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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 13h

Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.

A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2h

Clever creative artwork Original post

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2h

This guy spent 14 hours waiting for a squirrel to set off this Rube Goldberg Machine. [📹 Creezy] Original post

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 3h

You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x

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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 3h

In three days I will be a published author. After landing my first book deal, my publisher closed their doors in April indefinitely and I was lost. But I quickly picked myself up and decided I would launch THE DAY I DIED AGAIN myself and I wanted to do it on my terms.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 2h

"Oh, THAT'S where we left them!"

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 2h

Absurd exercise. But still, these are all bangers. myninebooks.com

My Nine Unforgettable Books.

Little, Big, by John Crowley.
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin.
Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban.
The Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen.
The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon.
The Worm Ouroboros, by ER Edisson.
A Month in the Country, by JL Carr.
Villette, by Charlotte Brontë.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 2h

There's always more! Great selection though.

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Claudia @cosmonautcloud.bsky.social · 5h

My nine books. But there are SO many more!! #booksky 📚 #myninebooks

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10h

A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V

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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 14h

Remember those who opposed the anti terrorism laws, said that they would be eventually misused by government, on its own citizens? They were told to shut up and stop overreacting.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 4h

You can even rope in Percy Thrower.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8h

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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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely spot on. Let’s instead pause on these words by @iandunt.bsky.social in respect of London in the context of today’s byelection. “They hate it because it is beautiful, & it works, & that success provides a comprehensive refutation of their worldview.”

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 10h

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 5h

Have you even said thank you?

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 5h

Are you caught in the middle of the Venn diagram that connects fans of The Sandman with lovers of sonnets? Boy, are you in luck! 😀 Sonnets in Sand A Salute to The Sandman A verse appreciation, on kindle, cheap as chips! 😁 #sandman #booksky mybook.to/sonnetsinsand

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Amazon.com: Sonnets in Sand: A Salute to The Sandman eBook : Mills, Jason: Books

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 5h

2001: A Space The Odyssey. And Justice For All The King's Speech. The Barefoot Panic in Jurassic Mansfield Gorky Needle Park.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Asked and answered 👀

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 6h

Hope it's not a dvd. 😉

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 8h

Touche 😂👇

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 16h

First in a new series: great mathematicians and their even greater hats. Today: David Hilbert.

A photograph of German mathematician David Hilbert (1862 – 1943) at the age of 50. He is still quite boyish-faced, despite his goatee and moustache; prominent ears and a spectacles. Fully one half of the image is taken up with a tall soft-looking pale hat wide-brimmed, with a fat black band. A summer hat, one would think.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 7h

Identical to every other head, topologically.

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 16h

10 ratings away from the big 1k. If you haven't rated Ashes to Admin already and you're on goodreads, I would be most grateful... www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...

Goodreads page for Ashes to Admin. 4 33 stars from 990 ratings and 124 reviews.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 16h

Re-ordering my postcards today and printing my prints so would you like to buy something? I think you'll find you actually meant to say yes or more accurately, "One of everything, thanks Graeme. You're the best" marswasrubbish.etsy.com

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Marswasrubbish - Etsy

Shop Prints of monsters, stuff, things and perky horrors by Marswasrubbish located in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 11h

Euan Findlay demonstrates traditional coopering at Theakston Brewery, Masham, England, using fire and steam to soften oak staves so they can be bent and secured with iron hoops to form a watertight firkin barrel without nails or glue. IG: @euanthecooper www.instagram.com/euanthecoope...

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 09,1946

P1- NANCY IS CALLING HER AUNT FRITZI FROM A DOWNTOWN PAYPHONE
NANCY: AUNT FRITZI--- I JUST PHONED TO ASK IF I CAN SLEEP IN YOUR BEDROOM WITH YOU TONIGHT
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AUNT FRITZI: BUT YOU HAVE YOUR OWN NICE BEDROOM --- WHY DO YOU WANT TO SLEEP WITH ME ?
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NANCY: AW, PLEASE, AUNT FRITZI
FRITZI: OH, ALL RIGHT
P4- NANCY IS AT THE THEATER TICKET BOOTH BUYING A TICKET
THE THEATER MARQUEE READS
ALL HORROR PROGRAM
NOW PLAYING
THE MAD MONSTER
NANCY: ONE

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 11h

support my new book kickstarter ✨ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 9h

Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY I wrote the book I wanted to write! Maybe it will be the book you would like to read! :D Contains: demons, sentient streetlights, a seven foot-tall bare-knuckle lady boxer (former), the full-course dinner at The Wretched Dragon, a museum exhibit full of tiny dragons, and spies!

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

www.emophilips.com/events

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MyBibliotheca | Reading Tracker 📚 @mybibliotheca.org · 08/10/2026

Apple’s developer program is $99/year. That gets us on the App Store. MyBibliotheca is free to use with no paid plans. Genuinely curious if people would pay 99 cents for the iOS app in the hopes to recoup Apple’s developer fee. Would love your thoughts! #booksky

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Confused 3D Man with Question Mark

ALT: Confused 3D Man with Question Mark

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Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

CSP is again 50% off, 1 time purchase. Literally the best dump-photoshop-now-app for digital illustration, concept art ect. (i can also do animation) I use it in freelance and in studio settings as an art team. Offer will end in less then 7 days. Try the free trial. GO! DUMP PHOTOSHOP NOW!

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Clip Studio Paint – Digital Art App for Drawing & Painting

Create comics, illustrations, and animations with Clip Studio Paint. Powerful multi platform drawing app trusted by pros, with thousands of free brushes.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Blazing Saddles commission (Happy Birthday Lucy!) If you want something drawn, why not get in touch, especially if you want it in time for Christmas 🙂

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

O-oh, Beko, Beko, becaaaause Beko!

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⁸ @mabelsblanket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Never forget the 14 years of psychological warfare wreaked upon us by the Tories. They Broke everything, took all the money salted the earth & left! No ta.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe Labour should fund a revival of Jeffery Archer's plays...

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And here’s where I put my classic mass-market paperbacks, with most of them being decades old & very well thumbed. A ever-reducing part of me wishes this was dominated by University English Lit Dept classics. But appreciate them as I might, I don’t love them as I do, say, the Carter Brandon books.

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Dr Vandermast @drvandermast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some great stuff in there! 👍🙂

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🤣🤣🤣💥🙄

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