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@astia.bsky.social
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Explorer of the possible. Anarchist communist. Anti-fascist. He/him, Bi-Furious. Not all those who wander are lost. #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter

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SpecialKimtamine™ 🚩🏴‍☠️🇮🇹🇺🇸🦈 @lorazekim.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
No matter what’s going on in your life there is a form of potato that will make it better
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democrats still think they are living in the 1990s and that what people want is for the partisan bickering to cease. We are actually living in the 2020s and the people want treason to be prosecuted
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Roland @rolandwall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time I see a headline like "Trump weighing decision to ..." I'm reminded of how thoroughly compromised the media has become. Acting like he was a normal POTUS, thoughtfully working for the good of the country and not the malignant grifter he is.
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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Honestly. If that guy’s strategy is to wear us down, then he doesn’t understand Minnesota and our winters. We endure and thrive because of each other. To my Somali neighbors and friends - you are needed and loved.
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Susanne democratic socialist @momoftwo.bsky.social · 19h
Yup. We have our absentee ballots, completed and ready to go- directly to the election office. Not a chance that we would mail it. That's how fucked up the USPS has become under the Trump regime. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Early vote analysis: Mail ballot concerns are changing how Democrats vote
Democrats are requesting fewer mail ballots but returning them quicker, according to early vote data — a shift with implications for election night.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 16h
“Why don’t we settle this in the dojo?” I say, karate-chopping a stack of graham crackers. Nana backs down. As usual
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 15h
This made my day.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 23h
Republicans are more racist than you can possibly imagine. They will condemn gangs consisting of POC, but then hire white gang members to work for ICE.
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 15h
There should be a global alliance of software engineers who join together to find work, help each other upskill, review each others' carefully handcrafted code and conduct elaborate rituals in order to curse "A.I." companies and lightly chastise the people who use their products.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 15h
grateful I had the foresight to marry a “I’d rather make toast with a Bic lighter than own a toaster with a touchscreen” software engineer, and not a “honey the new microwave records us constantly and has access to all our banking information, isn’t that great” software engineer
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
me: [saves one high protein recipe] my algorithm until the end of time: why would you eat ONE brownie when you can eat 47 POUNDS of my UNHOLY CAKE SIMULACRUM for the same calories and 128x the PROTEIN. Start with NINE TUBS of GREEK YOGURT.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
you kids may not believe this, but things were so stable 15 years ago that the news had to start reporting on people seeing Jesus in their toast
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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 18h
IMHO the influencers and thinkers are already to the right of Trump and the candidates winning primaries are more likely than not also to his right. We're there now.
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スリバーヨー @sliveryaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s bad when even the NYPD is like “it wasn’t us”, wild.
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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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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 22h
Mmmmm, delightful! 😍
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It would be so good!!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Public executions on tv and in the street is meant to stop a rebellion before it can even start. American techno-fascism has reached its final form. Billionaires and christian nationalist politicians no longer have any consent of the governed. So they will govern solely through force
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J. Smith @jooltman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A wide swath of New Yorkers marching this evening to demand an end to ICE terror on our streets, a full independent investigation of yesterday’s shooting, action from our Electeds, and an end to NYPD cooperation with ICE. #ICEOut #ICEOutOfNYC
Protest in streets. Signs saying Defeat Fascism, I heart Immigrant NYC, End ICE, etc.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, potentially worth $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The deal would boost Russia’s war finances and undermine Ukraine’s efforts to cut off revenues funding Russia’s invasion.
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Trump lifts sanctions on $7 billion of Russian diesel as Russian strikes kill at least 71 Ukrainians in three days
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, worth nearly $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The agreement would strengthen Russia’s war finances and undermin...
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 23h
Republicans are more racist than you can possibly imagine. They will condemn gangs consisting of POC, but then hire white gang members to work for ICE.
