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Larissa

@purlgurly.bsky.social
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She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics (esp.TOpoli), stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie in 🇨🇦

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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 15m
Speaking of #BuyCanadian I am in love with this shampoo for my frizz and for helping my bob do the waves I want: phillipadam.com/products/cur...
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Curly Hair Shampoo 355ML
Buy Curly Hair Shampoo by Phillip Adam. With an extra amount of pea protein and guar our shampoo for curly hair successfully controls frizz and hydrates hair.
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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 3h
Is there nothing Canadians can own?
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1h
First and second truck have left. LFG🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 2h
Toronto..
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This was a really good wine pairing with Thanksgiving dinner: www.lcbo.com/en/brotte-le...
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Brotte Les Hauts de Barville Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc 2024
750 mL bottle
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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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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Any convo about why adults aren't reading need to start at why kids *stop* reading. The reasons for that are myriad, complex, and interconnected. They often revolve around level of parental involvement, access to a library, and the way schools treat reading. You get men to read by funding schools.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right now the most popular series at my high school library are the Fourth Wing books, and the checkouts are split pretty evenly between boys and girls. Girls love the Percy Jackson books, and boys love the Good Girls Guide to Murder books.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yup, for example, it's becoming more and more evident that pretty much every person with a vagina should have access to local estrogen (creams, suppositories, etc.). There are serious consequences of frequent UTIs, especially among older adults. menopausefoundationcanada.ca/pdf_files/MF...
Among 529 participants referred to a specialized menopause clinic in Ontario, 74% reported vaginal dryness, yet 90% of those patients had not been offered local vaginal hormone therapies - the gold standard of care for genitourinary syndrome of menopause - before being referred.
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A bang-up job of translating my research into sharp, clear, accessible writing. Kudos to Vern Ramesar at CBC Halifax share.google/kqt8OfOxNuHv...
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How the proceeds of slave labour helped build early Nova Scotia | CBC News
Isaac Saney, a Dalhousie University professor of Black and African Diaspora Studies, wants a waterfront memorial acknowledging that Nova Scotia's early roads, universities and public institutions were...
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12/10/2026
In this way a depressingly large number of men grow to adulthood without ever having really taken on board that women are in fact whole arse people with full and complex internal lives just like theirs!
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12/10/2026
Anyway this isn’t it at all. Women read books by, and about, people of all genders. Men on the other hand are socialised to believe that men are default humans and that media by / about not-men aren’t for them, they must be ‘for girls’.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I don't like the framing (it's a wellbeing issue, not just a work issue) but I get it. "a long-term intermittent shortage of transdermal estrogen patches and Canada’s lack of a centralized early warning system for drug shortages is threatening the health of working women across the country" #Gift 🎁
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Four balloons, more balloons, blossom for me!" Love that picture book 🎈
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A council has been called to determine the fate of humanity this fall
A pic one of my neighbors got on their wildlife cam of so many turkeys and also some deer
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
I am feeling attacked
The ADHD urge to be excellent at solving other people's highly complex problems while letting our car registration expire for 8 months while actively thinking about it every single day.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I endorse this message 🍪
abbieattwoodwellness

"I was soOoOo bad today"

Did you advocate for a public execution?
Ignore a group chat about a woman being sexually assaulted? Celebrate people losing access to healthcare?

