Derek

Selkie.

If I bought train tickets on the day I'd have to remortgage the house.

Would we have approved this NRCofC change back in 2007 when I headed the fares & ticketing team at DfT?
But it's the government's money now, not the train operators. Govt approving a reduction in consumer protection for its own financial benefit.
Govt is marking its own homework.

Advice to passengers is simple:
NEVER buy Super-Off-Peak, Off-Peak or Anytime tickets in advance.
ALWAYS buy on the day, 5 minutes before you board the train.
If you buy in advance, any on-the-day change of plan could lose you £100s on a long journey.
Even with a flexible ticket.

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

“Honestly, these Carthaginians, coming over here with their ancient Phoenician roots and their two thousand year old currency. We don’t want your purple dye over here. What’s wrong with taking red and blue and mixing it up like a toddler?”

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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(It’s the plaque on St Pauls architect Christopher Wren’s grave in the cathedral—“if you need a monument, look around you” and also useful directions to get to St Paul’s by public transport: “if you need to get to Monument, take the Circle Line”)

We don't want them back, thank you. Surely there's an abyssal sea vent we can put them in?

Experiencing a weird day on the timeline where pictures of Tehran burning and pictures of Glasgow burning butt heads with each other. Feels a bit horribly on the nose that suddenly everywhere is on fire.

calling honeybees "livestock" will never stop amusing me because in 95% of scenarios (like unless they're totally indoors somehow?) they have the ability to quit. if you suck at keeping bees, they will eat all the honey, take their mom, and leave. we are just the property managers

I don't know Gemma, Aimee or Zara but I just gave £20 to this because the Union St fire is a horrific nightmare and while I can't help everyone who's been wrecked by it I can help one person a little bit. If you can, you might also want to, whether it's this or someone else who's been affected

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

And it's the kind of thing where you start sounding like you're delusional when you're all "The majority of Zionists in the US are evangelical Christians who want all the Jews to go back to Israel and rebuild the Temple in the Jerusalem so Jesus will come back."

UK/Ireland trans people: what's a good way to get low dose testosterone these days? I'm out of the loop. Super low dose, ideally the same someone would be prescribed post oophorectomy.

How will this affect the Riyadh comedy scene

I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history

The British general election of 2029, in which we are *really* going to stress test 'the governing bloc has, through both forces inside and outside its control, presided over a *really* miserable time for the country' versus 'the opposition bloc just can't stop itself picking up unpopular stances'.

Do I know anyone in the York, England, area (admittedly large) who might help me get in touch with the descendant of a pioneering printing technologist? The person in question has a very thin online presence, but I believe would welcome the contact about his family.

[I'm cis] Before this Government came to power, it was uncontroversial to say that the Equality Act 2010 prevented discrimination against trans people. Since the Supreme Court judgment, Labour has actively promoted an interpretation which says the Act REQUIRES discrimination against trans people.

If you think Labour is not actively anti-trans: have a read of this thread.

It's 2026.

Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.

Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.

Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

If hormones, or puberty blockers, were so dangerous, nobody would be allowed them.

That some people are and that trans kids can even, notionally at least, stay on them if already prescribed, tells you all you need to know.

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I sometimes wonder whether there are people who have never experienced the web as a place with URLs and pages and have only experienced Web pages within apps or using social media as if it were a search engine for Web pages. If there are, that'd explain a lot about AI use for researching stuff

Example number 20,000 of austerity actually costing us more money

supporting local business good!