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I… … You know, just go read. If you want a really interesting rework of Carrie, give The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson your time. It’s EXCELLENT, it does a great job of reworking the Carrie premise, adds in race & does it beautifully. Jackson’s got CHOPS versus dude hacks up lit about women.

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The Weight of Blood

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

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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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 13h

Not a thing since I've posted this. Please.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Underfed bc our income is at zero and we're relying on MA, btw. If you find this thread entertaining or useful, or find any of my threads informative, *especially my adoptee posts*, please show it by boosting or supporting us. V, c, pp BurdockAndBramble

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Irma Squirma 👻 🐛 @eckslibris.northsky.social · 14h

I met Mikhail Baryshnikov in the basement of the Kennedy Center

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16h

Hi @techcrunch.com you had a typo in your headline, I fixed it for you

A person who works at the company Anthropic sent
a false report to the police using a program that
automatically fabricates police reports

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.

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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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KK @kk-maker.bsky.social · 16h

Header: Cheetah mama in her nest room nursing five crumpled, still-damp newborn cubs.

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(Not the Horror Author) Shirley Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 20h

Celestial Swan Totem 🦢✨ My latest piece for Every Day Original inspired by the "Swan's Eye" in the Cygnus constellation. My piece will be available October 14th 2026 via their site at 12:30pm ET (12pm ET if you're an EDO newsletter subscriber)! everydayoriginal.com #art #pottery

A ceramic swan sculpture with sgraffito details done with white clay and gold luster details such as a golden beak, a constellation that runs on the side of it's chest, and floral details on the wings. This side shows a golden eye.

A ceramic swan sculpture done with white clay and gold luster details such as a golden beak, a constellation that runs on the side of it's chest, and floral details on the wings. This side shows a turquoise coloured eye.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 22h

My hot take this Friday: Making fun of how someone looks, no matter how terrible they are, normalizes judging people based on how they look. I spent a lot of my early years being rejected and taunted for how I looked and doing that to anyone—even my worst enemy—just doesn’t sit right with me.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If anybody was feeling weak in the knees about shopping at Target with the Christmas season coming up, please don't. Target deserves none of your money.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

feels like the Venn diagram between people going "it's fine for AI to raise your children" and people going "kids going no-contact with their parents should be illegal" has a lot of overlap what if -- and I'm just spitballing here -- you tried having a relationship with them

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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 08/10/2026

Please support my local abortion fund. I am an abortion doula and on the board. I was also one of the first paid employees after RRFP was solely volunteer-run in my city for 10 years. My comrades are always looking for support!! WE ARE A SAFE HAVEN STATE! www.rrfp.net

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Abortion Funding in Virginia — Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project

The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project offers direct funding and support for those in need of an abortion as well as advocates for the protection of abortion rights.

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Melissa "Snack Lady" @melondc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please help again if you can! She really has just us, and I wish it were better right now. #directaid #mutualaidsaveslives #payitforward #helpfolkslive

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026

Pssst, the shop is briefly open and we've got TWO sales going on! Sale #1: to celebrate the launch of our first seasonal items and just for funsies, almost everything is 25% off. Sale #2: the stuff that isn't 25% off is 50% off because we have some clearance stuff I need to get rid of!

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TheBrokenCircle - Etsy

Shop Handmade goods inspired by our fictional worlds by TheBrokenCircle located in Vance, Alabama.

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Christopher Reader @xopherx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Voting early means your team can take you off the list; they will spend their time and money trying to contact voters who haven't voted and may be harder to get to the polls (for whatever reason). Voting early helps your candidate.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if Trump posts a trans slur on Truth Social which is aimed at you, and you say anything other than "can you guys fucking believe the President of the United States is out here posting trans slurs on Truth Social, fuck him into the sun for all eternity," you have failed the most basic of all tests

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James Greene, Jr. @jamesgreenejr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wife: honey, can you read to the baby? husband: grok, do a vulgar roast of the baby grok: hello baby, your mind is not fully developed yet husband: no, more vulgar, use a gilbert gottfried voice

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is truly, truly the work of lifetimes.

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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold

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StaceyActually @socialistchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AMAZINGLY GOOD VID BTW

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Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just added two new bracelets to Varanid Paradise! Blackberry Grove returns, and I made a cross-hatch natural stone bracelet with malachite! My small wrist customers can rejoice with the latter: there weren’t many malachite beads in the packet, so it’s short 😁 #bsnm #jewelry (Shop links below)

Bob the Komodo dragon toy modeling a slinky dark blue and copper hematite herringbone bracelet

Bob the Komodo dragon toy modeling a slinky cross-hatch opaque black and malachite beaded bracelet

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

cool option for at-home flu vaccination!

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Welcome - Flumist

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No movement. Fwiw I am eating less so the animals can get their full meals. We'd love support, too, even though I'm not a hobby farmer and as an adoptee I make a point not to use marketing/trafficking language to describe what I do. Very frustrating.

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

💥 Olivia Powers ACTIVATE! 💥

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

back from being suspended for threatening violence against Cornell, a series of buildings that have no feelings 👍

Hi, We've reviewed a Post on your account @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Respectful Discourse. We create a safe space for discussion by prohibiting threats and content meant to scare or intimidate people.
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NOW BURN DOWN THE SCHOOL
Your post was classified as a Serious Violation, adding 4 strikes to your account. You now have 8 total strikes.
Because you reached 8 strikes, your account has been suspended for 7 days. You will be able to access your account again on 7th Oct, 2026.
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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some of this week’s work! #polymerclay

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm having this conversation in every left-oriented space. The reward for doing this work must not be measured in big wins. We must keep going because *it is right and necessary*. Don't expect to get to the mountain top in your life. We are links in an endless chain of liberation.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Take time off when you need it. Take the best possible care of yourself. Do not wait for a win to give yourself a break or some grace. But if a little voice whispers that it's hopeless and you should kneel, that isn't coming from inside you. It's poison implanted by our enemies.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Welp, time to dig out the old adult adoption and decrees of extinction of filiation notices we used to use in the bad old days before Obergfell. Because damn right I’ll make sure I am permanently and legally alienated and disfiliated from Smother and the XY.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.

Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is there an upsetting post that keeps turning up on your timeline? (There’s a really bad one today.) You can make it disappear for you. Click the three dots below the post and click Hide This Post. More tips in the thread below.

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

as ever, free palestine 🇵🇸

daughter of jerusalem, sliman mansour, 1978

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

I talked with the incredible @kissphoria.bsky.social about her reporting on Instagram banning queer bars all over the country. youtu.be/wKIgdlpGN3k

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Why Instagram Keeps Banning LGBTQ Bars (ft. Gwen Howerton)

YouTube video by Katelyn Burns

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next?" is *poetry*

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Irma Squirma 👻 🐛 @eckslibris.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

In case anyone's wondering if the Paxton campaign is a bunch of racist assholes:

A text from an untitled number, 254-645-5824. The text starts off

'"White skin is contagious"

That's what James Talarico believes. It's what he taught his students.

Then a link to a Stop Talarico website.'

I have replied "Fuck off you white supremacist Nazi fucks"

And now I shall mark them as Spam.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

another year where all the science nobels went to men, as was the case in 2024 much of this piece, about the structural barriers women face in doing innovative research and receiving credit for it, holds up (I think) www.statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...

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Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem

The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

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