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@risachase.bsky.social
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Collector and curator of Things I Find Interesting. Currently Crocheting. Join Your Damn Union. she/her

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h
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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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22h
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 18h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Risa @risachase.bsky.social · 16h
Reminder that your workplace will spread the word that psychosocial claims are hard to prove to prevent you from lodging
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Risa @risachase.bsky.social · 16h
Not me having dinner at a restaurant I found through fic. Thank you, fic writer, for your service!
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Target is absolute garbage and I already have not been shopping there- I am going to be spending this season doing what I can to make sure nobody I know shops there either.
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The next time you watch a movie, even one without loads of special effects, look at how long the credits are! Most of those people are not famous, most of them are not doing glamorous jobs, most of them are not making huge amounts of money. And there are more on top of that who don't get a credit!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No way that the AI companies are making it unaffordable to own and build and fix your own PC and have the ultimate goal of making everyone rent their hardware like phone companies have done with new handsets. That's definitely not happening
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I deeply hate this. I have been fascinated by the fall of the American chestnut tree and the efforts to bring it back. How grotesque this is.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry
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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
bbc.co.uk
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Risa @risachase.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why, in the grand old year of 2026 and chatgpt, does the shelf price fucking STILL not match the price at checkout???
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55 Women report suffering more pain than men, a major new global study has found. That was true for all types of pain the researchers measured, and comes amid continuing concern about the gender pain gap, which means women are less likely to be prescribed the pain relief they need. Continue reading...
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
happy birthday to Anne Rice
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.
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Moon Blight 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The social and psychological benefits of work" are freely available to anyone without having an employer. UBI just gives people a choice about what to work on.
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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Science fiction authors designing aliens need to aspire to at least the level of weirdness of a real bucket orchid. Coryanthes macrantha in my greenhouse this morning. Flower is approx 15 cm wide, 10 cm tall. 🌴🌱
A bucket orchid in shades of orange and yellow. The bucket is formed from the distal end of the labellum and the column. Glands drip liquid into the bucket. Bees falling into the bucket can only escape through a hole at one side where they will be forced into contact with the pollen and stigma at the end of the column. The hole is pretty large, so the bees must be equally big.  The sepals look like big wings made of tissue paper that counterbalance the bucket. The base of the labellum where it connects to the rest of the flower looks like a weirdly ridged orange alien penis.
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happy filth_oween @filth-waste.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there can be other cuck furnishings you know. like the cuck stationary bike. for the active cuck
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
This is the reality of people gaining a basic income floor for the rest of their lives. They don't get lazy. They get busy. They get to doing all the things they consider meaningful, paid or not.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
General Zod: "Kneel before Claude"
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Işıl Arıcan @isilarican.com · 02/10/2026
Quick and easy guide on how to prevent sexual assault. You are welcome.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Men Explain Rape to Me.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you talked to anyone who knows fanfiction they could tell you the way you replicate Heated Rivalry is to keep the gay porn but put them in a different glamorous high-status hypermasculine profession that ISN'T hockey. They will not consult anyone who could tell them this
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also the perfect hockey player x figure skater romance already exists and it's called The Cutting Edge
youtube.com
THE CUTTING EDGE (1992) | Official Trailer | MGM
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.
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Abbie @kabbiearlish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there are men who think, "If they're gonna do something bad, they won't stop because of me." Yeah, bud. They will. You might not stop all future evil, but you can protect one person, and you might make them think in the future. You really do have power when it comes to other men.
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/09/2026
Bucky was revealed to be alive and the Winter Soldier in an arc started 21 years ago. Kids born after their parents got it on, too overly excited by Bucky news, can drink now.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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Risa @risachase.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And I thank them for it
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
so real
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media
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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wild to think that there could be a less reliable source for sex questions than your friends' cool older sibling who hooks you up with booze, but here we are. Go donate to Scarleteen everyone: pro.gofundme.com/give/566676#...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.
A city that exists
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other. Like a closed electric circuit (?) I could explain that better but I spent my life appreciating art. There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any supplementary information but there's a reason that when we read a classic poem or short story we usually soon after want to know when and where and under which conditions it was written. Same with music. You can hear a song you like and appreciate it knowing little but the first question people often ask when you play them something by a new band is where are they from? It’s funny that you should ask because they are from a city that exists. Art is a conversation where the particulars of the world are made universal and the universal is made particular. Think about how powerful an engine of imagination it is for a young person hearing a band and learning that they are from some far off place – Tokyo or New York or even somewhere gross like the UK. It is a time portal. It is magic. It even works if the artist dead. So too with a painting. The little information plaque in the museum is an extraordinarily powerful tool. What if it said no one painted this nowhere? Well then you’d be looking at nothing. And now what would you be?
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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've seen lots of people expressing surprise at this result for straight women, but we honestly give so many women a pass for homphobia, it really shouldn't be. Just because a woman liked HEATED RIVALRY doesn't mean she has queer people's back.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/09/2026
everyone who cancelled Murder Besties should walk into a volcano
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’ll take this a step further and say, I believe we should be able to support an average-sized family on a single income at what we determine to be the minimum wage. A lot of Boomers got this. But for whatever reason, we’re considered ridiculous for proposing it.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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