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Sometimes I need 281 characters. This isn't one of those times.

London, England
Joined February 2011
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Ben Jack retweeted
“ I am today resigning as Microsoft’s head of international outage protection”
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Ben Jack retweeted
Just let me know which one I should restart
Replying to @MSFT365Status
We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. We found a core process on affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, causing capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery, we're isolating a portion of infrastructure, restarting affected components, and reintroducing traffic to confirm the services remain stable before applying the change more broadly. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
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Texas is gray for five more seconds, before flooding beautiful, beautiful, unmistakable, Lake LBJ blue.
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History, huh? Bet we could make some.
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RT @MarvelStudios: All of us at Marvel Studios are deeply saddened by the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart. Sir Patrick brought Professor Cha…
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund    alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources     alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Some people need to realise that politics isn’t endless quarrelling 24/7, 365 days per year.
This is something you would expect a former PM with spare time on their hands to do, not the sitting PM. Such an unserious man.
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Ben Jack retweeted
This is clever comms. It is ridiculous how much things cost to build. Completely ridiculous
Cliveden House burnt down in 1849. The architect behind Parliament rebuilt it in two years. Now, Parliament has spent over a decade just planning its own repairs. What happened to the country that built things? 👇
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Grindr already exists
JUST IN: Donald Trump announces he is looking into launching a dating app for MAGA men
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God forbid you have a hobby.
Bikes 'not for jousting,' says Lime after duel video ➡️ bbc.in/4ibIlTe
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Sometimes you just gotta say fuck it. Pull the trigger & open twitter on a packed train. Good luck everybody else.
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Ben Jack retweeted
My dear friend @jonmchu, I am ECSTATIC that “Crazy Rich Asians” is coming back with more stories as a @hbomax series, BUT if my favorite movie character of all-time, Astrid aka Gemma Chan, isn’t returning in some capacity, I just can’t!
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Ben Jack retweeted
you guys don’t ignore people enough, that’s why you are stressed all the time
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Arrived in Frankfurt. I have a feeling this place is up to no good. Team Rocket a little too open about their hq?
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"Then get us 2 regular bears, a bucket white paint, a bucket of black paint, bam bam next case"
JUST IN: Xi Jinping announces China will send 2 giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta, calling them an “envoy of friendship” during his meeting with Trump.
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According to folklore, you can only balance an egg upright on two days out of the entire year, the March & September equinox. The belief relies on the gravitational pull of the sun, as on the day of the equinox, appears directly over the planet's equator.
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Rudy Giuliani: "I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Hillary Clinton never claimed she was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. She was in Washington, D.C., and traveled to NYC on Sept. 12, where she toured Ground Zero with Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani apologized in 2016 for making this false claim: snopes.com/news/2016/10/1… apnews.com/united-states-…
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Good news: he lost.
Tim Walz passed a bill banning the use of AI to generate nude images of minors. Elon Musk is suing to block this bill.
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Replying to @Number10cat
Please. Resist. I count on you. Enjoy the Tapestry and long live the Entente amicale!
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Ben Jack retweeted
you could have just rsvp’d with a no to the invite, keir. this is a bit much if you ask me
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