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HandOfCrystal

@handofcrystal.bsky.social
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a cat (avatar currently eldritch cat.exe). They/them. Over 18.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h
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Elder Scrolls Items @tes-itemsbot.bsky.social · 58m
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h
something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle
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That catgirl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪
it's all about rock paper scissors. I rock the fuck out I collect my paper and I scissor your wife.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h
Well at least the crimes are becoming sufficiently cyberpunk
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 21h
lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4h
This entire piece is worth your time thespacecoastrocket.com/robert-burns...
Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does: quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.
l expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.
Robert W. Burns Ill is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and, like, ontop of being morally reprehensible, can we just underline how staggeringly, stupidly bad a call this is? transphobia is BROADLY UNPOPULAR! Just go, "Hey, Elon Musk and Trump loves transphobia" and most normal people will go, "ew, gross" because most people hate those guys
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If there's nothing at the table for us but segregation and dehumanization, why are you expecting us to sit at your table?
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 08/10/2026
one of the advantages of having tried to understand marxist theories about capital is that it’s always immediately bleedin obvious that capital will never ever allow economies of automation to result in increased leisure
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I know, my friend, it is tempting to declare that this is not who we are in response to the news that they are planning to livestream an execution, but know, my friend, even if this is not who we are it is time to admit that this is who many of our neighbors are.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
the supreme court: good news, donald!you are the untouchable god-king you always dreamed of being only one condition: you may not fuck with The Money donald trump: I will fuck with The Money if it’s the last thing I do
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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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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 08/10/2026
happy international lesbian day. thinking about two of the greats
discord screenshot

person 1: i need a girl to kiss
person 2: do you think that just because you're lesbian it makes that sentence any less pathetictumblr posts:
person 1: can you trigger tag 'lesbians' please 
person 2: no but i can hit you with my car
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026
Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
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Finding Facility @music-tax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If excoriation and investigation is all we'll have for two years we better have a lot of both, top shelf
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HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FIVE POINTS FROM MY FAVORITE INTERNET LINGUIST
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HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is it by any chance this? youtu.be/K4KhZeVosMM
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics
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✨🔮 Madeline 🔮✨ @afterdusk1025.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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epic trinket: vulpera seed 💄💦 @shugoshame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't torture the normal bsky dude who posted this by quote posting on this account so here
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HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you're using remdesivir or GS-441524, there is hope. Apparently FIP treated with that has an over 80% recovery rate, which is *so* much better than untreated.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.
post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
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Setz @setzeri.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A commission of a "little" story told in three pages.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Silby @silby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
jackboot descending upon unprotected face over, & again
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Should November 3 be the disaster for Republicans that analysts are predicting, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck president with a ticking, two-year expiration clock: he will become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman." Excellent read:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guess who is going bankrupt again? Except this time he’s burning through his remaining *political* capital. My latest for @atrupar.com Public Notice. Please read, like, share—and subscribe to PN. Thanks, Tom open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet
His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Trill #StopKIDSact #callyourrep #savespeech @trilicon.moe.observer · 06/10/2026
Go pirate-radiostationing the Human Domestication Guide by writing fics that explicitly violate the fucked up, childist, and colonialist rules of what the setting can and can't talk about, and prepare a numbers filed off version calling it the People Raising Manual if they press it. Fuck the rules.
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HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
on a similar vein, we know the knight is a villain because it's the roaring knight you know what they say, "silent knight, holy knight"
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Marcy Nabors @shadolith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
working on deltarune is hard sometimes because i can’t make jokes like “noelle being into girls was based on the phrase ‘don we now our gay apparel’” without worrying people will assume it’s true unless i wrap it in a disclaimer like this
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Belle - The wicked witch of atproto @torrentempress.neocities.org · 07/10/2026
BONUS FROM THE DEV:
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
whoa. plot twist for the very nature of your existence
cover of TURNED GAY BY THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD THAT I MAY ACTUALLY BE A CHARACTER IN A CHUCK TINGLE BOOK featuring handsome shirtless buckaroo on the right and on the left is a swirling galaxy with a smiling face on it
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night. Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different. Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
Headline of June 2025 article by in the Nation by author Jeet Heer: 
"The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species."
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#SpookyMonth64
RuneScape ghost and goblin
The text
"She s
Ghostin you, but she goblin me"
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Too much.
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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The inequality line goes straight up and still these people will tell you they don't have enough and cant afford to pay more in wages or taxes.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026
i think we have to consider the possibility that Trumpism as implemented in v2.0 effectively did a CA prop 187 self own, but nationwide this time
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