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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 15h

I really only do that personally over the course of fully researching a character/title for one of my guides, which is my job, or to read along with Kid Krisis, which is pure joy.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 16h

Demand more from what you consume. The food should be better. The music should be better. The movies should be better. These aren't luxury goods! They are not jewels & precious metals! We don't have to be millionaires to enjoy them! We only have a limited time on this Earth. Let's spend it well.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 17h

"custody of the eyes" resonates with me deeply I spend a lot of my life/time defending my eyes from certain things and questioning why people are so okay with giving up custody of theirs

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 17h

Had this "Sushi Casserole" for dinner last night and it was legit one of the best things ever made in our house. It had all of flavors of tuna rolls or California rolls, but with tofu, and made 4+ *generous* servings for the price of maybe 2-3 boxes of maki rolls. nutsandtwigs.com/vegan-sushi-...

nutsandtwigs.com

Vegan Sushi Bake

Taste familiar ingredients of an American-style vegetarian sushi roll in this delicious vegan sushi bake - perfect for potlucks and cozy nights in!

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 21h

I love picking out where certain elements of each of their playing and songwriting styles first start cropping up in the early stuff as they move away from Skiffle and interpolate more and more of their love of African American music.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am equally annoyed by people professing the Beatles aren't that important and by people who only venerate their stuff from the middle onward

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Currently revising a song I wrote in September 1998. That's a normal amount of time to work on a song, right? (It's called "Sheep." IYKYK, NZers)

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Being an absolute menace to my family with our sequential Beatles listen as I point out all of the influences and evolutions I'm aware of.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The New World bulk Sour Bears are legit the best candy I have ever had and they are going to ruin my life and my teeth. Picture Sour Patch Kids, but not quite as sour, less sticky on the teeth, and with real fruit juice taste. They are all I ever think about at every hour of the day.

A bowl full of rainbow colored New World bulk Sour Bears, a gummy bear candy covered in citric acid. They have taken over my entire life.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What's wild for me is being on an Electric Vehicle subreddit and watch people suggesting Tesla's as if they are totally normal things to still be buying today, right now, brand new.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

People really keep using Twitter and Substack and buying Teslas like it's nothing, huh. I know there is no truly ethical consumption under capitalism, but I think "avoid lining the pockets of Nazi-sympathizers" is a pretty clear, bright line you can draw.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watched Obsession earlier this week. Vacant and deeply unpleasant. A film totally bereft of the wit and wonder it briefly shows off in the first 20m. There's a real sense of the script not really knowing what to do to elevate its central thread, which has been done many times over and often better

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Couldn't sleep last night and watched Backrooms. (I know, weird choice.) Absolutely loved it. Some wobbles here and there with the plot, but it's such a new and fresh approach to horror suspense and the production design was incredible. It reminded me of how I felt when I first watched Primer

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Greens. On a party level, no one else is serious about the future of NZ for our young people - both the environment and the economy. They should get 100% of the vote. On an electorate level, it would be strategic to vote for Labour, but their candidate is an equivocator who I refuse to vote for.

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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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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This year I've mostly only tried catching up on Apple TV prestige stuff, since it's all so buzzy and I have a subscription at the moment. Hated the 2nd season of Severance, dropped Pluribus for being badly edited, just quit Widow's Bay for bad writing (wild to me that it won a bunch of Emmys).

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think my biggest issue with modern scripted TV is 99% of it is bad. Just so, so bad.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pay artists. If you want to see more of their work, then you want them to survive. If you want them to survive, then you have to pay them. That includes all kinds of artists. Pay writers. Pay illustrators. Pay actors. Pay dancers. Pay musicians. Pay drag queens & kings. Pay artists.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love (i.e., HATE) that if I click ONE THING other than friends and kittens on Facebook, it tries to adjust my algorithm to show me a whole new raft of topics and pages - which I proceed to systematically block until it just shows me friends and kittens. Can they just add a kitten setting?

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lifted several very heavy things today for no real reason, and it definitely made me feel good in several dimensions - body and soul.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Y'all, places where you post, search, & and buy things know everything you've told them. You voluntarily gave them info. On Amazon, my info was accurate and not particularly secret, like, "Systematically builds complete literary collections." (I think that has to do with how little I use Amazon.)

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why won't the pope even consider the possibility that AI chatbots are conscious/ensouled? Well, that's simply not possible under a Catholic understanding of "the soul." Today on Fragments, a brief explainer of this situation. Link in replies.

why does the pope think that AI Can't be Ensouled/ Conscious? Followed by the infamous exchange between Pope Leo and "Spectromachina" wherein "Spectro" declares "pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an AI influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to swap public opinion. how many local models do you run?"

