Chris

Cymro, utility cyclist, software developer, Dr (Computer Science)
Trying to spend more time on Bluesky than Twitter nowadays

[Chris @olops]

@Weird_Starmer @campbellclaret Correct punctuation, please. We're not living in America.

[Welsh Rugby Union 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WelshRugbyUnion]

📺 How to watch Wales in Japan this summer 🙌👇

#WelshRugby

[Chris @olops]

Vote against this at the AGM.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Nationwide Building Society to hike CEO pay package by 43% to £7m.

Interest on savings down. Workers won't get 43% pay rise

No sector immune to fat-cattery.

Govt says wage rises are inflationary but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks.
https://t.co/KpPUahFYm1

[Chris @olops]

@premnsikka Popping back to Twitter to remind that members can vote against this ridiculousness before or during the AGM. Check your email.

[Chris @olops]

@tescobankhelp I popped into online banking to close 3 accounts that have been sitting in there for ages and was reminded that I hadn’t done it as there is no easy way to do so?! Certainly not worth 50p of my time! You may want to tidy things up, however?

[Chris @olops]

I've been directed to raise this with @Help_C2C

Diolch.

[Chris @olops]

@cardiffcouncil
Driver illegality at Sanatorium Rod - Broad Street junction again today - it happens more often than not. How do we petition to get a camera installed? It's an active travel route to school and is dangerous. Diolch. cc @stephencunnah

[Chris @olops]

@GoSafeCymru Also strikes me that this is a far more important location to place an enforcement camera than the new one down Cardiff Bay we fell foul of recently!

[Chris @olops]

@cardiffcouncil
Driver illegality at Sanatorium Rod - Broad Street junction again today - it happens more often than not. How do we petition to get a camera installed? It's an active travel route to school and is dangerous. Diolch. cc @stephencunnah

[Chris @olops]

I'd already forgotten quite how bad it was this morning ... I'd try reporting that brown MPV to @GoSafeCymru if I could get a licence.

[Chris @olops]

@MoneySavingExp I think it is the postcode lookup code itself, the step before matching with a supplier- there are 2 properties at my address so maybe the web site code is buggy and not displaying either address because of that? Only thing I can think of. Just switched directly with BG instead.

[Chris @olops]

@MoneySavingExp @MartinSLewis FYI Cheap Energy Club isn't finding my address. This used to work. It's missing from the DDL. Was hoping to get the extra £35 cashback switching to the BG as an existing customer but guess I'll just switch on BG site instead.

[Chris @olops]

https://t.co/ZpL58IhWqP

Couple of son Andy's ex-@RygbiPlasmawr teammates in the squad - Sion and Osian (also ex @ClwbRygbiIau) .

Andy chose football at 16 due to rugby injuries affecting football availability. Pandemic didn't help, either!

Hope they both go well.

[Chris @olops]

Overtaken by a driver on Pencisely Road this morning- me going the limit (20), BMW driver (obvs) going 40 or so. Hasn't happened for a while but I have hardly been driving. Any chance of some / more enforcement @GoSafeCymru @swpolice ?

[Chris @olops]

https://t.co/0L07sObq7c

"had *forward* Lleucu George yellow-carded"

@sophiehurcom Lleucu's normal position is 10?

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Both of these #Subaru transport one person most of the time*

*well, that is when they are not standing still for 97% of the time

[icarus62 @icarus62]

@CyclingLawLDN When you have to share the road with homicidal lunatics driving lethal killing machines, they will cut you up or just drive straight over you without a second thought. And despite being in the wrong, they'll think you're the arsehole for being in their way.

Never trust a driver.

[Chris @olops]

@ScottM1983_RFC @icarus62 @CyclingLawLDN 🤡

[Chris @olops]

You think they've got with the programme ...

'after man drives car into Christmas market, killing five'

Then first line in summary: 'after a car drove into crowds'

🤷‍♂️@bbcnews !

[Chris @olops]

BBC News - https://t.co/bDvytQeGzx
'Magdeburg Germany attack updates: Car hits crowds at Christmas market, leaving two dead and 68 injured - BBC News'

Car driven into crowd or driver hits crowd far better? Stop attaching agency to machines under human control @BBCNews

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

A snapshot of how our justice system is failing road crash victims and their families:

Redi Muzhaki, 22, from Coventry:
- Caused grandmother Linda Boore's (pictured) death through his careless driving on the A46, hitting her car head-on
- Critically injured her husband, the passenger
- Had no driving licence or insurance

He must pay £187 as a victim surcharge, do 200 hours of community service and is banned from driving for 2 years (he doesn't even have a licence now). His three suspended sentences, running concurrently, mean he will avoid jail time.