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This is an archive of SimonXIX's 72,872 tweets

Popular:

  1. So far the main difference between my 20s and my 30s is all the fascism. No-one tells you how much fascism there will be in your 30s.
  2. S10E15, 'The Bad Art Friend': George donates a kidney but is frustrated when no-one acknowledges it. Elaine finds unexpected writing success with a story about a short bald man donating a kidney.
  3. *Slowly pushes over a bin while making unbroken eye contact with The Queen* #CleanForTheQueen
  4. Checking in on the /r/glasgow subreddit.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  5. If you're an undergraduate or postgraduate student at a university in the UK, please don't forget to use UCU's form to email your VC urging them to tell @UCEA1 to settle with @ucu so that we don't have to strike. ucu.org.uk/email-your-VC

Final tweets:

  1. Adobe operates an extortionate subscription model where you don't own the software you pay for. Today's open sauce post is a select of open source alternatives to software like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro. opensauce.simonxix.com/open-source-adobe-alternatives/
  2. The @Copim_community Experimental Publishing Group and the @CovUni_CPC Post-Publishing strand are running a seminar series about experimental scholarly book publishing. Our first seminar will be Thursday 21st November discussing Manifold. More info at compendium.copim.ac.uk/practice_seminars
  3. Hobbits didn't have October: Tolkien "translated" all calendar terms into their English-language equivalents. This actually occurred on the 4th day of Blotmath in Shire-reckoning. @TeawithTolkien/1849259853631434809
  4. The second episode of @TAKEONECinema's new podcast series, The Dinopod, will be dropping on 23rd October 2024. In this episode, @JimGR and I critique THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK and the film's approach to ecological questions.
  5. What these robots do in footage that wasn't pre-prepared and pre-edited is walk forward slowly in a straight line so I'm sceptical that they will do whatever I can think of. @PopBase/1844594933518434642
  6. Deeply embarrassing that so many of you are openly revealing that you use BBC Weather who get their weather data from MeteoGroup rather than the more reliable Met Office.
  7. parkrun isn't a race, it's a run. That's why it's not called parkrace. When I get my results every week, I look at my time and compare it against previous times. There's no reason for me to look at any of the other data. @TessWhite4NE/1843224675918516266
  8. Sure, the technology is contributing to environmental impacts that will destroy the ecosystem but it'll also help us automate people out of jobs so who is to say if it's good or bad? @BLopenresearch/1843218206150058057
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  9. Start and finish. Absolutely smashed my PB at the Great Scottish Run 10k. Thanks to generous donations, I raised £240 for Mind, the mental health charity.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  10. New post in my newsletter reflecting on a recent server migration and how I'm managing the deployment of my open source web services and applications. opensauce.simonxix.com/on-server-migration/
  11. Now that reviews for JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX are coming out, it's worth remembering that JOKER was always garbage. @SimonXIX/1188114373744746496
  12. If you missed our showcase on Open Book Futures project work, you can now see a recording of me discussing some of our Experimental Publishing Group pilot work. @Copim_community/1841055376457748484
  13. I knew I wouldn't like it and I went to see it anyway. MEGALOPOLIS irritated and bored me in roughly equal measures. letterboxd.com/simonxix/film/megalopolis-2024/
  14. If you're going to see JURASSIC PARK at a Cineworld today, you might want to make sure you're got the first episode of @TAKEONECinema's The Dinopod downloaded to listen to afterwards. @SimonXIX/1838861212127293846
  15. Now do the superior The Lord of the Rings Theatrical Versions. @aboynamedposh/1839115047060021270

I’ve retweeted other tweets 13,140 times (18.0%)

Most Retweeted

  1. SimonXIX 266 retweets
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  3. YABUnreasonable 150 retweets
  4. PlanetofFinks 127 retweets
  5. LibrarySherpa 99 retweets
  6. ukpling 97 retweets
  7. TAKEONECinema 95 retweets
  8. martin_eve 94 retweets
  9. wigglymittens 92 retweets
  10. helensulis 87 retweets

Replies and Mentions

47.8% of my tweets are replies (×34,864)

Most Replies To

  1. ijclark 2048 replies
  2. YouMadeMe_Miss 1205 replies
  3. daveyp 752 replies
  4. walkyouhome 690 replies
  5. jaffne 530 replies

I’ve sent someone a mention 433 times (0.6%)

65.4% of the links I’ve posted are using the https: protocol (6,980 of 10,669)

Top Domains

  1. twitter.com 4388 tweets
  2. ow.ly 504 tweets
  3. youtube.com 350 tweets
  4. gu.com 329 tweets
  5. bit.ly 230 tweets
  6. simonxix.com 194 tweets
  7. wordpress.com 135 tweets
  8. wikipedia.org 102 tweets
  9. t.co 101 tweets
  10. tumblr.com 96 tweets

Top Hosts

  1. twitter.com 4386 tweets
  2. ow.ly 504 tweets
  3. www.youtube.com 348 tweets
  4. gu.com 325 tweets
  5. bit.ly 230 tweets
  6. reviewsperminute.simonxix.com 144 tweets
  7. en.wikipedia.org 102 tweets
  8. t.co 101 tweets
  9. medium.com 90 tweets
  10. takeonecinema.net 89 tweets

My tweets have been given about ♻️ 23,820 retweets and ❤️ 97,531 likes

Top 5 Emoji Used in Tweets

  1. 👍 used 53 times on 48 tweets
  2. ✊ used 39 times on 37 tweets
  3. ™ used 34 times on 30 tweets
  4. ❤️ used 27 times on 20 tweets
  5. 😭 used 25 times on 22 tweets

128 unique emoji on 439 tweets (0.7% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Hashtags

  1. savelibraries used 216 times on 215 tweets
  2. elag2016 used 111 times
  3. uksg18 used 105 times
  4. digifest17 used 105 times
  5. universitychallenge used 105 times

6,929 hashtags on 6,924 tweets (11.6% of all tweets***)

Top 5 Swear Words

  1. d_mn used 281 times on 273 tweets
  2. s_it used 196 times on 195 tweets
  3. h_ll used 171 times on 164 tweets
  4. f_ck used 133 times on 128 tweets
  5. d_ck used 94 times on 90 tweets

1,427 swear words on 1,371 tweets (2.3% of all tweets***)

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