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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zero rizz, zero juice, a joiner not a leader
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They're going to ruin the only affordable hardware out there.
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lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is important but can we really call this a "revelation" in the context of Ken Paxton?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026
its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal
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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Remember how he could do this because he decorated cakes or something
Peeta camouflaged as a rock and shrubbery
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Very important Star Trek image
Shatner 
The world of homosexuality I'm not that
familiar with. Are you?

Spiner (Data tha robot)
To a degree…
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DJ (he, him)🏳️‍🌈 @dmrh0720.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He just like me fr
Kamala Harris's husband 'does not want her to run for president again'
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/10/2026
Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this year for halloween i edited a copy of house 2 for watching with friends. every shot of bill maher was removed from the film, even his name in the credits. "the clean house cut". played like a dream. goes straight from the worm puppy to john ratzenberger swordfighting aztecs
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/10/2026
someone really hated this little freak
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
jonathan blow… he’s that guy who made the mario about women running away from him right
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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Gen Z kids at work when I do something cool
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Always fascinating seeing how many people's theory of change relates to voting in your favourite guy and then sitting on your hands
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Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If gizmo wanted to protect people from gremlins he would kill himself
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers
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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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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
choosing between health insurance plans is like deciding between gutter sludge and toilet water
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
be serious man
Angela Bassett looking so fine and ripped in Strange Days
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
in a country where they are trying to make it illegal to protest i say: good. go nuts. let your freak flag fly. ive never understood liberal pearl clutching over what is quite literally the baseline civil liberty. politicians should be hectored 24/7
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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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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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We can't eat road salt.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
can we rule out Skydance making, within the next 2 years, a hagiographic biopic about Charlie Kirk
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Boricua405 on X @estadistarebelde1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh thank goodness I was worried it was going to be some sort of horrific evil company
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Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Was Once Reviled by Gamers. Now He's Joining Skydance's Board of Directors
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who stepped down from running the Call of Duty publisher after Microsoft completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King, is joining David Ellison...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/10/2026
oh thats fine i don't think anyone needed that money anyways
Trump does not plan to reimburse taxpayers for promotional ads
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still thinking about this incredible video… grandparents rights
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s really funny to say you’re going to use AI so you don’t disappoint the bros but then post all day about how they’re sportsball loving morons who like doing boring things for losers that you actually hate
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins had five chances to vote to stop Donald Trump's war in Iran, but she refused. Maybe because she’s profiting off it? 🤔
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*through a mouthful of road salt* WHUGH???
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s sick that now we gotta do the same debloat shit on Macs too.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Set record for longest serving GOP Speaker of the House✅ Went to prison for sexually abusing teenage boys✅ Highest ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence✅ Would love to see that last record broken soon🌅🇺🇸
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who tragically lost his 58-year-old mum and several family members to COVID-19 complications, continues advocating for vaccination. “I have asthma,” Towns said, highlighting his “high-risk status” while raising awareness of the non-mRNA NUVAXOVID vaccine.
A screenshot of a Forbes article titled "Karl-Anthony Towns Who Lost Mom To COVID-19 Talks Of Value Of Vaccine." The article is written by Bruce Y. Lee and shows a publication date from early October 2026. Below the headline, a photograph captures NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns sitting at a press conference microphone wearing a white New York Knicks jersey. He is looking forward with a serious expression against a blue backdrop covered in repeating logos for Chase and the New York Knicks. A caption below the photo identifies him as the Knicks center speaking at a recent Media Day.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Circular Financing” is one of those terms that feels like you’ll hear Brad Pitt say in an Adam McKay style movie in like 8 years.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
probably should keep an eye on this www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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