dan twining

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dan twining

@dantwining

Software Engineer | Human | not @DCTwining

Katılım Mayıs 2009

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dan twining@dantwining·3 Kas

@miseywisey @mrjamesob Did you listen to this bit twitter.com/iandblades/sta… ? 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.

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Misey Allen@miseywisey·3 Kas

@mrjamesob commeownication, surely?

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

@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!

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⚡Matt Burns@mattburns_uk·27 Eki

@dantwining Yeah, agreed, I don't know where on the scale any given city is either. My gut is also that the impact of taxis using bus lanes on other traffic is insignificant. But the gain for taxis is huge. I just don't understand why they get the incentive.

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⚡Matt Burns@mattburns_uk·26 Eki

Give me one reason why taxis are allowed to use bus lanes. Serious question. I can't think of a single one. 🧵

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

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

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⚡Matt Burns@mattburns_uk·27 Eki

@dantwining Let's say 10% of a cities cars are taxis. Why does that 10% get the bus lane privilege. Why not the 10% most eco cars? Or 10% most valued members of society...

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

@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?

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

@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…

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

@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.

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dan twining@dantwining·27 Eki

@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…

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dan twining@dantwining·26 Eki

@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.

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⚡Matt Burns@mattburns_uk·26 Eki

Taxis are cars. Cars are the cause of congested cities and should be disincentivised. Taxis often only contain the taxi driver.

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James O'Brien@mrjamesob·20 Eki

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.

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dan twining@dantwining·20 Eki

@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.

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Vaughan Gething@vaughangething·20 Eki

Join us and be part of ending this Tory chaos.

The Labour Party@UKLabour

Join Labour today.

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dan twining@dantwining·17 Eki

@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.

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dan twining@dantwining·17 Eki

@RebeccaVaux @tinbuttons @RussInCheshire twitter.com/benjaminramm/s…

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.

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Rebecca Vaux@RebeccaVaux·17 Eki

@tinbuttons @RussInCheshire Where did you see this map? Would love to share with people but a citation would help.

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dan twining@dantwining·8 Eki

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.

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dan twining@dantwining·2 Eki

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

Fondation pour l’innovation politique@Fondapol·2 Eki

1/6 Aujourd'hui 2 octobre a lieu l'élection présidentielle au #Brésil. Découvrez les données d'opinion @Fondapol sur les Brésiliens et le fonctionnement de leur démocratie, de leur système politique, leur inquiétude à l'égard de la Chine, etc. 👉 @Fondapol bit.ly/3P4lRD3

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dan twining@dantwining·26 Eyl

@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.

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dan twining@dantwining·26 Eyl

@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…

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Charity Majors@mipsytipsy·24 Eyl

I wrote a long and rambling post on why the hierarchy is bullshit (and bad for business). Includes digressions on * the big lie of hierarchy (higher is always better) * why hierarchy endures as a data structure * why it sucks (we imbue it with dominance) charity.wtf/2022/09/23/the…

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dan twining@dantwining·26 Eyl

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

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dan twining@dantwining·26 Eyl

@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.

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@miseywisey @mrjamesob @mattburns_uk @iealondon @vaughangething @RebeccaVaux @RussInCheshire @GeorgeMonbiot