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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 12m

Waiting for the blocks to start rolling in. Come at me, bro. 😂

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The Rock: Come At Me Bro

Alt: The Rock: Come At Me Bro

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2h

Artist Wojtek Siudmak sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/siudma... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his 1970-1976 cover art:

Wojtek Siudmak's cover for 'Fiction', #195 (1970)

Wojtek Siudmak's cover for 'Galaxie', Janvier 1972

Wojtek Siudmak's cover for "Podkayne fille de Mars" by Robert A. Heinlein

Wojtek Siudmak's cover for "Le disque rayé" by André Ruellan [as by Kurt Steiner]

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 18m

Feel free to get mad at me for using AI, but this was simpler than trying to explain it myself. Prompt was "Good afternoon. What's the current markdown on Russian diesel, as opposed to diesel purchased from non-embargoed countries?" #Trump #diesel #MAGAts #Russia share.gemini.google/qDkcAA5llHpV

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‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI

Created with Gemini

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Shoulder2wheel @shoulder2wheel.bsky.social · 31m

The Russian diesel should not be unloaded dockside from a US port. Under no circumstances. If you use heating oil, which is diesel, ask your supplier if any of it is coming from the Russian shipments.

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 28m

I guess I could go through & tag all the laces (which is what this is again), but maybe there's a programmatic solution, Otherwise I can go through & tag them all, but I don't want to create more heat than light?

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 32m

It's shoe laces again.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So this explains the bizarre attack on Zelenskyy by the South Korean president He probably knew this was coming out and wanted to get ahead of this investigation showing that SK is assisting the Russian terrorist genocidal regime

theguardian.com

Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on

Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There was an incident on Latvia’s border where armed, masked men tried to push migrants through & threatened Latvian soldiers. Meanwhile, on the same day, a Moscow court declared 13 people/5 organizations from Baltic states “Nazi” collaborators. My latest… olgalautman.substack.com/p/masked-men...

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Masked Men at Latvia’s Border as Moscow Builds a “Nazi” Narrative Around the Baltics

Monday was another one of those days when individual events may not seem particularly unusual, but putting several things together paints a much more concerning picture.

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 39m

Wilmington NC? 22 September? WTF. Folk down east should organize & keep it from docking. Take that shit to DC & let Trump feed the MAGAts off of it. I hear diesel is good for getting rid of worms & dictators.

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 1h

🇷🇺🇺🇸Brian Fitzpatrick: “We will be introducing bipartisan legislation to block any and all purchases of Russian oil. It will be called the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act.” It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly.”

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1h

⚡️ "We do not need or want Russian fuel in Australia," Energy Minister Chris Bowen stated, rejecting any participation in Washington's arrangement. Bowen stressed that Canberra's approach remains unchanged, maintaining that Moscow must not be rewarded for its invasion of Ukraine.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/10/2026

Rybar founder Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife and three others have been taken to a police station in Kotor for questioning, SHOT reports. They were detained early this morning at a hotel, where drones and other digital equipment were reportedly found. #Russia

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 1h

Sigh. Make one, not "make on". ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh, the alt text does in fact come through. 🙌

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Naomi Rohatyn @omibaloney.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I always thought I never wanted children but after a big family holiday I’m also reconsidering my position on adults

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 1h

No, I don't know how "fascist" got in there twice, but having noticed, it seems fitting, right?

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 1h

I made several of these back when it almost happened. Dunno if the alt text comes through, but if it does, knock yourself out for using it for posting them. There's also a blank with no text, so you could make on that said, e.g., "MUSHROOM DICK." photos.app.goo.gl/h4qGJ9XPBPeN...

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Trump, chief asshole · Jul 21, 2024 – Sep 16, 2025 📸

Shared album · Tap to view!

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 2h

My wife just sent me this, & if you need to throw it at someone for whatever reason, in this thread or elsewhere, please fling it with the utmost strength & with my best regards… to you, not the, um, flingee. 😂

A portrait orientation graphic of lapping blue water — no big breaking waves, just little ripples, with maybe a few bubbles & small leaves. Superimposed white text in the middle says "Reverse catcalling, where you roll your window down & tell a man he looks like shit 💫"

I don't know the source for this, other than that my wife sent it to me a few minutes ago.

