Founder, Software Developer, Runner. writing: https://xitter.cf/t.co/HRExj0T392

Manchester, UK
Joined October 2011
Kris Carter retweeted
People who have zero fucking clue
Replying to @DuxVul2
Someone earning £200k is going to have an army of tax advisers and lawyers at hand to answer those questions
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This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in... "Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state." "...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent." No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need @griffitha @LiamHalligan open.substack.com/pub/ieains…
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Kris Carter retweeted
This is exactly the kind of entitlement that fuels the perception of a cartel in football. A manager succeeds at a so called “lesser” club, and the conversation immediately shifts to which traditional giant should take him away. Then people wonder why there’s a sense that ambitious clubs outside the established elite are kept at arm’s length. The assumption is always that the bigger name deserves the best of what the others build.
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My friend just raised money for his new startup €80k round I was the lead investor (I put in €2.4k) He's already deployed most of the funds, hiring 2 marketers, 3 engineers, and 17 compliance people Has enough runway for about 18 months to fund payroll for this small, scrappy team They are currently pre-product and pre-revenue I urged him to hire another compliance officer instead of the 2nd marketer, but otherwise I'm happy with his decisions so far Love seeing young founders build promising teams here in the EU
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Kris Carter retweeted
fellas, if your girl: - listens to everything you say - tracks your app usage - wants to know about your youtube interests that's not your girl. that's a samsung smart tv
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Who’s gonna tell him ☠️
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Kris Carter retweeted
"the perfect sandbox doesn't exi-"
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Kris Carter retweeted
Platform is full of absolute muppets.
Aston Villa demanding £20m before they can release Unai Emery to us is actually gutter behaviour. Who do they think they are? What is always wrong with these small clubs?
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Kris Carter retweeted
Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you damage yourselves. I hear you've now nerfed your models so that when people try to use them to clean the spamware and spyware out of their televisions, you block that. If you really want Chinese open-weight models and open-source projects like OpenWaldo to eat your lunch, crippling your models so that people paying expensive subscriptions can't use them for completely legitimate purposes is a great way to accomplish this. If, on the other hand, you'd rather have a volume business, maybe stupid arbitrary restrictions that look like they have the sole purpose of protecting corporate sleazeballs aren't such a good idea. A word to the wise should be sufficient.
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Kris Carter retweeted
When your mate at work gets too drunk at the company Xmas party from the free drinks vouchers and tells the CEO to fuck off
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No. The scariest thing here is what HMRC considers wealthy. £200k/pa OR £2M in ASSETS And apparently, out of a population of £68ish million inhabitants, there are only 850,000 of these 'wealthy'. We are so irredeemably fucked. xitter.cf/JenKteach/status/21142…
The scariest thing here is what HMRC considers wealthy. £200K
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Kris Carter retweeted
Underratedly funny detail of this NIMBY extravaganza is that the Lidl literally would’ve been built with local stone
Planning Application for a Lidl superstore on the London Road, Bath REFUSED
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Kris Carter retweeted
This is that cartel entitlement. Last week it was Fabian Hürzeler this week Emery. Stick to rotating the class of 92.
United should be throwing everything at Unai Emery right now if they want to be the slightest bit serious.
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Kris Carter retweeted
🗣Souness: "Its cruel on #ManCity. This is because of FFP, set up by the big clubs to protect big clubs. They've said, 'We are the big guys, we generate the most, let's set up a rule that prevents City buying the best players and we're not the big boys anymore.' Its jealousy" 👏
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Kris Carter retweeted
While I appreciate a £200k salary is rare in Britain Calling managers in banks & tech companies on PAYE “wealthy” and pulling them in for a face to face is absolutely wild
🚨NEW: HMRC's letter to wealthy Britons demanding detailed information about their financial arrangements has been revealed
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For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️
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Bill Maher nails it on Britain’s welfare addiction here. “The UK has had seven Prime Ministers in ten years. That’s because no politician can be what the people want: a genius who figures out how to give out endlessly more money with ever less working people.”
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Kris Carter retweeted
Is that Konsa who Villa had to sell to a Red Cartel team due to rules brought in by (checks notes) the Red Cartel?
Centre-back-to-back, Konsa, now Gabriel, Arsenal chasing back-to-back titles. #AFC #ARSEVE
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Kris Carter retweeted
So good 🤣
A summary of the Investor Proposal Meeting, including a full replay and the 60-page Member information pack ℹ️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s38zjww
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Kris Carter retweeted
In retrospect, I think Astra may have been the most disappointing release of the year
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