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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 4h
I’d give her a shot.
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 10h
New leaked concept art of Baron Harkonen
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h
Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 6h
I like that everyone in the party fucking hates each other to some degree. I liked optimizing my colonies. I liked reading Seneca with one of the space elves
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 6h
Rogue trader ended up being really really fun as a complete novice to warhammer . and there’s really good black comedy and character beats that offset the grimdark stuff enough for me
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10h
Something special in today's newsletter: New paleo fiction from me about the heron-like dinosaur Kank! Take a walk with her, get an amphibian snack. 🧪
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Snappy Raptor Hunted Like a Heron
Kank, a heron-like dinosaur, goes hunting for a froggy treat.
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Mundo Feliz Onetreehsll: Ciudad Futurista
Alt: Mundo Feliz Onetreehsll: Ciudad Futurista
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
One of the projects of the post-Trump era should be de-privatization, something long overdue since the Reagan revolution. Bob Kuttner makes a list of reclaiming the public commons. prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...
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Time to De-Privatize - The American Prospect
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
short version
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
mental health improved. I felt a sense of great calm. I went from 1-2 panic attacks & breakdowns a day to 1-2 per WEEK, if that.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
long version: hated my body. Had since I was 12, but had to stop starving myself so I could do well in HS. had always felt like (& others had said as much) I failed at womanhood, resigned myself to just being bad at it. Then I learned what being transgender was. I started T and within weeks my -
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 13/10/2026
This is, no exaggeration, Nazi philosophy. If you told me Carl Schmitt wrote these words, I would have believed you. His "friend-enemy" duality claims that it is just and important for groups of people to revel in the destruction of people in their enemy groups, and that such conflict is natural.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026
The kind of irony that's in those Greek classics he pretends to have read
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026
I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We still don't name the moral panic over girls/daughters as an act of widespread uncontested misgendering of transgender boys.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We still don't talk about the way medically transitioning trans boys and transmasc nonbinary kids are the primary focus of the moral panic over trans kids.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NYT
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
it didn’t start when I was in the workforce . it started when i was in high school, drinking energy drinks and sleeping 4-5 hours while swimming about as much, and taking 6-7 AP classes in my jr year of high school. overwork starts before you become an adult
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Half my friends (I’m from The Houston area) went to UT Austin, considered a “public ivy” . Oh well!
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wonder if the Atlantic who ran one million articles about cancel culture and trans panic bullshit will reflect on its role in this
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you’re noticing what other people, of any gender , are wearing jn the gym you aren’t working hard enough. go in there, work yourself to exhaustion, and crawl out
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026
Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations 🧪🌎
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Saving the Siamese crocodile: Cambodia moves to protect one of the world’s last wild populations
Indigenous communities play crucial role, as ‘genetic bank’ area of wetland offers hope for critically endangered reptile
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Something I will never understand as long as I live is phony intellectual Republicans giving free advice to Democrats. The only advice I have for Republican politicians I'd care to share with them can't be posted on here
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
true and unspeakable evil
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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
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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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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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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2026
It's because the BBC's official editorial stance is to attack the dolls.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is so true that Caesar et al wouldn’t think logistics were woke and gay but I spent 6 years studying the parasite that causes malaria and bc of my classics undergrad wrote a lot in my intro abt its impact on the Ancient Greeks and romans and so I am basically always thinking about it
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a great reminder for people interested in NIH grant selection that there are elements that are codified in the law by Congressional action. ecfr.io/Title-42/Par...
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42 CFR Part 52h | Scientific Peer Review of… | eCFR.io
Browse 42 CFR Part 52h: Scientific Peer Review of Research Grant… in the current eCFR, with source notes and navigation. Updated through Oct. 5, 2026.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another funny thing about the Romans they pretend to venerate is that every single ancient Roman general would execute every freak in the admin from hegseth on down in exchange for a single hour of conversation w any of the malaria researchers they tried to defund
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
…. In the iliad even
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
True but I think Ajax is instructive here - the contrast in the load is between valiant death in battle or a long peaceful but anonymous life. The realistic trajectory for any of the bups they want to throw into a war is Ajax - a humbling decline, a loss of status, misery, agony , madness , suicide
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
HEY! HOW’S AENEAS DOING!! LIKE EMOTIONALLY
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s really fucking funny. how’s Achilles doing? How’s Odysseus? How’s Ajax? How’s Agamemnon? How are all the “heroes” of the Iliad? doing very good it seems?
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*The most craven, weak-willed, unprincipled person you’ve ever met* We’re going to restore the Western tradition of honor and virtue
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
that would be so awesome if it was true
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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Christ that's bleak, although some of the figures go back to 2009, as the article points out, most of the deaths are more recent. This is what Joyce's "we must reduce their numbers" looks like in practise
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
👇 this is the most batshit aspect of this Anthropic policy: you are free to use AI to abuse or act cruel towards marginalized groups (aka, humans) all you want, but you're not allowed to be mean toward poor little ol' Claude (a machine). tells you how distorted their worldview is
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pass Medicare for All. Cradle to grave, it's there for you.
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I went to an exhibit on belle de costa greene at the Morgan and learned her father was the first black man to graduate Harvard and Charles sumner gave him his copy of Cicero…. I wonder if du Bois knew of this
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
damn I really want to read this
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alright everyone, fill out the form
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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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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this machine outruns one fascist in particular
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𐌄𐌃𐌕𐌍𐌔𐌙𐌋𐌄 @duckyaisha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Try and out run my transsexual ass I dare you
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