Fletcher Sowerby 🇺🇦💙
@tynesideyodda.bsky.social
Tyneside based, retired IT person, a degree in Geology and a continuing interest, dog lover, local history, NUFC, North Shields FC, Durham Cricket etc.
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😂 Oh boy I have known a few of those.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
😂 Oh boy I have known a few of those.
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
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Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Felicity is turning herself upside down to fit me in.
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I like how this specific climate solution also points toward new career opportunities for geoscientists shifting from fossil-fuel extraction, as we helpfully provide estimates of the optimal persuasive, um, impact of rocks based on their mineral content. 🧪🪨⚒️
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I like how this specific climate solution also points toward new career opportunities for geoscientists shifting from fossil-fuel extraction, as we helpfully provide estimates of the optimal persuasive, um, impact of rocks based on their mineral content. 🧪🪨⚒️
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Current state of Ashes optimism: England are invincible oh god we’re going to lose 5-0 aren’t we Australia are there for the taking we’re going to balls it up root and brook will be unstoppable all our bowlers will break down it’ll be really close we don’t have a chance #TheCricket
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Current state of Ashes optimism: England are invincible oh god we’re going to lose 5-0 aren’t we Australia are there for the taking we’re going to balls it up root and brook will be unstoppable all our bowlers will break down it’ll be really close we don’t have a chance #TheCricket
@martycricket.bsky.social
So it looks like 50% of the Aussie pace attack will be ex Durham, Boland and Doggert, though they didn’t play much and 50-75% of the England attack will be current Durham players, though they never play for us.
So it looks like 50% of the Aussie pace attack will be ex Durham, Boland and Doggert, though they didn’t play much and 50-75% of the England attack will be current Durham players, though they never play for us.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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So it looks like 50% of the Aussie pace attack will be ex Durham, Boland and Doggert, though they didn’t play much and 50-75% of the England attack will be current Durham players, though they never play for us.
So it looks like 50% of the Aussie pace attack will be ex Durham, Boland and Doggert, though they didn’t play much and 50-75% of the England attack will be current Durham players, though they never play for us.
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Can you try Janet's electric foot machine for your shoulder.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Can you try Janet's electric foot machine for your shoulder.
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We saw a seagull run over by a car.
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We saw a seagull run over by a car.
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Tomorrow is today.
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tomorrow is today.
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We were the only folks on the beach, just like on postcard.
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We were the only folks on the beach, just like on postcard.
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Dear Hilda Am having a good time, my tongue has not stopped.
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Dear Hilda Am having a good time, my tongue has not stopped.
@guinevereofmason.bsky.social
Just arrived in Adelaide and passed through this location and thought of you 😂
Just arrived in Adelaide and passed through this location and thought of you 😂
October 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@guinevereofmason.bsky.social
Just arrived in Adelaide and passed through this location and thought of you 😂
Just arrived in Adelaide and passed through this location and thought of you 😂
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I'm grateful to the folks at IBM for platforming our work assessing impacts of genAI on the fed workforce. This work was designed before the draconian, ham-fisted cuts that were (partly) based on an absurd faith in AI as a replacement to labor. This work refutes that premise in full relief.
GenAI and the Future of Government Work | IBM Center for The Business of Government
On behalf of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, we are pleased to present this new report, GenAI and the Future of Government Work by Professor William G.Resh, Andrew Young School of Polic...
www.businessofgovernment.org
September 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'm grateful to the folks at IBM for platforming our work assessing impacts of genAI on the fed workforce. This work was designed before the draconian, ham-fisted cuts that were (partly) based on an absurd faith in AI as a replacement to labor. This work refutes that premise in full relief.
September 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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Who'd like it to be easier to find the best 🚶🏃🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🚴🏇🏾 routes?
Our crowdfunder to make that happen ends at 8pm!
Love walking, running, wheeling, cycling or riding? We'd love your support to take Slow Ways to the next level.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways
Our crowdfunder to make that happen ends at 8pm!
Love walking, running, wheeling, cycling or riding? We'd love your support to take Slow Ways to the next level.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways
August 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Who'd like it to be easier to find the best 🚶🏃🏾♀️👩🏻🦽🚴🏇🏾 routes?
Our crowdfunder to make that happen ends at 8pm!
Love walking, running, wheeling, cycling or riding? We'd love your support to take Slow Ways to the next level.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways
Our crowdfunder to make that happen ends at 8pm!
Love walking, running, wheeling, cycling or riding? We'd love your support to take Slow Ways to the next level.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways
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I’ve enjoyed all these videos but this, as I knew it would be, is pitch perfect stuff from Bill Corcoran, who should be invited in to talk to every new player about the club, the city and its people: m.youtube.com/shorts/W8d9k... #nufc
Some advice from a local to our new club-record signing 🖤🤍
YouTube video by Newcastle United
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August 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I’ve enjoyed all these videos but this, as I knew it would be, is pitch perfect stuff from Bill Corcoran, who should be invited in to talk to every new player about the club, the city and its people: m.youtube.com/shorts/W8d9k... #nufc
A tour of the North Shields 800 murals.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A tour of the North Shields 800 murals.
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Vote for the mural here.
#northshields
streetartcities.com/awards/2025-07
Uplifting' North Shields mural nominated among best street art in world www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
#northshields
streetartcities.com/awards/2025-07
Uplifting' North Shields mural nominated among best street art in world www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
'Uplifting' mural nominated among best street art in world
"The Chase" on Norfolk Street depicts an underwater chase between two gannets and a cormorant capturing the drama beneath the waves where the River Tyne meets the North Sea
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Vote for the mural here.
#northshields
streetartcities.com/awards/2025-07
Uplifting' North Shields mural nominated among best street art in world www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
#northshields
streetartcities.com/awards/2025-07
Uplifting' North Shields mural nominated among best street art in world www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
#nufc
I posted this at the end of May, unfortunately things have been even worse than I feared.
2 signings c half a dozen players left.
Squad is smaller than at the end of last season.
The academy players we have signed over the past 3 years had better be ready.
I posted this at the end of May, unfortunately things have been even worse than I feared.
2 signings c half a dozen players left.
Squad is smaller than at the end of last season.
The academy players we have signed over the past 3 years had better be ready.
So Eddie said on Sunday they need to move quickly to sign players.
2 days later we have no DoF, a CEO who is ill and leaving.
Who is going to sign players/ liaise with PIF.
Doesn’t look like we get any signings in the June window.
#NUFC
2 days later we have no DoF, a CEO who is ill and leaving.
Who is going to sign players/ liaise with PIF.
Doesn’t look like we get any signings in the June window.
#NUFC
August 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#nufc
I posted this at the end of May, unfortunately things have been even worse than I feared.
2 signings c half a dozen players left.
Squad is smaller than at the end of last season.
The academy players we have signed over the past 3 years had better be ready.
I posted this at the end of May, unfortunately things have been even worse than I feared.
2 signings c half a dozen players left.
Squad is smaller than at the end of last season.
The academy players we have signed over the past 3 years had better be ready.
Holding the banner at the Durham Miners Gala today.
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@prospectunion.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Holding the banner at the Durham Miners Gala today.
@prospectunion.bsky.social
@prospectunion.bsky.social
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The problem with any autonomous system is who takes responsibility when it screws up? And it will. IBM spotted this decades ago, and yet here we are, apparently desperate to hand over decision making in so many ways and aspects of life to AI
July 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The problem with any autonomous system is who takes responsibility when it screws up? And it will. IBM spotted this decades ago, and yet here we are, apparently desperate to hand over decision making in so many ways and aspects of life to AI
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June 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM