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In Disney's Atlantis dr Sweet says he was drafted in the Spanish-American war, but the US didn't draft anyone for that war.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19h

About fifteen years ago I made the joke that everyone had to decide which tech corporation would own their data: Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Google. Now I know I was wrong, they all trade that data like Magic the Gathering cards

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15h

two women talking
'and what do you intend to do with your life?'

'Get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.'
Bette Davis in Now, Voyager. Dir. Irving Rapper, 1942.

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One Inch Heroes @oneinchheroes.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 12h

tim epic is going to drag this industry kicking and screaming down to his level

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Krissy, Howling at the Pumpkins @krissyhowler.northsky.social · 9h

Finished @ela-bambust.bsky.social's 4h50m Assassin's Creed essay. What is AC trying to say (if anything)? What does it actually say? An even-handed assessment, and makes me very glad I skipped Rogue.

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Analysis of the Creed - Video Essay

YouTube video by Ela Bambust

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.

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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 4h

The ultimate Darwin award!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

No. No no no. “raises serious questions” implies there’s any doubt. “Yet more proof” or “clear evidence of”. You’re not trying to convince people through a later argument, you are stating a fact. How are they so bad at this?

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Luis Carazo @luiscarazo.bsky.social · 9h

ACCURATE!! 🤣

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Caffichai @caffichai.bsky.social · 6h

Surtr (2025) It's rude to stare! (Even if she is kinda covered in bites and bruises that you're pretty sure weren't from the mission yesterday)

Surtr, a woman with long hair, ear piercings, insect-like horns, an oversized crop Avril Levine t-shirt black spiked belt with a waist chain, and fingerless gloves with a spiked leather bracelet. She is glaring over her shoulder at the viewer with an indignant expression

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

350 subscribers and I get paid and revenue. Come on let's make this happen.

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Sam @samryx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Some Eleanor/Drifter yuri💕 #warframe #warframe1999 #eleanornightingale #tennocreate

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026

Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

dawg I’m gonna be empirically smarter than so many people for the rest of my life because of this shit, it’s a real shame that being smart does nothing for you in life, you still have to deal with the stupid people

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ICE always lies. It’s the one constant in our tumultuous time.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is not a “Chinese psy-op.” The companies are bad faith neighbors.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

for legal reasons i'm not saying blowing up data centers makes everything better but it is worth pondering

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

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The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.

Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Blood Lily 🩸 🏳️‍⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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KITTO @kitto-paint.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

found stray Skitarius on the streets (my friend's OC skit looks like he have cat flu)

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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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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026

get the fuck off of x, the nazi site for nazis

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1954

P1- A BURGLAR STEPS THROUGH THE SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WINDOW
P2- THE BURGLAR SEES SLUGGO ASLEEP IN HIS BED, AND HE SEES THE CONDITIONS SLUGGO IS LIVING IN
P3- THE BURGLAR FEELING SORRY FOR SLUGGO, PLACES SOME COINS INTO SLUGGO’S PIGGYBANK AS HE STEPS OUT THE WINDOW AND LEAVES

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

300,000 tons is the equivalent of 93 million gallons of diesel. U.S. daily consumption? 160 million gallons. So 13-14 hours’ worth. Won’t really move the needle on prices in the market.

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SonhoGentil 🦇✨ @sonhogentil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

quick painting sketch of sleepy bunny Cecil 🐰✨ Patreon: www.patreon.com/sonhos [ #art #digitalart #oc ]

Sketch painting of my oc Cecil stretching after waking up, while wearing her jammies

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay — the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former International Criminal Court judge — happened to be at the Nuremberg Court in Germany when she learned that she had won the Nobel.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026

the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten

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매요내주 @nomain050.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

LOVE

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Sorkel @sorkel3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Unemployed college student Barron Trump made $150m in one year. When asked about it Trump said "It's none of your business". Republicans: Silent. When Hunter Biden sold $40k worth of paintings, Republicans shrieked, investigated, held hearings and said Joe Biden should be impeached over this.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apparently, the last time I wore the jacket from last night's 50th anniversary dinner was at a Worldcon.

Holding a badge ribbon in the palm of my left hand. It reads, "Murderbot doesn't love you. It just wants to watch its shows."

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Toddler-in-Chief throws another tantrum. "But I started a war! Why don't I get the Peace Prize?"

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sorry, guys. This one's on me.

A quote from TSA that reads: just a reminder that our website says ARTIFICIAL skeleton bones are okay in carry-on bags we do not want to be part of the next documentary

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've seen people call my dad a nepotism hire, and I've got to refute this - I auditioned many, many my dads before casting my dad as Jurgen Leitner, and he was simply the best fit.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 10/10/2026

Not surprisignly this is a quote from an episode of @ouropinions.bsky.social We did not fuck around

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👻 Sailor Boo-rtia 👻 @sailorportia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine being Shinji in this situation. You're just trying to read your blank piece of paper while your new legal guardian is doing aggressive yuribait with her coworker right in front of you

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Halloween in Hanbok 08

Witch Crocodile and Witch Goat in hanbok standing side by side

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

lolsob

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lizzie Borden is back in the news these days. Not bad for a woman who’s been dead nearly 100 years! In a NEW episode of UNDER THE KNIFE, I discuss the infamous murder case and how crime scene photography changed the nature of murder investigations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKY...

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Under The Knife: Lizzie Borden

YouTube video by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris

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