Extweets for February 2025

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Mon Feb 03 09:07 Excellent exhibition in Thirsk
Tue Feb 11 20:49 Hoping @LanguageLog will consider "international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it," delivered without a blink
Wed Feb 12 22:17 Still the infant's proudest climbing achievement
Fri Feb 14 09:08 RT @BBCLookNorth: Rescue will neuter a cat and name it after your ex
Fri Feb 14 09:09 Horsing around on the playground after school, and an angry lady opens the door: - Please stop vaping! - It's a kazoo. Embarrassment all round.
Sat Feb 15 07:39 RT @BBCLookNorth: How a church mouse started a woodworking dynasty
Sat Feb 15 21:07 Works on a neighbourhood basis as well: why Meanwood playground is better than Hyde Park
Sun Feb 16 19:44 "If some people are white and other people are black, how come their children aren't grey?"
Sun Feb 16 20:58 RIP Mr D
Sun Feb 16 22:59 Sorry, but that's not a kazoo
Wed Feb 19 09:30 Norman Ackroyd & Alan Bennett: what was it about Leeds butchers in the 1930s?
Wed Feb 19 14:03 Translation spam from Mr Bum
Thu Feb 20 09:13 Struggling to find a good (grandfather) clock for the infant
Thu Feb 20 22:20 Expected the girls to flee the rain, but they were the only survivals on the playground, building little dams out of sticks, leaves and mud, getting unfeasibly wet in puddles, & chanting "Singin' in the rain" - cue laughter from the few passersby
Fri Feb 21 20:21 To be fair, Don C reports that zebras are still scary in Pontevedra's suburbs
Sun Feb 23 21:07 RT @frasermatthew: I was in the 9th arrondissement this evening, walking by the spot where Caillebotte painted his famous tableau, "Paris,…
Sun Feb 23 21:10 One's best versunkener Apfelkuchen ever, but all the infants want is the Schlagsahne. Ditto everything else vs the roast potatoes.
Mon Feb 24 10:07 RT @AndyBurnhamGM: Four weeks this morning, GM will have achieved its long-held ambition of integrated public transport by uniting bus and…
Mon Feb 24 20:32 Pluralis majestatis
Tue Feb 25 20:04 1 white lad with balaclava & scooter, 1 mixed race on a too-big bike, menacing an old lady who had told them not to rob a car on Highbury Mount, Headingley, seen earlier in a garden on Hollin Drive & 2 days ago lurking on a path at dusk. Cop: "I'm not from there. Where is Dusk?"
Wed Feb 26 12:13 Still haunted by a couplet from the trad pantomime the other day: We go together like tar and feather"
Wed Feb 26 13:02 Eye tests - Ogden Nash
Thu Feb 27 10:08 RT @YorksBylines: Beavers provide key ecological benefits, but government licencing delays hinder their potential for flood control and env…
Thu Feb 27 10:46 The walk to school as a succinct summary of the history of life: water, mud, plants, dinosaur-chickens, horses, chatty catties, humans
Thu Feb 27 12:45 Few rewards, then, for the hordes of Santiago 'pilgrims', with their nice hotels & bag carriers Tim Darvill's Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology is excellent
Fri Feb 28 05:46 McGonagall vs AI