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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 4h
“Addressing inequity is the job of a progressive government, not treating the suffering like political playdough.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A banner along the Pacific Highway speaks volumes about why some communities are turning to One Nation
‘Centrelink is evil’ isn’t a call to slash welfare payments – it’s a sign people are frustrated about the ability to access government support
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 5h
Holy moly. Sending best wishes.
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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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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 9h
Hello. I am an average Australian business owner and factoring in fixed business costs into my prices is beyond my ken.
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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 18h
My Bloody Valentine, Hampstead Heath, 1986. Thanks to @facingproblem via Instagram
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I should stop retweeting people who don’t allow replies to their posts.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Doris is still the 👑! “Oh Christ."
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe it’s because Bumblebees Puffins and Barn Owls weren’t responsible for the deaths of millions of Bengalis
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 09/10/2026
X and Substack are run by edgelord fascists and there is zero good reason for anyone to continue using either platform whilst plenty of alternatives exist www.theverge.com/report/10066...
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Doxxing Jane Doe
X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cannot emphasise how much I despise Watson. The rotten homonculus of the worst instincts of both Blair and Brown.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ignore the ABC editors dare I say it, “scandalous”, decision to try and “balance” their report on the Nobel Peace Prize: ‘She was chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory that found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Judge Navi Pillay
The South African-born former UN human rights chief was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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FPL JOE @fpljoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
She’ll always have her memories. They can’t take them away from her.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whatever it becomes, don’t do another Fed Square. Maybe like Vic Park in Adelaide would be better?
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was baffling to me that at the start of every year that I was expected to give carte blanche to NSW Schools to allow them to use my kids images however they wanted. So I said no. And yet most parents said no problemo
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is exactly the kind of Defence Secretary that America deserves having chosen to go down this route of madness.
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LFC Jude @lfcjude.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Disgraceful.
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Premier League football shirts made by workers on £1 an hour
A BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Foul! For #sharemondays2026 from a fruitless away day at Redcar Athletic for Alfreton Town. Alfreton’s Lewis Salmon is hacked down after skipping clear of the Redcar defender.
Lewis Salmon, Alfreton Town FC.

Final score: Redcar 3 v 1 Alfreton
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Echoes. What a tune #NowPlaying pink floyd’s epic “Meddle”
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Haha Fuckenell www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2658080...
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Garage refused after council says it would spoil train passengers’ countryside views
Garage plan refused to protect views from the railway between Cwmbran and Newport.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is Princess Anne serving him?
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah there were other 96 releases, e.g. Tomato Ketchup, which i didn’t get into until years later
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wonderful to hear
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And the Irish stuff not at all? David Gray was huge in Ireland 94-98 but only became big in the UK in 99/00 maybe?
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy shit Julie is still alive‽
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indeed. My Irish experience says that including smaller parties can be a positive thing, though they often suffer an over correction in ensuing elections. There’s weird “two parties of government” brain at play with many australians, sadly entrenched by the barely mature electoral system.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It was “it” in Cork. Not sure what this crap map is claiming
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From memory I enjoyed that ep even though I hadn’t heard of half the stuff you chose 1996 was in no particular order Horsedrawn Wishes/Rollerskate Skinny Murder Ballads/Nick Cave Lovelife/Lush Second Toughest/Underworld Sell, Sell, Sell/David Gray 1977/Ash Everything Must Go/Manics Coming Up/suede
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I did this about 20 years ago. Used to drink 1.25l bottle every day. Just switched to water and coffee. Lost a load of weight. Didn’t touch coke for about 5 years, but now I have a couple of cans a month.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
got the Hifi up and running in the new house. refurbished OG Technics Turntable paired with Brand new Denon Receiver/amp and Krix Acoustix Bookshelf speakers. Finally got to open and play the Clear Vinyl Clear Pond Road by @kristinhersh.bsky.social I bought at the Mary’s Underground gig last year
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First Swim In Sydney in Springtime.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listening again now. A stone cold classic. The choice of instruments makes it all hers
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are many Nirvana covers. But, Patti Smith makes it hers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IY...
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Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Cover Nirvana)
YouTube video by ROCKMANIACS & AFINS
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently Services Australia are upset over this image as made by JP As a former “client” of those insufferable clowns, I am so upset for them
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Chris Minns is one of the most can-do people you’ll ever see,” V’landys said. Of course, it depends on who's asking him to do.
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Jason Murphy @jasemurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My take is that hiking rates into imported inflation is fairly insane but we don't have a sane option everyone agrees on. We will all miss low unemployment when it is gone.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had to deal with them earlier this year. It was only when I went to an office that I got out of the dead ended loop Then later they kept sending me warning messages when I had already told them I had a job Loads of hands and not one of them talks to the other
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare.”
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lol Bluesky app update but they’re still doing this bullshit. Maybe their engineers should talk to Reddit’s?
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watched Full Metal Jacket with Mr13 earlier and fuck me that included some intense scenes that 15 year old me had to process alone in the cinema
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Jerry Howse @jerryh1962.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you are £2 billion in debt anything goes.
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You didn’t know he was in Neighbours‽
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Let me be Frank @franksting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m more of a Horn man myself
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting that Quest Apartments breach included nearly 2 million individuals personal data including credit card CVV stored unlawfully and Albanese has had nothing to say about it
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