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An X evacuee since Aug 2023. Skeet tech/legaltech, geek stuff (comics, sci-fi), sport and general musings. Football (FCUM/MUFC) ⚽, Cycling 🚴‍♂️, NFL (49ers) 🏈, AFL (Pies) 🏉 and F1 🏎️. Work in tech in law firms. Raised in Derbyshire, live in Yorkshire
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Trash Boat (29) Judas Priest (28) VUKOVI (28) RedHook (21) Disturbed (20). #myweekcounted 369 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

In other news a rather poor day of football. Two poor United performances. At least FC showed some fight in the last 15-30mins, but 2-1 defeat to Hebburn in the end #fcunited #fcum

BBC : Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - clueless overreaching government of ours 🙄 #1984 www.bbc.com/news/article...

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Northlane (22) Neck Deep (13) Bon Jovi (12) Palaye Royale (12) Bob Marley & The Wailers (11). #myweekcounted 174 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Smashed Lent that year (2021)!

Sky Sports+ is a great idea but implementation is shoddy, few weeks back couldn’t get in to watch the league cup football and now with 5mins to go in the rugby it goes kaput 🙄

“Leigh beat Wigan 1-0” “Football right?…..right?” 🏉🏉

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: LANDMVRKS (24) As Lions (23) Currents (23) Bleed from Within (17) Eva Under Fire (17). #myweekcounted 452 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Meh, not for me that half time #superbowl #SBLIX

Mahomes is having a stinker so far #superbowl #SBLIX

OK Super Bowl time. Not invested in either team this year, just hope it’s a good close game. Let’s just hope they’ve put money in the meter this time to avoid the lights going out half way into the game! #superbowl #SBLIX

Beautiful, Liverpool out of the FA Cup. Knocked out by struggling championship club Plymouth Argyle #facup 😀🎉

Come on #darts fans stop booing Gerwyn Price it’s got boring now

Blimey just seen that Litera have bought Peppermint Technology, another product to their bloated (is that the right word) portfolio! #LegalTech

Looks like there's an old staffer at the Daily Star pulling out the old Spitting Image "The Presidents brain is missing" sketch from the 1980's!

Can someone explain how all this works? The whole champions league and europa league has been a huge complicated mess this season! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

For the first time in years thinking "can I be bothered to stay up to watch the SuperBowl this year?" Really can't warm to either team. Was really hoping the Bills could have edged the Chiefs this year, but no Eagles v Chiefs pah. And not particularly bothered about the half time show either :-/

Saw this on Reddit, so true! Leeds the unluckiest city in Western Europe - www.reddit.com/r/Leeds/comm...

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Beatles (24) Korn (23) The Almighty (22) Black Sabbath (19) TheCityIsOurs (14). #myweekcounted 397 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

There once was a time when we marvelled at rockets and space exploration, we were amazed by the technology. Now we laugh at an exploding rocket because we don't like the man at the tops views. What happened to being able to hold both viewpoints? Life isn't binary (even in IT anymore!)

What is it with Royal Mail, every other delivery company gets this right. What’s the point in messaging on the day, if I’d arranged to be in on Thursday I’d have missed it today. Useless. Ps this is the same package

That's a new one, looks like Wakefield Council are sending gritters on side streets and cul-de-sacs just ahead of the bin lorry routes. Never seen that before, but sensible idea really. And means our ice rink of a road should be ice free this weekend 👍well done

The current trend for firms to go all virtue signalling and loudly announce they are leaving X because of Musk and coming over here weirdly makes me want to go back. Maybe not but you know what I mean, I just came here because X as a platform went south with the high price API and loss of tweetdeck

I miss Murray Walker, what a legend. Here in this Instagram reel commenting on snooker on the fly, brilliant 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/DEbLkt8...

Clear that sales leads and recruiters are back in the office for the new year, deluge of Linked In "I want to connect" incoming!

First day back in the office after two weeks off, struggling to work out what my plans were for this week. Add to that we're in a brand new building and I've no idea where anything is and it's proving a fun morning :-)

Nice to see that at least United’s travelling support still has a bit of class #united #LIVMUN #zirkzee

Not quite sure what the problem was there with the tackle from Maguire?? #united #LIVMUN

Incredible Luke Littler. Winning the World Darts Championship at 17 and in such emphatic fashion. Wow. #darts 🎯

Going to say it now in the hope of jinxing it. This hasn’t been the best final really has it, would have liked both players to be at the top of their game, instead MVG is misfiring like a 1980’s Austin Maestro and Littler is cruising like a 2024 Rolls Royce 🫤 #darts

In fact I blame the millennium for ruining New Year, everyone needed an “event” for 2000 and it became about big spectacles. New Year before that was spur of the moment random trip, night club in a town, local pub or family at home. Kept it simple.

I remember New Year in Edinburgh about 30 years ago, we left a pub (a real ale’r in our group wanted to “move on”) couldn’t get in another, bought some whiskey from an offy and partied in Princes Street (before ticketing became a thing). Was excellent, you don’t need the organised fun!

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Grimethorpe Colliery Band (26) Twisted Sister (8) Andy Williams (7) Annihilator (6) José Feliciano (6). #myweekcounted 225 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

It’s a bit foggy over at the football today! #fcunited

Flashscore tells me there’s been a second goal, for a second there I thought I was on a streaming delay then I remembered I’m at the ground watching live!!! Still only 1-0 to #fcunited

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Faster Pussycat (35) In Flames (35) Arch Enemy (31) Cher (22) Sebastian Bach (15). #myweekcounted 380 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

Hmm not sure it was a 116-112 fight. Felt either could have taken that, too big a difference in points for me especially with all three scoring that difference 🤷‍♂️ #FuryvUsyk

So far so good! Seems closer to the tone of the comics than recent efforts, if I'm being picky not sure of the Lex casting, but overall thumbs up. Looking forward to this.

Ah see we're at that point in the year where email handgrenades are lobbed into inboxes as people depart for holidays! Last person in gets to deal with it!!

The hopes were so high, yes it was a nostalgia fest and in hindsight it maybe could’ve done something more than Death Star 3. But it could/should have set up a great set of sequels exploring and developing new characters rather than leave us with the mess that actually followed ☹️

This one

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Giant (31) Quiet Riot (28) Pretty Boy Floyd (27) Suede (27) Lita Ford (22). #myweekcounted 234 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue