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It's weird that I keep noticing stuff like this for the first time. These two are possibly my favourite movies ever, and I've seen them both an incredible number of times.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10h

Watched The Blues Brothers again today. I don't think I ever noticed that the restaurant where Mr Fabulous worked as Maitre D was the same one ("Chez Paul") that "Abe Fromann, Sausage King Of Chicago" tried to get lunch at in Ferris Bueller's Day Off before.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23h

The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.

theguardian.com

Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns

Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 23h

I'm sorry to hear this Prax. I always thought you and your son had a closer relationship than most family units. I hope it's only a short term thing.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why are so many of our Govts still supporting these weird people?

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweet.
Follow 10h.
If there were an award for lies, hatred, and blood ibels, Navi Pillay wouldn't just be a contender. She'd be a frontrunner.
Her role in the relentless, politically motivated demonization of Israel and promotion of the genolie speaks volumes.
Awardina Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize isn't a recognition of justice. It's the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israek hatred and prejudice.
Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the oiggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Judging by the utter meltdown TFG had over this announcement, I'm giving this trolling by the Nobel committee 11/10.

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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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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alex Gluyas and Myriam Robin in The Fin wrote "...bootstrapped with the wealth of the family office, or its long time associates." Words mean things but lazy journalists can completely fuck our understanding right up. No, bootstrapping absolutely does not mean the bank of mum and dad.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Went for a trip to North Queensland last year and you better believe that economy will come to a screeching halt if migration goes down.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Uncanny valley" is probably how I remember it when I saw it on (I think) Sounds as a youngster.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I did warn you! At least I think I did. 🤭

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Although the video freaked me out a bit as a kid)

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The completely dissimilar Godley and Creme song with the same name is infinitely better.

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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Josh Frydenberg *again* in headlines over a “comeback”. It’s (again) worth remembering that as Treasurer he secretly deleted the key findings of a probe into corruption at the top of the corporate regulator. Surely that excludes one from politics? (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/frydenberg-d...

theklaxon.com.au

***SCOOP*** Frydenberg abandoned amid ASIC salary cap scandal - The Klaxon

Key government officials, including Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy, refuse to back Treasurer Frydenberg’s unsubstantiated claims that the ASIC corruption review found no wrongdoing.

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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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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 08/10/2026

Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yup. All the same, I'd rather both happened in private.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Folks I love you but public execution by firing squad and public execution by guillotine are both types of public executions. Don't throw the nuclear arguments around for one that could also be equally used on the other.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The number of people who don't believe these influence operations are real weirds me out. The number of people who fall for these influence operations weirds me out too, but that's by the by considering the state of people's noggins these days.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

what if the real model collapse is every linkedin post and corporate email sounding exactly the same?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the real resentment for me is that you can say "we should get rid of billionaires" to an audience of millions & that counts for less than saying "we should make billionaires kings" to an audience of 3 billionaires

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Greedy, heartless landlords drive desperate tenants into poverty, but still try to squeeze them'.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 08/10/2026

1. Magnetic fields are the best. THE BEST. 2. This is so friggen cool: " Furthermore, it shows that the Sun’s atmosphere imprints its signature onto the particles making up this wind, giving us a possible way to read the history of solar plasma even far from the Sun." 🤯

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Coming to Victoria shortly

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

you can not keep community safe with high powered rifles ffs what kind of pew pew rambo bullshit. There is no scenario where cops with assault weapons arrive faster and cause less damage than the local cops. We do not even have information on how many of the 40 injured at Bondi were injured by cops.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, I'll still call the stroke "Australian crawl" and the event "freestyle" but I've been told by a few people that I have a pedantry problem... 🤓

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's like that DHOTYA account which rapidly just began recycling jokes and obvious parody when it could have gone for the kill on Donald Trump's lies.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not to mention the absolute whopper of "freestyle" apparently not meaning exactly that.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It really wouldn't cost too much of the admin's time to do a quick plausibility check.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This account used to be good before someone got in their ear about "content". Not even sure I can count the number of easily debunked lies in this one.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm tempted to ask if he ever had a brain to cook.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder how much Hughes is getting paid to just go out there and humiliate himself every day. Is this parody? Performance art?

Dave Hughes @DHughe...

Victorians cannot vote Labor back in power in November, and Victorians need to know, if you vote Greens and don't individually number preferences yourself, you are voting Labor and you are voting for more corruption leading to more misery for honest people. Labor has to be last on preferences.

Reply by Antony Green - elections

@AntonyGreenElec

If you vote Greens and don't individually number preferences yourself then your vote is informal and doesn't count for anyone.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is sad. I remember him as a newsreader when I was very young, BTN when I was a little bit older and Letters And Numbers only a few years ago.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well that's branding sorted!

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CBS News not quite placing the "sexual abuse" in its correct context in this alleged correction. The context is still "...of children" but CBS News doing their very best*. *worst

CBS News

@CBSNews.

Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former GOP Speaker of the House, died earlier today at 84.

A prior version of this post stated that Hastert was jailed for violating banking laws. That post missed the mark. Hastert was jailed on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments

made to cover up sexual abuse. cbsn.ws/4jGsOgk

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not one mention of Hastert's conviction for paedophilia*. The Epstein class defends itself and deserves the ridicule it gets. *I'm happy with this. He admitted to it, but if you want to be anal, he structured transactions to pay off victims and plea bargained accordingly.

Eric the Deep State Oper...

@NotBadgers

Timothy McVeigh, former Army sergeant who was later arrested for a parking violation, has died.

QT:

dandelion georgism

@Dand...

Theodore Kaczynski, mathematician who was later jailed for misuse of the postal system, has died.

Screenshot of tweet

CBS News

@CBSNews

Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.

[Image of Hastert]

Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure I had questions before, but I do now, and they're definitely not answered by Ms Deeming's post.

moiradeemingmp

[Picture of Deeming with husband]

moiradeemingmp Steadfast husbands can change the world.

So- this week is my 21st wedding anniversary to @a_deeming a white, Christian, heterosexual male.

("heterosexual" has been underlined by a third party)

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