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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 4h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are just coming home, arriving at their parking spot to find that the car next to their spot is parked just on the border painted between the two parking spots.
Blue: Ugh, the neighbour has parked right onto the divider line again.

Blue frowns behind the wheel, while Green sits on the passenger seat, looking unbothered.
Blue: Would you mind getting out of the car so I can park?
Green: Sure.

Having parked his car right next to the line as well, Blue peers out of the driver's seat. Green is standing outside, observing the parking job.
Blue: Am I still in our spot?
Green: Yep, you're in.

Blue's car is now parked right onto the border of the parking spot, so close to the neighbour's car that it would be impossible for the neighbour to open the driver's side door. Satisfied with the work well done, the foxes leave.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 2h

"The French are cheese-eating surrender monkeys" meanwhile their armed forces have had real-world deployment experience pretty much continuously since 1945 and their nuclear doctrine is "drop a nuke immediately and see how the vibes shift."

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Wth Strange Reaction

Alt: Jean Reno puts on shades and turns out the lights

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 11h

🐈 Margaret the cat 📚 Kick's Mix Bookstore (Newark, Ohio)

Store cat lounging on a bookstore counter beside a copy of Mary Stewart’s Touch Not the Cat, framed by bookshelves, display racks, and a sunlit front window painted with colorful flowers.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🐾🤍..

Four-panel comic featuring two fluffy black cats, one small and one large, against a turquoise background fading to pink. In the first panel, the small cat asks, “What do you think love is?” In the second, the larger cat replies, “Well…” In the third, the larger cat opens its eyes wide and says, “I think love is wanting someone to stay!” In the final panel, the small cat asks with wide eyes, “Even after they’ve fed you?” The larger cat looks back with narrowed eyes.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Chicks dig the scar

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the implicit threat of a tortie near your power button

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 10/10/2026

OMG, 100% team Marie, this drives me nuts!! (Though I have never actually gone up to ppl to tell them - or rip the stitches out 😂) Public service announcement for anyone with new (or indeed old) coats by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trying to work out how many of the ingredients I already have to make this !

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Made an all-day chili with short ribs (I won’t eat it but Theresa, neighbors, & colleagues sure will!) that I’ve made before without the beef. The flavor & mouthfeel of the chili broth is truly sublime. Just amazing tastes. Like wow. Let’s check it out

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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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Pierre Col @pierrecol.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Les pancartes des élèves archivistes qui bloquent pour la première fois l'École Nationale des Chartes sont top !

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georgesberger.bsky.social @georgesberger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

En écoute 🎧 Quelque chose en toi ne tourne pas rond Un je-ne-sais-quoi qui me laisse con Quelque chose en toi ne tourne pas rond Mais autour de moi, tout tourne si rond youtu.be/YP-P6tBexhk?...

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TELEPHONE - Ça c'est vraiment toi (Clip officiel)

YouTube video by TELEPHONE Le Groupe

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/10/2026

Index by Taiwanese and German researchers finds Germany, France and UK among the countries most exposed to Chinese power and influence . giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK and Germany among economies most exposed to China, new modelling shows

Study finds efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese investment, trade and other links have produced only ‘modest’ results

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 09/10/2026

Also worth remembering that the school system was set up to train compliant workers for the factories, and that those days it's getting more and more inflexible in its expectations (yes, I know, we're more inflexible than the Victorians. Think on that for a bit)

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well clearly no bedtime for you then.

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

thank you, for this thread and the many others you pull together. they're always so interesting....

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

good news of the day in conservation news...

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🐾🐾🤍..

A fluffy black cat with large white eyes lies on its side on green grass beneath a textured sky fading from blue to pale pink. White handwritten text reads: “Maybe sometimes you want to do everything so badly that you end up doing nothing at all. That’s okay. Maybe you’re more tired than you realise. I just hope you know that taking care of yourself counts as doing something, too.”

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 07/10/2026

This is why I love the internet

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐾🐾🤍..

Four-panel comic of a fluffy black cat wearing grey armour and holding a sword and shield, against a pastel sky and green grass. The cat says: “It’s time for you to remember who the fluff you are.” Then: “A brave little warrior making a hard world softer.” Its eyes grow wide and sparkling as it adds: “I’d follow you into battle!” In the final panel, it says: “Or the kitchen.”

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not sure if it’s clear to the public that most policymakers and scientists have left 1,5C behind and are planning for warming that is closer to 3C. That is a major difference.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have always wondered what would happen if it people realized that upward mobility was no longer better in the us than elsewhere….

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this looks like a really interesting data set/analysis

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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

J'ai vu ça cet été. J'en ai eu les larmes aux yeux. On le sait intellectuellement, hein. On sait qu'on verra la disparition des glaciers des Alpes. Mais putain, à la mesure d'une vie humaine, ça paraissait impossible. C'est des géants de glace qui fondent. Des millions de mètres cubes.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Old cartoons that aged well. Flowers and Trees, 1932. Original post

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OTD 2 October 1851 Ferdinand Foch was born. general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. He famously said of that the Treaty of Versailles "is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" & was right.

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Françoise Bourdonnec @fbourdonnec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also true of the occasional org structure/culture….

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