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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Baby boomers hate this One Weird Trick

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18h

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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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

11. But the economics are clear, allowing people to continue to suffer without treatment and support is expensive and unconscionable. According to NHS England, not treating ADHD costs the UK economy ~£17 billion in lost tax, benefits, unemployment, health/social care/justice costs

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Earlier on #BBC Five Live Breakfast, there was an expert saying that #neurodiversity had been historically underdiagnosed and now there was a course correction and the presenter interjects saying - and now it's going too far the other way? - and the expert said no. #ADHD #Autism #ASD #AuDHD

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the Daily Mail is playing games

Screenshot from BBC website:

Headilne: Wes Streeting 'completely wrong' about over-diagnosis, says review author

Picture: ADHD Autism review chair Prof Peter Fonagy in a dark grey suit sitting down in what appears to be an office

Text: The author of today's report, Prof Peter Fonagy, has been speaking to Radio 4's Today programme.

He starts by saying that former Health Secretary Wes Streeting - who first commissioned the review - was "with respect, completely wrong" when he talked about an over-diagnosis of mental health disorders.

His findings show that "there has been a rise in distress and mental ill health amongst young people which is very, very real," he says, noting that one in five cases require treatment.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah yes, the classic lead indicator of so many bad things: The Flydubai co-pilot historically posted misogynistic content including calling women “rotten meat” www.ft.com/content/a92b...

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The online life of the Flydubai attacker

Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views

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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's that time of year: lots of people will be sick, and many won't know what sickness it is. It's a good idea to get tested, but even if you don't know what it is, *please* stay home as much as possible, get plenty of rest to help yourself recover, and wear masks if you have to go out while sick!

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is Covid Why Everyone Is Sick With Covid Right Now?

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excellent front page here

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We look at history and effortlessly go 'oh yeah, the Wall Street Crash explains the 1930s'. We just have this blind spot about the much, much worse 2008 crash and how it affected every single one of us.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some people seem to think I'm referring to, I don't know, Coldplay's later works not hitting the same way, no, I mean this. This objectively sucks!

A chart showing GPD per head in the UK flatlining after the financial crisis.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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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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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There does seem to be a concerted one would say coordinated manufacturing consent for fewer people going to university and denigrating humanities degrees as universities cut them back - doesn’t there? Love our media and political class!

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026

I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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JUSTICE @justicehq.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In this letter to @thetimes.com, Lord Carlile, @bricksilk.bsky.social and Sir Max Hill explain why the ECHR is a national security asset. The three former Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation wrote the foreword to our recent paper on the subject: justice.org.uk/news/former-...

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Thomas Atcheson @thomasatcheson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you make inefficient, cold and poorly insulated homes, you create huge problems for the NHS. We're still dealing with the health effects of cheap, poor quality Victorian homes causing huge health problems in more deprived communities.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Scrapping the Future Homes Standard will deliver cost reductions for developers, but it’s hugely unlikely they’d be passed on to buyers and those buyers would be left with homes that cost thousands of pounds a year more to run.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also worth noting planning is just one part of what the Environment Agency and Natural England do. This would be an enormous change and even if you don’t care about the environmental impact of development there’d be huge disruption to work on flood resilience, waste crime, nature recovery, etc.

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're a time-traveler, and you just arrived in 2026, here's a synopsis:

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got some new followers, so let's just revisit the Naomi Campbell collection

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

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David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This interview with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has had almost 5,000 views since I posted it yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...

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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS

YouTube video by David M Tuller

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Katie Shoop @katieshoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you test positive stay away from people with weak immune systems for 10 days but we don’t advise you to test = eugenics

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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're delighted to be a gold-level sponsor for the Safer Shared Air conference on Oct 28 (Oct 27 in the Americas), which has a free online attendance option. Safer Air Project is doing amazing work with moving indoor-air research into standards that will prevent untold numbers of cases of illness.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population" A large Swedish study found that a 4th COVID vaccine dose was linked to a 31% lower risk of being diagnosed with Long COVID during the first 6 months after vaccination, compared with receiving only 3 doses.

A news article headline on the website Bioengineer.org, published on October 1, 2026, under the Health section.
The bold black title reads: "Fourth COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Cuts Long COVID Risk by Nearly a Third in Immune Population". Below the title, the author byline reads "BY BIOENGINEER" with a reading time estimated at 6 minutes.
Underneath the text is a conceptual photo set against a solid bright blue background. On the left, a gloved hand holds a textured 3D model of a grey coronavirus particle with red spike proteins. A medical syringe filled with an orange and clear liquid is pointed directly at the virus model from the right.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baby elephant taking a bath.. 😊

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a thread I wrote years ago (and updated a bit when I moved it from Twitter to BlueSky) about the types of academic accommodations that do and do not work for survivors of sexual violence.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Jason Tracy @jason.tracys.org · 30/09/2026

All of this, and also to add: Hazing is how cults filter out whistleblowers. The people that would put a stop to future bad behavior, or even just report it, don’t put up with being hazed.

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Katie Shoop @katieshoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is absolutely nuts. Condolences to every Long Covid and immunocompromised person in Scotland and Wales, including the 1000s who are not yet chronically ill but will be thanks to this incompetence.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

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