John Brown

Ceilidh caller, robot builder, father and software developer, and retro computing person.

[John Brown @jcrowly]

@Bhaal_Spawn But did you fix the temp sensor !!!!! You can't leave us hanging like this 😟

[John Brown @jcrowly]

@PussKnows @riversorare @NoFarmsNoFoods If/when they sell a small proportion of that land, it can only really be sold to other farmers, so it will still get farmed, the land will still produce food. The owner of the land will change be not the purpose.

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@MikeHanlon99 @riversorare @NoFarmsNoFoods IHT relief for farms was introduced in the 80s before that farms where subject to IHT like any other assert a person inherited.

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@Bhaal_Spawn @Tendrin @MathewPiling I've moved the account for my YT channel over to bsky now, and not once have I seen a post espousing an random conspiracy theory, or post some alt right BS. This account is not long for this site either. It turns out this is the bad place.

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@Bhaal_Spawn It's not just the media, I've noticed several music and art festivals announce this is the last message they will post on twitter, and going forward all their posts will be on other platforms. Does seam like the lights are going out, and saddly for the US Musk has a new toy.

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@KevEdwardsRetro Is that Steve Furber's machine, the one he created for his onw use and donated to the museum?

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@RMCRetro Your pavement slab has been delivered I see.

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@morefunmakingit That's great news, it is rather shameful that YT treats people this way in the first place however. These sorts of decisions should always have a human in the loop, and the channel owner should always be able to question the decision, without its just a cruel process.

[Computing History @computermuseum]

Some more pictures from our Retrofest 24, huge thanks to @HereBeDragons3 for his herculean efforts organising it, and huge thanks to all the exhibitors, staff and volunteers for making it run so smoothly, it was a great weekend :)

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@ALUebuT Congratulations to those who put this together, looking forwards putting a sideways ram bank in my ap6 to very good use.

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@m1keypies @MimiJ9 @NonsenseBlaster There is plenty real farms can do so they never pay IHT, for those buying farms as a IHT avoidance vehicle it will be much harder to avoid. If people stop buying farming land as a tax avoided method, we might even see the price of farming land drop.

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@m1keypies @MimiJ9 @NonsenseBlaster It's 1m per person addition to the nil rated 1m. So if a couple inherit the farm its 3m, with 10 years to pay off any IHT due on anything above the 3m, with no interest on that payment. Real farms would also be able to restructure as a company to avoid any IHT.

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@LockFarm I think there is probably a limit to how well it can work if one candidate refuses to conceded, however the quicker they get to a settled legal result the better.

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@LockFarm @TC_1963 @AndyatAuto @SMMT Given most new car sales where done on a finance agreement I suppose its not that surprising interest rates have had a big impact on sales. I'm not that surprised most fleet sales moving to electric, given your allowed to write all of it off in year 1, vs the regular period.

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@LockFarm It been interesting to see how the legal system has geared up for challenging of counts etc, streamlining the process and shortening of time frames. To try and get everything settled in weeks rather than months.

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@LockFarm @CraigRussell80 There are some "farms" would be significantly impacted, that seam to just be IHT avoidance vehicles. It looks like the threashold as been calibrated reasonably well. Real farms can also look a become limited companies with a transfer of shares over time.

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@LockFarm @CraigRussell80 Farming certainly has big problems, if I had to pick one our post brexit trading arrangement would be the one. Based on the only level headed analysis I've seen only 1/4 of farms would be impacted by the IHT change, out of them most would have less than 20k to pay over 10 years.

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@LockFarm @CraigRussell80 overacting to the IHT changes on farming, and the situation with IHT is still much more generous for farmers than before the mid 80s. I think alot of the out cry is driven by political motivation, and those none farms trying to avoid IHT.

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@LockFarm @CraigRussell80 So in a typical situation, of parents leave the farm to a child and thier spouse, that 3m before any IHT is due. There is then 10 years, interest free to pay it. So whatever sum is due has 10 years of compounded inflation to reduce the bill. I think there has been a big