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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 1h

Please remember that if you watch snuff videos you're a sick fuck. #AmericaTheBeautiful

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Bauernkriege Österreich, zwischen Wels und Linz. "Während der Bauernkriege errangen die Bauern am 10. Oktober 1626 in der Nähe der Ortschaft Leithen ihren letzten Sieg." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchtr...

alte Karte, Leithen zwischen Wels und Linz

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 4h

Always remember America in its true historical context.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder that America's so-called Secret War in Laos and Cambodia was one of the worst mass atrocities of the postwar era and that Nixon and Kissinger should have been hanged from their own intestines for committing it.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

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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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 14h

America, a hopelessly demented political nation 250 years old, is shuffling around confusedly in palliative care trying to remember where it put down its constitution.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 15h

Not a great name for a politician who wants to come up in search engines. You might have to scroll down a bit.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 16h

It’s been noticed

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17h

Christ, they are using this to start the process of ending sanctions on Russia.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17h

Trump’s love for Putin is the only pure thing in his life.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 18h

Myyrmäen Prismaan tilataan jostain syystä aina yksi Populär Historia, ja jos aiheet ovat vähänkään mielenkiintoisia, ostan sen pois pelkästään sen takia että lehti pysyy Prisman valikoimassa. Uusimman lehden kohdalla päätös ostamisesta oli ihan no-brainer.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 19h

America's Special Little Baby Boy threw a tantrum and did a number two in his funky adult diapers.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 20h

They could, in fact, just say no to Hegseth, but they're too much of cowardly lickspittles to do that.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 20h

US military confidently marching towards a PR disaster that is going to destroy it as a public institution.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 20h

Kokoomuksen kameralistinen ideologia on täysin irrallaan siitä, miten kansantalous oikeasti toimii. Tätä on heille yritetty vuosikymmenet selittää, mutta eihän leuhkoille älykääpiöille mene mikään jakeluun.

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Jett Black @jett-black.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A Virginia data center just ran off diesel generators for 24 hours. Regulators could do nothing, as the fumes forced local residents to flee their homes.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Le secrétaire se lâche un peu en disant que c'est la veuve du tonnelier municipal qui va devenir tonnelier municipal et non son nouveau mari. On lui dira d'ici mercredi qu'il a intérêt à bien se tenir "sinon on lui jettera son chapeau sur le toit" mais pour l'instant "on considère son dossier".

extrait des minutes du conseil des XV, Strasbourg, 1591.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ympäristöministerin olisi kannattanut jäädä Ruisrockiin ryyppäämään. Se vaikuttaa olevan ainoa asia mitä hän osaa.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hallitus: Lakien rikkomisesta ei vastedes seuraa sanktioita. Hyvä tietää.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The US military retreating from Europe is a good thing. The fewer terrorists and war criminals we have here the better.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A horrible murderer is going to be murdered by other horrible murderers and a horrible government of horrible murderers is going to broadcast that horrible murder into a horrible spectacle of horrible murder. #Murika

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/10/2026

#OtD 8 Oct 1967 Yamazaki Hiroaki was killed by police, and around 600 people injured in Japan during an anti-Vietnam war demonstration near Haneda airport stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So now Trump is inciting race war/ethnic cleansing inside America. This might be a good moment for the American citizenry to finally stir from their servility and sloth and grow a fucking spine.

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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For all the Wehraboos out there.

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Dr Irina Manea @shieldofskuld.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How can one resist this spellbinding animal art? Bird head ornament (probably raven) from the late 500s, Åker, Norway #medievalsky

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ongelmallista, että valtiovarainministeriön ainoa missio on harrastaa edgelord-hypetystä kansantalouden hoitamisen sijasta. Mikään muu ei niitä nykyään kiinnosta kuin saada se yksi ja sama omasta peilikuvastaan huumaantunut Parta-Barbie keimailemaan A-Studioon.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"hard times make strong men" actually statistical error. Most hard times make starved peasants, who lack the capacity for successful use of force. Swiss Cantons Georg, who lives in a fortress and practices with a pike formation, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Paiserutto ei ole kadonnut maailmasta minnekään, sillä se vaanii endeemisenä eli kotoperäisenä Keski-Aasian jyrsijäpopulaatioissa ja myyrissä. Esiintyy myös Amerikoissa ja Afrikassa.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vähän selvennystä. Eli keuhkorutto on paiserutto, joka on levinnyt imusolmukkeista keuhkoihin. Siinä tilanteessa kuoleman riski on suuri moderneista antibiooteista huolimatta. Paiserutto on bakteeri, joka leviää kirppujen ja eritteiden välityksellä. www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/8...

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Kommentti: Siperiassa paniikki – Mitä Kreml salailee?

Siperian ruttoepäilyn vaientaminen osoittaa, miten paniikinomaisesti Kreml varjelee kulissejaan kriisitilanteessa, kirjoittaa Iltalehden ulkomaantoimittaja Heikki Mulari.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've spent my career shining a light on U.S. war crimes and civilian harm: in Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere. Today, on the 25th anniversary of the Afghan War, I spotlight an unarmed man who was gunned down 16 years ago. 🧵 theintercept.com/2026/10/07/a...

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He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.

An Army veteran walked into a California police station to make a horrifying confession.

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Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Viides jakso Arkiston valta -podcastissa käsittelee sitä, mihin ja miten tekoälyä käytetään arkistossa. Mikä muuttuu ja mikä ei, kun tekoäly tulee osaksi arkistojen arkea, ja minkälaisia erityispiirteitä sen hyödyntämiseen tässä kontekstissa liittyy? blogs.helsinki.fi/tietovallana...

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Vanhat käsialat ja uudet tekoälyt – Tieto vallan alla – Arkistot ja demokratia

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NtiViitanen @ntiviitanen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Eläkeikä 70 vuoteen tarkoittaa käytännössä sitä, että saadaan lukuisat huonosti työllistyvät, työnsä menettäneet 60+ kärvistelemään köyhyydessä ilman eläkettä.

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🅹🅰🅽🆃🆂🆄 @paavali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kun persut kerran halusi käydä katsomassa kuinka globalisaatio ja vierasmaalaiset tuhoaa tämän maan niin niiden olisi pitänyt mennä Muhokselle eikä Puhokselle.

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Aseteknologiasta huumaantuneen sotapuheen ongelma on oletus vakinaisesta armeijasta. Mutta kun Suomella ei sellaista ole vaan sen sijaan pelkkä sodanajan täydennysarmeija, joka on haalittava kokoon Hurstin leipäjonosta, sossun luukulta, piritoreilta ja Attendon vuodeosastolta.

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Excited to tuck into this one. It is very relevant for the book I’m writing just now (on an infamous infanticide case), but also: that title and cover!!

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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