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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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Bernadette @insolentpheasant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump Has Late Night Social Media Meltdown Over Nobel Peace Prize “The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize,” he fumed. It's amazing that he could possibly think that he would ever get a Nobel. My dog would get one before him.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/10/2026
As usual, Trump talks about the Nobel Peace Prize as if it worked like a sandwich-shop punch card. Whenever he claims to have ended eight wars, he should be called out on it. (We published this article a year ago; probably time for an update.) www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trump-h...
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No, Trump Hasn’t ‘Settled Seven Wars’
And he should be called out on that claim every time he makes it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
Trump: "The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway. We will not forget, Norway." (note how tepid the crowd response is to this whining)
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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Weltschmerz Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Putin already owned trump. He's been money laundering for the ruzzians since possibly the Gorby years. Without ruzzian money, the trump family would've been bankrupt in the 90s.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Putin has bought Trump with Russian diesel. Just before the US elections. Meanwhile, Russia keeps killing our children while they sleep at night. So Americans are now funding Russia’s war machine? I’m sorry, guys, but WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE.
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t think we, as a society, are appropriately grateful for and enthused about potatoes.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/10/2026
Dumb melting president yelling at the nation of Norway for failing to dispense the Nobel Peace Prize he ordered
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 09/10/2026
The FBI wants to hire the Ultimate Fighting Championship to train its special agents under a one-year deal that would bypass the competitive bidding process typically used for federal contracts, according to federal records.
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FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents
The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.
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Valraven, Trans Gengar @val-apocalypse.satan.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like the Dem party has been slowly working up to the Smiler since Obama. Like, Obama was "normal candidate with a *little* Smiler" and then every election since then they increase the percentage of Smiler. Newsom will just be 100% Smiler.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What if campaigns actually helped people? We tried it in IL-09. Then we put everything we learned into a free handbook:
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That doesn't need simplification, it needs MOAR DETAIL of the kind that would impress Neal Stephenson and Charles Stross. Oh and baroque and impenetrable subplots about kebabs and electrical cabinets.
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Aoife “Fe” Baker @vivaciousvandal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Important seasonal information: I have mentioned before that my favorite Maine event is the Damariscotta pumpkin regatta in which people grow giant pumpkins, turn them into boats, decorate them and then race them. Badly. Pumpkins are a terrible shape for boating! This year they will be LIVESTREAMING
A man dressed as a garden gnome with a pointy red hat and beard is piloting a giant pumpkin boat decorated with garden gnomes and outfitted with an onboard boat motor.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Doctor “NAFO” If You’re Nasty @docnickie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Refusing AI is like refusing one of Sauron’s delightful Rings of Power! Think of all the power!!”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yay!
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone needs to do a Bluesky version of the 'Gen Z Boss And A Mini' Video. "Auto-immune disease and a ferret Journo lookin' for a scoop Rage and trans solidarity Living with a dyke in a squat"
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A tribute to the suburban surrealist version of Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher. Heathcliff, an orange cartoon cat, is standing on a neighborhood sidewalk with three generic compatriot cats and a frog. All of the assembled are wearing helmets in various colors. Each helmet has one word written on it and read together they say ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Sitting in a tree above the sidewalk are two yellow birds one of whom is speaking the caption of the comic which is ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is basically just "Crack for Children!"
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Antifascist Art PDX @antifashpdxart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Be prepared for people showing up at places to vote while cosplaying ice
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's still wild to me that Quaaludes were forcibly discontinued by the US gov in the 70s because they had a high rate of abuse. That would never happen now. Purdue got 70% of Appalachia hooked on Oxys by insisting it wasn't addictive & the US gov was like "well I guess thats their business model"
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A digital illustration of Godzilla silhouetted against a red and orange fire-colored background with his back spines all glowing blue as he blasts nuclear fire at whomever you would most like to have nuclear fire blasted at. Go ahead and make a wish. Jagged lettering on Godzilla’s back and shoulder, also glowing blue, reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’
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