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2022-05-31 (Tuesday)

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  • philgyford’s avatar

    @iTzTom141 @samuelpepys No, because @samuelpepys only tweets excerpts from the diary.

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    @samuelpepys has:
    * 13,873 tweets (in the past 9½ years)
    * 70,989 followers

    pepysdiary.com has:
    * 3,433 diary entries
    * 5,084 topics in the Encyclopedia
    * 93,850 annotations / comments

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Nearly two decades! I did not imagine that when I wrote this for BBC News in 2003 about the launch of the website. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/262158…

    Some stats…

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    And with that, the first full 9½ year cycle of @samuelpepys' tweets ends, and the *second* 9½ year cycle of daily entries on pepysdiary.com. twitter.com/samuelpepys/st…

    samuelpepys’s avatar

    And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @samuelpepys And that’s the end of @samuelpepys’ diary. Thank you for following along for the past 9½ years or so, or how ever long it’s been for you.

    Here’s what happened in his life after 31 May 1669: pepysdiary.com/indepth/2012/0…

    See you again from 1st January for 1660.

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    @mathowie Also baffling that to get to the advanced search you have to search for something on a normal page, then click “Advanced search”, and then enter your search term *again* in that modal window.

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    Fair play to Thomas Heatherwick - his Tree of Trees installation does suggest the Jubilee will be more exciting than anyone had anticipated.

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    Today is a big day for @samuelpepys.

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  • JanelleCShane’s avatar

    Tried a lesser-known logo, prompting #dalle with "The Fawlty Towers Logo" and "The logo for Fawlty Towers". None of the results were even logos, and I can't explain them.

  • JanelleCShane’s avatar

    My new favorite thing is #dalle messing up corporate logos. Here's #dalle prompted with "the local waffle house"