iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Chris

Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 4h

Be careful out there

Check your Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer in mine. Snickers image with the KPg boundary

281561334

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 10h

Peer pressure at the Lincoln Park Zoo

A sign by the Park Place Cafe in the Lincoln Park Zoo says "Please consume alcoholic beverages within the dining area. Thank you for your cooperation."

020

Reposted by Chris

Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Watch your hat! With hats often made of expensive materials like peacock feathers, hat snatching was an issue in late 1800s Bangkok According to one account, thieves from an upper story window would lower a gecko on a string onto a target When the gecko sank its footpads in, they'd reel it up

An American hat covered in colorful bird feathers

083

Reposted by Chris

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,…

152150976503

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today's wasn't so bad, I can live without it. The worst cases were 1) forgetting my passport (no real id - long annoying story, so extra hassle through TSA); 2) specialty hearing aid charger - fortunately I could get one shipped next-day

000

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A trip is only started correctly if I forget some small important thing that was sitting right by the door so I could blow past it in a rush

100

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And under a very low ceiling!

020

Reposted by Chris

Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and an army of flying monkeys

431576

Reposted by Chris

𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A vacuum seal is just a seal trained to do housework.

414152

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Zelda, 10 seconds after I got on the couch

A human is lying on a couch. A tabby cat is sitting on a wool blanket on the human's legs. The cat has her eyes closed

0260

Reposted by Chris

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

392066286

Reposted by Chris

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No lies detected

428750

Reposted by Chris

Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The candy shop door swung open and he strode in. Patrons gasped and clerks hid under the counter. He put a smoke out with the heel of his boot, pulled another from his leather jacket, and gripped it with his yellowed teeth. "Oh my god," a woman whispered, "it's the fifth dentist"

514948

Reposted by Chris

🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 11/06/2025

me: pendants annoy me him: why? me: they think they know everything him: I think you mean “pedants” me: *under breath* fucking pendant

4782189

Reposted by Chris

Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nightmare Before Christmas version of Cinderella where giant wasps help her get dressed

1022372

Reposted by Chris

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 03/10/2026

was thinking about getting back into shape but round is a pretty good shape so

0419

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A friend's food-obsessed cat loved fruit, and was a banana vampire

150

Reposted by Chris

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 03/10/2026

"What if Fiasco had some fronch toast" Fiasco are you aware that these kind of requests normally end up with someone being chased through the house while someone else yells "COME BACK HERE YOU STICKY LITTLE THIEF"

21083

Reposted by Chris

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 02/10/2026

The brief pause every time I see a headline with something about "Man City" and have to be like "........ Right" Like right yes that's a nickname of course and not some kind of... 1930s pulp fantasy story about a... lost civilization of men (only) in the jungles of darkest Somethingonia

51198

Reposted by Chris

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is Mad Libs on ketamine 🤌🏻

619316

Reposted by Chris

Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

202100362461

Reposted by Chris

jon christian @jonchristian.net · 01/10/2026

The guy who quit Anthropic saying AI is poised to kill humankind strongly appears -- though he didn't respond to a request for comment -- to have some extremely bizarre old tweets futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre

Old tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions.

52812

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My botanically inclined (but also more familiar with eastern plants) wife is guessing "possibly buckthorn"

010

Reposted by Chris

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

1354104

Reposted by Chris

Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet cause a gravitational incident that disrupts the tides and strands sea creatures

18124

Reposted by Chris

Katie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This poor cat has been fated to answer phones in a call center for life.

White cat with black markings that look like a call center headset

380108831200

Reposted by Chris

Glasgow Kiss @xanderglasgow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See if you’re in the UK & someone offers you chocolate money coins, what I’m about to tell you, might just save your life. Folk might ask do you want the 2p or the 10p, now you’d naturally think 10p BIG FUCKING MISTAKE! That’s not how it works in chocolate money world, choose the 2p, it’s bigger.

1259

Reposted by Chris

Billhelm @kaiserbillhelm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anything is high risk if you do it dumb enough

28932

Reposted by Chris

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

743214445

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like there's unexplored opportunities in large cardinals, but haven't done real math in 30 years. "Something something huge cardinals are smaller than supercompact"

000

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I suppose a new edition or modern rewrite will take off right after the AI-driven bubble pops

000

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why are you publishing unedited unvetted PR releases from bad actors?

000

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The latest feline true crime podcast was "the Scary Cleaners Showed Up at the Wrong Time of Day!", which was a nice change of pace from "Dinner Was Not Served an Hour Early, Again!"

000

Reposted by Chris

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 24/09/2026

I swear I'm not subtweeting anyone specific but if foundations and professional organizations want to support early career investigators in These Troubling Times they should change their grant submission process to accept grants written in NIH format with *no required modifications*

3469

Reposted by Chris

Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

11768681651

Chris @indrifan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Feeling batrachian, might delete later"

000

Reposted by Chris

Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the latest development of #justlablife a rascally frog has figured out how to open the rack lids and escape. They have done this TWICE now (same frog, who we have now named Drainy Houdini). Now we have to shim the lids shut using lily pads. At least its on theme. 🐸 🧪

3195

Reposted by Chris

Lizzlepants 🐒 @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

are birds even aware of how excited we get when we see one of them are they flyin around with huge egos

220869

Reposted by Chris

Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

372435756

Reposted by Chris

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, oh god that's 90 billion megatons of TNT all civilization is wiped out earth plunges into fiery inferno and then utter darkness

4338126

Reposted by Chris

sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The earth IS flat and it is also on the back of a giant turtle and God is balancing on top because He knows that stability training is the key to great abs.

2569

Reposted by Chris

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you gotta buy my pots cause actually they may one day grow to be Emrakul The Promised End and destroy all of humanity thats how powerful and important they are. Every time i throw a pot i am tempting eldritch power. Invest now in pots

17443106