There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

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London got an eyeful, and an earful, this morning as this gallus Glasgow girl blew her hooter to mark her 80th birthday! PS Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer, passed through Tower Bridge just after 9.30am this morning, as part of a special anniversary sailing on the River Thames.

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My new book How To Make Awesome Comics comes out this week, and I’m starting to see pictures of it out in the wild, being USED: drawn on, scribbled in, finished off. Bringing forth masterpieces. It is my new favourite thing in the world. ❤️

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The south face of Beinn Bhan.

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[ICYMI:] Why SQL Won 🏁 In this interview with Let's Data Science, #DuckDB co-creator @hannes.muehleisen.org argues that the data industry misdiagnosed SQL’s problems a decade ago. What developers *actually* hated in 2013 was the install, the server and the client protocol, not the language itself:

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