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ISTR the drug companies that produce the ones used in veterinary euthanasia have refused to provide them for judicial executions

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Good grief, it’s been 40 years and I can smell that graphic

Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word!

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not even an official historian but I know enough to be Going Through It and have been screaming about it since the golden escalator

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2 dozen eggs were $3.79 at the Dedham Costco on Monday, bargain

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 5h

I’m living the other side of the country is what I’m doing but were I in his district…

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“And I kick her, sir” is part of our family lexicon

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🎶 On my own Pretending he’s beside me All alone I walk with him till morning…🎶

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At the dose I’m taking I don’t get a quiet brain, but I do get more focus. The only thing that’s ever turned off the chatter in my head was actual opium.

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Sarah Randall @serene-lovelace.bsky.social · 18h

Also Pleasant St. in Dorchester needs them BADLY

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@mayorwu.boston.gov please give yourself some good media coverage and do a press conference at some location where speed humps have recently been installed! These are a popular project and honestly some people seem more annoyed that they weren’t informed of them sooner. Talk about bus cameras too.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14h

it’s true and you should say it

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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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Furthermore, eggs and toilet paper are currently plenty affordable at Costco

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Given that I could hear the “teenager stealth ringtones” until I was over 40, I would have been collateral damage

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He used to buy Brioni! Well, he used to WEAR Brioni. I have no idea if be bothered paying for it.

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Minimizing body odor sounds important for him

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 8h

That face is clearly INNOCEMT

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actual location in Asia, or beloved kitschy tiki restaurant in Massachusetts?

Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 16h

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friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 11h

right, I’d forgotten!

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 12h

I think this counts even though the Swedish Chef is using everything BUT keyboards to do this disco classic #OutOfOrder #Music #Keyboards youtu.be/x-4PXe5QxxY?...

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Pöpcørn - The Swedish Chef

YouTube video by Michael Somebody

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 12h

Slightly cheating on the “no concertos” because Procol Harum nicked the melody from Bach’s “Air on a G String” #OutOfOrder #Music #Keyboards youtu.be/z0vCwGUZe1I?...

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PROCOL HARUM - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - promo film #1 (Official Video)

YouTube video by FLY Records