Jake Staines
@sanakism.bsky.social
Increasingly grumpy software engineer from the English midlands; plays board games, paints miniatures, tries to convince everyone with a pulse to play Netrunner.
On Instagram, Mastodon.Social and technically Threads and Twitter with the same name.
On Instagram, Mastodon.Social and technically Threads and Twitter with the same name.
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If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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As with everything: make these programs universally free. If you are deeply concerned that rich people are getting access to universal government programs, then tax their incomes or assets.
A family where both parents earn 99k get 30 “free” childcare hours a week and a family where one parent is on minimum wage and one earns 100k get no “free” childcare hours at all. It’s a dumb system and I imagine most high earners game it in some way.
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As with everything: make these programs universally free. If you are deeply concerned that rich people are getting access to universal government programs, then tax their incomes or assets.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
The Labour Party: Reform UK with more syllables.
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The Labour Party: Reform UK with more syllables.
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Agree, but the fact that they proposed it in the first place makes them morally unfit to be in charge, and the fact that they will end up overturning it also makes them too incompetent to be in charge
My guess is they will end up u-turning on the jewellery thing (you can already see it being softening in interviews) and possibly the 20 years (which is way longer than Denmark).
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Agree, but the fact that they proposed it in the first place makes them morally unfit to be in charge, and the fact that they will end up overturning it also makes them too incompetent to be in charge
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Performative cruelty from a monster.
Performative cruelty from a monster.
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Performative cruelty from a monster.
Performative cruelty from a monster.
Also: if she gets away with this, what's going to stop Streeting in a year's time telling us that we have to privatise the NHS because otherwise Reform would do it, and we won't like that?
The NHS is a popular institution, but when I was growing up here not-being-Nazis was pretty popular as well.
The NHS is a popular institution, but when I was growing up here not-being-Nazis was pretty popular as well.
"If you don't like my fascism then you'll have to put up with somebody else's fascism" isn't really a very compelling argument. It fuels "they're all the same" sentiment, which Reform thrives on, and really undermines any of the people who might leaflet or doorstep campaign for Labour.
Idiots.
Idiots.
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Also: if she gets away with this, what's going to stop Streeting in a year's time telling us that we have to privatise the NHS because otherwise Reform would do it, and we won't like that?
The NHS is a popular institution, but when I was growing up here not-being-Nazis was pretty popular as well.
The NHS is a popular institution, but when I was growing up here not-being-Nazis was pretty popular as well.
"If you don't like my fascism then you'll have to put up with somebody else's fascism" isn't really a very compelling argument. It fuels "they're all the same" sentiment, which Reform thrives on, and really undermines any of the people who might leaflet or doorstep campaign for Labour.
Idiots.
Idiots.
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"If you don't like my fascism then you'll have to put up with somebody else's fascism" isn't really a very compelling argument. It fuels "they're all the same" sentiment, which Reform thrives on, and really undermines any of the people who might leaflet or doorstep campaign for Labour.
Idiots.
Idiots.
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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And is the government’s principle now that the few European Jews to whom we granted asylum in the 1930s have been returned to Germany, Poland, etc, where it was ‘safe’ in 1945?
Question on Monday
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
And is the government’s principle now that the few European Jews to whom we granted asylum in the 1930s have been returned to Germany, Poland, etc, where it was ‘safe’ in 1945?
This article opens with the premise that the Labour right saw Boris Johnson win a huge majority in 2019 and assumed Labour couldn't possibly win in 2024, which if true really tells you everything you need to know about how thought-free and out of touch with reality the Labour right is.
Hyper-factionalism, a lack of pluralism and no vision is killing the Labour movement www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson
His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This article opens with the premise that the Labour right saw Boris Johnson win a huge majority in 2019 and assumed Labour couldn't possibly win in 2024, which if true really tells you everything you need to know about how thought-free and out of touch with reality the Labour right is.
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Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Anyone in Wokingham, Berkshire: my cat Monty has been missing since November 11th, he is microchipped and registered lost, and was last seen wearing a fluorescent yellow collar.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
Please share and let me know if you have seen him.
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Are you prepared to make Important Choices?
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Are you prepared to make Important Choices?
People who aren't dangerous to society, who are willing to abide by the laws and norms of their chosen destination, should be able to live wherever the fuck they like in the world with zero hoops to jump through. Even next door. Keening and whining about migration is 100% racism, 100% of the time.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
People who aren't dangerous to society, who are willing to abide by the laws and norms of their chosen destination, should be able to live wherever the fuck they like in the world with zero hoops to jump through. Even next door. Keening and whining about migration is 100% racism, 100% of the time.
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A pedophile who acts on his urges is a child rapist, whereas an ephebophile who acts on his urges is a child rapist.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A pedophile who acts on his urges is a child rapist, whereas an ephebophile who acts on his urges is a child rapist.
985% increase in National Insurance contributions incoming...? We all know they won't do anything actually sensible.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
985% increase in National Insurance contributions incoming...? We all know they won't do anything actually sensible.
Oh look, what a surprise, whoever could have predicted this etc. etc.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Oh look, what a surprise, whoever could have predicted this etc. etc.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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"The ban on puberty blockers has affected Laura’s child deeply
Following the ban, no pharmacy in the UK is allowed to fill private prescriptions to under 18s for gender affirming medications."
Following the ban, no pharmacy in the UK is allowed to fill private prescriptions to under 18s for gender affirming medications."
MP fails to support suicidal constituent
A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"The ban on puberty blockers has affected Laura’s child deeply
Following the ban, no pharmacy in the UK is allowed to fill private prescriptions to under 18s for gender affirming medications."
Following the ban, no pharmacy in the UK is allowed to fill private prescriptions to under 18s for gender affirming medications."
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I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”
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me when the AI bubble bursts
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
me when the AI bubble bursts