Erich Eichinger

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Twitter is toxic, thus I decided to stop using it. Bye everyone and thanks for all the fish. Those who I follow can still DM me if you want to get in touch.

I had never seen this expressed in art before but brilliant!

@CarstenK_Dev @isaac_abraham @TorstenWeber wow. and throwing over 50% people in the UK under the bus for a few decades. I am glad that in the EU there are a lot of folks with a more nuanced view.

@AlexTheGuiri @Peston @OFOCBrexit who cares who's funding him? (ignoring for the moment that he is very open & clear about that) - in contrast to any Brexiteer's I've heard so far, he has actual arguments and they have legs.

@Peston @OFOCBrexit …deadline when he realised he’d have to disclose who funds him.

Femi Oluwole, of our Our Future Our Choice, or @OFOCBrexit, the influential young campaigner for a people's vote, came within a whisker of being the single pro-referendum candidate in the Peterborough by-election. He was a candidate until just two hours before the official...

Evaluating schools as a good idea - if it leads to helping them become better (e.g. exchange info & staff with other schools to learn from). Publishing those evaluations and publicly shaming is completely counterproductive in many ways. #ofsted #fail

🇪🇺 @NicolaSturgeon: “Let us make our voice heard loud and clear so that we are not ignored by Westminster any longer. On May 23, if you want to keep Scotland in the EU – #voteSNP.” snp.org/nicola-sturgeo…

@ManiacsZone @TLRailUK no need. It is surprisingly effective to simply pretend taking a picture with your mobile phone. They moan, but quickly start behaving.

@oakinger @TLRailUK Buy a gun, then you are allowed to ask him :)

guy on the @TLRailUK train is getting aggressive because I asked him to take his shoes of the seat. "I have a ticket" apparently gives him the permission. What's wrong with people?!?

you're not "taking it back", you're tearing it apart if you haven't noticed

@BookSwapSteve ouch. Sad memories of a friend calling me in the middle of the night because her cat had disappeared.

At first glance I thought it was some kind of cat house. I wonder how many cats will end up in them....

@auctoritatem @sarahkendzior not the least of surprise here. But a few things clicked with me *why* they are as they are. And being in IT for 30 years it becomes increasingly clear to me, how dangerous the lack of ethical and environmental awareness in my industry is.

@oakinger @sarahkendzior It seems I chose a poor example, but I see a lot of folks talking about the issues Dr. Kendzior points out with a mixture of surprise and alarm, which is what I was talking about here.

"View from flyover country" by @sarahkendzior is such a sobering read about everything that's going wrong in so many countries at the moment. Best read together with "Weapons of Math Destruction"

any "well-defined" process can only be like stabilizers or crutches to help you gain confidence and learn the underlying principles. But at some point you need put the crutches away and learn to walk by yourself, ie work on continuously improving your processes

@auctoritatem @sarahkendzior I am not quite sure I follow. But maybe my use of "sobering" was a bit misleading there. I meant it in the sense of "yes, that describes exactly what is happening and puts the finger on the underlying problems"

@oakinger @sarahkendzior This is always such an interesting take to me, and I do not mean this as any kind of criticism of Mr. Eichinger. It's far removed from my experience reading it, and some of the essays when they were published elsewhere. My experience was: "Yup. Yup. Yup. This is my life. Yup."

@BookSwapSteve it scares the sh.. out of me every time I cross, in particular cars turning into walpole road from CH road typically don't slow down much because the turn is so "spacious" for the bus to go around the corner

@oakinger I cross at that point regularly as well for the bus. I find I'm more prone to cross when theirs cars coming now because the speed is slower - frustrating to wait for them when they are doing 20, but they may not be! (Safety--)

"Junction improvements at a later date" - That's a horrible roundabout where it's really difficult to see what traffic is coming. Probable one of the more dangerous parts of that journey.

ffs!!!

He stabbed his wife to death and then threw himself off a cliff and pulled his two kids with him. The fuck is this headline? thetimes.co.uk/article/school…

“It’s open source, I’ll just take a peek at the code...”

Thinking you can have a "clean-break Brexit" is like believing you can divorce a spouse of 30 years with whom you share a house, children, dog, multiple businesses, and an open minded lover named François, by just moonwalking out one morning and never speaking again.

Nigel Farage denies being conspiracy theorist after far-right talkshow appearances theguardian.com/politics/2019/…