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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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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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

Behold! The dark scriptures have been consulted. The forgotten rituals have been completed. Anointments, sacraments, prepared and received. Finger presses glyph. We stand vigilant against the coming plight. Forbidden words echo around our dwelling. "Love, I've turned the central heating on!"

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

If ONLY there was some way we had control over our artistic output. Alas... 💀

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SUSPICION CONFIRMED! Jim is actually 9 cats in a quilted gambeson.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally got around to watching Wolf Hall, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's council. Looked him up aaand he's basically Tony Soprano?!

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haha! Most excellent 😁 Just on the second Paris story with the organ player/s. The first Paris story was a rollercoaster! Enjoying it immensely.

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OJ Haywood High Five

ALT: OJ Haywood High Five

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've definitely got similar tastes in books :) I've got There is No Antimemetics Division next up on the list once I finish The King in Yellow. Annihilation (and the rest of the quadrilogy - soon to be a pentalogy, I've heard!) is excellent and well worth getting started on. Enjoy!

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a fantastic resource! 😁 Great work here, thank you 👍

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 26/09/2026

I launched my own site today!! www.vgcartography.com all my game maps hi-res, links to videos, and i'm moving any commentary from my blog to get everything in one place free w/o login. tried to make it really easy to use. browse the catalog and gimme feedback!!! 🗺️👀🌐

scrollable game list with platform/tag filters for browsage

text search for game/map names also works

individual map view with pans and zoomies

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yesss. Turn the wrinklies into a smoothie!

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You're your own man, you make your own decisions, and I'm not in the business of messing with someone in the middle of toad magic, but I see you using Preview and I'd like to recommend PureRef. www.pureref.com PureRef: The reference/image manager your toad deserves ™️

pureref.com

PureRef

PureRef, the simple reference image viewer.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This just in: Ed Sheeran, in solidarity with Macklemore, has pulled out of the Ed Sheeran whatever I guess music tour. In just a few moments, he'll get some sponge to post an image of white text on a black background to his branded Instagram account so you know he's super duper serious about it.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Currently reading Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief, which is more fantastical, slightly more sharply written, and has some of the best snark I've gleaned from a page. Oh, and it has a war corvid - A crow the size of an elk. A great read so far, as of 1/3 into it.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really enjoyed reading Between Two Fires - A dark, low-fantasy journey following a flawed, ragtag trio through medieval France amidst the effects of a war in heaven. Often hilarious, often navigating difficult subjects, sometimes heartbreaking. christopherbuehlmanauthor.com/book/between...

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Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman

Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just a little something, Jim? Why are you such a baddie?

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chartreuse Tandy. Used to swan around with a young Feldgrau Dixons.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/08/2026

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how 70%+ of Amazon, Google and Microsoft's AI revenues come from OpenAI and Anthropic, meaning that outside of two unsustainable AI labs, there isn't anywhere near the demand to justify the capex or the data center buildout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=68X8...

youtube.com

The AI boom isn’t real: 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Graham Pilling @gp-armyofcats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Strange Stories is fully funded on Backerkit and a couple of stretch goals in! I'm so pleased folks are digging the art & design work! 👻 Lots more art & info here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... Any support much appreciated! #roleplayinggames #tabletoprpg #weirdtales #rpgart #backerkit

Strange Stories the Roleplaying Game Book cover and artwork. Red and Black image showing spooky house and ghost.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Aw, thanks very much my man! :)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Only thing more disgusting than this? Pig with human face. (love it dude :D Looks great/awful!)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And here's both a rotation vid to show its action and size. I'm really chuffed with this thing :) It's currently soaking in some linseed oil, and I'm hoping I'll be able to start using it over the next couple of days. Cheers for checking it out! #woodworking #handmade #tools #miniatures

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gave it a go before it got it's oiling. In order from the left is 1mm balsa, 0.5mm styrene, 3mm XPS, and the cardboard sleeve a copy of White Dwarf came in. I tried it on 5mm balsa but the blade deflected a little. It is a dull blade I snagged from another tool so need to recheck with fresh.

