Hey @BBCNews calling Laurence Fox an “actor-turned-politician” because he failed at a single election four years ago is like calling everyone “embryo” because they were one once.

Some genius email marketing from #LEON this morning, sending what looks to be an internal discussion about reintroducing a dish to their entire email list

Recall Parliament.

Sat outside watching (and listening to) the maybugs swarming around the crown of the horse chestnut tree. Can’t find any info describing this connection - what’s the relationship? @ChrisGPackham

Rishi Sunak's Big D-Day Snub - A Definitive Thread... Rishi Sunak skipped out on the main D-Day commemorations yesterday to rush home and record an ITN interview that won't even air until Wednesday next week. 1/8 https://t.co/M84UAshxm9

#GeneralElection

Before Twitter locked down its API, I started an analysis to figure out (empirically) "the 'greatest' tweets ever from intellectuals." Here's an abbreviated version based on the analysis I was able to do: [24 'greatest' tweets from intellectuals megathread] 🧵

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵

IN BRUGES was released 16 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great black comedies of the century and the film that kick started the McDonagh/Farrell/Gleeson triumvirate, the making of story is as beautiful as the city it’s set in… 1/34

Tory MP @ElliotColburn spoke movingly of his own mental health difficulties and attempted suicide. What was the first thing Starmer did at the end of #PMQs? Crossed the aisle to offer a gesture of praise and support. Bravo to both. We must be human beings above all else. ~AA

This is such a powerful video… So simple So much sense The Tories know this too But they also know that it’s the millionaires & billionaires who donate to them that keep them in power …and the sad truth is, that’s who they really work for.

I have a #Laravel job which often fails 5-6 times (due to external dependencies) but is managed by backoff, expiry etc. What’s the best way to only notify when it finally fails? ie hits max retries, expires, etc? Does `failed()` run every time or just the last time?

“All conflict is about the same thing”. John Hume

A 90-year-old housebound pensioner is convicted of not keeping up with his car insurance. He doesn't have email, struggles to walk, can't write anymore & cares for a wife with dementia In our flawed, secretive, fast-track justice system, this kind of prosecution keeps happening

Today is Ted Danson’s birthday.

If there was a function that took an array of strings [“this”, “that”, “the other”] and returned it as a string “this, that & the other”, what would that be called?

⁦@BBCRosAtkins⁩ book looks good - great that it’ll help me with databases too!

For some reason my mind read this from the bottom-up 😄 @BBCNews

Jack Monroe explains how the cost of living crisis is a cost of Conservatives/austerity/underfunding crisis. If you watch one clip from #BBCQT tonight, make it this one. - follow for more.

I hope whoever buys ⁦@CenterParcsUK⁩ can get the deal done during term time