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Andy Cowley

@andycowley.uk
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Idiot from the Black Country with ADHD. Used to be crazygibbon on twatter a thousand years ago.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
"Groimes, they kilt my preecious bahts!"
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
By Luce Bahzi
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 10/10/2026
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...
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The deadly toll of the trans healthcare crisis: 21 suicides and over 600 other deaths
QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.
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Wonton Goodsoup @wontongoodsoup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
kind of funny that they clearly wanted this report to justify whatever the government wants to do, and still the best they can rummage up is "They aren't overdiagnosed but they would be, if we started overdiagnosing them"
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026
From International Women's Day '21
Margaret Hamilton drawing
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The Weirdling @theweirdling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Indeed. Antlers and all. #FolkHorror #Lovecraftian
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Goofy you monster
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 08/10/2026
Principal Skinner: HAVE WE MADE MATERIAL CONDITIONS SO HH ONEROUS, CULTURE SO TOXIC, AND THE ENVIRONMENT SO DEGRADED THAT UNLESS WE REPAIR THE DAMAGE WE'VE DONE PEOPLE WON'T HAVE THE FINANCES. EMOTIONAL BANDWIDTH, OR MORAL COMFORT TO PROCREATE?

NO, IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT CHILDREN WHO ARE WRONG
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Leslie Laurence @asleepyfrog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 07/10/2026
Paddington, put down the knife
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
schoolboy's internal investigation into why he didn't do his homework clears schoolboy over missing homework
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beware of the dog! The Cave Canem entranceway from #Pompeii is such a timeless #Roman mosaic; the dog still symbolically protects his owner's house, nearly 2000 years after it was destroyed when Mt Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 🐶 #Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "'ello!" The first of forty visits to the cellar of the monster's castle that features The Trap Door, by association the glory of a Willie Rushton voiceover, and the stop-motion skill of future Wallace & Gromit co-director Steve Box.
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The Trapdoor - Breakfast Time
Watch more Cartoons here :https://bit.ly/37L30II Berk is busy preparing his master's breakfast - from worms and other vile concoctions, when a strange yellow creature comes out of the trap door in the kitchen floor and eats the breakfast, closely followed by a large Big Red Thing which chases Berk u
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer…
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 05/10/2026
This scene in Superman 3 Scared the crap out of me. I somehow linked this scene with the Sylvester McCoy Dr Who with the vacuums that ate people
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Theology aside, it's always very telling that there is a cadre of people who want to give Britain credit for abolishing slavery, while simultaneously railing against anything that illustrates doing so was worthwhile.
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 04/10/2026
Also, coyotes are loud
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 04/10/2026
Was in Lake Tahoe last week for work. Beautiful place. Lots of good critters. #bear #chipmunk #pygmyOwl
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain doesn't change. I'm rereading Holmes. It's 1887 and the Daily Telegraph speculates that a murder must have been perpetrated by refugees or socialists, and advocates a closer watch over foreigners, while the Standard blames such outrages on a liberal government. A Study in Red, White & Blue?
1st edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026
guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 24/09/2026
The most useful social activism a pop star could do at the moment would be someone like Dua Lipa putting out a track called "I'm not fucking anyone with pervert glasses"
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...
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Burst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on path
The issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse
Fake Bloomberg post:
Meta Harm

Meta Debuts a Device that Liquidates your Internal Organs to Provide
a Sustainable Source of Protein for Mark Zuckerberg's Pet Salamander.

Meta Platforms Inc. just unveiled its new gadget, which is already proving popular among 
AI fans who are keen to relinquish not only all their human rights but also their lives...
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A few years ago we were actively working to dismantle systemic racism which is discreet, complicated and takes a lot to understand and legislate against. We had taken the conversation to a very sophisticated place. Now we're back asking the state to enforce the fucking law, which is easy!!
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

Doug Stanhope
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation
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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would like our Government to be outlawing, vociferously speaking out against and ruthlessly prosecuting members of what is clearly a paramilitary fascist organisation.
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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
between 15,000 and 20,000 jobs in UK universities are actively at risk of being cut, on top of the tens of thousands already lost. 50% of UK universities are actively cutting staff. Solidarity with anyone losing their job at the altar of corporate greed, but "some jobs are real jobs" indeed.
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 22/09/2026
bsky.app
@antireform.bsky.social on Bluesky
"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 22/09/2026
I knew he was a vapid, beige sock full of custard, but by gum, he's thick as mince
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Andy Cowley @andycowley.uk · 22/09/2026
When I was a kid I worried that there was a real chance that one day, all music will just have been done and there would be no new tunes possible
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026
The King of Cornhole
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