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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17h
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reminder that all the best planes want to be boats
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good grief, they're really putting the ACT in ACTually A Pack Of Bastards!
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
hey cool that's awesome
Harriet Williamson • @harriepw
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for "terrorist-related activity" in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
Figure 1.1: Arrests for terrorist-related activity, by legislation, years ending June 2002 to June 2026, Great Britain
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Year to 30 June
Other legislation
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Palestine Action)
Other legislation (linked to supporting
Palestine Action)
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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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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TBH 'Big(gg) Pounamu' would be a pretty sick moniker for a successful politician.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Let everyone know about this gem 👇
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bloody vandals!
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#F1 #BahrainGP #Malaysia Despite the steward's best attempts at sucking the fun out of it that was a great GP. GOAT drive from Fernando, rock-solid from LiLaw and amazing energy from the crowd, could feel/hear it through the tv! Alpine must be spewing right now.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Overseas Kiwis: enrol to vote if you're eligible. Deadline to enrol is mid to late Oct. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties
More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/Dd23gOr... #nzpol
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.
David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 25/09/2026
hundreds of abused interns: arise church decided to pay just four. please RT: www.webworm.co/arise2026/
webworm.co
Arise Church Still Sucks, Ya'll
Arise church in New Zealand abused hundreds of interns, and after 3 years has paid just 4 of them. Ben Kendrew of Arise Church responds. Webworm with David Farrier.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fun fact: The UN conference building in NYC has a copper replica of the treaty because "the pledges in this treaty are similar to the United Nations ideals." www.un.org/ungifts/repl...
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Replica of Peace Treaty between Hattusilis and Ramses II | United Nations Gifts
This Kadesh Peace Treaty is a copper replica of the original which is the oldest known peace treaty. The original clay tablet treaty, dated 1269 BC, was signed by Hattusilli III, King of the Hittites,...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“you get those photos for the weed communion wafers ad?” “sure did, boss. real sexy, just like you asked.”
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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The MAJC Man @themajcman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Damn this mf out here putting the glute in gluten
Delicious looking loaf of bread that resembles a buttocks and two thick thighs
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
PM Christopher Luxon, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, and the groceries. My SST #cartoon today #NZpol #CostOfLiving #Supermarkets
Cartoon. Title: “Work it!” The Dancing Cossacks from the 1970s National Party ad, with PM Christopher Luxon as one of them, carrying two supermarket bags, labelled Pak’NSave and New World. Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick in the background, clapping and saying, “Dah! Dah! Dah! Go, Comrade Luxon!”
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A slightly misleading headline – the bills are now before select committee. They won't pass this term. Urgency in this case reduced time between intro and first reading and was otherwise used similarly to extended sitting. Fair to critique this but don't conflate with skipping select committee.
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#nz If you enjoy the sensation of having your blood pressure spike so hard it blows your brain out of your nose then boy, will you enjoy this article.
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Alien Guy Giorgio Tsoukalos: Ancient Aliens
ALT: Alien Guy Giorgio Tsoukalos: Ancient Aliens
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Right back at you, Bozo.
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NGL but this is reminding me of a certain scene from The Boys.
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ahhhhh hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Malpass must've been crying/screaming/throwing up when he had to type that one out.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 06/05/2025
Here's a sentiment analysis of the most versatile word in the Australian vocabulary. Hope this is helpful to our international friends.
A scientific sentiment analysis chart mapping Australian uses of the word 'cunt' across valence (positive to negative) and intensity axes. The diagram plots 16 variations including 'sick cunt', 'mad cunt', (very positive, high intensity) 'hard cunt', 'top cunt' and 'lucky cunt' (positive, high intensity), 'good cunt', 'clever cunt', 'funny cunt' (positive, lower intensity), 'soft cunt', 'lazy cunt', 'dumb cunt' (slightly negative, low intensity), 'dodgy cunt, gronk cunt, shit cunt and dead cunt', (negative, high intensity) and 'dog cunt' (very negative, high intensity). The neutral form 'CUNT' sits at the origin.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
new kitten!
