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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

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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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 12h

I think I've gotten 1 magazine in the last 2 years...

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This also affects Analog Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 09/10/2026

Africanfuturism is an anchor point for science fiction that is not just by Africans, or set in Africa, but about Africa. This is an excellent sampler from my brilliant publisher @dawbooks.bsky.social Its a great deal! www.humblebundle.com/books/africa...

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African Futurism: Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, and Adam Oyebanji by DAW Books

Read daring, imaginative science fiction stories in this African Futurism ebook bundle! Pay what you want and support BINC!

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Damnit!! I want the F&SF and Asimov's thing to work out so bad.

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love Lightspeed! Help the Kickstarter if you can.

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Jen @jenbached.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last week on If This Goes On (Don't Panic), sci-fi author Nadia Afifi dropped by for an unmissable conversation on finding strength together, Palestine, being radicalized, and more. Catch her insights here & tune in here: itgodp.libsyn.com/a-fugitives-... @itgodp.bsky.social @catrambo.bsky.social

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026

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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got an email that said: - Preorder Keith W. Dickinson’s upcoming book - and I thought what the hell? I don't have a book coming out. Except it turns out I do! 😂 CHALLENGING THE TIDES, the solarpunk anthology I'm a part of, is available now to preorder. 👍 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

The cover of the Challenging The Tides anthology. In stylised graphics that are blocks of colour, a lighthouse sits on a sand dune, a boat with yellow sails on the sea beside it. The yellow sun is in the sky, and the sky is a circuit board. In black text, Challenging the Tides, and anthology of hope, edited by Susan Oke and Shellie Horst.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Y'all, we made it to 100. Met the goal! And yet, wouldn't you know it...now we have a new goal! And that goal is...uh....125!

This offers a screenshot of Goodreads as undeniable proof that The Cellar Below the Cellar has now reached 100 ratings. The screenshot is a little blurry, though.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 04/10/2026

Oh no! Don't come any closer! It's only two more hours until #HorrorWatch

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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are celebrating BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION all month long!!! What’s on your TBR for October? 🪐🧞🧛🏿‍♂️

A piles of speculative fiction books by Black authors, including “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” “Forged in FIYAH,” and “A Necessary Chaos.”

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Jen @jenbached.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy October Pod People! If This Goes On (Don't Panic) has an interview with the illustrious horror author, Ramsey Campbell, coming up. He's won 23 literary awards including 4 lifetime achievement awards. What burning questions do you have for him? @itgodp.bsky.social @catrambo.bsky.social

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 02/10/2026

Okay I more or less just put on sale exactly what was on sale last year based on what I could remember (except the four-book bundle, but all the individual books are on sale). Also there is no sale on print because my profits are so low on those. 🤷‍♀️ payhip.com/skyladawncam...

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This question is very much you. 🤣 I'll put it on my list

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ya'll the man has won 23 literary awards including 4 lifetime achievement awards. No questions?

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

August Derleth published a bunch of his early work

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are interviewing Ramsey Campbell Saturday. What should we ask him?

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Jen @jenbached.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If This Goes On (Don't Panic) has a new interview this week with the SciFi author, Nadia Afifi. This is a must! We discuss Nadia's new duology, writing multiple timelines, Palestine, history through different POV, improving as a writer, and much more. @itgodp.bsky.social @catrambo.bsky.social

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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 30/09/2026

Today is the last day (I think) to get the e-book of SLAYERS OF OLD for $3.99. Magic house and tentacled cat and baked goods and retired heroes saving the world one last time. bookshop.org/a/25009/9780... 💙📚🪐

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Slayers of Old

Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time "Buffy the Vam...

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

nicksaraev ~
@nicksaraev
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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was well into my 40s when I got my diagnosis, as well. It made a huge difference for me.

