@jackschofield

Tech journo who covered IT for the Guardian (1983-2010), the Jack in Ask Jack, and a jackdaw who tweets fun links about photography, Lego, advertising, art etc

 London, England
guardian.co.uk/profile/jackschofield
Joined December 2008
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These concert halls are real-life 'Transformers.
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Fox is right to be concerned. Very concerned. This could be a legal bloodbath. Discovery will undoubtedly show that its personnel were putting out falsely comforting information it knew to be false and misleading in order to sync up with WH messaging.
Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu29 Mar 2020
"...I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled. " —@gabrielsherman mediamatters.org/fox-news/fo…

Fox News is worried about legal action after misleading viewers about coronavirus

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Steve Peers
@StevePeers29 Mar 2020
Last night Andrew Neil organised repeated pile ons of his abusive followers against me, for pointing out that the numbers in this study are wrong. This morning, the author of the study significantly revised the numbers.
Sunder Katwala@sundersays29 Mar 2020
Author of study which projected UK deaths could come in under 6000 says modelling overtaken by reality; 20k-30k is much more likely if the measures being taken are effective in flattening curve. (So 5700 figure should be dropped entirely by commentators) xitter.cf/TomPike00075908/status…
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Boom. [via @RestlessNews]
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Daniel Dale
@ddale827 Mar 2020
It's not true that nobody ever thought this crisis could happen. It's not true that the WaPo report on Inslee's comments to Trump was "fake news." It's not true that "everybody" wants businesses reopened rapidly amid the pandemic. cnn.com/2020/03/26/politics/…
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#TRUMPMADNESS BRACKET The Second Round Continues... Which of these TRUMP LIES deserves to make the #TrumpMadness SWEET SIXTEEN? Remember to retweet all polls for visibility, and thanks for playing along! Head-to-Head, which Trump Lie was bigger...?
40%A $1T Infrastructure Plan
60%"I Don't Know David Duke"
1,189 votes • Final results
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Round Two of The #TrumpMadness Bracket Continues... The fifth game of today's lineup sees too heavyweight lies from Trump's "Presidency" face-off against one another. Which lie do you want to see in the Sweet Sixteen...?
75%I Am The Least Racist
25%Father Gave Me Small Loan
1,379 votes • Final results
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Joe Biden
@JoeBiden27 Mar 2020
The coronavirus is not Donald Trump's fault, but his inept response is. He ignored the warnings for months, downplayed the threat it posed, and failed to take the action needed to combat the outbreak. It's one of the greatest failures of presidential leadership in our history.
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#TRUMPMADNESS BRACKET | Round of 32 BLOCKBUSTER MATCHUP ALERT! Which of these Donald Trump whoppers deserves to make the #TrumpMadness Sweet Sixteen? Remember to retweet all polls for visibility, and thanks for playing along! Head-to-Head, which Trump Lie is bigger...?
54%I'll Release Tax Returns
46%I'll be Too Busy to Golf
2,207 votes • Final results
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Replying to @TeaPainUSA
They are pro life until birth and then they could give a crap who they kill.
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Tea Pain
@TeaPainUSA27 Mar 2020
The Pro-Lifers are gonna kill us all! deadstate.org/churches-stayi…
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My girlfriend works in the ICU at Charing Cross - she didn’t think there would be any clapping - she was wrong #clapforNHS @BBCBreaking – at Poplar, London
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The Met's smartest at work.
Eleanor Margolis@EleanorMargolis27 Mar 2020
Taken on Golders Green high street by a friend of my uncle's: cop writes up shopkeeper for drawing *in chalk* lines to keep her customers two metres apart.
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In June 2017 every Tory MP except 1 voted to oppose giving NHS nurses a proper pay rise. When the result of the vote was announced & the Tories found they had succeeded in blocking the nurses pay rise, they cheered.
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Gizmodo
@Gizmodo27 Mar 2020
Teen who died of covid-19 was denied treatment because he didn't have health insurance gizmo.do/LTV6OrS
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Joseph Puopolo
@jpuopolo27 Mar 2020
Do you trust @realDonaldTrump during this #coronavirus crisis? #COVID19 #CoronaLockdown
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92%No
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Steve Wilson
@virtualsteve27 Mar 2020
Daughter's high-school ceramics teacher's first home-school assignment was "make clay." Daughter marched off to creek bed and excavated mud. Spent two days going through procedures to make it clay. Then made this Terra Cotta Warrior last night. Better than "real" school?
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Faisal Islam
@faisalislam27 Mar 2020
Bournemouth airport now a giant parking lot for British Airways grounded planes HT @Theothebald
NPAS South West & Wales Region@NPASSouthWest27 Mar 2020
Well as the last @British_Airways and @BOHAirport picture went down so well, here's another one for you. ^SM
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Tim O'Brien
@TimOBrien27 Mar 2020
You can keeping shouting. Or you can invoke the Defense Production Act. While you decide, people are dying.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump27 Mar 2020
General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! @GeneralMotors @Ford
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Mike Batt
@Mike_Batt27 Mar 2020
Hi @origiwools @robinstonemusic Thanks for the nice comments re my online session - which indeed I'll be doing next Weds 9pm, and each Weds for the duration. I enjoyed your flute playing (nice tone!) and your bro singing/playing my song! 👏🙂
Origiwools@origiwools27 Mar 2020
Replying to @Mike_Batt
@mike_batt My family and I watched your #livesession - made our day! So glad you’re doing it again! I tweeted you Xmas day after you’d been on Matt Lucas’s R2 show and your reply made it the best Xmas ever! Your music’s always inspired me - Here’s me and my bro with #brighteyes
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