Ben

@TLRailUK Your website won't sell me the Thameslink ticket though? The cheapest travel card that your website will sell today is £17.30 – see the screenshot that I sent you. Perhaps we should go back to your original reply, when you said I could buy a ticket from Three Bridges instead?

@BenjaminEHowe Hi there, you wont be charged extra - the Thameslink ticket will be accepted on the Southern buses. ^Kieran

@TLRailUK good morning! Is the cheap "Thameslink Only" day travel card valid on the rail replacement buses from Haywards Heath today? Your website doesn't seem to allow me to buy it...

@davwheat_ @TLRailUK They originally said that tickets weren't nescasary for the replacement bus, but they deleted that tweet 😂

@BenjaminEHowe @TLRailUK You might also be able to favourite the ticket for another day, and then quick buy it for the day you want.

@TLRailUK If it helps, here's a screenshot showing the tickets that your website offers for today (left) and for next Saturday (right). I don't think passengers shouldn't be charged extra because the railway line is closed for engineering works and replacement buses are operating :-)

@TLRailUK So, erm, how can I buy it from your website? It seems to be refusing to sell it – I guess because it thinks that a "Thameslink Only" ticket won't be valid on a "Southern" service.

This whole segment just rubs me the wrong way Jensen is very clearly talking up his book: wanting to see companies spend *much* more $$$ on GPUs / tokens... to increase NVIDIA revenue even more... to do the same thing as they already do (build software, as they have before)

@atticrahman Not joining in with Trump's war in Iran, for starters.

Up from £1.43 for Diesel, remind me how Labour are fighting the cost of living crisis - they made.

@DragonflyDoji_ @DanNeidle @grok Did Grok cite any sources, or share any calculations? Or is this just a load of nonsense? 😅

@DanNeidle @grok Grok gave me a 87% probability that you’re not being fully transparent and are purposefully manipulating the narrative. Interestingly it only gave me a 7% probability that Samuel Leeds is misled on his knowledge of tax. Interesting.

More tax nonsense from "influencer" Samuel Leeds. "I just sold my castle. On paper, I lost about £3.5m. But here is the part most people will not understand. It is also a tax write-off... the loss can be set-off against profits" No it isn't, and no you can't. Oh dear.

@just_some_dev But he fixed the bots! 😂

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@geerlingguy @TrueNAS And MinIO!

@TrueNAS Smells like CentOS, this kills TrueNAS for me, a Homelab enthusiast / freeloader.

Uh @TrueNAS is this true? linuxiac.com/truenas-moves-…

@GergelyOrosz I assume it's this version? Doesn't look like it's possible to buy it any more 😕 store.serif.com/en-gb/update/u…

@BenjaminEHowe I bought my version years back, paid once, have no account! The reason I bought it in the first place

This cancellation dark pattern is slowly killing Adobe It turns promoters (customers who love the product and pay for it) into vocal haters I am an example as well who got tricked into the sub you cannot cancel without a penalty. I will NEVER buy or recommend Adobe again

@GergelyOrosz It looks like Affinity was bought by Canva and requires an account? I know they claim it'll be free forever but I'm skeptical, especially if (or when) AI features cease to be an effective premium feature.

I found Affinity thanks to Adobe’s hostility for PDF editing (I have zero affiliation, beyond paying for it - it’s a one-off payment, no sub) Screenflow for video editing (also pay once) SO MANY alternatives, none which have Adobe’s unethical “pay to cancel now” pattern

@vinke_rob @SouthernRailUK In the spirit of backup equipment, perhaps you should've planned to travel on an earlier train so you had a "backup" train service in case your planned service was cancelled?

@SouthernRailUK I’d rather have a functioning service for the £3k I pay per year. Compensation isn’t useful. In my company we have backup equipment so we look after our customers. Maybe Southern should do the same.

Morning @SouthernRailUK. Care to explain why you’re cancelling a rush hour train? #southernfail

@SouthernRailUK shout out to your colleague doing announcements at Gatwick Airport station – super helpful in enabling passengers to re-plan their journeys following the decision to terminate 9T63 at Three Bridges.

@just_some_dev Looking at the BoE's press release it seems like a reasonable process has been followed? Don't get me wrong, I'll be sad to see Turing disappear from banknotes, but hopefully £50 will be one of the last to be replaced as has historically been the case. bankofengland.co.uk/news/2026/marc…

@BenjaminEHowe Yeah but generally they refresh with figures and they are stopping that in favour of not

Alan Turing was a guy who was persecuted by the state for who he is, getting rid of his note is clearly abhorrent, but we don’t need to whitewash Churchill to acknowledge this

@ScottMcGready @techspence This but cables being plugged in.

@techspence I drove 2 hours, after being told that something was definitely the case, to find out that it was, in fact, definitely not the case. (Batteries had died in a mouse)

Tell me you’ve worked in IT without telling me you’ve worked in IT. I’ll go first… Did you try turning it off and back on again?

Before I was an MP, I worked on the current series of polymer banknotes at the Bank of England. So I know how decisions about our currency are made, and why they matter. Nigel Farage clearly doesn’t. What he conveniently ignores is that central banks regularly issue new banknote series. It’s how they stay ahead of counterfeiters and keep our currency secure. It’s technical. It’s essential. And it’s completely routine. So why is he manufacturing outrage? Because Farage and Reform UK have spent months attacking the Bank of England itself. They’ve demanded the Bank halt quantitative tightening. 💷 They’ve pushed to stop interest being paid on central bank reserves, which would completely destroy monetary policy transmission. ⚠️ And Farage has even suggested replacing the Governor with someone aligned to his agenda. Let’s be clear: Politicians leaning on central banks is how you spook markets and undermine confidence in the economy. Bank of England independence, brought in by the last Labour government, exists for a reason. To keep markets and household finances stable. I back the Bank to keep our currency secure, not to be dragged into political point-scoring. So if Farage spent half as much time understanding how the Bank works as he does attacking it, we’d hear a lot less of this nonsense. ❌

@Soothsayer_69 @MetalXMeta @LeakerApple Once upon a time it was very normal to replace your RAM to make your laptop last longer

@MetalXMeta @LeakerApple how often did you have to repair any of those components?

This guy disassembled the MacBook Neo in 6 minutes. It’s the most repairable Mac ever made. It has no tricky adhesives, everything is held down with screws.

@mat_d_r @seatsixtyone I suspect the TOC will try to weasel out of it on the basis that they don't believe they're responsible for overcrowding / poorly designed stations.

@seatsixtyone Does that mean you can claim delay repay, if it’s show as a connecting service?

Wonder why they bother showing connections like this? True, I *did* get to see the 15:49 leave in front of me by the time I fought my way over the footbridge, which was nice. But realistically, the 16:19 is the Oxford-Bicester train you’re actually going to end up on, innit? 🤷‍♂️