People are mad at the pope. People were mad at the pope, previously, when he released his encyclical on AI. People are mad at him now, again,2 as he tweets about AI, and as reporting reveals that Anthropic tried really really hard to get him to say that AI was/ could in the future be alive/conscious/sentient/ensouled.

What follows is a brief explanation for why that’s not going to happen.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Overwhelmed with gratitude today but also just overwhelmed. Not forever, and not even for the whole week, but just in this very hour. So many people need things from me, but they are all good people and it's fine to tell them I'm full to the brim right now. And that's what I'm so grateful for.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

!!!!!! BARBIE! Oh my goodness. Congratulations.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After two non-stop months where I couldn't keep up healthy habits (not for lack of time, but lack of executive function), today I snapped back into my habitual life like nothing happened. I used to think I was BAD & LACKED WILLPOWER. Now I know it's just my brain protecting itself from burnout.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

alas, she is running list only this time around (which leads to the delightful possibility that National could win an overhang of seats compared to their party vote and then she is out of parliament)

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I dream of days like these. I may never recapture the thrill of telling off Willis on my doorstep last election.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very that. However, maybe they know their market and know that most people need some kind of nudge or opinion to create divisiveness in their choices - so, they were trying to introduce that kind of doubt into my process. I respect that, but you need a different routine for a higher-info shopper.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't say that as some sort of "SCREW YOU, SALESPERSON!" punishment. I didn't feel confident buying from someone who didn't listen to me and who clearly hated the things I liked about their products. 10m later I was looking at fish and the pet store person was SO CONSULTATIVE over the $15 fish.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was at a store ready to make a relatively big purchase today. Sales person walked up. I asked them about the one feature I was waffling on. They proceeded to spend 5m negging all the features I liked and then showed me other brands (not even more expensive!) Hope they didn't need the commission 😬

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Multi Hardcore @gravitybreak.media · 02/10/2026

i get this sense sometimes that democrats don't want to hit below the belt because they're worried about the blowback of setting that standard, but A) republicans will hit low no matter what and B) just don't be as corrupt as them, ever! problem solved!

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do sometimes whack it with a knife, but not while holding it. Also, when I was in govt someone told me that avo-related injuries are the #1 ACC injury in the home. Not sure if that was real or not, but I believe it.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An absolutely brilliant summary of the unending string of abject failures of the current government of New Zealand. This is the sort of incisive communication I am looking for from my leaders.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 30/09/2026

Context

A chart showing new EV & PHEV sales over the years. The market absolutely fell out when the new National govt had a fucking insane idea to stop incentives to get EVs, then when Trump thought he should start a war instead of going to jail for being a Pedo & fuel prices went through the roof, EV sales have risen again

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Erica Stanford's Education Ministry banned "Aotearoa" from new education curriculum Same Minister banned books with 7 Māori words, like "kai", as too complex for kids to understand Insanity and notice how subdued the headlines are #nzpol #kiwi

rnz.co.nz

Māori words in curriculum shouldn't be controversial, principals say

Principals and a Māori language advocate are angry and disappointed by the Education Ministry's treatment of te reo Māori and the secrecy that has surrounded it.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow, that escalated quickly! What an awesome trip.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Update: the big (GOOD) news happened. So much stress relieved. Also, facial hair shaved.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big news arriving in about an hour. I have maintained a "playoff beard" since earlier this month while waiting for this to resolve and, holy crap, in addition to hating how I look with facial hair it also ages me at least 10yrs. Hoping I get to shave it off in an hour.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just another Sunday night seething about how much I dislike Chris Hipkins.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Louder for the journalists in the back! 👏🏻

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish we could turn of reskeets on a person-by-person level as well as overall.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't explain why the gummy bears are so addictive. They have a slight sour coating, but not as sour as Sour Patch Kids. They're kinda hard to the initial chew, but after you break the outside your tooth goes right through them (WHICH I LOVE). And they all taste like real fruit juice! Obsessed

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In addition to making my favorite donuts I've ever eaten not in a tiny shack off the side of the road in Vermont, I've discovered New World also has the best gummy bears I've ever eaten in their bulk foods section. And candy has to be REALLY GOOD to get me to interact with the bulk foods section.

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It will always be wild to me that noted quality control freak James Cameron didn't send Sam Worthington back into the booth for another take on the opening monologue of Avatar after he fully delivered it in an Australian accent.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)

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