Alex Torrance

@alex_tea

The Idiot

London
alextorrance.co.uk
Joined March 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Nov 2019

    I made a thing! It makes up fake music genres.

    My new favourite genre is 🥁 operatic drone electro 🥁 via
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  2. Jun 16

    Had a dream about a tweet about user needs last night, so that’s cool.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    This is how serious Boris Johnson is about combating the climate emergency: He flew to Cornwall.

    I’ve arrived in Cornwall for this year’s where I’ll be asking my fellow leaders to rise to the challenge of beating the pandemic and building back better, fairer and greener. It will be a busy and important Summit, and I can’t wait to get started.
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  4. Jun 10

    I just tried to leave a meeting and it took about 20 seconds after I clicked the button for me to leave. Not at all weird or awkward.

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  5. Jun 10

    Teams is using 420% of my CPU. Awesome app. Well done Microsoft.

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  6. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    Home Office says my client is not eligible for any 'Windrush product'. I can't help thinking that referring to recognition of status and long residence in the UK as 'product' may be at the root of the problem.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    A judge has found Michael Gove broke the law over a £560,000 Covid contract for a firm run by his ex-adviser. We can't let it become the norm that ministers break the law and then there are no consequences. Gove should be sacked. And the law used to recover these public funds.

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  8. Jun 8

    Seeing “Guru Meditation” errors on earlier today reminded me of this glitchy little number from Team Doyobi on ’s amazing Split Series (which has concluded with the release of the 24th record 21 years after the 1st)

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    Please send this Head of design role to your excellent friend or colleague who would be great but isn't sure about it 💫 Especially if they are from a under-represented or often excluded community. It's a really important programme. Closes Sunday. I'm happy to chat.

    Job! Head of Design 🐙 for the Digital Identity programme - my new team from June Equity & justice is critical here, we need to make sure EVERYONE can use government services People with lived experience of exclusion, please apply 🌟 DMs open
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  10. Retweeted
    Jun 4

    Extended closing date! 🚨A vacancy for a Senior Service Designer in the design practice (mostly UK remote), and I'm keen to get this in front of as many under represented groups as possible. Please share 😀

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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    we have a need for a for a few days next week to form part of one of our projects - drop me a message if this is you or know someone it could be please 🙏🙏🙏

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  12. Retweeted
    May 27

    Enjoyed an awesome design community session from on hypothesis based design 🙌 so useful and excited to see where we can implement this in the practice (and use as a collaboration piece between design and other disciplines)

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  13. May 22

    I remember Hooverphonic from the 90s

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  14. May 22

    OK my choices are Ukraine, Iceland, Finland and Lithuania

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  15. Retweeted
    May 20

    RIP Ken Garland. So lucky to have had the chance to interview him last year

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  16. Retweeted
    May 20

    Red represents the symbol used in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (used in positive format in the report) and the black and white is the original symbol in both positive and negative formats...

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  17. Retweeted
    May 19

    FutureGov are hiring a Design Director 🙌✨ You'll lead a function and growing team of 30+ designers and provide design leadership and strategic design direction for FutureGov, owning the strategic direction and budget Location: UK 🇬🇧

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  18. Retweeted
    May 15

    Because I mostly user twitter academically, let me share my experience as a Palestinian in Israeli academia. A thread. 1/

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  19. Retweeted
    May 15

    What this fails to mention is that it also contained civilian homes - and the IDF refused to allow journalists time to save their equipment, effectively preventing them from reporting what is happening in Gaza This is abhorrent, and an affront to democracy and the free press

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    An Israeli missile strike destroyed a tower block in Gaza housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Israel said the building also housed assets belonging to Hamas' military intelligence
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  20. Retweeted
    May 13

    One reason Priti Patel plans to place all asylum seekers in detention camps instead of housing them in the community is to stop their neighbours getting to know them. Similarly the Hostile Environment drives people underground by banning them from renting and working.

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    Anti-deportation protest on Kenmure Street in Pollokshields. Immigration van is ringed by police and protesters. “These are our neighbours. Let them go.”
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  21. Retweeted
    May 13

    I wrote some words on how a service design perspective can help us design things that make a real difference to people and communities, like site notices that enable residents to input on planning decisions 👇

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