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Emz of Big Hairy News @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"CRY ME A RIVER"??? He actually said "cry me a river" on record?? Labour just got their next billboard - use it. Show the people who this man really is. Mask off, out-of-touch MILLIONAIRE running our country into the ground. Motherfucker.
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the kind of stuff ACT and NZ First want to ban. Health research focused on a particular ethnic grouping, even though it will have benefits for everybody far beyond the original study group. #science #nzpol
stuff.co.nz
‘We were flabbergasted’: Kiwi scientists make rare brain disease breakthrough
X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism, or XDP, gradually damages parts of the brain involved in controlling movement.
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What crisis did National borrow for? Everyone else had an excuse #nzpol
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 12/09/2026
The DUP sees the MAGA movement as allies, and Sinn Féin are protesting his presence… …and then he says this.
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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Mars Attacks Martian Close-Up
ALT: Mars Attacks Martian Close-Up
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Act is presumably claiming that the video it has released of last night's meeting bears out its version of what happened. It absolutely doesn't. Henry engages with @chewienz.bsky.social and even says "good question". He's already moving on when security swoops. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...
nzherald.co.nz
Watch: 'That's not true' - Act releases new video of Paul Henry v podcast host confrontation
The podcast host was removed from venue by security and later arrested by police.
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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#StationNews: Auckland Transport has confirmed the names of the new robot cleaners for the City Rail Link stations. Robot Downer Junior Fat Freddy's Mop Meryl Sweep
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨PRC POLICE CAR PARKED OUTSIDE CBD COMIC CAFE TODAY🚨 Someone tell me what is happening here, is this for a film set or a prank, it’s not that funny
Car branded as PRC Public Security Bureau (共安)on corner of Shortland St and Princes St, outside the Graphic Novel CafeFB chat, me going whuuuuuh wtf wtf, my friend confirming that it’s not AI, froma trusted eyewitness, “Holy shit”License plate 2030, not a registered vehicle?????
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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well, today is the 109th anniversary of Lord ‘Jacky’ Fisher writing to a future Prime Minister and (apparently) inventing the abbreviation OMG—well, using it in print for the first time, anyway
LORD FISHER TO THE RIGHT HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL.
MY DEAR WINSTON,
I AM here for a few days longer before rejoining my "Wise men" at Victory House-
"The World forgetting, By the World forgot!"
but some Headlines in the newspapers have utterly upset me! Terrible!!
"The German Fleet to assist the Land operations in the Baltic."
"Landing the German Army South of Reval."
We are five times stronger at Sea than our enemies and here is a small Fleet that we could gobble up in a few minutes playing the great vital Sea part of landing an Army in the enemies' rear and probably capturing the Russian Capital by Sea!
This is "Holding the ring" with a vengeance!
Are we really incapable of a big Enterprise?
I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis -O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) - Shower it on the Admiralty!!
Yours, FISHER. 9/9/17.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 03/09/2026
Another sign of anxiety
theguardian.com
Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’
Bank says gold reserves held in London could be traded more easily and the move will allow it to respond more rapidly in a ‘crisis situation’
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cost of the PPP Warkworth boondoggle would have; - gold plated iRex and battery electric ferries - full Dunedin Hospital build - fed every schoolkid around the country for a decade - funded the flu jabs for U-12s - half price public transport for U25's AND HAVE WALKING AROUND MONEY SPARE
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 31/08/2026
Today's chart after ACT got another $75,000 Numbers are getting too big to fit in the columns The system is rigged #nzpol
National:  $1,938,074
Act:  $1,857,163
Labour:  $707,921
NZ First:  $573,000
Opportunistic: $491,660
Greens: $343,194
Te Pāti Māori: $114,000
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 30/08/2026
Renney smashed this debate. Told it like it is. No wonder Simeon didn't think their finance person should attend, and Seymour didn't think Henry should attend. And it's clear why, Renney would've wiped the floor with them all. "We're not a poor country. We make poor choices" #nzpol
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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Anyone in the media going to remind the Nats that it was them that raised student loan repayments to 12% from 10% in 2013? Or are they just going to let that slide, like how Nats scrapped free flu vaccinations from under 12s, but it's back for under 5s just in time for election campaigning? #nzpol
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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