Jim Caris
@jimcaris.bsky.social
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to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
You'll be extremely unsurprised to see that the vast majority of the tax comes from London/Southeast
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
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"I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."
Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with autho...
Choo choo!
www.pcgamer.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people."
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Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
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Oh, do the rest of you not have this?
I THOUGHT THIS WAS NORMAL!
FFS
https://neurolaunch.com/hyperphantasia-adhd/
FFS
https://neurolaunch.com/hyperphantasia-adhd/
Hyperphantasia and ADHD: A Deep Dive
Explore the connection between vivid mental imagery and ADHD, including characteristics, challenges, and management strategies.
neurolaunch.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Oh, do the rest of you not have this?
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Spain's socialist government has delivered economic growth three times faster than Britain's; Labour would do well to study how.
Sir Keir Starmer Wants Growth—Perhaps He Should Learn Spanish
Spain's socialist government has delivered economic growth three times faster than Britain's; Labour would do well to study how.
www.socialeurope.eu
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Spain's socialist government has delivered economic growth three times faster than Britain's; Labour would do well to study how.
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When you think about the things you *can* get away with saying on your front page just by sticking some quote marks around them, it becomes very clear exactly who the system is meant to protect and who it is meant to destroy.
'These days, you can't even call Donald Trump “the most openly corrupt president in American history” without the politically-correct brigade' etc., etc., etc..
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
When you think about the things you *can* get away with saying on your front page just by sticking some quote marks around them, it becomes very clear exactly who the system is meant to protect and who it is meant to destroy.
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
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"because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" is how he finished that sentence
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" is how he finished that sentence
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I am looking for people who are familiar with Dreamcast Web Browsers (how they work, their structure, etc.).
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I am looking for people who are familiar with Dreamcast Web Browsers (how they work, their structure, etc.).
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It already happened! We already had an election won by a buffoon with a platform of very obvious lies and fraud while the entire system screamed abuse at his opponents as traitors and horked up dubious legal cases against them. Our institutions have been packed with malignant wingnuts for years!
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It already happened! We already had an election won by a buffoon with a platform of very obvious lies and fraud while the entire system screamed abuse at his opponents as traitors and horked up dubious legal cases against them. Our institutions have been packed with malignant wingnuts for years!
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This is the world the serious grown up moderates fought to preserve, and don't let them ever try to tell you otherwise.
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is the world the serious grown up moderates fought to preserve, and don't let them ever try to tell you otherwise.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Enjoying Sektori a lot. Really scratches that Geometry Wars itch.
Technical perfection, an incredible soundtrack, and impossible to put down: Sektori is one of the best games of the year and every sicko needs to play it. aftermath.site/sektori-shoote...
Sektori Is The Technically Perfect Heir To Geometry Wars
I need every sicko reading this to play Sektori right now.
aftermath.site
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Enjoying Sektori a lot. Really scratches that Geometry Wars itch.
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i hesitate to share this but it's a pretty good illustration of a particular kind of "research." namely the kind @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social are usually dissecting on maiht3k
"AI-powered growth agency" Finds AI is Growing
"AI-powered growth agency" Finds AI is Growing
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans
AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article co...
graphite.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
i hesitate to share this but it's a pretty good illustration of a particular kind of "research." namely the kind @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social are usually dissecting on maiht3k
"AI-powered growth agency" Finds AI is Growing
"AI-powered growth agency" Finds AI is Growing
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ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company.
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability
Results: we find AI everywhere
Yet we're apparently weird for eating beans on toast. Look at this shit.
Kraft Original Mac & Cheese Mac Friday 65" Box, 65 Count of 7.5 oz Boxes goes up on Walmart exclusive in 60 minutes (9 PM PT - $19.37) buff.ly/zdUIMSg #ad
-65" TV-sized box
-65 boxes of Mac n Cheese
-4K Noodles
-65" TV-sized box
-65 boxes of Mac n Cheese
-4K Noodles
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Yet we're apparently weird for eating beans on toast. Look at this shit.
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The party of working…C suites?
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The party of working…C suites?
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Labour Together is a hate group mate.
Page 30.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Labour Together is a hate group mate.
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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The tragic Hong Kong fire is still burning, yet 3 construction company executives have been arrested. Here in the UK, 8 years on from Grenfell - zero arrests.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The tragic Hong Kong fire is still burning, yet 3 construction company executives have been arrested. Here in the UK, 8 years on from Grenfell - zero arrests.
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Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
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But, they *do* make excellent cat beds.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
But, they *do* make excellent cat beds.