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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3h
me to every single company i've ever interacted with
the "don't email my wife" meme.
a picture of home with a three car garage. someone spray painted, in red spray paint, the words "Stop now. don't e-mail my wife." i changed it to say "don't email my me."
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 17h
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1945
P1- WE SEE A SIGN POSTED ON A BUILDING PROCLAIMING:  THIS IS FIRE 
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NANCY USES A WATER GUN TO PUT OUT A LIT CIGAR SHE SEES ON THE SIDEWALK 
P2- NANCY BECOMES ALARMED WHEN SHE SEES SMOKE COMING OUT OF A CITY MANHOLE COVER 
P3- NANCY SQUIRTS WATER THROUGH THE HOLES OF THE MANHOLE COVER 

P4- NANCY QUICKLY RUNS AWAY WHEN A DRENCHED, ANGRY LOOKING CITY WORKER , SMOKING A PIPE LIFTS THE MANHOLE COVER UP TO SEE WHO JUST SQUIRTED WATER ON HIM
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 22h
I kept thinking the Cuni guy (Bronx shooter) looked familiar and then I realized I saw him last year at the ICE raid in Chinatown, where he was pretty front and center. Dude loves the attention
Brendan Cuni in tactical vest looking kind of disheveled while speaking with another person
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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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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Man shot by ICE in #NewYork next to 5 year old child. "The 5-year-old was screaming for his father, yelling, 'Why are you guys killing my father?' The man had nothing in his pockets and nothing in his hands..." Protesters were seen blocking and banging on patrol vehicles outside the hospital."
Screenshot of news report with headline, "ICE shooting protests" and image of people with anti-ICE signs.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 09/10/2026
What did in New York City today is horrific. What they did everywhere else today is horrific, too—and they would have murdered a lot more people by now if we hadn't mobilized to stop them. They still aim to do so as soon as they can. Fight to the death. Abolish ICE. 🏴 crimethinc.com/escalation2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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ipodthereforeiam @ipodthereforeiam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lmao
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me” is such a powerful anti-posting mental device. Discourse I could jump in on? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. Other posters beefing? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. An internet personality exposed? Guess what
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lmao, love reading First Amendment caselaw
screenshot of a court opinion summarizing Tennessee caselaw on profanity and disorderly conduct. One cite reversed a conviction for disorderly conduct “when the defendant, driving past the police station, called to the officer, ‘sooey’”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026
It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.
Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement
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ipodthereforeiam @ipodthereforeiam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jason, don't do this to us. I don't think I can handle it being mack-luh-more.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 18/09/2026
I think it is bad that so many people in power appear to hate the world and everyone in it
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TFW your entire country's path into the future gets fucking bodied by a 10-year-old named Riley Grunch
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
the mold whispering into JK Rowling's subconscious: "you should put on your website a list of every mean thing you think anyone's ever said about you just in case someone doesn't know you're in the Epstein files"
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
me when people talk about the crisis in academia
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As a person with ADHD, the prospect of computers taking meeting notes for me is very appealing. But as a person with ADHD, I also realize I will absolutely not look at the notes.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so is anybody in the professional political media going to ask any Republican candidates whether they disavow Elon Musk (the single largest GOP donor) and his white supremacy?
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sincerely causes one to pause and ponder
A quote from Benito Mussolini from April 28, 1945

The quote is: "So much for the tolerant left."

The quote is upside down out of a deep historical respect for the manner in which he passed away. RIP (rest in pizza, as they say in Italy)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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ipodthereforeiam @ipodthereforeiam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Cylon Battlestar Galactica
ALT: Cylon Battlestar Galactica
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses.
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It was an honor to work with him/ her
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not only are foundations and donors pulling back from supporting trans rights, but major foundations are dropping organizations BECAUSE of their commitment to trans issues. This happened to @fightforthefuture.org and we have not recovered financially www.them.us/news/trans-r...
them.us
Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
he got him. he finally fucking got him
real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it should be enough that all consumption of stupid harry potter shit directly funds the persecution of trans people, but it isn't, and so it should be enough that stupid harry potter shit isn't even GOOD. like. polanski it ain't, my friends
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/08/2026
now make hard drive prices normal again you jags
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Democrats have spent 3 days attacking a streamer btw
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BREAKING: ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of President Trump's second term.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026
one thing I will say is that if Dems don’t get very aggressive on oversight and play hardball with the admin after they win in November, the success of more lefty candidates in primaries this cycle will absolutely pale in comparison to their success in 2028
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ipodthereforeiam @ipodthereforeiam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
October 2018 tweet from @ndrew_lawrence:
“Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
Con: LOL no...no not those views
Me: So....deregulation?
Con: Haha no not those views either
Me: Which views, exactly?
Con: Oh, you know the ones”
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/08/2026
remember when there was that train accident in east palestine ohio and the right wing talked endlessly about how biden & co didn't care about the middle of the country? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
nytimes.com
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/08/2026
A default Sim right before I tell him to go swimming and delete the pool ladder after he gets in
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