Duncan Jauncey

Dad, programmer, electronics hobbyist, space enthusiast and frustrated ground-dweller. Also on mastodon as @[email protected]

[Simon Hintermann @Aurumek_]

Today is my birthday (turning 28), which is the only time all year that I ask for a retweet 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

[Jonty Wareing ⍼ @jonty]

You: Arrives at the next camp in a camper van.

Me: Arrives in
https://t.co/lDr7QaT3Bl

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"

[vicki @vboykis]

The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.

[Jonty Wareing ⍼ @jonty]

Liz Truss is using the exact same logo typography as Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

During the first 8 years of The Ocean Cleanup, we collected 314,000 kg of trash.

We're now collecting the same amount... every 4.5 days.

[John Chinner 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @JohnChinner]

That's it boys and girls.
The first round of #SpaceMovieWorldCup knockouts is done.

We now have our Quarter Final line up.

1. Interstellar Vs The Martian
2. Alien Vs Hidden Figures
3. Star wars ESB Vs Apollo 13
4. Apollo 11 Vs Galaxy Quest

Match 1 - KO tomorrow! (July 12)

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@DJSnM To be fair, for all we know, there could be some recent process change in the supplies or production line for stage 2 that means the previous statistics don't count as strongly as we'd assume. But if anyone can fix this quickly and return to flight, @SpaceX can.

[Max Fagin 🚀🔴🌐☄🌘 @MaxFagin]

I encountered a delightful little astrodynamics proof last week when an astronaut casually stated it as a fact, and when I looked skeptical, he just smiled and said, "Check it yourself."

Here's the statement:

"It takes 2 hours to orbit at the surface of any object made of rock"

[Ayesha Hazarika @ayeshahazarika]

Right Keir, right now

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Steve Cutts, a London-based illustrator and animator, creates artwork that satirizes the excesses of modern society. His style draws inspiration from 1920s-1930s cartoons, modern comic books,

This is one of his animations.

What do you think?
https://t.co/QNXtFebOye

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@JohnChinner Thanks, glad it's still useful - let me know if there are any upgrades needed! 😎

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Japanese man built a bunker house with an entrance through a sewer manhole. The bunker is full of sweets and even has a home theater with PS5.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has been that the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be found in biology - complex biological systems are rare. I’m increasingly of the view that the reason for The Great Silence is that civilisations are inevitably crushed by the weight of nobheads shortly after inventing the internet.

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@JohnChinner Looks like you're down to the pebbles - keep munching! You can do it! 😎

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@relativityspace Awesome! How many summer BBQ sausages per second is that? 😉

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk By using AI to decode those waveforms in the picture above, I can reveal that Elon's planning to launch a giant wheel of cheese into the Sun on the next Starship mission. 😉

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

Celebrating the success of Starship Flight 4 with a new dedicated landing page on my website featuring all of my photography coverage of the Starship program → https://t.co/K4IpYB6c42

Save 20% on all Starship prints through Friday with code ‘forwardflap’ at checkout!

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

I completely agree with this. The Starship flight yesterday was surely the beginning of a new era. We seem to be in an ever-accelerating race between our ingenuity and our stupidity. I hope we can outpace our ignorance.

[Duncan Jauncey @djauncey]

@astro_luca @SpaceXStarship Hats off to reentry engineers everywhere, absolute legends!