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@PicturesFoIder I take the 27, add the 8 to make 35, then add the remaining 40 to make 75.

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@_madi_faith @NoContextBrits I think it's a posh restaurant in Whitley Bay.

When people say 'live life to the full' they're usually telling you to go on adventures, to say yes to opportunities and to embrace new experiences. But I do think that living life to the full can also mean watching the darts with a cup of tea while the cat sits on your lap.

@jayrayner1 I was thinking of another word beginning with C.

7 short rules for a better life 1. Say no (a lot) 2. Focus on effort, not results 3. Wake up early 4. Go the f to sleep 5. Relax. Whatever it is, you’re probably taking it 6. Give up on the idea of revenge 7. Do your job well (how you do anything is how you do everything)

There’s a tiny chance I died this morning and the person writing this tweet is a clone of the former me. Let me explain. I once wrote a post called “What Makes You You” (won’t link here because then the Twitter algo will bury the post but you can google the title if you want). In the post I talked about how weird it is once you start really thinking about the concept of “you.” When you look at a childhood photo of yourself, it’s you—but why? The physical cells in that kid’s body have been recycled and are no longer in you. But it’s still you right? But then there’s Derek Parfit’s famous teletransporter experiment, where hypothetical future people travel instantly from, say, Boston to London, by going into a machine in Boston that scans the atomic structure of their body while also destroying that structure and simultaneously reforming it across the ocean. Successfully “teletransported,” they go on with their day in London. But one day, the machine that’s supposed to scan and destroy your atoms in Boston fails to destroy them. After the scan, Boston You is still intact. The technicians tell you that this happens sometimes and it has an easy fix: they take you to a different, non-malfunctioning machine and obliterate your body there instead. They show you a video of London You walking happily out of the facility and assure you that the transfer worked as normal and they just have to complete the “destroy Boston You’s body” part. But now Boston You is horrified because it feels like London You is a totally different person and that if they destroy your body, you’ll actually be DYING. And if so, who cares if there’s a clone of you walking around somewhere—you’ll be dead! When I wrote about this in that post, I knew exactly where I stood: I would never use a teletransporter. But childhood me is also made of different atoms than current me. So what makes that different from the teletransporter? Perhaps it’s continuity of consciousness—something broken during teletransportation but not during aging. Back to today. I had a minor surgery this morning (removal of a lipoma on my back, all went well), which required general anesthesia. One minute I’m chatting with the doctor, the next I’m hearing “Tim? Tim?” as they rouse me out of my haze three hours later in a different room. Deeply bizarre. A friend of mine is scared of general anesthesia because he worries that the break in continuity might mean that Pre-Surgery You actually dies during the procedure and a different you—a clone—wakes up on the other side. Similar logic, he says, to why he’d never agree to teletransportion, even if he knew the machine would work correctly. These were the fun thoughts I was having as they hooked up the IV and prepared to knock me out. My friend’s theory, and the teletransporter thought experiment, swirled through my head as I accepted that I couldn’t exactly prove that I was not about to die. But it was also weird—even a tiny chance that this was true should have absolutely freaked me out and made me say NOPE—forget it. Let’s skip it. Not remotely worth the risk. But that’s not how I felt. I was like, “well, whoever does wake up on the other side will feel like me, and to that future me it’ll feel like it was a simple procedure and nothing more.” And the question of whether that person who wakes up will be current me or not just didn’t seem that important. As I type this, of course, it’s no longer relevant. Either I’m the same me as before, or he’s dead and I’m the clone. As the clone, this is perfectly fine by me. In fact, I only have a chance to live because previous me is gone. Amazing turn of events! But the fact that previous me didn’t really care either—it’s making me rethink how I feel about the teletransporter experiment and about the self in general. If the future really has teletransporters, might I and other people happily use them, even though we’re all aware of the “Is that just a clone of me in London?” question?

Why do we link... pharmacies and photo processing? Shoe repairs and key cutting? Mobile phone cases and vapes? Boris Johnson and a position of power? No fucking idea.

Wow 🖤🤍 #samfender #stjamespark #newcastleupontyne

Sam Fender will walk out to a sold out St James Park on his debut This is what dreams are made of ⚫️⚪️ #NUFC

@Baddiel I’ve never seen this tv series This Morning but it seems to have more coverage and commentary than The Sopranos and I loved 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 so which season should I start with? Or is it so fluid that can I just pick it up anywhere and follow the plot?

When I am World President, I will make it a global law that coffee shops should check all their tables every morning for wobbliness, and make them all rock steady before anyone comes in. £100m FINE FOR ANY WOBBLING! ☕️🤪🤪

@freesatadvice @freesat_tv Ok. Thank you. Appreciate the fast replies. Please make sure your dev team has plenty of strong coffee to hand :)

@freesat_tv @freesatadvice How do I install the #Freesat app on Android 13? Play store won't allow it, "was made for an older version of Android". 😢

@freesatadvice @freesat_tv Thank you. Any idea how long that might take? Being able to set a recording from my phone is the killer feature for me, esp since the Sky+ app is being canned in a few days.

I think there is a gap in the market for a "quick" coffee shop. I've just waited 25 mins to get served in Costa, which seems to be standard. And/or they need to better manage their workflow. #coffee #costa #retail

@Deggsy01 Thanks Derek. They're still saying "make sure you have the latest version of Android" but that is actually the LAST thing we need! I'll have a go at them too...

@Deggsy01 Hi! Did you get a reply from Freesat about how to install the Android app? I've got exactly the same issue 😱

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