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Stories is such a good way of putting this. Can a novel be full of pain and suffering? Clearly yes. Does a fictional character suffer in the real world? They're fictional don't be a dumbass.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13h

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 13h

This video feels like my complete and total social exoneration.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 19h

The jaws of Victory are about to chomp on Defeat. Wait! In the distance! Is that a horrendous amalgamation of Democrat pollsters and consultants, rushing in to save Defeat from the maw of Victory, thus keeping them relevant for next cycle? Right on time, in October, in a close race, our heroes.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 20h

Can we all chill tf out about math now? Half of you don't know what the name of a 7-sided shape is, don't start pretending you give a shit about 4/3 Infinity Packing Problems in the 7th Dimension.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

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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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seems like a good way to get your employees' asses beat if they keep it up.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Holy shit I called it, these ghouls absolutely want public, televised executions and they're gonna **start** with someone who very few people would really go to bat for specifically. I did say **start**. This escalates very quickly, I imagine.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love watching videos of people describing "strategies" for slot machines that they've convinced themselves will work, I love people thinking that they've figured out how to outsmart a random number generator

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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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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look, if you don't understand that AI is socially caustic at this point, that's squarely on you.

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's wild that I'm going to have to explain to my currently very small kid that, yes my child, it was literally this fucking stupid, all of the time, and I shielded it from you.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hell, it really does seem like the world is just having A Moment, huh?

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Premillennial Decompensationalist @smollusk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there should have been an imediate stop to consumer LLMs and full criminal liability the *first* time one talked someone into suicide, at the absolute latest

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh hey that is very critical information that turns this from "Okay, weird Elf on the Shelf, but live your life" to "This is my new best friend; he'll be sleeping in the corner of the bedroom, watching over me, protecting me while I sleep"

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shout out to the Nigerian scam email capitalization, too. Invoking trust and confidence with your attention to detail

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"No one is too small to make a difference." - Greta Thunberg. Children's educators are activists. Activists are those who take strong, direct action to support or oppose change. Children's educators support, believe in children. Children make a difference, they are capable of significant change.

Mychal and Ms. Rachel smiling together for a photo

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm genuinely nervous that Hegseth is gonna push *hard* to televise this live.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like I know it's not the point but a Stone Cold Stunner gets no percentage modification for being outside the ring because the vital part of the maneuver stays the same. If anything, Jamelle is saying that he'd do it even at great injury to his own person, which I think is commendable.

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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the abolitionist's dilemma

venn diagram
left
some people need their ass beat
right
punishment does not transform people
middle
me

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just don't draw the fun HP shit. It's bonkers to pretend at this point that you didn't know that shit is radioactive on Bsky. I get it, be kind to people, whatever. I'm not upset at her as an artist, but am I very exhausted holding people's hands on why their special thing isn't an excuse, either

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's really easy to just say you support trans folk, we're just asking you to put your money where your mouth is and not give it to one of the worst transphobes alive to show you mean it. If you can't even do that it's clear you just genuinely don't care about trans folk.

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Live in such a way that when you die, the newspapers don't print "admitted child molester" next to your name and smiling face.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"we don't have a security team for our cellular network company" is amazing stuff.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Trump mobile was informed they had been breached, they then replied with ‘We have no team to handle this’ and that anyone who hacks them are a terrorist,” Lol. Lmao.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For me, it's still the list-style articles. BIG HEADING Intro Paragraph BIG DRAMATIC HEADING Paragraph List THE BOTTOM LINE Paragraph Every time. Even "academic" or professional writing (so, theoretically where long-form should be a norm) also follows this, but less blatantly.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is like peak Reddit Sephiroth quote-posting yourself shit back in 2013. And it's on a .gov website, specifically the War one, cool cool cool very good for us.

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Revenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October is clearly Seattle's best month but no one actually takes me seriously when I say this

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A message to our resident mean girl. Stop trying to make fascism happen. #MoodyCantSitWithUs #AngieForFlorida

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been to a handful of these, all very community driven, and they're a blast! Yes, I do want to hear from you, the most passionate person about garden snakes, or the person who wants to talk about competitive scrabble, or the person who thinks Shakespeare and Sisqo share a poetry Mt. Rushmore.

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"super good at social engineering and persuasion" is literally just admitting to psychosis.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

So much discourse on what the “left” gets wrong about ai capabilities and yet I never see these folks talk about the actual damage being done to communities right now. Funny that.

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