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Crippled Giraff Decals @crippledgiraff.bsky.social · 7h

Orctober is really the last month you can take your classic car out of the garage

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 12h

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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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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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know I say it a lot, but it needs saying, and I will continue to say it until there is a real reckoning. The Legitimate Concerns paradigm has been one of the biggest public policy disasters of the c21st in the UK. And we certainly haven't paid the full cost of it yet.

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One day (hopefully soon) more people will join the dots. #Traitor

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

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Letter: A defence attaché despairs at inevitability of conflict

From Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), Oakham, Rutland, UK

[Photo of Sherlock Holmes and Watson monument at the British Embassy in Moscow]

MARCH 23 2022

The recent article by Maria Stepanova "The war of Putin's imagination" (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, March 19) was exemplary. However, one jarring note was the unfounded notion that no one expected this aggression from the Kremlin.

I served as the UK's defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016, during which time this long, dark march to war was obvious, the path to conflict lit by the many pronouncements emanating from the dark red walls of Vladimir Putin's palace.

We reported the inevitability of conflict in detail, regularly and with the despair of Cassandra. One of the earliest reports opened with a line from Sherlock Holmes, whose statue stands outside the British Embassy wall: "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast."

The evidence of Putin's chosen path was never concealed. His many declarations were meant to be heard and understood: the colossal rearmament programme, the demand for more complex, more lethal weaponry; the militarisation of society; the distortion and seizure of the popular narrative; domination of education, the media and the courts to exclude contrasting views and, ultimately, the alienation and destruction of those among the Russian people who understood the folly of his declared ambition.

The list is remorseless, the consequences could not be ignored. But they were.

It was not until I returned to the UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.

All was subjugated to the City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth. The values we were demanding of other nations had long since faded from our own actions.

I despair at the decisions Putin has taken, but even more at the prospect of finding credible leadership at home in the UK among those who have compromised so long with his regime and the wealth it offered.

Carl Scott

Air Commodore (Retired)

Oakham, Rutland, UK

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 13/10/2026

Writers, artists, gamers, creators and lovers of all the above, please sign this petition to make AI companies disclose what their tools have been trained on to make their ghastly generative voices/art/books etc. There’s just over a fortnight to go. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Socrates said you can’t have a democracy without an educated population. It is depressing the cognitive decline being forced on us by the AI evangelists.” - Anthony Seldon, historian

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Necrothrall @necrothrall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Set up my buildings to see what they looked like together and my kitten came along to play Kaiju #Nerdlings #Cat #WargamesTerrain #HartoliaMiniatures #Fallout

A bunch of 3d printed ruins. A black kitten with a shaved bit on her back (she's had surgery) is standing amongst them, investigating them

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I realize that pub crawls are all the rage, but I truly feel as though there could be an immense market for library crawls, bakery crawls, museum crawls, bookstore crawls, and greenhouse crawls.

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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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swpp12.bsky.social @swpp12.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So why were the BBC suppressing this?

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Jacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Anyone who's been reading @bylinetimes.bsky.social for a while knows the truth about Russia's interference in UK democracy. But most media "stars" have been saying it was a crazy conspiracy theory. And now it all comes out. open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

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‘A Clear Answer’: Russia Intervened in the Brexit Vote

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has broken ten years of establishment omertà over Putin’s plot to get Britain out of the EU, reports Peter Jukes

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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Weirdboy: I’m happy with how this turned out, but I know there are things I need to do to make it “better.” There’s only a general stab at real OSL going on here. Trying to think through the color blends… #WAAGH #PaintingWarhammer #Warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity #WePaintMinis #Nerdlings

It’s an ork. It’s got a white collar with flying wires and electrical gubbins on it. Everything forward of the collar—the face, chest, and arms of the ork are very dark. The left side of the image is red, and the next wire is yellow, then green, blue, and purple. Moving across to the right. The Ork’s eyes and Tongue are very bright green.

The intent is that the collar is glowing brilliantly, and all the colors of the rainbow are shooting off around it. The face and chest are shadowed, but the creature’s eyes and tongue are glowing brightly.

Back view of the weirdboy. It’s basically rainbow hued going from purple on the left to red on the right.

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Inquisitor Horatio @inquisitorhoratio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As the only named character in my #Gnorks army, I feel I need something to look forward to making him stand out. #Warhammer #Nerdlings

Boos Snikrot with photo-editted colours to match the BTAS Joker's colour palette.

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Chris @paint-and-biscuits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pillars of Gromlak sounds quite interesting. #nerdlings

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 09/10/2026

As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tapping the sign again, ffs

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All the awful decisions around higher education and funding are downstream of the bleak reality that in this system students = money, and that's it. All the bad tweaks and pearl-clutching and making 20-something pay forever, it's all just feeble attempts to deal with that monumental stupidity.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When we see coordinated attacks on the legitimacy of trans people, of queer lifestyles, of diagnoses of ADHD and autism - it is because these things threaten the assumptions of capitalism, and therefore the economy and the state. It’s not *just* that the right always needs fresh scapegoats.

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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our Vice-Chancellor used to repeat the aphorism "if you think education is expensive, you must consider the cost of ignorance"

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Sarah D @pikapies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Getting diagnosed with ADHD was the best thing I’ve ever done, because it made me realise I had A Thing that I could work with and adapt around, rather than just being Generally A Bit Shit and trying to force myself to Just Do Better. It did the complete opposite of writing me off.

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Scarlet Impaler - Vtubed and debuted! @scarletimpaler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

OpT’aumus Prime is up to his pre-weathering state! Beginning Ultra Mag’nus tomorrow. Together, they will be my Twin Lance. And yeah, Optimus' paint scheme just works too well for this. #Warhammer #W40k #WarhammerCommunity #paintingminis #paintingWarhammer #nerdlings

Work in Progress T'au Empire Twin Lance miniature from Warhammer 40,0000.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Otter-class speeder bikes: not practical, but very cuddly.

Short description: A humorous photorealistic montage shows two stormtroopers with jetpacks racing across a grassy field by riding Steve the otter in front and a fluffy round cat just behind.
Text in image: (none)

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of people in Autistic Burnout desperately want their old life back. I understand that grief. What did that life cost you? Because if your old life required constantly overriding your body, masking, performing and running on fumes, than recreating it isn’t recovery - it's going backwards

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No better legacy than a life well lived, but she didn't stop there. My daughter has her as a LEGO minifig. Her example will inspire generations

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Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New ways in which AI is ‘helping academics’. I spent > hour untangling a series of algorithmically generated publication profiles by well known ‘providers’ that were conflating different G Davies at different institutions and automatically feeding my ORCID on the basis of past permissions

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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Chris @paint-and-biscuits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nice. What miniatures are those?

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s the year of our lord 2026 and people still fail to see that workers are actual humans, not abstract units of work delivery. And humans have lives, loves and dependents. Why on earth should they be expected to sever those ties?

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Nethar6 @herrnethar6.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

new cannon for the "The royals arn't exentric, but neurodivergent" genre

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Sonic Spookhammer 🎃 @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"How long exactly are we to suffer under the torpitude of a Chancellor who pre-ordered - pre-ordered! - the Triumverate of the Imperium and has not since the Fall of Cadia even *assembled* Roboute Guilliman, let alone painted him?"

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