A top down shot of the assembled strip cutter sat alongside some strips of material it was used to cut with. The cutter was set to an arbitrary cutting width, and the cut strips are roughly 4mm in width.

The material of the strips is, with thickness, 1mm balsa, 0.5mm styrene, 4mm XPS foamboard and pulped cardboard with a glossy cover that came as the sleeve of an issue of the White Dwarf magazine.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Behold the Dark Souls-level half-lap dovetail on this bastard thing. I knew it needed some joinery to resist the stress of twisting sideways on an end-grain joint, so: dovetail. Half-lap and off-centre because of where it sits on the cutting head: below the dovetail is where the blade is lowest.

A close-up photo of the rather small half-lap dovetail joint from above, that holds the rail body to the receiving part of the blade head.

A close-up photo of the rather small half-lap dovetail joint from the side, that holds the rail body to the receiving part of the blade head. This photo shows a shim below the body of the dovetail used to firm the bottom edges of the dovetail up a little before trying to squeeze it into the pins.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Attention: Relax those cheeks! We're past the squeaky bum stage, and are fully glued up. I'm mostly hand tools (small workshop space) so working on such small pieces has been quite fraught, because I have no great way of work holding, and most of my tools are for general scale woodworking 😅

A layout shot of the fully-assembled and glued components of the strip cutter.

These components consist of:
- a utility knife blade (not Stanley, apparently! Doh!),
- two washers,
- two smaller machine screws,
- a threaded hand-tightening knob,
- the blade head featuring magnets and registration pins to hold the blade in position,
- the cutter rail that the blade head is screwed to with the two smaller machine screws, that slides in and out of the carriage, with a long slot running down the centre of the rail that the larger, captured carriage machine screw sits within, and is locked down in place with the threaded knob and two washers. The distance from the cutting head to the carriage fence is the width of the strip the strip cutter will make (from 0mm to 70mm, and;
- the carriage with integrated fence which features the central runner channel that the rail sits in to slide in and out and has a larger captured, threaded machine screw that runs within the centre slot of the cutter rail. At 90 degrees to the carriage slider is a fence that registers against the side of the material to be strip-cut. The fence features an inset area that the blade head sit within to achieve <4mm cuts, and allows for the cutter to be “zeroed out”

A photo of the blade head with the blade installed against the two registration pins, and the “female mating surface” (Jesus, what a term! I am so sorry) of the cutter rail that receives it.

Once the blade is carefully in situ, it is screwed to the cutter rail with machine screws that clamp the blade in place firmly.

A photo of the blade head installed upon the cutter rail. The blade sits at an angle for clean, slicing cuts, and to wear only one half of the blade, which can then be turned over once dulled to begin using the fresher, unused half of the blade.

A top-down photo of the fully assembled cutter, showing the blade head in place upon the cutter rail, and the rail at a “zeroed out” position against the fence of the carriage.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Superb, mate. Thanks very much! :)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Awww, fuck yeah, dude! That looks fantastic! 😁 What's your preferred choice of snow effects nowadays?

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Made a reply post earlier, replete with 5 images, each with full alt text descriptions. Hit reply, get the "uploading images" message, then get a blank page. The content wasn't saved (no drafts for replies), and not only did it kill my tab, my whole browser became unresponsive. So that's neat.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ah, nice one dude, and thanks for posting the wip example image, too. Very helpful 👍 looking great 💪

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Oof, lovely, PC! I need more verticality in my terrain, so will definitely be using this for some inspiration :) Can I ask, what bits did you use air clay on? I have some, but I've never used it! Seeing yours, I think I ought to.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Under those cloaks? Thighs and calves in beastmode, brother. The absolute walnut crackers on 'em.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A bit of progress on a strip cutter, in oak. Should post more woodwork (or anything else) stuff, but I'm terrible at taking progress photos.

An arrangement of work in progress wood components and hand tools that will eventually be assembled into a balsa/styrene strip cutter.

