@jeremyworth @tomhfh The red echoes London buses as well as pillar boxes. But I think BRG would be v nice too
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Tom Ough
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Tom Ough
@tomough
Senior editor at https://t.co/wKZp02kA9x; author of book on averting doom; yeoman podcaster (https://t.co/oTu2AT2uGh). Pitch me your essay ideas.
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The Lime bike redesign makes sense in terms of sizing. But the white paint will immediately become grimy, and the lurid lime colour of the front section is by now unnecessary: everyone can recognise one of these bikes.
Could Uber do the aesthetic commons a favour and start producing these bikes in, say, metallic red? Some minor design tweaks would make our streets look much nicer.
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@alexalexlexi02 A single loophole via which cigs can still be advertised. Nice
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@james_mccomish @forestbike_uk Yes. They're nice. Will start using them more in future so as to cast my vote in favour of prosocial design
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@tomough Have you seen @forestbike_uk ? I’ve started seeing them around and they are a lot less obnoxious
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@JadeKayaSummer Coke cans are trivial to a city's aesthetics. Lime bikes are everywhere. Hence my view that Lime bikes' aesthetics should have some consideration for their context. Something similar is true for architecture
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no understanding of branding and safety 🙄
metallic red would also be scraped across the roads and pavements and look shit.
do you also recommend coca cola bins the red cans as everyone knows what coke is?
Tom Ough@tomough
The Lime bike redesign makes sense in terms of sizing. But the white paint will immediately become grimy, and the lurid lime colour of the front section is by now unnecessary: everyone can recognise one of these bikes. Could Uber do the aesthetic commons a favour and start producing these bikes in, say, metallic red? Some minor design tweaks would make our streets look much nicer.
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@tomough @ValeryReynaud @English_Jew Ahh yes, all of these swatches fall well within the spectrum of "lime".
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@freddiesayers Yes, but Uber's changed its bike brand before... Here's Uber Jump (2018-2020)
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@tomough The lurid green and white is much better for safety as you're much more likely to be seen. Manchester's Bee Network yellow is probably the best colour for them. A dark, subdued colour would increase the number of collisions involving them.
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@MattWardel Easier to mandate a change of colour than a daily clean, imo
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@ValeryReynaud @English_Jew I think there's room in that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum for the both of them
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@tomough @English_Jew The problem with red is that it looks like it’s a voi bike !
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@Tomintheciti @tomough Easily fixable with some contrast on the front
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@English_Jew Red feels more London: buses as well as telephone boxes and pillar boxes. But either would be an upgrade
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@tomough The wheels are far too small meaning you will feel bumps and potholes a lot more. All they needed to do was lightweight the existing design. I do like your colour scheme as well but may I suggest British racing green with lime green accents 😄
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As missiles incinerate a once-great civilisation, the Irish novelist @RobDoyle reflects on one of its greatest western interpreters: Henry Corbin, the French Heideggerian, whose essays on the "Platonists of Persia" are filled with Borgesian personages. Not one to miss. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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WHY I LEARNED TO LOVE ISLAMIC MYSTICISM, by Rob Doyle (@RobDoyle1) The country with which the French Heideggerian philosopher Henry Corbin is most closely associated is the one that screams from today’s headlines of war, massacres, and oppression: Iran. But, instead, Corbin shows us a land of the most exquisite spirituality and philosophical refinement, all in a vocabulary that includes words and phrases like “the eighth climate, the Cosmic North, Sophiology, the Night Ineffable, the mountain of Qaf, the earth of Huqalya, and so on. Such language might suggest the kind of florid effusions to be found inside dubious books shelved in the ‘Mind, Body, and Spirit’ section of your local bookshop, but Corbin’s works are written to the highest standards of French scholarship. It’s as if Roland Barthes or Jean-Paul Sartre were philosophising from inside the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Or, better yet, a sort-of singular form of avant-garde, scholarly, theological fiction, which abounds with almost Borgesian characters. For example, consider Khdir, the ‘immortal wanderer’ of Sufi lore who visits solitary mystics in dreams and visions; or the ‘Hidden Imam’ of Shi-ite apocalyptic theology who went into occultation many centuries ago and will reveal himself again at the end of time. Beyond that, Corbin says something profound to inhabitants of the West in the 2020s — a place where something has gone catastrophically wrong. He insists that our malaise is not to be located in this or that symptom, be it societal, political or cultural, but must be traced into the philosophical foundations of secular modernity itself. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/CcZS8Xt
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Turns out there's an office in Westminster that right-wing people use. Sickening
HOPE not hate@hopenothate
🚨NEW INVESTIGATION 🚨 A five-minute walk from Houses of Parliament, overlooking Westminster Abbey, is one of London’s most unusual addresses. The neo-Gothic building and the political base on its second floor share a name. Welcome to The Sanctuary. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/the-sanctuary/
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@RuxandraTeslo is one of the most original and perceptive essayists around. I'm delighted that she's making her UnHerd mag debut. Her piece is on the modern valorisation of equality. Why is it the keystone value of our age?
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