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Lieven Vandelanotte

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English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 9m
Trains? It's more likely than you think. (One of the small events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Belgian railways company, here in Antwerp Central station)
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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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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1h
The Telegraph figured it out? The Telegraph?!
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/03/2026
Doomscrolling on a Sunday like
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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 4h
prachtig stuk, over bronnen en geschiedenis, zoals alleen Ali Smith dat kan schrijven
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 4h
thank you for this 🙇‍♂️
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 12h
Golden in a donut I know I know It’s serious
A golden retriever in a donut themed donut
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 23h
Despite the brief break for emergency recording!
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 23h
Channeling TS Eliot eager to catch the bus
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 23h
It was one of the volunteer tram drivers who very stylishly arrived in this. Gentleman on the right here :)
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 23h
Omg un break! 😍 Here's a local light rail museum in Belgium with matching Goddess 😅
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The descent of the US government into filth and depravity always seems to have further to go. Even so, from live-streamed state-sponsored snuff films to bailing out Putin is a lot for just over 24 hours.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He's not deaf; it's totally selective. He can hear a bag of oven chips being opened from three doors away.
Dolly and her husband at a selection of beers and wines
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alright Officer Crabtree 😅
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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh yes, and their elders are busy electing and repeatedly sane-washing lunatics and fascists, and then complaining that The Kids don't have enough respect these days.
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Picturing cute toddler Jake being annoyed 🥹
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The likeness is uncanny (Never heard of Dora the explorer before)
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
*shape
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the more unusual postcards to have reached me. Love the little heart shaped in 'zoek' ('Seek first Jesus'). Am I to take it the donkey is called Jesus?
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026
this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...
washingtonpost.com
‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.
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Conor @cxnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LOVE BUMMING 😭😭😭
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I second this motion and without a doubt Annick 'opportunism is my middle name' DR is one of the current crop of right wing politicians I despise the most. Arrogant, totally miscast, indefensibly bad.
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🇧🇪 mentioned 🥹
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Really enjoyed today's newsletter - checklist providing an interesting lens to evaluate all the UK premierships we love to hate Five things Kemi Badenoch must do to win - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
giftarticle.ft.com
Five things Kemi Badenoch must do to win
While Tory leader’s popularity is clear, she must still neutralise areas of weakness and move closer to the Labour government
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank God for small mercies
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Michiel van Hulten @michielvanhulten.eu · 07/10/2026
Impressive Lord Archer obituary by Stuart Jeffries in the @theguardian.com
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Toronto in the autumn just hits different
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Randy Allen Harris @randyallenharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CFP for a Special issue on Figurative Constructions for Constructions and Frames: uwaterloo.ca/english/news... #linguistics #rhetoric #constructiongrammar
uwaterloo.ca
CFP: Constructing Figures, Figuring Constructions | English Language and Literature | University of Waterloo
CFP: Constructing Figures, Figuring Constructions
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
never change 🥰
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🫂🥹
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The biased Jeffrey Archer libel judge reminded me of the Peter Cook sketch (about the Jeremy Thorpe trial) so I had to watch it again and you can, too, if you like youtu.be/Kyos-M48B8U
youtu.be
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
many happy returns!
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Autumn mist over Charnwood Water at #sunrise
pink hazy cloud and lightening blue skies reflected across a still lake with trees in the backgroundpink and orange hazy cloud and yellow sun about to appear in pale blue skies all reflected across a still lake with trees along the edge of the watera beam of sun through clouds sitting on the surface of the lake, with pale blue skies, all reflected in the waterpink and orange hazy cloud and yellow sun about to appear in pale blue skies all reflected across a still lake viewed through a gap in the trees along the edge of the water
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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I just really struggle to take her seriously when she does things like this. The combination of belligerence. and not being on top of the detail just disqualifies her from the job she is seeking.
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the colour coordination is strong in this 😍😍
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also Dutch (spelled fagot)
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DV @driesvr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De grafkapel van de familie Tour & Tassis in de O.L.V. ter Zege aan de Zavel was a lunch break well spent. Adembenemend mooi.
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Jack @nothingbutflowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I cannot wait for the day I never need to hear about AI ever again (shut up I can dream)
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you elevate anything you wear 🥰
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sadly I can't make it to this year's Babel lecture, but if *you* can, you should
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Nev Nevolent the Owl
ALT: Nev Nevolent the Owl
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
cannot say im optimistic about the IP rights issues. AI companies sure seem to be getting away with the “better to seek forgiveness than ask for permission” approach. meanwhile, if you use these tools for your work you need to expect that they could be stealing your ideas whatever the license
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bugger
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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same 🥺
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