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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/10/2026

Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

why would newsome eat shit in the primary?

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ah yes business class has comfy seats but observation car has swivel chairs and BIG WINDOWS

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

have you gone to the observation car yet? i have never sat in my actual seat on a train since discovering the observation car

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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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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe ten years after i cut mine off he did some truly shameless fuckery, my siblings and cousins suddenly flipped from saying i was just an emotional/angry teen to acknowledging my decision as 100% reasonable and logical

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

considering that i have had chair-sitting jobs for the last 15 years and am currently recovering from major hip surgery in my 40's, she is absolutely categorically right 😭😭😭😭

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yes yes you get it. she is EXTREMELY smug about it which is obviously how I know so much about her anti-chair feelings, the first time I offered her a seat she gave me a 45min lecture haha.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yes a strength/bones thing! she also doesn't use her hands to sit down or get up, I don't know how to explain it she just kinda folds her legs down until she is on the floor and then does the reverse to get up. I really need both her and my elderly butch dyke plumber to live forever.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wow okay so my chimney service is The Irish Sweep, owned by a no-nonsense woman in her 80s named Sally who refuses to use chairs and will only sit on the floor. I feel like if Sally knew about this guy she might want to kick his ass.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gonna need to get one of those small portable scissor lifts. it's that or youtu.be/cKx8xE8jJZs

youtu.be

Enter the Kettlebell - Pavel Tsatsouline

YouTube video by CassiusK

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

at a crowded bagel shop with my mom, she was telling me that Jewish Family Services was cutting hours for the social workers again. she expressed this by yelling (imagine heavy israeli accent) ZEY DO NOT FUCK ME, YOU KNOW! ZEY ARE FUCK ZE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS!"

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i found out today that you can get tteokbokki in a bread bowl at the fancy new korean market, which feels like the most beautiful, most bay area shit ever

carbs on carbs on carbs in the form of tteokbokki served in a bread bowl

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Restore the Delta @restorethedelta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 Take Action & Oppose the Updated Bay-Delta Plan! The State Water Board will soon vote on whether or not to adopt the final Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements. This is your last chance to oppose a plan that would devastate Delta communities & the Bay-Delta ecosystem. 4/5

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

also want to point out that said cat was no danger to kids at all once he was able to relax. even i was astonished at the level of manhandling he would tolerate as long as it wasn't daily.

cat being completely fine with my visiting friend's kids grabbing and carrying him around

cat being completely fine with my visiting friend's kids grabbing him in a bear hug and rolling around on the bed

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the same people who believe fervently that an unwanted, unloved child can be better off being adopted into a family that wants them and has the capacity and resources to care for them somehow think the same does not apply to a dog!

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

another contributor to this is extreme re-homing shaming I see on social media, esp for behavior issues. a pet that is an absolute TERROR in one home can be fine in another! my last cat took less than 2 weeks to stop being an evil little shit once he was the only pet, w no kids in the house.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

i continue to ask: why would anyone trust meta with their personal information. like, ever

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 26/09/2026

We just had a couple of last-minute spots open up for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour this Sunday. Know anyone who might be interested? www.berkeleysouthasian.org

berkeleysouthasian.org

Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour

Discover the secret histories of South Asian Americans in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. As seen in National Geographic and NPR.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026

🇪🇸 Protests in Madrid after 87-year-old pensioner evicted Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Spain's capital to protest against the eviction of an 87-year-old pensioner from her lifelong home, in one of the harshest expressions of the country's chronic housing crisis

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ticket sales are not a big part of revenue. I worked at a nonprofit near SF opera, they frequently gave us free tickets to undersold performances bc an empty house looks really bad to those who paid. like hundreds of free tickets a year in slow years, esp to "experimental" operas. it was awesome.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

bro I can't even make it happen in Slovak, I am ready to create a new reddit account just to demand vocal tract articulation imaging of this man supposedly saying it "correctly"

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

immediately outing myself as both a person w an extremely simple foreign name that americans petulantly refuse to pronounce correctly and also a degree in linguistics lmao

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

obv I had to find the original post because I cannot for the life of me figure out in what language this is the correct pronunciation - as far as I can tell not one of the languages w a retroflexed affricate in its phonology overlaps with a culture where Geoff is a common enough given name

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new coworker was being walked around and he went into the "i'm a sassy middle aged white gay man who does drag, so i say OFFENSIVE THINGS and that's just HOW I AM!" i swiveled my chair around to face him and said with zero affect, "well this is a fucking workplace so no, actually, you don't"

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

for a moment I read this as the humans living longer and growing larger 😆

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 21/09/2026

Hello Bay Area! Come join me next Sunday, September 27 for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour We’ll be sharing stories of immigrant freedom fighters, Desi feminists, and more—a totally different take on Bay Area history Details and registration at www.berkeleysouthasian.org

berkeleysouthasian.org

Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour

Discover the secret histories of South Asian Americans in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. As seen in National Geographic and NPR.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it also calls back to Picard encouraging Data to perform Shakespeare in order to understand humans

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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I made a notes app guide for myself that other Californians should also use because I’m smart and my politics are correct

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

actually just had major surgery a few weeks ago which I was very anxious about, but I was able to tell both the surgeon and anesthetist about the previous experience and they were so so so nice. of course I was WOOHOO OUT LIKE A LIGHT from the pre-op area through to my post-op room thank goodness.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

nurse replies "umm she's AWAKE" and the last thing I hear is my lovely surgeon saying WELL KNOCK HER THE FUCK OUT!!!

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

in hindsight ONLY it is kind of a funny story: nurse noticed me making faces and asks if I am okay, I start describing the sensation. she looks terrified so I ask if that's normal, she says "honey you should not be able to speak in full sentences right now". I hear the surgeon say "what's going on?"

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I also woke up in the middle of a surgery many years ago, do NOT let anyone EVER put you in "twilight anesthetic" etc

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have connective tissue disorder and had a REALLY fun root canal a couple of years ago... they gave me like 197 shots and then still had to stop every four minutes to give me more because I was involuntarily kicking my feet in pain

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no thank you they can stay over there please

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Daughter of the Thirst House 🔜 Trek to Philadelphia! @allycatraz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Sebastian's hot crustacean band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Sea animals singing, dancing and playing instruments during The Little Mermaid's "Under the Sea"

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

okay now imagine that at the height of this book's popularity and the movie coming out, you are working at a bookstore in fucking SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

well it's a mystery for people who were never able to figure out the solution in regular mystery novels, so at least this one made them feel less foolish I guess

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you.

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oh i meant to reply to maia sorry! i.e. more reasons people disapprove for reasons that *do* have to do with palestinians

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

also those who have no problem with palestinians being murdered and dispossessed "just not like that" - they don't like that world public opinion on israel is being harmed, they think israelis are in more danger, they think a kindler gentler occupation is possible, etc

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General Martok’s favorite niece @deetskies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

in my experience they do ask but i never see it in the reported results - i always try to answer these surveys when they come up, because i want them to get at least one respondent saying born in israel, parents born in "israel" (mandate palestine), don't think israel/zionism should exist

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 07/09/2026

“Industry interests offer these resources to teachers for free or for cheap, according to the report. The materials tend to highlight the necessity of plastics while downplaying their significant downsides to human health and the environment.”

wired.com

Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?

The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

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