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Ghost of Empires Admiral Rodney Lourenço Marques @rodneymarques.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This shouldn't be hard

Anti-racism requires confronting systems of oppression as they exist, not moderating their description to preserve institutional comfort or political convenience.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"sensible left" = right wing
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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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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Love that for him! Love that in him!
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
👀
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I would never lie to you, telly heart throb, Rav Wilding.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What? Ed Davey is the leader of the Lib Dems? When did this happen? 🤯
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
God, and here was me thinking James Ball was the sensible voice of liberalism. I'll never be able to look at him in the same light ever again. So sad to see. 🤯😢🫨
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All that made me think was "have I just misread the website and they were actually on a year ago?"
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'd happily go see 'em on my lonesome if needs be, 'cause I've heard so many good things and never managed to catch 'em before.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dirty Three, Electric Ballroom, November 10th. Who wants to go with meeeeee?
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Homer slumped in despair. Caption: "Oh it's true, it's true!"
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Conor @hyrulean.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I never get bored of getting a train over water.
A view from our train crossing the bay south of Dundee
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thought this was the Andy Burnham phone reaction meme at first.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At the GE, when enough of the public have realised that Burnham is continuity Starmer, the Greens could easily walk this seat without any effort after this result though.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sliced my thumb open on a collapsing cafetiere, lads. Gonna say I got the inevitable scar in a bar fight if anyone asks, mind. 😎🔪
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They did previously. They were all shit. Who did you vote for BTW?
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
She was always a shady little chancer. She whole-heartedly joined in all the "Corbyn is an antisemite" bashing back in t'day.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How does this connect with the original post?
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This must be the result of targeted reporting, right? Sure it'll get reinstated tomorrow (conveniently enough).
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Y'know, I think this is the first time I've actually seen the Guardian highlight that Trump is talking a load of old shite. Normally, they just repeat his words in a headline and amplify his bullshit unqualified.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh God yeah, I was so proud of myself for getting to the Atlantic Accelerator level. Haha.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Syndicate FTW.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why would the Greens want to work with a party of racists and transphobes?
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Noooooo, you don't understand, the purpose of a political party is to patiently fence-sit their way into power, and then sell out what little principles they have left to become the junior party in (and absorb all the toxicity of) a right-wing coalition for a 5p carrier bag charge.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ban this sick filth.
A jar of Thursday Cottage, Gingerbread Caramel Spread.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not being facetious here, but aside from the weighting at local party level, this sounds an awful lot like what the Labour party have. It'll sadly be ripe for manipulation and zombie branches.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fair enough. I'd agree with that. Getting more participation and buy in is always for the best.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you'd prefer a party of subterfuge and stitch-ups designed to eliminate the voices of the troublesome membership, then the Labour party is right over there...
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shut up, you filthy racist piece of shit.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pissing myself at the Guardian's attempts to make cheery and upbeat Polanski look like a sneering, sinister figure committed to antisemitism at the cost of "international ostracism" (or "some cowardly German green making snide comments" as we would describe it)
Guardian headline: Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over 'Zionism is racism' vote.

Photo of Zack Polanski at a lecture captured while he's looking down his nose and directly at the camera. He's not smiling and looks sinister.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No worries. There is also another bg theme of support for the plight of the Palestinians being framed as a "Muslim-only" issue, which the photo choice seeks to reinforce. The journos at the Guardian literally cannot comprehend that anyone else in the UK would care (because they personally don't).
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We live in an era of right wing propaganda trying to push a narrative that Muslim men are a hostile force seeking to impose Sharia law on the UK and subjugate everyone and here the Guardian accompanies a story already rife with claims of "entryism" and "hostile party takeovers", with that pic.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Loooool
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I grew a bunch last year and they were borderline inedible from the heat. Mind you, dried and they do give just the right amount of heat to my chilli oil.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, that's the actual *name*. Lol. I thought it was just a quirky way of describing them. Hahaha.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ooooh, what type are they?
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh shite. It really is. Hahahaha.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Noooo. You don't understand. The Zionism that I have in my head is pure and just and noble, and when you criticise actually existing Zionism (that is the cause of an ongoing, live-streamed genocide), that makes me feel really sad and personally attacked!
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of these photos is not like the others!
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A beautiful beach at sunset. Caption in script font "I'm very tired of this, muting now" and underneath "old centrist proverb".
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, it's racism to think "let's just murder all these people that are already living there, and raze their villages so we can move back".
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's absolutely crackers to correctly identify racism. Got it. 👍
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Opposing racism and genocide is actually quite popular amongst the public! Weird, I know.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You know, a lot of "sensible" folk would also say the same about trans rights, but presumably you care about those. A thread of consistency in your politics, I beg of thee.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yr fucking right weird, you are.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's not hatred to speak the truth, Julianne.
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're not going far, s'OK. But if you're on for a while, top deck all the way!
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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Arrested Development meme.

Panel 1: Well, did endless rounds of austerity work for previous Governments?

Panel 2: No, it never does. I mean ,these people somehow deluded themselves into thinking it might but...

Panel 3: But it might work for us.
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