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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

She went to the gallows protesting her innocence, she was retried multiple times until the prosecution got their verdict, and the hangman botched the execution so badly it horrified onlookers who up to then had been baying for her blood, and thereby ended the hanging of women in the colony of NSW.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My 3rd great aunt was hanged in 1889 for using rat poison on her husband. The grim joke is there’s some thought she was innocent and it was slow industrial poisoning from the tannery her husband worked at.

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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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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy 90th birthday, Brian Blessed Sorry, that should read: HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, BRIAN BLESSED

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It Started With a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Muppets Take Maid in Manhattan

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

just so we’re clear on things, a man who gets weird and squirrelly around the topic of punishing rapists is mentally protecting themselves or a close male friend from the consequences of their own actions a man with a clear conscience and any concept of justice doesn’t do this just so we’re clear

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

maybe worth pointing out that LA is the number one American city for Iranian expats and Iran knows this very well and may interpret this statement accordingly of course they may also interpret it as the deranged blatherings of a fool

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John Van Citters @jvancitters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hastert and Bakker is an interesting duo. Let’s see about the rule of threes now.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These boys should lose their fucking futures, the same way they would if they were caught planning to murder someone, which they may have been MAKE BOYS AFRAID OF BEING RAPISTS amp.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

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Boise police investigate alleged violent group chat at Timberline High

The Boise School District and Boise police are investigating a group chat in which students allegedly expressed a desire to take violent actions toward a female student.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remembered the other part of this analogy: reporting on Trump looks like reporting on the weather; sometimes it makes a big mess and needs thousands to clean up afterwards, but it’s not newsworthy very long because it can’t be helped and there’ll be another disaster to report on soon enough anyway

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 05/10/2026

This is Morrison at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu in 2019, and Albanese at the same event in Tonga in 2024. This headdress never had anything to do with Morrison's Hawaiian holiday in December 2019. That notionally progressive people keep implying these are holiday snaps is, frankly, gross.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 05/10/2026

doing racism and gender hysteria but *leftistly*

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

deep down, everything is just interpretive dance

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*rolls down window* cop: routine decision check, you got any bayesian priors?

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

if you win at bluesky, you win in real life

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

endemic in some northern regions of Sydney

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm a left-of-Labor voter, which has often meant voting 1 for the Greens. You'd be right surmising my politics are pretty anti-war too. But failing to aid Ukraine's defence against invasion is loathsome and the purported principle invoked is one that does not meet the moment

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New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance

David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yes we’ve heart about exoplanets but what about the emoplanets, does anyone even care about them? no

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we’re at the *checks notes* waging war on the pope phase of historical LARPing

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Forget I ever said this. He’s a clear communicator but hasn’t shown any inclination thus far to engage in the messy business of politics. Military hardware for Ukraine has very widespread support in Australia, but he can’t back it, or even show a little flexibility, because of doctrinaire reasons.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that reminds me to include a plotting room in my next lair

Zoomed in map detail of a satellite image of Mount Tomaree with water on two sides. A caption reads “Mt Tomaree Battery Plotting Room”.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For some reason the Herald front page kicked off the count for the Victorian State election today

Masthead banner of The Sydney Morning Herald, dated October 2, 2026. Below the masthead is a progress chart titled VIC election 2026, Full election results. Four bars for each party LNP, ALP, IND, GRN each show 0 seats, 0% counted.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy belated EnergyConnect Go Live Day to all who celebrate

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Marly @verbsrproudest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Little Engine That Could But Didn’t Want To Deal With It Until Monday

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I Can Never Go Back* To Bali (*I have never been)

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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I worked in advertising for over two decades and I can promise you that the concept for Liberty Biberty came from someone who woke up on deadline day hung over as fuck with zero plan. We used to call those “pet rocks” - ideas so stupid that in the right room you could make them sound brilliant

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Keating in his day said even the galahs were squawking about microeconomic policy. These days they’re screeching about productivity. Ask a boss and they’ll tell you that workers’ laziness is the problem. Ask someone with a bit more nous and they’ll point out that it’s the bosses that are lazy.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoebridge has easily been the Greens’ best communicator with the clearest and most cut-through messages. He’s fearless and isn’t bound by the collectivist hesitancy that some in the party have shown. If you’re looking for a leader in a fragmenting political landscape to draw new people in, it’s him

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*youth pastor speech balloon* you know who else came from humble origins and gathered many followers?

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some Australians are ‘bung lazy’ — Barnaby

Barnaby Joyce, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and adulterer, lying collapsed on the pavement as though he’s failed to navigate gravity and instead decided to audition for a red-faced pot plant ornament.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The lede is like something a soldier might have written decades after storming Omaha Beach, and having lived long enough to tell his grandchildren about how he somehow survived that fateful day.

For years, the first thing I did upon awakening was check Twitter to see if I had been canceled. After a quick name search to ensure that there was only the usual amount of frothing denunciation, I could get on with my day.

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn’t know this author but the moral tutting of the headline told me instantly this was a UK piece

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An attempt to lay groundwork for a defence for when these companies get sued big time

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This taco stand in Auckland is still undefeated

Taco stand made out of a black converted shipping crate, named TACOTEAROA. An advertising board stands out the front and dappled sunlight falls on the pavement in front.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average annual spending as % of US GDP

A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

prose and cons– –equences

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a bog is still better than a copse

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“there’s only so much i can do” i say, after doing nothing

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026

"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg

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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”

“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...

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Gwyntaglaw @gwyntaglaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t know if I could write a more Australian lede than this

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