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Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I am Jules's agent and we tried to sell this book to publishers. How do I say... the current culture was not receptive to both the content and the authentic voice. So Jules is getting this book out there with my full support. If you care about trans and autistic voices, support the kickstarter!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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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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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
historically high spend and this is how much of his net worth it is
google search showing that $276 million is 0.0276% of $1 trillion and proving why we so desperately need a wealth tax
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
nytimes.com
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gideon and Bartholomew are the best, wisest people ever conceived, and I would wish they were real except if they were they’d have accidentally died about a million times and I don’t want that for them
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Antonia Hylton @ahylton26.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our exclusive interview on The Assignment with a legal observer in Maine who was able to unmask 2 ICE agents.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day!!!
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wardrobe goals
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Oscar Wilde and quote: "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
YAY!!!!!! Best news I’ve heard all day!!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
First Paris, then London. Who’s next?
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 05/09/2026
“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.
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Blajnart @blajnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Posting again because I'm very very happy with this piece and how popular it got on the deskmats 🙏
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My very, very best advice if you're voting by mail aligns with what many election administrators recommend. If you put your ballot in the mail, do it ASAP and check to make sure it was received. Even better is to return it to a dropbox or deliver it in person at the election office.
nytimes.com
More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year, and They’re Getting Tossed (Gift Article)
State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Many (if not most) local election offices make it easy to track that your mail ballot was received and processed. For those that don't, try calling. But regardless of whether Trump succeeds in getting USPS to refuse to deliver some ballots, don't risk it. Make sure your ballot is counted.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/08/2026
playboy would like the incel generation to know that you don't need to smash your face with a hammer or drive a mclaren to get it, you just need to be a likable human being
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.
Tim Curry and Ian McKellen in Amadeus.
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The Liminalist @liminalistic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
9-25 should be Dolly Parton Day.
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#ficwip @ficwip.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
it's that time of year again!
The Colonel Toad meme: an elegant gentleman toad in a suit and green vest. He is saying, Beautiful writers, it is with great pleasure that I wish you happy fanfiction writers appreciation day
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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yup
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Shameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How much do you think this fine will be? Tash went IN on the men who keep throwing these green dildos 😭😂 #WNBA
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
"This was never about saving women’s sports. It was always dehumanizing trans people and using them as a societal scapegoat and cudgel against Democrats, who still haven’t figured out how to effectively deal with this non-issue." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 11/08/2026
*cough cough* comicfury.com is aggressively anti-ai and indie run *cough cough* very customizable website & use your own domain
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Gary K. Wolf •  
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
*wipes eyes* omg that’s funny 😂
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
fine, you fascist potato, take a nice long walk, let your lungs partake in all the freedom
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
A yellow Backmarket poster in the subway showing a pink Game Boy with the caption “AB > AI”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Biddeford Maine today - fatal ICE shooting "THIS IS BLOOD" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And the same for authors and books
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
ok art may be subjective but this is objectively amazing
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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
new legalization nation
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Angellilou @angellilou.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
[FALLEN] After 11 hours of work and gallons of tears, I finally finished my Renaissance like painting of Crowley's fall!! Probably my best artwork for now (pls share it~) #goodomens #goodomensfanart #goodomensart #crowley #digitalpainting
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! I’LL NEVER HAVE MY HEART BACK 😭😭😭😭😭
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
What good is it if there’s no cord to twirl around his finger?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The only message not voting sends to a politician is that your opinion can be safely ignored because you will never hold them accountable. That's it. You can tell yourself not voting is good for your personal brand or your moral well being, but never pretend it makes a difference in the real world.
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daniel ✶ @fish3s.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
morning cottage kisses this is how it ended idk what show y’all watched #aziracrow #ineffablehusbands #goodomens #goodomensfanart #goodomensart
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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 29/05/2026
the bus. you've once again invented the bus.
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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read"
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
😳 Ohhhh I think maybe I just got it. Well… Oh well. What’s art if you can’t argue over it 🫠 (Also, we’ll always have AO3)
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
No apology needed! lol I keep trying to figure out what happened without asking someone “so what happened exactly?” Maybe I’ll just read a summary of it. I’m kinda curious, like is it really that bad? & yeah, maybe I’ll be one of the twisted few who likes it, I just haven’t heard from anyone who has
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Haven’t watched it (yet… or maybe never?) but from what I hear it’s 😞
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Lokius Legionnaire @ophiuchus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Or maybe the last half hour is just them making out? 🤔
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