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was 100% me. I'm good at tests. I always did well in highschool. I did terrible in undergrad though. 😂

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Similar to my realization I was ADHD. Once I realized, I was like ooooohhhh fuuuuuuck...this explains everything. When I was a kid, they didn't test much for ADHD unless you were throwing chairs at the teacher. I wasn't that kid

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The level of financial misalignment is as bad as I’ve been warning, and you’re going to see headline after headline of stuff I’ve said in the newsletter for years. I say this with both pride and sadness because being right is going to be many layers of horrible.

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 27/09/2026

Next month for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, join us with John Langan & Carrie-Edmund Laben, Wednesday, Oct 14th, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @johnlangan.bsky.social @carrielaben.com @datlow.bsky.social

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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My short scifi story “Coda” from last year is in this! You can preorder these now.

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 25/09/2026

Here's the audio from this month's Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with Jeff Ford & John Foster. H/t to AT Sayre for the audio. @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @jfoster.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @amygoldschlager.bsky.social @atsayre.bsky.social www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2026/09/25/a...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026

Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel theonion.com/kash-patel-phished-by-…

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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! The greatest night of the week, #HorrorWatch! Join us at 9PM EST as watch and discuss Scars of Dracula! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2d2...

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Scars Of Dracula (1970) - Official Trailer

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, you are enough. Don't believe anything contrary to that.

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Graphic novels are time consuming because a human being is making it, by hand. That's an inherent part of what makes it art and worthwhile. Yes, they're slower to produce than other art forms. Because again, human. I find it insulting af to suggest that's a problem that needs to be solved.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just under a week to go 👀⏳ and we're a little over $600 away from the goal... now is a great time to back some time loop fiction! Can you join in??? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories

Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NYC, 1 more thing before I dive back to edits! Join me for an incredible discussion as part of @bkbookfest.bsky.social! ART OF DARKNESS: WRITING THE WEIRD I'll have Andrea's & my non-fiction books on hand for sale, plus a set of THE SPECTRAL CITY available, as my non-fiction informs my fiction! 🖤

A 19th century illustration of a woman in 19th century mourning (I dress like that too, btw) stares out a murky window towards a bat. Text reads: You are Cordially Invited: ART OF DARKNESS: WRITING THE WEIRD, Sept 26th, Noon doors at B-Scene 50 Avenue B in Manhattan, a panel discussion. Part of the 2026 Bookend events of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Panelists include Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrea Janes, Leila Taylor, J R Pepper and moderator Ilise Carter! Free event! Books will be available for sale and signing!

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Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's still Bi Visibility Day! Hooray! ❤️💜💙 You know how you should spend today? Picking up or pre-ordering awesome books from awesome bi+ writers! Here are some suggestions to get you started!

A graphic with a background featuring the colors of the Bi Pride flag (pink, purple, and blue) with black letters at the top that say Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!

The graphic features twelve book covers of bi+ authors: Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner, Cracks by Kristy Park Kulski, Cyanide Constellations and Other Stories by Sara Tantlinger, This Fever Called Living by Azzurra Nox, Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris, Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland, Sleep Alone by J.A.W. McCarthy, Sinner Man Hand by Tracy Cross, Sabbath of the Fox-Devils by Sam Richard, This B Just Won't Die! by Tanya Pell, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls by Angela Sylvaine, and This Is Not My Body by Lindsay King-Miller.

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Ābrajam Simpson @mattformath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In case you need another reason to NEVER USE DOORDA$H

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TONIGHT ONLY!* Join the livestream to chat with me and my friend and fellow @hornedlarkpress.com author @jomiles.bsky.social about our recent novellas! From the comfort of your own home or any other location as long as you're considerate with headphones! *Unless you watch it on YouTube later

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Alien Forests and Dubious Swords: A chat with Jo Miles and Marissa Lingen Hosted by Kevin Hearne
Wednesday, September 23 7 PM ET
Join the livestream at:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@KevinHearneAuthor
Instagram: @kevinhearne
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kevinhearne

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:

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