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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
Trump and the GOP's real base of support — billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech, Crypto, and Wall Street — know that the midterms may limit what they can get away with in the future. Vote accordingly. www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/re…
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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 20h
Not so sure I’d use the severed head of Lady Liberty to advertise my AI slop service, but okay.
Ad on the uptown 2/3 train. “If you can say it, OpenArt can create it.” With an image of the head of the Statue of Liberty strapped to a Crown Victoria Yellow Cab
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HolBat(Commission open on December) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It cost $0.00 to support an art deco artist 🖤
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ながべ(nagabe) @mucknagabe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
field trip
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E C M @ecmajor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Folks in the furry fandom are pretty good at not being beholden to HP and rowling but we have a long way to go with ditching FNAF…
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It’s important to never forget Russia has a GDP smaller than Italy. Just Germany and the UK together have a population as big as Russia. Add the rest of Europe? We dwarf it. Putin’s entire strategy has always been to divide & peel off bits of Europe… but a Europe that sticks together? No chance.
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breadedhamster.bsky.social @breadedhamster.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is such an unfair comparison. I've met some cunning tweakers. I have never met an AI user that could tie their own shoe.
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Adalwin @adalwin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
MY LORD THE AI SLOP IS RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD SHAMEFUL DISPLAY
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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gay BAT monty 🔜 ASC @gayrat.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
annual reminder #pride
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Berensreverie 🤒 @berensreverie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just leave me here #berensart2026
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine how dementia-riddled someone's brain has to be believe this and/or not laugh.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just look at this li’l guy. I love how the shape of the brush is obviously a stiff circle, like the basic brush in a paint program. (It was probably, basically, a stick, dipped repeatedly in watery slip.) It’s easy to imagine and perform the set of strokes to draw himb.
A little mouse drawn with fat lines with rounded ends — short segments for four legs and ears, a slightly longer one for the tail, a small hump for the head and a big hump for the body, the body then filled in. Adding a pointy nose to the head and a little segment for an eyeball finishes the character. It’s a detail from a photo of an earthenware bowl in the quoted post. These little mice dance around the rim of the bowl, which looks a lot like a modern child’s cereal bowl.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump has canceled Biden-era law enforcement actions against 200+ corporations accused of wrongdoing, according to Public Citizen. Corporations that have benefited have previously given $210 million in contributions and pledges to Trump's super PAC and GOP PACs. Everything is for sale.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 12/10/2026
Working people are working harder than ever, yet our paychecks are stuck and CEOs are bringing home record pay and bonuses. This election season, let’s elect candidates who will help make this economy work for all of us, not just the billionaire bosses. Betterinaunion.org
U.S. workers get a record-low share of the output we make. "American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record." - NBC News, 9/7/26 | AFL-CIO
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William Murphy @futuredude.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
commondreams.org
Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p
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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are two types of people
Megatron saying: I suffered! Why shouldn’t they?

Optimus Prime saying; I suffered? Why should they?
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Democratic countries need to start taking foreign authoritarian propaganda a lot more seriously.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
*Look, science fiction was invented in the 1920s, while libraries have been burning-down ever since Sumeria *However, Artificial Intelligences getting burned down by remotely-targeted robot missiles, that's an exciting new trend *Is this situation some fantasist's "anxiety," no it isn't
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NPR @npr.org · 11/10/2026
The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. n.pr/4hEsXQd
n.pr
Justice Department investigates TV networks, citing possible anti-trust violations
The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology—and you don't understand your problems. —Laurie Anderson
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As I’ve often said, my first fear, on learning that the UK had voted for Brexit, was that it might even be possible for Trump to be elected.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@bombsfall

Can't even remember a time before blockchain revolutionized gaming forever. They said it was inevitable, to get on board now, because it was the future. And now you can't even imagine videogames without blockchain. Just try to do it. You can't. I bet you just tried

@natanglaun

I bought Donkey Kong in 2022 and I still use him as a running back whenever I play Madden
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk was violating his visa when he started his first business here and very likely obtained his U.S. citizenship through fraud. Where is that investigation?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m sure I’ve shown you these bricks before but every time I pass this ~ 1940s apartment I stop to enjoy those curved bricks at the corner, the glaze, and the general color combo.
Brick wall with color range dark brown to light tan, some bricks on the corner are special bricks with curved edges
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James @nitrorad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
blue sky liked this sentence a lot, so let's see if I can piss tim sweeney off with it
Me telling Tim sweeney, who is talking about a full AI pivot, that he'll never be able to generate respect.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12/10/2026
Chicago police solve a 65-year-old cold case, discovering that the man responsible for killing a little girl in the 1960s was a homicide detective for the police department.
nbcnews.to
Chicago police find killer in 65-year-old cold case murder of little girl — one of their own
DNA technology that didn’t exist when Gloria Kowalewicz, 8, was killed in 1960 led investigators to Thomas F. McInerney Jr., who was a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department.
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glacier @glacier.catboys.cafe · 09/07/2026
flare (2019)
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fun Fact: Harm is not just physical
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Salem 🎏 @dragonfur.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Answering the peasants with @karnste.in
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria
"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”
Edward Abbey quote poster
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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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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
cnn.com
Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??
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HolBat(Commission open on December) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Artist! Quote with your city art! 🌃
A futuristic cyber character with a glowing red eye sits on the edge of a building, overlooking a neon-lit night megacity under a full moon. The atmosphere is dark cyberpunk
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you’re wondering who exactly Trump and Republicans are looking out for…it’s probably not you. (@itep.org) itep.org/impact-of-trump-policies-o…
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