Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 13hHey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again). 1929522166
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New 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 148147966375
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialSam (Afterthoughts) @afterthoughts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That is so crazy, I wonder by what mechanism? Maybe we should take some of the money accrued by the companies/people who profit from AI and distribute it around? Just spitballing 0234
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialWorking Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 08/10/2026"There's no reason that our tax dollars should be spent bombing schools and communities abroad when those tax dollars should be spent building schools and communities right here at home," - Randy Villegas, candidate for Congress in California. 05813
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix 3362672337
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too. 10672164
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialjosh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2026When an artist who inspires you turns out to be a rapist, your response cannot be to stop making art. Reject them, their work, the parts of them you once emulated, but don’t stop. It wasn’t their crime that inspired you. Make the things they made you want to make. Fuck them; keep the inspiration. 110530
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026and fuck your purple messaging too. drag the window left by forcefully defending human rights everywhere and it will be a winner again. the party has to lead with integrity and clarity of purpose. 51276
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101399244
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026right, yes. the thing about tradwife culture is that the only responsibility the patriarch has is to properly dominate his wife. note that the tradwife content is frequently the household's primary source of income -- in reality, the husband is something more like a pimp. 227028
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7779091408
megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is the wildest part of teaching k12 for me. So many parents and students have planned their whole lives around professional or collegiate athletics. 000
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 162169354738
megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026come for a great bit o’ discourse on evangelism, stay for the armadillo 011
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm. 231667434
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Medusa but her hair is an anaconda 8973882086
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START 1019621824
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 31/08/2026tax is policy. it's as much about what you make easy to do and what you make hard to do as it is about revenue generation. you can just stop or at least not incentivize so many socially destructive things 549135
megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I read this in the spring and was enchanted. Been working my way through her other books since. She‘s wonderful, and this book is fantastic. Go read it! 011
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialConnor 🦇 @roxconn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I can understand how a normal person in 2001 could get sincerely swept up in the tsunami of fear and grief and become a mark for propaganda. There’s no excuse for it this time. It’s so stupid and unconvincing that, to fall for it, you’d need to have wanted to fall for it well in advance 12196
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialHello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read. 839961246
megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I have students wearing these and I cannot express how much I hate it. 000
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name. 178130402596
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/08/2026 428354
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Gonna staple this to the forehead of every single pundit who writes a “oh the billionaires will leave if you tax them” piece like Martin Luther on meth 19696160
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialHéctor Barros 🏳️🌈 (he/him) @snibbits.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026Here's the thing. If I know/notice genAI used in any part of your project, no matter how small, I will assume you used it for all of it, and I won't be interested at all. Why should I care if you don't? 101178417
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026this is you in meta’s pervert glasses 465027844
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 09/08/2026this is the thing, right here 04410
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's silently costing people friends and other connections, too. If I see that you are posting or reposting gen AI content I'm unlikely to say anything but I will immediately lose interest in striking up any kind of conversation, friendship, or working relationship. And I know I'm not the only one. 10756361607
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialIan Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 03/08/2026for the record: when I'm dead, I'll be dead. you cannot hurt my feelings anymore. talk shit all you want. 616617
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use. 221174423959
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialMark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power. 276114023661
megmbg.bsky.social @megmbg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My son got his as soon as he could, at around six, to protect his baby sister and grandfather with cancer. I can still see his proud face. He is a patriot and a hero, more than anyone peddling nonsense. 000
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"I can't make a content about a human rights issue I'm just a small silly..." Ms.Rachel is a children's entertainer. She sings nursery rhymes for a living and yet 9740143
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialAnupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...churchinwales.org.ukStatement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales 191742514
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class” 394049601
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense. 310121284559
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialGuillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 12/07/2026i stand corrected 70110341627
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.social🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham has died. He is being remembered for the way he lived . If you do not wish to be mocked when dying , do not make your dying the only way vulnerable people can find peace 202418602
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialchris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait. 252192133781
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208665336
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/07/2026[Exit Queen.] 432715537
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this! 676385997
Reposted by @megmbg.bsky.socialBen Wildflower @benwildflower.com · 08/07/2026I believe people who do horrible things can make amends and reform their ways. In the cases of abusing power the path to healing means the perpetrator giving up power and being prevented from regaining power over others. 183