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Mathias @mathias.bsky.social · 4h

Ever since Zelenskyy refused to lie for the convicted felon about an ongoing Biden investigation to help with the felon's election, the felon has wanted him to be defeated. There was no investigation. The felon wanted his worshippers to IMAGINE Biden did something wrong.

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 2h

I want to say this as plainly and clearly as possible: Donald John Trump, go fuck yourself. 🖕🖕🖕 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 4h

time for the USA to get a new president

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 3h

I hope Ukraine blows up every single drop of the treason diesel Traitor Trump begged from his master in the Kremlin

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 2h

on the other hand, a friend from MENA who has lived in Poland for 8 years, has a great job, and a *Polish wife* was just denied his most recent application for temporary residency; every day, it seems, Europe - and esp Poland - is becoming more and more hostile to foreigners 😑

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4h

People will look at you in the eyes and tell you speeding isn’t a big enough problem to justify cameras.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 19h

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 4h

I am monitoring this because I am a journalist who has written extensively about the effects of climate change on the California and the West Coast and also because I'm going to miss our beaches after this weekend because I don't think we are going to have them anymore

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Flooding hits California coast from high tides ahead of Tropical Storm Rachel

Residents took to kayaks and filling sandbags as flooding inundated low-lying areas of Southern California Friday morning driven by high tides and powerful surf ahead of Tropical Storm Rachel swirling...

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2h

if you annoy me in this thread you will be muted without mercy until I forget why I muted you

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 3h

It's like they were cloned in a secret Nazi laboratory to mass produce the "perfect" Aryan woman with the Mar-a-Lago look.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 2h

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 7h

👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 🧵

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Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 21h

I'm Masuke, and I'm 17. I managed to go for a short walk this morning! It looks like it's going to be a pleasant day.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 22h

Just ran into Little Lolli at the mini beach down the road from us, who is exceptionally proud of her work, after spending all morning and putting in a lot of hard work on this excellent hole she has made.

A small cream coloured dog looking back at the camera after digging a hole in the beach that is much larger than her

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.

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Cheetah Cub Cam

The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 20h

NWS Doppler Radar data indicate that Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, around 830 PM CDT with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). The estimated minimum central pressure is 971 mb (28.67 inches). See more at hurricanes.gov

NOAA GOES-19 satellite imagery of Hurricane Isaias over the northern Gulf Coast on October 10, 2026, at 0120 UTC. A large, organized mass of clouds and thunderstorms covers southern Alabama, Georgia, the Florida Panhandle, and surrounding areas. Bright orange and yellow colors highlight the coldest, highest cloud tops associated with intense thunderstorms, while green and blue shades indicate surrounding cloud cover.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like when Tom Cruise dies we're gonna find out a slew of insane shit. The Church of Scientology will do major damage control, I'm sure, but think about like...what if there was an estate sale. What fucked shit has he been getting up to. You know he has. Cannibalism? Maybe. I can't wait

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 19h

Its gonna be like when Michael Jackson died, but even weirder because he's got that Isolated Celebrity Brain Derangement *but also* an entire institution treating him as a living god

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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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Finley @goodboyfinley.bsky.social · 21h

Hello friends! Today’s a great day because IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉 I’m 3 years old today and got to go to agility practice and then I got cake 🎂 and presents 🎁 #DogsOfBluesky #BirthdayBoy

Finley, a medium size light brown dog with darker brown markings and a reddish nose sits on a gray rug looking at the camera. Finley is wearing a teal bandanna that reads. It’s my birthday and a party hat with polkadots and purple fuzzy fringe. Behind him is a banner that reads happy birthday.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 19h

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social, can I get an INNOCENT! Because I have this pic of Holly and Linus after their acquittal*. *Not actually Holly and Linus, who after all were never charged.