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Kris

@jumping-cholla.bsky.social
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Psychology prof. Pro democracy, kindness, animal rescue, and cocktails.

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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl, probe if young men were at the controls www.wkrn.com/news/germany...
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Police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl, probe if young men were at the controls
German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward h…
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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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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 11/10/2026
"I #mourn her. I miss her. I #love her. But I cannot go back to her. Perhaps in time she will stop walking ahead of me, just out of reach. Perhaps she will walk beside me..No longer a phantom, but a #companion" (She is Me): buff.ly/G1zylTP by @leighlouharper.bsky.social #ChronicIllness #poem
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She is Me
A eulogy for the versions of me I will never know.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OMG NYC is having a scavenger hunt. The theme? The History of Organizing in NYC. OMG THIS IS THE WAY
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO So disrespectful. I hate it.
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Count Nikolaj Bill-cula @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Folks, I was at Kroger's earlier and a woman didn't know what pickles she wanted. She said she wanted something tart and was about to get bread and butter, but she asked me "Do you know if these pickles are sweet or which ones are better?" Lady, I've waited my entire life for this conversation.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
living for this energy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/08/2026
A Black Hawk helicopter. Elite SWAT teams. Last September, federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment complex in a massive show of force. The government claimed “terrorists” had taken over the building. That’s not what we found: propub.li/3T6mq7j
“This was one of the most aggressive displays of force by these [immigration] agencies in a U.S. city in, like, anybody’s recent memory. This is not normal. … This is not something that happens in this country, and it did.” -Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica reporter
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
There is no such thing as “conservative-based” science. If you’re not doing evidence-based science, you are making up fairy tales.
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In a 2023 interview, Trump’s new FDA pick laid out a vision for ‘conservative-based’ science
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration previously called on conservatives to create new academic journals and to fund science that would explicitly back right-wing p...
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs: My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There are few things sweeter than watching this barred owl taking sippy drinks from our kiddie pool. So gentle and serene. #birds #owl #birb #nature #love #trailcam #Seattle #goodmorning #PNW #love #funnyanimals #nokings
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/07/2026
Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU…
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Max Burbank @mxburbank.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I want a true historically accurate Odyssey where all the characters are played by piles of dust and bone fragments.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I live in a small town in NE Scotland close to where chunks of the #Odyssey was filmed. Nolan’s cast and crew were all lovely and spent money like water in our hard-up area. He even made sure our tiny cinemas got on-time release of it when we normally have to wait for big movies. Thanks Chris.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
JIMOTHY
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”
A Highly Unusual Move
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions for seven senior Navy officers, mostly women or people of color.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm not "quiet" I'm just fatigued and you seem like a lot
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Echo @echo262.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We got the dog a new bed.
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is where the anti-trans bullshit was always heading
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Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Has any owl in human (or owl) history ever looked this cool?
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Injured owl from Orange County on the mend, receiving laser therapy
The owl, who sustained a spinal injury, was likely hit by a car in Goshen.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The text reads:
"Chronic illness doesn’t just affect your body. It slowly edits your personality. You stop being spontaneous. You plan exits before you plan fun. You measure energy before excitement. You say “let me check” instead of “yes.” And one day people call you distant, negative, or changed — without realising you had to rebuild your entire life around staying functional."

The illustration shows a simple cartoon drawing of a person with blue hair reclining in an orange armchair with their eyes closed, wearing headphones, with a small pink floor lamp behind the chair.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Public pools. The line for the public library at the Obama presidential library. Some things are good. Just…good. For we, the people. And folks know it.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/06/2026
absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/06/2026
apparently the bassist for the Oregon Symphony wore a shark costume for their performance of the Jaws score, you love to see it www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...
photo of a symphony orchestra in concert, only the double bass player is in an inflatable shark costume
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
DAMMIT, I’ve been pro-algae for free and other folks are getting paid?!?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’ve got a friend who was non functional after a few hours with a GI bug. I gently pointed out their symptoms matched the ones I deal with every single day. Their response? “You’re used to it. It’s not the same”. That’s how disabled people are treated in a nutshell.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2026
someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament
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Sam (Killer Robot)ham 🤖 🎃 @hamrobotham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I don't care if you're not a Knicks fan. I don't care if you're not a New Yorker. Watch this speech.
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 17/06/2026
Not for one second did I see where this was going.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 17/06/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/06/2026
shoutout to the lady at the airport here who is starting her day with an avocado toast and a full glass of white wine
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@_philayana @brainandspoons.bsky.social
@_philayana - This is your constant reminder that you don't see what chronically ill people are like behind closed doors. You often don't see the suffering, the pain, the not being able to shower for days because you're so exhausted. You see a put together, "pretending to be well" version of ourselves that we often use when we face the outside world, in an attempt to have a good time.

(Watermark in the bottom right corner of the text box: BrainsandSpoons)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool
A photo of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The water is green and it's surrounded by gray-white stone structures. A man wearing a green seersucker suit with a white shirt and black knit tie.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2026
Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy. Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
WEATHER WITCHES: ASSEMBLE
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Elder Skunk of the North @loranskunky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I noticed an elderly woman using a mobility scooter on my bike route was always getting jammed up and walked over and missing her chance at crosswalks. I bought and installed a horn on her handlebars that sounds like a train. I just saw her scare the pants off like six people and then scoot on by! ✌️
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spanieldors.bsky.social @spanieldors.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wasn’t the 80’s when they ran those “it’s 10:00, do you know where your kids are?” ads because our parents needed to be reminded they even had children that they needed to look after?
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