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Cap'n Smite

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 1h
1990s DC house add. Blue background. The superman logo in which the red is dripping. In the foreground is the white outline of a then new super villian. The headline: "DOOMSDAY IS COMING FOR SUPERMAN! This time the never-ending battle ends!" Below that: "Superman Triangle Numbers 1992/45 thru 1993/2. Man of Steel #18 thru Superman #75"
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 5h
The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4h
the media landscape of 2026 is just one big dorm room occupied by a mushroom dealer who wants to tell you what he's pretty sure he remembers about Terrence McKenna
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Liz @trashkitten.bsky.social · 18h
Nick cage holding a copy of quest 64
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 20h
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Comics panel of a man with a sword: "Enough of poverty and idleness! I shall return to the work I love -- BEHEADING!"
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
nytimes.com
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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cowvin.bsky.social @cowvin.bsky.social · 17h
Billionaires can clearly afford to pay more taxes if they can spend this much on political influence. Tax the rich! If you're in California, vote for the wealth tax.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA is way more angry at Talarico for having the flu than they were Paxton for leaving the country with his mistress for the Fourth of July
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 19h
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h
this is the most annoying type of Star Trek fan. the guys who adopt science fantasies about FTL travel being possible rather than focus on Roddenberry's real message (you should be having more and weirder sex, possibly with dolphins)
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 13h
i mean
 identical depiction (homer simpson)
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 19h
When the boys hear the McRib is back.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Digital illustration of the heroic goose from Untitled Goose Game. Goose is all white with orange feet and beak and everything is rendered in flat simple shapes. Goose is standing next to a stream with greenery and blue sky behind, proudly holding the coveted shiny bell in his beak. Handwritten lettering in the sky reads ‘Maybe it will happen today.’
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 21h
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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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Is this anything?
M'dick the Goonering
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Nat Gertler, only mildly scarier @nat.gertler.com · 22h
Official US government announcement:
Poster of James Montgomery Flagg's image of Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Word balloon says "Professor Xavier is a jerk!" Word balloon taken from X-Men 168, lettering by the mighty Tom Orzechowski
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22h
wtf
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 10/10/2026
If I had unlimited money and budget to run a bigger outlet than startmenu currently is, I would target each Steam Next Fest and work with devs submitting games to it to produce modern digital demo discs with PlayStation Underground style interviews, features, and DRM-free demo downloads.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Big thanks to Beetle Moses for blessing my book with this guest comic. Get the book HERE ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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adamnyeary15.bsky.social @adamnyeary15.bsky.social · 23h
Update: the WWE fans are apparently in this sports bar talking about Hulk Hogans penis
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To recap: Drag Shows ❌ Miss Rachel ❌ Books ❌ Public executions ✅
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026
yes. gotta call these dirty white supremacists what they are to their faces. more of this.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
shoutout to the guest artists for my new book, including Sarah's Scribbles! Get the book HERE ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks JG Ballard for inventing Citibike and Congestion Pricing in the 1971 issue of Drive magazine.
Nonetheless, it is obvious that ever more restrictive legislation will be enacted all over the world aimed at the control of the car, concerned not merely with factors such as safety and pollution but also with the overall social influences. Like most legislation, it will tend to be aimed at the mass rather than at the individual car. To a large extent, the future of the car will be the future of traffic.

Within the next thirty years I see an immense network of motorway systems covering the British Isles, like the rest of the industrialised world. But simultaneously we will probably see the first traffic-free areas established in cities and large towns, blocks of several square miles where the only form of transport, other than one's own legs, will be some type of battery-powered, non-exhaust emitting public vehicle. The roads into major cities will be controlled by toll gates, with premium tolls charged at holiday and peak congestion periods.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
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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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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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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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Truth 😡
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
womp womp woooooomp
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/10/2026
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026
Pentagon To Livestream Firing Squad Execution theonion.com/pentagon-to-livestream…
“No way is this administration capable of setting up a working livestream.”

Willem Brydon, Unemployed
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Recipe For Disaster theonion.com/recipe-for-disaster
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Recipe For Disaster
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026
hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The crimes continue! These prosecutors simply love lying to and withholding evidence from this judge, who told them they will face contempt charges if they keep doing this. I actually don’t believe she’s going to stand for this anymore. They’re clearly hiding something truly insidious.
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 08/10/2026
Nationwide General Strike Set for Whenever GTA VI Comes Out buff.ly/NCj0CMv
Nationwide General Strike Set for Whenever GTA VI Comes Out
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals
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Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congratulations, Greg
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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