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Dan Surman 🇨🇦

@otds-16.bsky.social
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Collaborator in culture and community building, pathological truth teller, all round nice guy. 🇨🇦

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 7h
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW‼️💙‼️💙‼️
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 6h
How does this asshole stay relevant?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Toronto’s bike network is wing torn up by the Provincial government next week. How about that for progress!?!
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT IS A RUSSIAN ASSETT!!!!
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My fear is that after the public gets comfortable with executing murderers, they might not fuss so much when protesters or the honourable opposition are on the ticket 
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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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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Couldn’t agree more.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t think self-congratulatory advertisements are a valuable expense for my Provincial tax dollars.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice to have some feel-good news once in a while. Beautiful legacy.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 09/10/2026
We're working with boroughs across London to expand out network of Cycleways - enabling more people to choose this green, health, cheap & fun way to travel. Good to see progress on construction along Boston Manor Road in @ealingcouncil.bsky.social
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’” #Paris
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How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
News story tonight suggests that Trump may lose big in the midterms because of tariffs & starting wars, but in particular because he failed to bring grocery prices down. So fascism, racism, blatant corruption/criminality, Russian collusion, treason, Epstein, and on and on…but it’s mostly groceries?
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ontario Nurses’ Association @ontarionurses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ford's plans to shift towards health care privatization is costing Ontarians more money and time! www.thestar.com/opinion/contributor… #onpoli #onhealth
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shame!
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The rise of reality TV followed by the advent of social media created an environment that celebrates human’s cruellest impulses.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few years ago, I said greedy egg producers like Cal-Maine were using their market power to deliberately drive up egg prices. My right-wing critics fried me for saying this — but now they all have egg on their face.
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ai fought the law and Musk won. Based on a recent appeal court ruling evidently it is constitutionally protected speech for some weirdo to turn your vacation pictures into softcore porn. Yay America!🤯😢🤬
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sounds like an act of war to me!
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@Favwontmiss

WHY ARE WE SO QUICK TO ASSUME POOR PEOPLE WILL TAKE MORE THAN THEY NEED, BUT SO QUIET ABOUT THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP WHO HAVE ALREADY HOARDED MORE THAN ANYONE COULD EVER NEED?
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read this. Then read it again.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I fear the corporate control of it will be a shackle on society without ethical oversight. In the meantime, it has reinvigorated my creative process and it aids me in delivering good looking and well considered reports for work. Amazing how it expedites medical breakthroughs.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m curious if that strategy would work. Charge folks like her as co-conspirators and squeeze ‘em.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The government doesn’t get to choose who is American. Americans get to choose who will govern them. Note, “govern” is different than “rule”.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pretty sure Jane Doe’s Cosmopolitan didn’t make them post “free p*ssy” on social media. There’s a challenge with any he said - she said case, but this is he he he he he he he said - she said. This appears to be collusion to assault as well. Thats something.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up nuts. Pretty sure Washington was a man of the Enlightenment so the armour of god wouldn’t really apply.
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s almost as if on cue…send out the clowns!
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump 11/20/25, "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR!, punishable by DEATH!"
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Dan Surman 🇨🇦 @otds-16.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This man will not hesitate to order execution of American or allied citizens.
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