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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 2h

it's actually normal to turn into a swarm of bats and fly away into the night. in fact it's weird to think it's weird

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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 1h

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT DEAD NAME! Val and Lanie from THE OJJA WOJJA for some doppelgänger horror! with my lovely cocreator Jenn St-Onge

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 18h

I don't know that but it explains so much about them.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 19h

Oregon isn't blue, it's purple.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

I watched Florida taken apart by corrupt rightwing governors who destroyed so much. Oregon might not be perfect, but it has a functional government that has preserved many human rights other states have lost. Please don't take that for granted-- reelect Kotek as governor. Hold fast.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 19h

How are those distinct from each other?

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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Democrats backsliding on trans rights are not only cowards and moral failures who would throw their voters and supports to the wolves for a taste of power, but also they have the political instincts of a trash can. They are pathetic and worthy of all your scorn.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I still get anxious and worried when I call a sick day for myself, too. It's awful! We shouldn't have to live with such nonsense that imprints itself into us.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Imagine if a biotech company kept releasing breathless press releases like "This smallpox has a 20 day incubation period, then 4 days of airborne contagion worse than COVID, then 99% fatalities--and we're not sure we can contain it!" as part of their IPO press push.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm trying to read the Chris Claremont X-Men books and oh wow these fucking suuuuuck. Jean's death and rebirth as Phoenix is, so far, three or four pages sandwiched inbetween a fight with Juggernaut in Ireland that gets sidelined so that Nightcrawler can have a racist side story with Leprechauns.

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🦇Bram Stoker’s Grantula🦇 @grantthethief.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is the kinda phone you use to hire Golgo 13 for a hit.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I hate the way a lot of genre fiction promotes itself with a list of tropes and concepts, like an ingredients list. It's like going to a French cafe and ordering water, onions, butter, cheese, and bread.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dunno how'd you square it with the First Amendment, but I think there's got to be some kind of legal response to this level of fascist propaganda being pumped directly into our lives. And if no such law can work, then we've got to make airstrikes on data centers a much more common thing.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts And you know what? I was *right*

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"We've stolen your vision; now we'll help you bring it to life!"

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lol, David Brooks is getting mulched on here. Everyone is sick of his shit.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

all those people who called me "irresponsible" for advocating air strikes against specific data centers better be eating crow.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.

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Siobhán Casey @shivs.kindgirls.online · 11/10/2026

nothing worse in this world than disliking something for good reasons that chuds also hugely dislike for chud reasons

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

By Makoto Kobayashi

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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Halloween in Hanbok 09

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This whole time it has seemed surreal and horrifying, how obvious the whole thing has been, and how resolutely our Very Serious People have ignored the question over and over again.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of my best friends in the world lives every day with the physical and psychological consequences of being raped in college. Donald Trump was accused by dozens of women of rape and he still got elected President, twice. Do not ever whine, do not EVER whine, about how unfair accusations are.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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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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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 10/10/2026

I just finished Quaint Folk by @bitterkarella.bsky.social! This is great trippy folk horror weirdness for you fans of creepy villages with dark secrets. A great read for the Halloween and/or Tigglestide season!

The cover of Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella. It's like a folk horror blacklight poster.

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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 10/10/2026

they should invent a long distance girlfriend who is nearby so you can see her a bunch and it isn’t a big deal

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Our product is so cool it might actually kill everyone" is such a weird sales pitch. Like if they were trying to hock Home Napalm or something. It's napalm, finally in your own home. Please give us $2T.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2024: every bug bounty program shuts down because of a flood of bogus AI generated bug reports 2025: open source repos begin closing submissions because of AI generated PRs 2026: Anthropic begins trialing AI generated police tip line calls

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Jill Writes @descriptivist.net · 09/10/2026

Today the sales for my book Retconned exceeded the high end of the expectations I set for myself. I surpassed my expectations on paperback a while back, and surpassed them for ebooks today. Check it out for yourself, if you'd like. justsuper.net/works/retcon...

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Retconned

When Frank Doyle, a troublemaking teen with a quirky superpower, accidentally turns himself into a girl, the resulting chaos leaves him with a choice: cling to an identity that never really fit, or fa...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The cost of generating and storing electricity with solar + battery is now cheaper than on-demand generation with gas turbines everywhere in the world: www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/4-ho...

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4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe

Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive

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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic literally has more concern for their imaginary friends than for the actual literal people being exploited and traumatized by the creation and use of these awful products www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

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Kalliope O @kalliopeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I once saw a bookstore summarize the neon genesis evangelion manga as, “take your kid to work day that goes horribly wrong,” and I have no notes.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In your shoes, I'd be trying to tough it out.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NGL, I'm kinda with the skeptics on this one.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like that, a lot, but the one I'm thinking of is basically like the Fallout series. A straight-forward aesthetic recreation of the themes, motifs, and concerns of GTA--crime fiction with wacky characters in a hyperreal nightmare circus version of America. And then, in the background, 9/11.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Look, if we're gonna live in Conglomerate IP Hell, then they should at least give us a Grand Theft Auto streaming series.

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, and this is mainly an aesthetic concern, the "personalizations" are going to be ultra shallow and stupid. The kinds of people who will thrive in these environments are going to be the kind who think it's really awesome the game automatically replicates your face on the player character avatar.

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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

what even is it like to be one of those people who thinks having the lying machine create a bad sloppleganger of yourself somehow equates to immortality. How does someone devalue themselves to that point

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

So no, I don’t think we should have a special day of mourning where we don’t have to acknowledge our own guilt. I think we need to remember both what was done to us and what we did.

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