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Gary M Koekemoer

@Gary22k

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Opstoker & habitual optimist. Been there, done a few things, AIM to do a few more, like the planet, think it’s complex world worth looking after. @[email protected]

Gqeberha/PE, South Africa
Joined April 2014
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@Gary22k
Gary M Koekemoer
3 years
@bradhendricks Yep this flashed across my timeline. I’m going to take a break. Will listen on the radio if it gets better. If this is Twitter, plus Musk, plus Trump, it ain’t a place I need to be.
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@Jon_M_Berger
Jonathan Berger
3 years
19 years now ...
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@GermanyinSA
Germany in SA
3 years
Some people in 🇿🇦 are spreading a misleading story about "🇩🇪 dismantling windfarms to expand coal mines." Here are the facts: 1: It's actually not a windfarm but one 20yr old windmill (perhaps 5 more next year when they have reached the end of their operational permit). @DMRE_ZA
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@melissafourie
Melissa Fourie
3 years
Worrying news from the last moments of #COP27 where there is still no consensus on final decisions. We must hold the line on 1.5°C and #LossAndDamage. Our collective future is at stake. https://t.co/r4wcLd06eQ
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Despite breakthrough on fund for developing nations, Ursula von der Leyen says Cop27 has not delivered on commitment to phase down fossil fuels
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@Poplak
Richard Poplak
3 years
This is the photo of the 21st century.
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@nickhedley
Nick Hedley
3 years
@elonmusk Question - have you changed Twitter’s algorithm to boost your content on our feeds? It’s all I see now (and maybe explains why you got a million votes in an hour).
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@Gary22k
Gary M Koekemoer
3 years
A wild guess. Once the poll is closed, the claim will be made that the “people have spoken”. Ignoring of course the basics of polling, that those responding aren’t verified as authentic individuals, & that Twitter feeds are algorithm driven. Roman Circus 2.0
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
Trump poll getting ~1M votes/hour!
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@Denisevh01
Denise van Huyssteen
3 years
e Chamber Banquet was attended by over 800 people who came out in full force to celebrate 2022's achievements. Pictured on my left is my daughter Kayleigh, who accompanied me to the event (and also made our dresses).
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@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 years
The bipartisan @January6thCmte has extensively covered how Trump’s use of Twitter played a critical role in the violence of that day. Review their extensive work & ask yourself why a billionaire is toying w/ bringing back the person responsible for this:
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@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 years
Idk man, last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection, multiple people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured but I guess that’s not enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
Reinstate former President Trump
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Gary M Koekemoer
3 years
Twitter today. Blofeld’s Persian cat is placed in Schrödinger’s box.
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@MattGertz
Matthew Gertz
3 years
Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over! All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure. https://t.co/0Ofdxgpdcu
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@gussilber
Gus Silber
3 years
@rainbowinsid @nickhedley @Gary22k I like Reddit because it's so configurable. You choose the subreddits, however obscure, that are of personal interest to you. And they're often very deep and enlightening. For instance, Reddit's coverage of the current protests in Iran is so much better than on any other medium.
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@dmofengineering
DM of Engineering
3 years
Hi, distributed systems engineer here. Systems like Twitter are both resilient, and fragile.
@Jon_e_Say
Jon E. Cey
3 years
So, like... how does this thing end? Does it just run out of gas? The scrolling gets slower and slower and just stops like the big @PriceIsRight wheel, orrrrr.....?
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@GergelyOrosz
Gergely Orosz
3 years
Unless you operated large systems, it’s hard to appreciate both how they work, and how they break. Twitter won’t go down with a big b, and it won’t go down irreparable. Things will work fine for a while - thanks to no new deploys! Then, here’s what’s likely to happen (cont’d):
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Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン
3 years
Good to hear. Having no outages means there will never be outages, no new capacity issues, no new cascading failures, no bad pushes, nothing. We will freeze in time and my tweets will go into /dev/null. I wished I was smart enough to come up with this idea at work.
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@urbanjodi
Jodi Allemeier 🌇
3 years
“First we shape the cities, then they shape us”.
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@Gary22k
Gary M Koekemoer
3 years
Actually… a Mastodon server would be cool? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️ Just saying… 😉😁
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@Gary22k
Gary M Koekemoer
3 years
Dear @MyPE time for you to set up a Mastodon find-me list for locals? Seems Twitter has hit the iceberg? Koeksemoer is at @GaryK22@c.im
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@RassieRugby
Rassie Erasmus
3 years
Like myself the referee of the French test & his family have received threats & abuse. Apparently it’s partly due to my tweets which is totally unfounded.Tweets were not aimed at the officials,but to our 🇿🇦fans on what we should do better. Have a go at me not the ref!! Tweets👇🏿
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@sarahecrump
Sarah Crump
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I’m honored to introduce the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship Fund at University of Colorado, Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. I have so much confidence in and hope for the next generation of scientists. 3/4
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