'll be fine tomorrow. Probably.
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MY CODE IS ON THE WAY TO THE MOON
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My train just stopped on the bridge. Usually get a blurred view, but awesome to see the structure up close.
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yeah make sure none of your employees never fucking enjoy themselves or anything hashtag h-fucking-r
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Still looking for a new gig - remote, 4 days a week, inside IR-35 is fine, pref with an aspect of public good (no Fintech, Sky or betting), probs NOT civil service. I do digital tech hiring, culture, policies and that good good onboarding stuff.
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This is the only thing I will miss twitter for
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end of show MADRID @thecure #madrid #wizinkcenter 11/NOV/2022 #thecuretour22#TheCureLostWorld22 @CraigatCoF
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I think I’d rather be profoundly unproductive than do all that. Sounds exhausting.
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I own 3 businesses that earn over $200,000 per month combined.
I also have 2 kids, martial arts training, and a blog I write just for fun.
Doing all of this is possible because of my 8 laws of productivity.
Here they are (so you can use them to 10x your results):
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