Oh, you ate cookies? Good, we need the energy to fight all of this. And frankly, we could use a little joy.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From March: How Vladimir Putin Intends to Recruit Trump to Russia's Side in WWIII emptywheel.net/2026/03/27/h...
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How Vladimir Putin Intends to Recruit Trump to Russia's Side in WWIII - emptywheel
Trump keeps helping Russia and Iran, against which entities he started an insanely stupid war.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Let me make this very clear. Diesel prices have spiked because of Trump's war against Iran. Ukraine has nothing to do with it. But by buying russian diesel now, Americans will be helping fund the murder of Ukrainian children in their beds. Congratulations, folks.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The theme for my choir's season is "Anthem" and we worked on and talked about the meaning of "Ahead By A Century" and "Simple" (kd lang) and it was a balm to my soul 🇨🇦
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Rachel Klein @racheleklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just in case you’re keeping track, a public fucking firing squad execution actually IS “like 1984,”, not “having a comedian have a temporary dip in his ticket sales due to the revelation that he is a serial harasser”, for example.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/10/2026
Ironically, a conference on foreign interference was interfered with by a foreign actor. But as we have noted many times, FIMI research needs to be actor-agnostic.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/10/2026
More here ... "EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 07/10/2026
"Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat." www.cbc.ca/news/politic... This is disappointing but not surprising b/c the leash is only so long.
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Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this story is extremely (and unnecessarily) graphic, so please take care of yourselves as I see this making the rounds.
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Daniel Boudreau @danofavonlea1990.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here is the statement put out by MusicPEI after the experience of transphobia reported by the band Rougaroux at Sportsman’s Club in Charlottetown. #MusicPEI #PrinceEdwardIsland #Transphobia #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Dr Helen Webberley @www.helenwebberley.com · 07/10/2026
A handwritten sign, produced in real time, taped to a washroom door while a trans woman stood in front of it. Her band walked out. No statement, no compromise. Read what happened and why it matters.
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Band cancels show after trans member denied washroom access | Dr Helen Webberley
Rougaroux walked out of a Charlottetown venue in real time. Helen Webberley on what that kind of solidarity actually looks like.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The "powerball" and "turnkey" tricked my brain into thinking you were posting about buying a Butterball turkey 😂
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On balance, we are better off having hospitals than not, I think.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I just had a very confusing call with a spokesperson for Starbucks.
gizmodo.com
We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar and Now We're Just More Confused
There's a big difference between "sugar free" and "no added sugar."
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Number two: www.heyalma.com/the-jewishne...
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The Jewishness of Sarah Maas' Fantasy World - Hey Alma
This article contains major spoilers about multiple books by Sarah J. Maas. Whether you’ve been thinking about starting to read “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” or you’re a long-time fan of “Throne of G...
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Number one: jwa.org/blog/cult-fa...
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A Cult Favorite with Jewish, Feminist Themes | Jewish Women's Archive
In her hugely popular fantasy series, Sarah J. Maas puts Jewish texsts and biblical women at the forefront.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So I've been rereading the ACOTAR books ahead of the new ones (I know, and I'm kindly asking for no hating in my replies). I'm attending to the ways that Maas has woven elements of her Jewish faith into the stories. I was raised Catholic myself, and found these pieces illuminating (light spoilers):
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Greg Smith @onshi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The millennial curse: we were too old for the chickenpox vaccine, and are still too young for the shingles vaccine.
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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why heart attacks in women are often missed in Canadian emergency rooms and why new international guidelines may help women’s get diagnosed faster @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Why heart attacks in women are often missed in Canadian emergency rooms
For years, the way doctors diagnose heart attacks has largely relied on research and testing standards developed using data that came mostly from men.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Disney's Peter and the Wolf, the wolf's appearance in the opening introduction of all of the characters and their instruments (2:16): youtu.be/TgUruOrrZnQ?...
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh gosh, that was so much fun. Didn't realized how much I missed it.
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm excited! I recently changed my day job, and a long-time colleague from my previous hospital runs her own swim school. When I shared my job news, she also knew that I had been swimming more and thinking about recertifying my qualifications, so she offered me a job. We get to stay connected. :)
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On my way to the pool to teach on a Sunday morning for the first time in quite a while! I realized I missed instructing a lot, so picked up a new gig. 🏊‍♀️
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wonder if @kariebookish.bsky.social might have any ideas...
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy #Caturday from a happy Nika
A black-and-white cat with a pink rose and a rose gold "Toronto" tag looks up at the camera. She is in her favourite cardboard box, in a sunbeam, and with a small smile expression.
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