Tom Forth
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Tom Forth
@thomasforth
CTO and co-Founder @TheDataCity. Head of Data @OpenInnovates. Runs @imactivate. I block anons for even the slightest rudeness.
- Incredible to think that many Americans will look at this photo and think "poverty".
- At some point in Aldi you just have to concede that you don't understand trademark law.
- Good to have some proper industrial history commentary on the timline, in the form of a joke.
- As a Brit I accept that I don't have American style freedom of speech. But I do have the freedom to hang my washing up outside, unlike most of you Americans with your HOA rules.
- That Indian railway electrification number seems to check out. Coloured = electrified. Black = not electrified.
- The logo at the bottom left is what makes it. Perfect.
- None of the barbers near The Barbican are called The Barbercan. We used to be a country.
- How often do you think about how Denmark is building a railway tunnel to Germany that will reduce travel time for people by two hours and massively decrease freight distances? Under construction now and due to be finished in 2029. More or less than the Roman Empire?
- "why do train drivers earn so much more than bus drivers?" is a great economics question.Train drivers are paid significantly more than bus drivers, but 70% of Britons think that being a bus driver is the harder job to do - only 12% think being a train driver is harder yougov.co.uk/topics/travel/…
- The University of Hull is to close its chemistry department. It said student numbers were "so low that these courses are no longer sustainable". The chemistry department was rated the fourth best in the UK in The Guardian's University Guide 2024.
- Still just an incredible graph. One of the all time great natural experiments in policy imho.Replying to @thomasforthHow bus use has changed in London and in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).
- Ciabatta was invented in Italy in 1982 to stop French baguettes from taking over Italian bakeries. Ploughman's lunch was created in the 1960s by the British Milk Marketing Board to sell more cheese. Fondue very similar. What other invented foods are there I should know about?
