dan twining

Software Engineer | Human | not @DCTwining

[dan twining @dantwining]

@miseywisey @mrjamesob Did you listen to this bit https://t.co/Dd5BQTBe3i ? I can’t help thinking that the caller’s fundamental point - that a general lack of affordable housing is a significant factor in anti-immigration views - was valid, and that @mrjamesob seemed more interested in scoring points.

[Cllr Ian Blades. @IanDBlades]

As a Middlesbrough councillor- the area this caller is from, this is total nonsense.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk I can’t help thinking that this is the sort of thing that sustrans or the Green Party would have some well-researched, well-reasoned policy on. Not that I’m not an expert, I’m a middle-aged white man on Twitter, so I must be right!

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk You and I are going to have to have a conversation about equality… but probably not on Twitter.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk …and the bus lanes just become lanes. Where in that scale our current taxi:bus ratio sits I don’t know. And what about bikes in bus lanes? You could argue that they have a greater negative impact on consistent bus times, but then what’s the right thing to optimise for?

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk Yeah, but is it? If you banned all non-bus traffic from bus lanes, how much quicker/more consistent would bus travel be? Obviously I’ve no idea but my gut is that there’s some sort of tipping point; one taxi in an entire city of bus lanes makes no difference, a thousand and…

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk …whilst they sit next to an empty bus lane. Is it fare (ha!) to expect them to do so? I’m not saying I agree with this, just that I suspect that is forms part of the reasons why things are as they are. But I suspect that you knew all this already.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk …reluctant to visit. And taxi passengers are more likely to be visitors and higher earners, and potentially won’t invest in a city with a poor taxi service. Taxis charge based on time and mileage (I think?) and so passengers do not want to have to have the fare ticking over…

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mattburns_uk Citation required. A taxi that often contains only the driver is presumably a loss-making one. Although of course it depends on your definition of “often”. But your broader point has merit.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Not much of a silver lining, given the size of the cloud, but at least we now know that any producer or presenter using guests from @iealondon is either deliberately promoting their ridiculous, utterly discredited agenda or treating their audience with complete contempt. Or both.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@vaughangething Genuine question; how does joining the Labour Party help end the Tory chaos? Will a GE get triggered if enough people sign up? Just trying to join the dots.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@tinbuttons @RebeccaVaux @RussInCheshire You’re welcome, although I can’t take much credit, I merely remembered it from @GeorgeMonbiot retweeting it this morning. I only wish that actual solutions to the climate crisis were as easy to find.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@RebeccaVaux @tinbuttons @RussInCheshire https://t.co/ePp7qGrmK2

[Benjamin Ramm @BenjaminRamm]

Yesterday, I attended a conference at which an influential financier shared this unpublished map. Look at it. The estimated death toll is 2-3 *billion*; the timeframe is 20-30 years (previously: 50). Segments of the elite have simply 'written off' large parts of the Global South.

[dan twining @dantwining]

I thought we’d hit peak blockchain already, but if you scroll to the third picture, you’ll see that it’s also the solution to post-Brexit trade deals.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@Fondapol @DominiqueReynie @repdoamanha @IRIglobal @CommunityofDem @FNGeneraciones @tmuzergues @mathieugallard @ElElectoral @jansurotchak cc @DCTwining

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mipsytipsy …this with my team and look forward to the conversations that I hope it will spark. Certainly not either embarrassingly obvious nor navel-gazey. In fact it’s directly relevant to a conversation we’d been having ~8hrs earlier than when I read it.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mipsytipsy As usual I’ve expressed myself poorly but when in a hole… what struck me was that there didn’t seem to be any obvious way to express it otherwise. Also, in retrospect, my copy-pasting of the all caps makes it seem more shouty than intended. Much more relevant, I have shared…

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mipsytipsy Oh, but the article is awesome. I should’ve started with that. Sorry.

[dan twining @dantwining]

@mipsytipsy I guess what I’m trying to clumsily say is that is seems like an example of how easy hierarchical language can slip in, but perhaps I’m overthinking it.