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oscillik @oscillik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When this baby hits 38mph, you're gonna see some mediocre shit

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Casey @brickwork.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

u wont fuckin get me this time motherfucker, you wont slip me up im WATCHIN u, im ready, im ready RAGHHH COME AT ME

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A triple-threat: 1. Awesome kitbasher/modeller 2. Excellent painter 3. Got one of those motorised turntables :O Love your work, man, and these look ace :)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/07/2026

Transport of a balloon from Lake Neuchâtel to Lake Biel, 1915. Museum Burg Zug www.burgzug.ch

A boat with a large balloon on it. people surround the balloon a ship in the background

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did someone submerge my hand in a jug of mixed Bisto before freezing it, because I've been feeling really Frostgravy lately? #miniatures #terrain #frostgrave #scratchbuilding

A photo of some early work-in-progress, scratch-built miniature buildings for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave, sat on a cutting mat on my kitchen table.

The photograph shows, from left to right:

- an unpainted simple, shorter brick building with a slate roof,
- an unpainted rickety wood shed,
- an unpainted larger two storey brick building, with a wrecked roof caused by the ingress of tree growth,
- an unpainted simple, taller brick building with a slate roof

Materials for the project include polystyrene, styrene, thermal foam board, PVC foam board, balsa, basswood, white birch, thin cork roll, cardboard, ground-foraged tree twigs, thicker steel garden wire, thinner craft wire, sawdust, sand, PVA, grab adhesive, super glue, and tamiya extra thin polycement.

A photo of some early work-in-progress, scratch-built miniature buildings for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph shows:

- an unpainted simpler, smaller brick building with wooden door lintel and a slate roof
- an unpainted rickety and cobbled-together wooden shed
- a painted miniature wizard figure and treasure chest for scale

Materials for the project include polystyrene, styrene, thermal foam board, PVC foam board, balsa, basswood, white birch, thin cork roll, cardboard, ground-foraged tree twigs, thicker steel garden wire, thinner craft wire, sawdust, sand, PVA, grab adhesive, super glue, and tamiya extra thin polycement.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thank you 🙂 Didn't quite realise how much pink there was in brick until reaching the final palette

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Aw, thanks very much! Appreciate it :)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And finally, for now, a WIP update on the taller, simple brick building.

A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph features a work in progress front angle shot of a painted, two-storey, simple red brick building in disrepair. It has a patchy slate roof with moss growth.

Around it are wizard and skeleton miniatures, and a treasure chest for scale.

A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph features a work in progress rear angle shot of a painted, two-storey, simple red brick building in disrepair. It has a patchy slate roof with moss growth.

Around it are wizard and skeleton miniatures, and a treasure chest for scale.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Update for the shorter house, I decided on trying a version of a lime-ish render, which is a mix of PVA, pre-mixed plaster, and very fine sand. The exposed brick trim detail, the windows and door, and the roof moss are all still to be finished.

A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph features a work in progress rear corner angle shot of a painted, lime-rendered dwelling in a state of disrepair. It has a patchy slate roof with moss growth.

Around it are wizard and skeleton miniatures, and a treasure chest for scale.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Painting progress with the rickety old shed. Haven't nailed the moss yet, so will need to revisit. Will be working on hanging some tools inside, later, too.

A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph features a front angle shot of a painted, hand-built, patchwork, wooden, old tool shed, with moss creeping up the sides.

Around it are wizard miniatures and a treasure chest for scale.

A photo of a scratch-built miniature building for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph features a rear angle shot of a painted, hand-built, patchwork, wooden, old tool shed, with moss creeping up the sides.

Around it are wizard and skeleton miniatures and a treasure chest for scale.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Progress with the bigger building: tiling the roof, filling out the trees, adding more debris, and some styrene details.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You too, bud, if the plastic holds up in the heat!! ;)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did someone submerge my hand in a jug of mixed Bisto before freezing it, because I've been feeling really Frostgravy lately? #miniatures #terrain #frostgrave #scratchbuilding

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Love these chaps :D Nice work dude!

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is heartbreaking, Freya. I'm sorry.

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