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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We are going to work today We are gonna get so much done! What a beautiful day We are not scared Uh-uh! Emails! Long rambling emails! We can’t delete them We can’t forward them Oh no!! We have to read and respond!

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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got into a discussion about AI recently & I mentioned my deep concern about its use in schools. Friend explained how they used AI in their work & I said the major difference is that they (friend) have already developed critical thinking skills to critique the AI information whereas kids have not 😕

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 08/10/2026

Make The Onion Satire Again

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, untrue, do not take these ghouls seriously.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No one should want to watch an execution. Anyone that does should be put on international watch lists. I can't believe how depraved and backwards this is. Evil.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

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About ISBNs - Canada.ca

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I need a royal commission of inquiry into why the fuck I find a product I like and immediately gets discontinued like ffs

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Krystal Chandelier @krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ACT getting 5x as much in donations as the Green party but still polling at about 2/3 of the Greens really shows how hard right wingers have to work for people to actually like them. Imagine if a left wing party had that kind of money. Imagine if right wingers couldn't splurge money like that.

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Terminator took place in 2029. Uh-oh, wait. What year is it now?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

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Mark @thehistoryboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I like how they try and hide the bonkers in the middle of all the normal 🤣

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's controversial to say 'Don't kill kids' now. The singer of "Hop Little Bunnies", "I'm so Happy" and "Big Feelings are Okay" is controversial.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 05/10/2026

But the ferries had to be cancelled.

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Earl Mardle ✅✅ - Full Mamdani - No Swerves @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Increased female representation in an occupation lowers wages for men and women." The generalised misogyny of "women are just not worth as much as men, whatever they do" and men who do "women's work will suffer lower wages till they get proper men's work" which is coincidentally, disappearing

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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026

Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

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Windows explorer @ktheexplorer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Randomly found the tragic story of bengal muslin today - cloth finer than any produced in the world, and the entire industry was destroyed by the British East India company (i.e colonialis) www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Keen to see international readers' guesses for how 'almost extinct' before they click through

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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026

You can literally find examples of any of of those 7 MEN being delusional every single day?

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Zealand superimposed on Japan. 4.9 million people vs 126 million. Source: buff.ly/2ZLxp4e

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/09/2026

Just watching an old documentary tonight, something about data centers, ai and robots.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/07/2026

The US will try anything but gun control

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 20/09/2026

National had three years to build a stronger start for our youngest learners: instead it cut funding, dropped its own commitments, and let standards slide. And now wants credit for a policy about iPads.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well really the question is: do they not require strengthening or does the law simply not require them to be strengthened? RNZ would be providing ‘news and information you can trust’ if its reporting made this distinction. #nzpol

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This stinks to high heaven...Forbes and Ferguson, both very publicly disliked by Seymour and Peters, being sacked despite listener numbers going up? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...

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Where's Susie? RNZ host off air amid 'miserable' atmosphere following show cuts

Susie Ferguson on 'a period of leave' as RNZ recruits for a new Saturday Morning host.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How it feels to be a wellingtonian seeing all the posts about Auckland trains

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 09/09/2026

Paul prodestation: The Govt should pay for every kiwi to visit the Treaty Grounds at least once in their life. Fucking transformative

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As I recall, we the people kinda did chime in, in one of the largest and most united public manifestations ever seen in this country… Must we repeat ourselves? (Probably!) www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao-m...

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Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti: A year on from one of Aotearoa's largest protest movement

One year ago, a dawn karakia at Te Rerenga Wairua marked the beginning of Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti - a nationwide march opposing the Treaty Principles Bill and government policies impacting Māori.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/09/2026

You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

world <- ne_countries() |> filter(sov_a3 != "ATA")

ggplot(data = world) +
geom_sf() +
coord_sf(crs = "+proj=eqearth") +
theme_void()

A basic world map using the Equal Earth projection

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 22/08/2026

Loves me a good rainbow image & this is a goodin

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The words "climate change", "fossil fuels" and "greenhouse gases" don't appear anywhere in the new science and social science curriculums, my colleague Hanna McCallum reports. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...

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Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums

The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This country spent seven years carefully establishing a water regulatory framework and setting up large nationalised water organisations to give effective scale, and then three years cancelling that and bodging together 40 really expensive water companies to make anti-Māori racists feel better.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

we have got to put that into a causal inference lecture

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Manuel Veth @manuelveth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Holy what a goal for Canada's U20 at the Azteca.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

National-dominated council strips Hamilton of its democracy

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m feeling targeted!! 😂

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's something remarkable about this: about hearing Everlee Wihongi's authentic voice, the thing that's been missing from it all.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For at least twenty years, in every hotel I've stayed in, if there's a Bible I've signed it 'Cheers for believing, all the best, Jesus'. As a full-time touring musician it's well past the thousand mark by now.

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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That last bit is general advice, to be followed every day as you wake up.

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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wellington MPs can't talk about Moa point shit on Facebook without hundreds of idiots changing the topic to "cycle lanes". They really think the five decades of infrastructure under investment is all attributable to one seperate cycle lane in Island Bay.

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