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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 9h

Not surprisignly this is a quote from an episode of @ouropinions.bsky.social We did not fuck around

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations! (And I know I'm biased as a void cat fan, but -- that ART 😍 )

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Brianne Battye 🦇 @briannebattye.bsky.social · 9h

My poem "shift" appears in the latest Belladonna's Garden alongside many other beautiful pieces. You can read it here! www.belladonnasgardenlit.com/issues/fall-...

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Belladonna's Garden - Fall 2026 Issue 5

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The Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.social · 14h

that’s… that’s why it’s a tragedy. It’s a good story because it shows how sympathetic people can behave like monsters when they’re treated like one. you can’t take that out because it makes you feel bad. Fuck, I’m going to have to watch this thing so I can write about it, aren’t I.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15h

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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She-wolf of Naarm @jadedsynic.itch.io · 09/10/2026

Hej, anyone remember this? go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz Because we all remember you. We make game narratives. Let us help you make your game shine

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 17h

🧵, but also I REALLY want to emphasize "the book is written the way it is for a reason." I sometimes see things like "I don't know if X was on purpose" and yes, yes it was. Unless it's an actual typo or some formatting accident it's on purpose. The author did that on purpose.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16h

Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY I wrote the book I wanted to write! Maybe it will be the book you would like to read! :D Contains: demons, sentient streetlights, a seven foot-tall bare-knuckle lady boxer (former), the full-course dinner at The Wretched Dragon, a museum exhibit full of tiny dragons, and spies!

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

maybe the most emotional moment I’ve ever had in a video game was watching Mordin cure the genophage at the end of Priority: Tuchanka and no prompt I put into a machine is ever going to match what @trickweekes.bsky.social and everyone else on the Mass Effect team made for us

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/10/2026

okay I am ten minutes in to episode one and this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my LIFE “We have doors slamming, taps turning on, a fishbowl in the kitchen spontaneously smashed,” home inspector walks in: “okay so first off, I see they have a cat”

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jack Gaughan’s 1970 cover art for "A Promising Planet," by Jeremy Strike

Three green figures run up to a yellow astronaut who's under a spherical red alien tree or structure.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's a market in research and high-end computing. Always has been. But that shit doesn't drive billion dollar IPOs. And nobody in startups or venture capital wants a successful £20m niche company. they want to be a Unicorn. So the delusion of AI as a consumer product gets shoved in the deck.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This puts unrealistic pressure on the rest of us to be doing something arty when the prize committee calls. I can't be "doing the laundry" or "picking my nose".

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Recently cast out a demon of anxiety, and hoping to finish a novella this month! And have a list of short stories I want to dive back into between projects.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Matt Bromberg strikes again

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Make art. Make bad art. Learn. Get better. Fuck AI.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

FUCKING THIS. The process of inquiry is almost the WHOLE POINT. It's why we keep fucking going when the experiment fails, the hypothesis doesn't work out, the chords are discordant, or the words don't come together.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The first warning was when my knife slid through easily. The second warning was when my arm slid in to the shoulder. I hate it when our mangoes have a bottomless pit. 😠

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kind of all of the above? It's got some "old tradecraft versus new", MI5 infighting, and action (if you like seeing Jack Lowden sprinting through London infrastructure, you're golden) and a decent sense of humour.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I genuinely had no idea that Jules Verne has the world's most metal grave

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Plus Capaldi's extremely emotive hair.

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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 05/10/2026

None of you are ever allowed to have imposter syndrome again. You hear me? YOU. YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW. Everything you have ever done, everything you have yet to do, has more beauty and worth than any single infinitesimal thing David Zaslav will do in his life. He will die forgotten. You won’t.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ohhh, I will never get tired of this. "The devil shits and your army eats it" is fantastic, but "you Macedonian wheelwright!" is really something 😁

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why do these weirdos always talk like they've invented a new medium from first principles, instead of looking very slightly to the left and seeing entire cultural strata that have risen and fallen without them.

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I helped out on these new maps! And on a little Halloween surprise... 🤫 #battlefield6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5uf...

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Battlefield 6 Season 5 Las Vegas Gameplay Trailer

YouTube video by Battlefield

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

Pond A Little Too Serene

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Jo Berry @joberry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His head looks huge compared to his legs

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

I think that Cohen and Tacitus would have gotten along fabulously, assuming they were not on opposite sides of a battle

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is indeed one of the most deeply frustrating things about generative Ai.

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I always think of William Goldman’s great dialogue from CHINATOWN: “Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?”

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Mandy JaceEEEEEK @mandyjacek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey folks! I've made a decision to shut down my INPRNT by end of October - last chance to get a few prints here! www.inprnt.com/gallery/mand...

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Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 05/10/2026

I appreciate that the Portal to the Underworld is just in there without explanation

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Wayne Reynolds @waynereynoldsart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cover art for the forthcoming "The Rising Wake" adventure path by Runehammer Games. Artwork sized "11.7. x "16.5 / 29.7cm x 42cm. Acrylic on artboard Publishing copyright Runehammer Games.

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