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Leon Barillaro is UNIONIZING @barilleon.com · 07/10/2026

If you want to support our efforts at United Wizards of the Coast, the absolute best thing you can do is sign and share our petition asking the company to voluntarily recognize us! Together we can change the games industry for the better! actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!

The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...

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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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Tomas Gimenez Rioja @ Crypt of the Nekrolych 💀 @tgimenezrgm.itch.io · 10/10/2026

Today with Celeste we watched 3 very different animation masterpieces First, we started with Avatar: 7 Havens. Just the first chapter... but still, I had my bar very low with all things happening with Avatar Studios, and I was impressed. Looking forward to seeing the rest

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Jae Seven Havens

Alt: Jae from Seven Havens spins grabbing a lance and pushes a guard with air bending

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

about to roast somebody who left a dumb comment, wish me luck

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@nessundovelab.bsky.social sent me a copy of their English-language version of Nick Wedig's fantastic game Rusałka, which I have been a die-hard fan of since forever. It is just bananas - very beautiful, very menacing, 11/10. Can't wait to play again.

Components of Rusalka laid out, beautifully illustrated tarot card sized prompts with creepy art.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/11/2025

ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege… CIA AGENT: Again. Do another. ME: Please, I can’t, I— CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter! ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 05/10/2026

Oh jeez. Oh no.

To be fair, I’m not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. “Because you’re Mexican?” he asked. I asked what he meant. “Isn’t a novella a Mexican novel?” Before him was the guy who confessed over drinks that he didn’t “believe in Helen Keller,” because there was “no way she actually flew that plane.” I asked if he meant Amelia Earhart. “Who?” I slept with both of them.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i love that! i am at a place where I either want a Perfect Story or something that is So Weird It Stings, and both are a high bar but there are so many good books that my list is also well-stocked.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i have read empress of salt and fortune (and the second I think, maybe, but I'm not sure), and she who became the sun! i liked both of them well-enough but neither shook me by the collar, if that makes sense. (city of glass is on my list also!)

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

your halloween usernames are very funny and i like seeing them, that's all

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now to ideally, move onto another book quickly before I am called again by the siren song of Phone

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reading has been slow but Notes From A Regicide really grabbed me. A fantasy novel, of sorts. Beautiful, sad, sharply observed book about revolution, art, family, and trans life.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me, learning a new game: Is this one of those games where it's rude to try hard and win? I need to know beforehand, mostly so I can add it to the long list.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Random career tidbits: I have two out-of-print published games (won't say which) that went from initial concept meeting to "files to the printer" in less than a week. Quarriors was turned down by 5 publishers before Wizkids took it. I've still designed more TCG content than any other type of game

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Penflower Ink @penflower-ink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's my birthday month! It hasn't really got off to the best start so it would really mean a lot if you subscribed to my newsletter/blog. It's completely free and comes out every other week: penflower-ink.com/penflower-po... Latest post: penflower-ink.com/127-chimeras...

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#127: Chimeras & Other Creatures - penflower-ink.com

In this issue: Name and logo for my modular fantasy TTRPG. Sneak peek at a Halloween Adoptables project. The usual list of cool links.

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once More Into the Void is 50% off until the end of the year, at which point we need to dispose any remaining full-colour hardcopies. This is the last, best chance to pick up your copy, with all proceeds going to to support @temporalhiccup.bsky.social www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Once-M...

A banner for Once More into the Void with the tagline, "Save the Galaxy, One Last Time".

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 01/10/2026

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 01/10/2026

Lumberjills is a joyful homage to the Women’s Timber Corps in WW2 www.rascal.news/lumberjills-...

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"hahaha ok" is a necessary and luckily learnable skill

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Scare-on Lim 林家丰 @ PAX Aus @ehronlime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The “hahaha ok” Response Strategy

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you, John! Very happy to know that you enjoyed listening.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Luck Roll (Brian) @luckroll.itch.io · 29/09/2026

This was a lot of fun to record and it's great to share it now with listeners. Check the episode description in your podcast app for a (fairly exhaustive) list of timestamps. From bone magnets to mythic stews to railing against roads, you're covered.

Screenshot of the timestamps and descriptions of talking points in the podcast episode.

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briar, duke of dykes @weregazelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

indie ttrpg design is hard because a lot of us are very beautiful and it's really distracting

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gyaneshwar Singh and Raghu Dharmendra invite you to the Board Game Studies Colloquium 2027 in Mysuru, India, on February 22-26, 2027. Submission deadline: Nov 15, 2026 Registration deadline: Jan 15, 2027 boardgamestudies.site/colloquium/b...

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BGSC 2027 - Board Game Studies

In 2027, the Board Game Studies Colloquium travels to the historic “City of Palaces,” Mysore (Mysuru), India.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Includes! Warhammer stuff of various levels of fidelity! My highest OSR game! Games set in malls involving time travel and kissing! Games about language! Civ: but a TTRPG! And more!

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been reading Hot War from @handiworkgames.bsky.social , which uses a system that Tyrant Philosophers will have a variant of, and I did want to post about how fun it looks as a narrative tool.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Miscreant Meow Connoisseur @bankuei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you like Mass Effect? Once More into the Void is basically the rules light, Mass Effect style RPG that plays in 1-3 sessions. The physical copies are $20 and whatever doesn't sell is going to be pulped bc it's too expensive to send them back up into Canada for storage.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think I found someone already but thank you! We will podcast another time!

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's about the first one! I'll email you, let me figure timings out.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you want to appear on a podcast about it? 👀

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great bit. I do want to chat on a podcast again but this isn't the subject, I think.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's for a guest on the podcast itself, no worries! I do want to talk about the Tripura adventure when it's done and out, so please keep me in mind then.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd love to talk to you on a podcast at some point but I want it to be for talking about your work, not someone else's! Let me figure out what's the best way and I'll reach out.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been actually meaning to reach out to you about another story, I'll email you.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hell yeah. I love how you've become the D&D guy in Dice Exploder circles, haha. We should talk on a podcast at some point, but I don't think this is the right one for that.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks! It's not for this, but I have been meaning to reach out. Could you send me your email his DMs?

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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ancillary Review is looking for more editors! Message me if you're interested in copy-editing, dev editing, or graphics creation for a Hugo finalist magazine of spec fic criticism! It's volunteer-based and fits with your schedule <3

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do I have any mutuals who have played games set in Eberron (asking for Rascal Reading Club as that's our next setting book)?

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive

Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 18/09/2026

Dice Exploder’s Sam Dunnewold is running out of things to say about RPGs www.rascal.news/dice-explode...

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