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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s like the people who make the machines have never had to actually park!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s hard to find words to do him justice, but if mine have been a small consolation to you, I’m so glad. x

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What's best about this absolute stupidity is that he seems to be helping all three in different ways to help each other in the war with the US without noticing the US is losing the most. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He really didn’t spark fury. Some people who are pretty much permanently furious about something or other were furious about that this week. Most of the rest of us already knew it was true.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Am going to have to visit Brazil one day to try these cocktails, because so many of the ingredients are not available here in UK (as far as I know).

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

SCHOOLS! Would you like £500 of FREE books?! I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club" Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books. I have £500 ready for the next school, so get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

A bunch of primary school kids hold up books that they got from the 500 Club!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My priority list is nearly the same as yours! Madness to prioritise a dishwasher. By far the easiest thing to do without an appliance. Would argue they can live without an oven though, if eating out + takeaway, but a washing machine!?

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A little comet of a cat. Blazing brightly, just not for long enough. 🥺 All love to you. I have a sense of how much of your heart you poured into him. x

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh! Hoping so much that he’ll return, maybe with a little smirk on his face! Sending you (and him) lots of love. He is indeed the happiest cat!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just think how much we’ll have to catch up on, when we do finally get a chance to catch up properly!

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reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have some news. There are a few of you on here, that made this dream possible. I miss everyone I knew on Twitter that I owe this to. A lot of you are not on here or like me, have not posted in a while. I will shout out @itsmotherswork.bsky.social thank you. ❤️

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wonderful news! I’m so pleased for you. I love a dream come true. x Raising a glass to the special UK-Canada relationship. 😁

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Truly. I love all of yours. You don’t need professional ‘gloss’ when you can see how much care goes into them.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

By the time my now 26yo got together with his girlfriend, I had a vast back catalogue of home made birthday cakes and she’d always had shop cakes. So this - from a cake book - was at her request. ❤️ I’m just letting you know; once you’re known for it, the requests never stop!

A birthday cake styled as a purple and blue cute, maybe diplodocus? dinosaur.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fucking Pope, being right again. Ugh! 🙄 Not sure what I’ll do if he keeps this up.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Life in the shoe: Clearing out the garage in preparation for some building works and I’ve found a box with my school exercise books from my O’levels! In 1984. Can’t fathom how they have survived all previous clear outs. 🤯

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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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CP @chickenprincess.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Pure evil

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Life in the shoe: Oh. Wow! Icewine! This is a Dry Ice Martini. And ... yes!! 🍸🧚🏼‍♂️

Bottles of vodka, dry Vermouth and Canadian icewine stand in a row behind a martini glass containing a translucent very pale yellow cocktail garnished with a strip of orange zest.
In the background on the right you can see the gold box the icewine came in. Nice.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s a bonkers suggestion. None of the players is that smart and in any case, the Greens overestimated their chances and then dropped a grenade on their own foot. Is it cock up, or is it conspiracy? Still 100% cock up!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got my tix! Last saw them live at the Hammersmith Apollo (at the time, the Odeon) in about 1986. ❤️❤️❤️

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People who’ve been following me since The Bad Place may recall that we’ve had a series of devastating floods thanks to ageing pipework at The Shoe. Today 23yo discovered she took the curse with her when she moved out, and water is flooding through her /downstairs/ ceiling. 🙄

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump already did a lot more than shit and not one of those guns made any difference. Who are you waiting for to save you?

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is very lush! And it’s startling how good the interactions are. He is suggesting glances with just a few brushstrokes, but they are full of meaning. Lovely stuff!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Went with 19yo to see the Renoirs today. This (The Swing) is one of my favourites. I love the interactions between his figures.

A photo of a postcard of a Renoir painting called The Swing. It features a young woman in a white dress with blue bows down the front holding the ropes of a low-slung swing. She maybe has one foot on it. She seems to be listening to a man in a blue jacket, dark trousers and a straw hat standing with his back to us in front of her. Beside them, leaning on the tree the swing hangs from, is another man, facing out of the painting. He is bearded and also wearing a hat. He appears to be looking at the first man. Beneath their eyelines, and therefore beneath their notice, on the left of the painting stands a little girl in a white pinafore. She probably wants a go on the swing and is exasperated at the love triangle getting in her way!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They are such utter tossers. And all of them somehow the brains of the worst kind of 14yo boy stuck in the bodies of the very worst kind of creepy old man.🤢

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bit disappointed that @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social has grabbed a BlueSky handle, but isn’t doing anything with it. It should be posting about the rather delicious Renoir & Love exhibition currently showing. (Went with 19yo to see it today and there’s lots there to enjoy and muse on.)

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

good news! good news! [walking around ringing a big bell] some good news for once!

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Moving on. This is my next read. It's thrown me back in time to 1979, when one of my friends in primary school was an Iranian child in exile. It's taken me until now to properly understand who the earliest Iranians to leave the country would have been; allies of The Shah.

A paperback with a bright blue cover, which looks a bit like a series of receding windows overlooking a snowscape.
The book is called The Nights Are Quiet In Tehran.
It is written by Shida Bazyar and translated by Ruth Martin.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good argument for making childcare free at point of access for all children, but not a good argument for giving wealthy people a subsidy they can allocate to their setting of choice. Because they will almost always use it as a 'top up' to access higher cost care prohibitively expensive to others.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yup. Work sent me on a talk thing he did once. It was supposed to be developmental/motivational. I found him chilling. A ghoul.

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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes. I am going out at 9:45 and that seems quite bonkers enough.

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