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Ben Curthoys
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CEO & Founder, Monad Ticketing. T1 Diabetes. He/him. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Searchable. https://justmytoots.com/@[email protected] […] 🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@bencurthoys on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
@christianp

"Does it tesselate?"
"Yes if you have access to the laser cutter"
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Summarised by my partner as "The bank of England is saying WATCH OUT CHAPS"...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-england-warns-of-growing-risk-that-ai-bubble-could-burst
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Volunteers: shhh

https://www.gov.uk/volunteering/pay-and-expenses

Just let them in if there's space and don't tell anyone.
Volunteer opportunities, rights and expenses
Find volunteering opportunities, and volunteer rights, pay, expenses, age limits, criminal record checks.
www.gov.uk
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Sponsor: VATable

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/sponsorship-and-vat-notice-70141

If you're giving sponsors tickets, that's a VATable supply and you should pay the VAT on it even though you aren't charging the sponsor directly for the ticket.
Sponsorship (VAT Notice 701/41)
How VAT applies if you give or get sponsorship.
www.gov.uk
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Performer's Mum - not VATable
https://www.gov.uk/charge.../vat-on-discounts-and-gifts

If you're giving away your own goods and services worth less that £50 per person per year it's fine.
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Managed to get through to the HMRC VAT helpline.
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@fak I write the box office ticketing software. Until now I've just recorded comps and the accountants have figured it out, but now the accountants are telling me that Making Tax Digital means that I need to report on the correct VAT amounts and they need to go into the accounting software […]
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Please boost for reach I actually need an answer to this. Yes I am already asking accountants etc.
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Imagine you are the organiser of a small arts festival. You issue a complimentary ticket at no charge to each of - a performer's mother, a sponsor of the festival, a member of your board of trustees, and a volunteer who is working for the festival.

In which of those situations should you pay […]
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
You ever get a bug report so accurate, succinct and detailed that you want to offer the customer who reported it a job on the spot?
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Can't see the Tories doing very well at the Bridge of Death

"Whoever approaches party conference season must answer me these questions three. What is your name?"
"Kemi"
"What is your favourite colour?"
"Blue"
"How do you spell the name of this country?"
"B-R-I-T-I-A-N wait no aaargh" […]
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/06/conservative-party-misspell-britain-conference-chocolate-bar
Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate
Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media
www.theguardian.com
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Tories set low bar after misspelling "Britain" on a bar of chocolate.
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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid - I absolutely love this for him. Good job my dude

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@wagesj45
Still from the film Captain Philips
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@danny
screenshot of a BBC B emulator into which I have typed "VDU 7", which does the same as pressing ctrl+G on that machine.
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Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ^G
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Source is over in the bad place - https://x.com/thekitze/status/1974806037963166077
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
"Managers have been vibe coding forever" - Tell dev to implement new feature - New feature isn't what you imagined - Ask for the same thing over and over again until the dev guesses what you want - Complain about how long it took.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d
Like as a weird example: there's this regular complaint that companies never think beyond the next quarter. I'm not sure that was ever completely true, but now you regularly have powerful people making financial bets that, in order to square, mean the world will be insanely different in 5-10 years.
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Too many people think they are reasoning logically, when all they are doing is playing logic-shaped language games.
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Matthew Turland @elazar.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
"Terrible things are happening
outside. Poor helpless people
are being dragged out of their
homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are
separated. Children come home
from school to find that their
parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

#fascism #history […]
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Xenofact (he/him):jrbd: @revxenofact.dobbs.town.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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PJ "chinga la migra" Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 5d
"How's Bluesky going?"

"Oh fine, fine. Just a couple of little niggles."

https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/
Delusions of a Protocol
On vaporware as an ideological product.
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Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Dear Mastodon

Last night I finished the last bit of DLC for Control. Which game, out of the ones that I have hopefully bought but then not played over the last years of looking after children instead of having time for playing computer games, should I play next?
A list of computer games - Alien Isolation Crusader Kings II Fallout 4 GTA V Grounded Grow Home Heavy Rain KSP No Man's Sky Subnautica Oh plus I've got Disco Elysium but not on Steam.