Jim Caris
@jimcaris.bsky.social
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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.
The bursting of the AI bubble will cause so much chaos, the scale of public anger against the industry will dwarf that faced by the banks in 2008.
They'll have to find someone to take the blame for all of it, a sin eater against whom all the public rage can be chanelled.
I hope it's Sam Altman.
They'll have to find someone to take the blame for all of it, a sin eater against whom all the public rage can be chanelled.
I hope it's Sam Altman.
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The bursting of the AI bubble will cause so much chaos, the scale of public anger against the industry will dwarf that faced by the banks in 2008.
They'll have to find someone to take the blame for all of it, a sin eater against whom all the public rage can be chanelled.
I hope it's Sam Altman.
They'll have to find someone to take the blame for all of it, a sin eater against whom all the public rage can be chanelled.
I hope it's Sam Altman.
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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 1:09 PM
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
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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The companies suing gen-AI companies for stealing their work are not doing so on ethical grounds, to protect artists, or even to protect their work.
They're doing it because *they* want the AI money.
They're doing it because *they* want the AI money.
Warner Music Drops Lawsuit Against Suno, Only to Cut Deal With Same AI Tech It Tried to Shut Down
www.ibtimes.co.uk/warner-music...
www.ibtimes.co.uk/warner-music...
Warner Music Drops Lawsuit Against Suno, Only to Cut Deal With the Same AI Tech It Tried to Shut Down
Warner Music Group has dropped its lawsuit against Suno and instead struck a partnership that gives artists full control over how their work is used in the AI platform's new licensed models launching ...
www.ibtimes.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The companies suing gen-AI companies for stealing their work are not doing so on ethical grounds, to protect artists, or even to protect their work.
They're doing it because *they* want the AI money.
They're doing it because *they* want the AI money.
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One of the big issues of our time is seeing 'young people cant afford homes' and 'homeowners cant afford to be taxed more' as two separate problems, rather than the inevitable consequence of an economy built around inflated house prices to placate landlords
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
Mumsnet is already on the case.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One of the big issues of our time is seeing 'young people cant afford homes' and 'homeowners cant afford to be taxed more' as two separate problems, rather than the inevitable consequence of an economy built around inflated house prices to placate landlords
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This was part of the point of requiring unpaid internships at the BBC btw- replacing a generation of workers whose qualification to get started was a love of the work with a generation of workers whose qualification was the ability to afford to live in London without an income
Journalists who came up through the ranks, knew their readers names, recognised their faces and understood their concerns 1st hand have historically been the backbone of the press. The right-wing corporatization of media has replaced it w an elite “ruling class” corps utterly out of touch w readers
I can’t claim to be neutral. But I am grateful I wasn’t hired at 19 before graduating college and then plummeted into journalism stardom. I was forced to learn my lessons in a small town newspaper where the audience was small but cared deeply when I made my mistakes — and forced me to confront them
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This was part of the point of requiring unpaid internships at the BBC btw- replacing a generation of workers whose qualification to get started was a love of the work with a generation of workers whose qualification was the ability to afford to live in London without an income
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is the correct amount of joy to display while holding a Dreamcast
The Dreamcast launched in Japan on this day in 1998. It brought online play, VMU memory cards, and a glimpse of the future.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is the correct amount of joy to display while holding a Dreamcast
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Important to remember that the British public is actively being misinformed on this issue.
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Important to remember that the British public is actively being misinformed on this issue.
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when you see ppl ranting on the news, print, radio, and podcasts claiming that zack polanski's economics are 'crazy' and 'communist' and so on pls remember that these are the same ppl currently calling rachel reeves a 'socialist' for her bog-standard, typical, trickle-down budget.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
when you see ppl ranting on the news, print, radio, and podcasts claiming that zack polanski's economics are 'crazy' and 'communist' and so on pls remember that these are the same ppl currently calling rachel reeves a 'socialist' for her bog-standard, typical, trickle-down budget.
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Labour's growing authoritarianism is deeply sinister.
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Labour's growing authoritarianism is deeply sinister.
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
This week, they've:
- Swapped judges last minute in the high-profile Palestine Action ban review
- Proposed removing the right of trial by jury for most offences
- Planned to abolish appeals in the asylum system
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Completely, and in my experience when removed from the immediate sugar rush of a right wing propaganda operation screaming in their ear all day, people tend to revert to at least an economically leftish median.
And that's why these papers still run despite making no money.
And that's why these papers still run despite making no money.
I get a surprisingly large number of responses saying “This is because the public are stupid” but for real, if that was the key issue, then it wouldn’t be necessary to constantly shitehouse people with the most misleading and inflammatory messages they can get away with. There would be no need.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Completely, and in my experience when removed from the immediate sugar rush of a right wing propaganda operation screaming in their ear all day, people tend to revert to at least an economically leftish median.
And that's why these papers still run despite making no money.
And that's why these papers still run despite making no money.
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The people that brought back The Onion should probably buy The Telegraph. No joke.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The people that brought back The Onion should probably buy The Telegraph. No joke.
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I'm going to need a website or something that works like "does the dog die" but for genAI : for games, movies/shows, music, newspapers, you name it, "does it use ai and/or take users' infos & content to train some ai?". I would give a few bucks when I can like I do to Wikipedia if needed. Someone? 🙏
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm going to need a website or something that works like "does the dog die" but for genAI : for games, movies/shows, music, newspapers, you name it, "does it use ai and/or take users' infos & content to train some ai?". I would give a few bucks when I can like I do to Wikipedia if needed. Someone? 🙏
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Labour: Inflation is down. Families are better off.
Reality: No they're not. Inflation's still rising. They're just not getting worse off as fast.
Labour: We froze rail fares. Passengers will save hundreds of pounds.
Reality: No they won't save a penny. They just won't have to pay more.
Etc.
Reality: No they're not. Inflation's still rising. They're just not getting worse off as fast.
Labour: We froze rail fares. Passengers will save hundreds of pounds.
Reality: No they won't save a penny. They just won't have to pay more.
Etc.
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Labour: Inflation is down. Families are better off.
Reality: No they're not. Inflation's still rising. They're just not getting worse off as fast.
Labour: We froze rail fares. Passengers will save hundreds of pounds.
Reality: No they won't save a penny. They just won't have to pay more.
Etc.
Reality: No they're not. Inflation's still rising. They're just not getting worse off as fast.
Labour: We froze rail fares. Passengers will save hundreds of pounds.
Reality: No they won't save a penny. They just won't have to pay more.
Etc.
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“No one can pretend they didn’t know the harm it was causing.
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“No one can pretend they didn’t know the harm it was causing.
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hard to see how anyone to the left of Richard Littlejohn can see this stuff without being instantly Jokerfied.
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hard to see how anyone to the left of Richard Littlejohn can see this stuff without being instantly Jokerfied.
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In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?