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Aotearoa/New Zealand 🇳🇿|city dweller🏙️| urban enthusiast 🏢| commuter cyclist🚴| public transport advocate 🚇| amateur trainspotter 🚆| loves cats 🐈| he/him 🏳️‍🌈 | IPA: pʂɛmk

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 5h
In today’s Weekend Herald
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Bike Auckland @bikeauckland.bsky.social · 3h
Biketober! Free bike repairs and safety checks with Josca Bike Repairs at Epsom Library This Sunday from midday to 2.30pm
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 5h
Apparently corporate tax in 2025/26 was higher than Treasury forecasts. Lol. Bracket creep has held individual tax revenue up but GST tells the story. Image 2 shows total tax revenue per capita... and the completely predictable result of Government constraining spending into a slump.
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 7h
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
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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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beavers, everybody. Beavers.
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Beavers destroy sign warning about beavers
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 17h
If Govt reduces spending from 32% of GDP to 30% of GDP and the private sector doesn't grow, what happens to GDP? Anyone know?
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Producer: We can’t afford a train Wes Anderson: No problem THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) The glamour of filmmaking.
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Time to get rid of this piece of rancid rawhide 😠 #nzpol
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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know that thing where people used to post photos with a hidden cat? That, but for tuatara. Feel free to squee when you see it.
Without giving too much away, there is a scrubby hillside, and there is a tuatara. It’s quite small.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Johnny had four bed legs but he has lost three of them. How many does he have left? And is it safe now to go into a room with him?
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions... I've seen this stuff many times over a long time now, and it should be illegal to force employees to become contractors who have to buy their own gear. Economic dependence that Australia's moved away from.
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Auckland bin collectors dumped, offered chance to buy their own rubbish trucks
Almost two dozen rubbish truck drivers in east and south Auckland have been dumped, with some offered the option to buy their own trucks and become contractors instead.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dominate
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@burnettaotearoa @burnettaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some fantastic news for HIV prevention in Aotearoa. From 1 Dec (World AIDS Day), publicly funded PrEP and PEP will be available to everyone in the country who needs it, regardless of visa status. It's a win for common sense & evidence-based policy. 💊🌈 www.burnettfoundation.org.nz/articles/new...
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Free HIV preventive treatment for all in Aotearoa
As of December 1, publicly funded medication and their associated tests will be available to all on Aotearoa soil.  This means that HIV prevention tools are available to all in New Zealand, regardless...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
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The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive The axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale. Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, uses the axe to hack out an opening in a locked door protecting his terrified wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall. It is also the murder weapon in the killing of Scatman Crothers’ character, Dick Hallorann. One of cinema’s most famous axes could be yours for a list price of between £30,000 and £50,000. Continue reading...
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Degrowth or Extinction @ecosurrealism.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#thePoint #mastodon #degrowth #burnTheRich
there is this meme of a person rejecting on the upper box.
and down acknowledging.
on the top says:
"banning teenagers from using social media"
on the bottom one says
"banning billionaires from owning social media"
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rocked by a nightmare poll, National takes massive pivot and announces 100 new roads of national significance
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Simeon Brown announces new billboards saying ‘12 New Taxes’, confirms number of imaginary taxes will rise by one for every 1% decrease in National’s polling #nzpol
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Woke AF!🌞 @creethepea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This artist's creativity is on steroids 🤯😍
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
Crude exports bypassing Hormuz surged in September, yet oil prices remain high. Could a secret fee be the reason?
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Is Iran charging a toll to allow oil traffic through Hormuz?
Crude exports bypassing Hormuz surged in September, yet oil prices remain high. Could a secret fee be the reason?
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pshemk @pshemk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At what stage are we going to stop talking about “major” and “minor” parties? Soon both National and Labour will have less than 50% together.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.greens.org.nz/vote_2026 #nzpol #votegreen
www.vote.nz

This is your enrolment reminder
Deadline is midnihgt, 25 October

Authorised by Miriam Ross, greens.org.nz
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While the commentariat talk up the nascent recovery (just one more year everyone!), the next slump is already upon us. Total new lending is a decent leading indicator - clear signs of stalling. [🧵1/n]
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GeekeryNZ @geekerynz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh, now the Nats are calling Labour liars!! 🙄😑 #OneNews #nzpol
A modified National Party sign saying: 

Fuxing the Basics.
Blowing The Future.
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manuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#NZpol
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'miniature' inktober day three #miniature #inktober #inktober2026
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maya apparitionpussy @membrane.hellstar.plus · 04/10/2026
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 04/10/2026
🔭 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey Credit & Copyright: John Entwistle ap261004
The top of a house is shown beneath a dark and cloudy sky. Many rainbow stripes are seen above the house.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Mal Function @mister-fishy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I haven't looked forward to a superhero movie this much in a long time
A sign for a public toilet in Japan 'Toiletman'
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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Spinoff "National has removed the “no new taxes” mantra from an online ad after a polling company wrote to the party saying the claim did not accurately reflect its survey on how people feel about the tax they pay. " Sideshow Bob rake moment AGAIN.
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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reject $4,000,000,000+++ gold plated rural motorway. Embrace glorious light rail down Dominion Road.
Meme with Reject Modernity and a render image of Warkworth to Te Hana motorway above, and Embrace tradition and a render of Dominion Road light rail below
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Scientists confirmed a new species … a tiny octopus, first spotted during a deep-sea expedition near the Galápagos Islands in 2015, nearly 1,800 metres below the surface … a new species, Microeledone galapagensis … its unusual blue coloring may help it stay hidden in the darkness of the deep ocean.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“LANDLORD IS NOT A JOB” Auckland, New Zealand, 2026 @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
“LANDLORD IS NOT A JOB”, graffitied in white pen on the railing of a footbridge over Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway, between Arch Hill and Eden Terrace.
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kids in poverty? Roads! Young folk leaving the country in their 1000s? Roads! Housing crisis? Roads! Absolutely fucked ferry service? Roads! Fossil fuels exacerbated climate crisis? ROADS!
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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The entire Greens plan would cost around $23.9b: $21b for mass rapid transit & rail investments, $1.3b for capped & free fares, $75m for electric buses, $290m for councils to expand walking & biking spaces, $824m for public transport improvements & $406m for inter-regional buses. Better than RoNS ✅✅
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