Ben Blackburne

I work at @facebook. Also interested in evolution, statistics, programming, cooking, photography, beer. I occasionally sponsor German art events.

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

@TLRailUK Furthermore, there were no trains running in the morning either, so it seems like a whole day's outage.

But if you were to go to https://t.co/N6EXI0kpAt you'd see no mention of this.

What gives?

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

@TLRailUK Trains from St Pancras to Cambridge seem to be cancelled through till 9pm, so I don't see how "No further trains will be affected…" at 1:27pm can be true?

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

@TLRailUK > We strongly advise you do not travel until a later time.
This is one source of the confusion. Does this mean trains will actually be running later, then? Because they are currently listed as cancelled all day. Which is it?

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

Strange definition of ‘closed’, I’ve just come through. It’s currently a shamefully disorganised clusterfuck. Staff behind barriers not letting people through, a crush of confused people wondering why they aren’t allowed on their trains. No proper announcements or staff out front

[National Rail @nationalrailenq]

@SosoAllan @thetrainline @GNRailUK @TLRailUK Hi Sophie, I can confirm that London Kings Cross station is still closed. You can view any updates here https://t.co/0XNt8MSIRz

[Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy]

It’s six years since @MattBors drew ‘Mr Gotcha’ and still Camilla Long wrote this 👇🏻 at the weekend:

[parker lyons @tweetsbyparker]

i really wish someone on here would tell me about the AI tools i’m missing out on

[The Verge @verge]

Raycast’s new Pro subscription adds AI and syncing features https://t.co/YpNLx4Zyiz

[Reprieve @Reprieve]

This Bahraini torture survivor has a message for King Charles: don’t toast with my torturers at your Coronation today.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Don't care about the coronation?

Here's why you should. 👇🏾

[Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) @andy_pavlo]

On @Jeopardy yesterday, the students all failed to answer the most important question in the history of the show.
HT @butro for video!

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

Government now telling us they aren’t in power anymore. What is the point of them?

[Nadhim Zahawi @nadhimzahawi]

Keir Starmer either cannot or will not stand up to his union mates causing strike chaos across the country.

It’s Labour’s nightmare before Christmas delivered with their pal Mick “Grinch” Lynch.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Don’t get me wrong, the public isn’t stupid for not understanding the very basics of the question: they’ve been directly lied to by politicians from Farage to Braverman & many pundits too.

The lie that real refugees can take non-existent safe routes to the UK has stuck #r4today

[Jason Harris • @[email protected] @smeger]

Tweeps: you’re being treated cruelly and unfairly and I’m truly sorry this is happening to you. Please reach out if you need a referral to AWS or any other sort of support. My thoughts are with you, and Elon is a douche.

[Robert Ford @robfordmancs]

So the idea of Bring Back Boris has only a few small flaws: He isn't popular. He never was. He can't govern. He can't unify. Scandal & chaos follows him wherever he goes. And enough Con MPs know all of this to leave him unable to govern from day 1.

[Dmitry Grozoubinski @DmitryOpines]

1/ Elon Musk has too large an audience to simply ignore this, and others have eloquently told him to fuck off already (which I'm here for) but I'd like to go point by point and explain why his ideas are misguided and impractical.

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Well. Older readers may recall that 12 days ago @GBNews posted this from its twitter account. Oddly it wasn't emailed to me or my agent. Even more oddly nobody seems to have been daring enough to sign it. It’s just signed “GB News”.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

King Charles III is an inspiration for postdocs everywhere

[Ben Blackburne @bpb]

Even when the Tories are in power they aren’t in power, it seems. The right-wing constantly seek to portray themselves as having no real power (cf “enemy of the people” judges, “the blob” etc.) and so they take no responsibility for their ongoing shitshow.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Twelve years? The Tories have had at most one non-pandemic year with anything close to a decent majority.