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@100kDiary Die rich or spend it on nice things

Unpopular opinion: Leasing a brand new car is the most financially illiterate thing normalised in the UK. You're paying £500/month for something that loses 40% of its value by the time you hand it back. Then you sign up for another one. A £5,000 used car does the exact same job. Gets you from A to B. Doesn't care about your ego. The difference over 10 years? Roughly £60k. Your car isn't a flex. It's a monthly donation to a dealership. Agree or disagree? 👇

@paullewismoney Arrived at Fuerteventura, EES done, Egate done, bag collected, car picked up. 30 mins total. But then this doesn’t make a good story does it ?

Flown to EU. Passed the EES machine tests, sent to egate which sent me to manual. Long queue. Complained and taken through EES again with official watching. Go to egate. Did so. Rejected again. Allowed to push in manual Q half way, thanks to kind official. To call it snail pace an insult to snails. Waiting.

@LunarCitizens @Cmdr_Hadfield @mickeysplasht God had nothing to do with it, it’s science, and if there were a god he/she/it sure as hell wouldn’t be blessing America at the moment

@Cmdr_Hadfield @mickeysplasht god bless heroes, God bless America .

Hey @Cmdr_Hadfield! Does it get warmer inside a vehicle re-entering Earth’s atmosphere?

@sarah_go_green I’m afraid this is one of the big disadvantages of a distributed energy system.

GivEnergy has given notice they intend to appoint and administrator. Not the best news for those who have tried to do their best to be less reliant on the grid. I've got a home assistant yellow that's scared me half to death as i started to set up so i left it but that might be the answer. What happens to your warrant?

@BBCNews please stop saying the dot in the view of Artemis is the Earth, it's not, it's the moon !

@ThePanic16 @airlivenet Congrats you win the award for the most stupid post of the day

@airlivenet Fortunately, the UK granted clearance to land… You really never know, with labor in charge

A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress is declaring an emergency over UK airlive.net/emergency/2026…

@TimBirchWild @peakdistrict @MarkCocker2 @JohnBeattyUK So how do you propose people visit then ? Or are they just to be for the lucky few ?

Expanding this car park in @peakdistrict at Dennis Knoll, in area with narrow roads, is not the answer to persuade car owners to stop parking on verges. Why not keep to original smaller car park plus enforcement on verge parking ? We need to encourage less cars in National Parks!

@ecocars1 @ElectrifyingCom Not fit for purpose, I’d be asking for my money back.

@ElectrifyingCom This will hit used EX30 values massively, remember Lanica beta cars in the 70's ?

Volvo EX30 drivers told not to fully charge their cars over fire risk ➡️ electrifying.com/blog/article/v…

@PeterStefanovi2 What a twat

Heaven help us Trump: “If anybody thinks that Norway doesn't control the Nobel Prize, they're just kidding. They have a board, but it's controlled by Norway, and I don't care what Norway says."

@ecocars1 The infrastructure really isn’t suited to those of us that tow. We really need drive through chargers else you can get in a right old pickle. And no we really don’t want to have to unhitch .

Couple from Netherlands in their Smart + caravan here in Vera

@paullewismoney And what exactly is your point here ? You call yourself a journalist and yet no attempt to explain this.

State pension. More surprising facts. Average state pension by age as at May 2025. Over 85s get the most! On average. From the official DWP data on Stat-Xplore

@paullewismoney Big ??

Big state pensions. A lot of tweeps have disbelieved several statements I made about the size of some state pensions. The source for these figures is statXplore - the DWP's own statistics. I have detailed figures for May 2025 and slightly more detailed ones for May 2023.

@PookyD81 If that is all you are getting there is something wrong with it. Getting about 180 with our R5 at the moment.

Currently getting about 120 miles total from the A290, so usable about 100. Can’t drive it any slower.

@ecocars1 @ArtElectrics It's almost certainly ythe fuse overheating. Some granny chargers on sale in the UK can be set to 13 amp, they should be banned.

@ArtElectrics Constant 10amp draw from a 'granny cable' ev charger ?

Yikes... 😱

@2147mill BAe

What is the largest holding in your portfolio?

@Trump_ton 28

@CeeMacBee Should have stayed in the EU then

The UK would be paying 16% of the EU's Erasmus scheme's total budget if we agree to Nick Thomas Symonds absurd negotiated payment. If the same number of people use the scheme as did when we were EU members, this would work out at £42,100 per participant. There are so many better ways to use £810 million, you can read about them in my substack below. I also list how much Erasmus+ money is spent on EU propaganda. All of the citations are in the Substack. open.substack.com/pub/catherinem…

@TeslaOwnersUK Anyone that thinks that is on any significance for UK roads has clearly never been to Austin or indeed any other US city

This is pretty significant for FSD. Becomes much harder for EU and UK regulators to deny approval when this is happening. Already proved for RHD in Australia.

@StandUpForTrmp Twat

DESCRIBE PRESIDENT TRUMP USING ONLY ONE WORD…

@TheKingCorcoran @implausibleblog Twat

@implausibleblog President Trump is speaking the truth, Europe is changing rapidly, and it's not for the better. Leadership matters, and cities like Paris and London are suffering under weak leadership.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer" "If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was" "If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"