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Veronica Schanoes @schanoes.bsky.social · 9h

“Why? Go fuck yourself, that’s why.” Applicable to so many things.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18h

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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

Sherrod Brown's new response to an anti-trans ad is remarkably different from many other dems. Instead of accepting bigotry towards trans people, he pivots and links his Republican opponent to the Epstein files. It is notably different from his earlier ads. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Sherrod Brown Answers Anti-Trans Attack Ads By Tying Jon Husted To The Epstein Files

“Jon Husted? He protected men who abused young girls by voting in the Senate to block the release of the Epstein files.”

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 12h

Not surprisignly this is a quote from an episode of @ouropinions.bsky.social We did not fuck around

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 11h

10.09.2026 YESTERDAY AN ICE AGENT SHOT A NEW YORKER WITH A 5-YEAR OLD IN THE CAR. THIS EVENING AN EMERGENCY PROTEST WAS HELD IN FOLEY SQUARE. #HandsOffNYC

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12h

To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 17h

There is literally nothing "pro-life" about abortion bans or abortion stigma. Both of them kill people. Both of them subject those people to a form of pain and bodily invasion -- forced pregnancy -- classified by Amnesty International as torture. You're not pro-life, you're pro-dead pregnant people.

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 12h

The neck-breaking hubris required to think that translation is a job so devoid of artistic power and imagination that AI could do it and readers won't notice...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's a through line between the celebratory footage of detainee abuse from CECOT, the boat strikes videos, and this planned snuff film of the Nidal Hasan execution.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 13h

This encapsulated my feelings about public facing gen AI quite beautifully.

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Imagine if less than four years after automatic doors were invented, you heard someone saying it's impossible to open a door with a doorknob.

They say this even though countless people, most people in fact are still using doorknobs worldwide. Even though they themselves lived without automatic doors until just a few years ago.

And when you point this out they say sure, sure, it's not literally impossible, but it's so hard that it's unreasonable to expect someone to do it that way anymore.

So you stand there, staring at this perfectly able-bodied person who's insisting that not only can they not turn a doorknob to open a door, but almost no one can - despite ample evidence that most people can and do open doors all the time.

Anyway, that's how I feel whenever people say it's impossible to do something without ChatGPT.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 13h

What this blog post can't tell us but what media coverage should have is what the 25 year-old driver of this fairly clean and underutilized looking vehicle does that he needs to convey a 2 ton oversize pick up through the urban streets of Queens.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 13h

One woman dead, two clinging to life The driver: “I was trying to make the light” Commissioner Tisch: “let’s hand out a bunch of tickets and flyers on safe walking to bikes and pedestrians this weekend” (probably) nypost.com/2026/10/09/u...

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One killed, 3 injured as reckless NYC Mercedes driver mows down pedestrians while trying to beat light: sources

A reckless Mercedes driver trying to beat the light whizzed through a Bronx intersection and mowed down four pedestrians — killing one — in a wild broad daylight scene Friday.

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 13h

Mel has corralled a lot of valuable context here - conflicts of interest & inexperienced reviewers in particular - and not minced any words about this abominable scheme. I’m genuinely floored that they revived this dead-in-the-water atrocity and didn’t get shut down immediately!

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Nowcowan @nowcowan.bsky.social · 20h

Not really sure how much more proof one needs to see we’re being led by the modern day klan Keep that in mind when voting for democratic leaders who say we need to “work with the republicans” History literally shows us there isn’t any compromise position, we need to burn this shit out & rebuild

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 18h

I love Asimov's Science Fiction and the magazine's editors. I've published many stories in the magazine. I subscribe to the magazine. Despite that, I'm done with the new MRM owners. This statement is BS. The new owners have squandered the goodwill of their magazines' readers, writers, and fans. 1/

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 15h

Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17h

FFS! The White House press corps is SO GULLIBLE. There is no such thing as a "committee of inquiry"--and putting it in quote marks is not enough. Trump picked out 3 lickspittles who have no authority to do anything to anyone. This is just another way to smear Lisa Cook. They should be embarrassed.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 16h

The author can protect their own rights in the 1 in 1,000,000,000 chance the story becomes a movie AND the artist makes a claim regarding concept art or similar, and this protection can involve the studio writing a tiny "Go away, crackpot" check. You are not involved.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Precisely.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17h

Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.

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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 18h

Catholic Hospitals deny women life saving care all the time, Leo.

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Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) @jpohlmanwriting.com · 19h

My bad, I misunderstood this at first glance. @mayor.nyc.gov how the FUCK did the Gestapo disappear one of your residents? What in the fuck is the NYPD doing besides arresting protestors? This requires consequences to NYPD leadership as well as rank-and-file who permitted this.

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Rieve Alavaix @rieve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I receive ketamine (esketamine) for medication resistant cPTSD and (also med resistant) MDD. Ketamine has saved both changed and, I think, saved my life. I give zero fucks what the gov't or anyone in it thinks about ketamine. I'm no longer drowning in darkness.

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Hands Off NYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social · 18h

Abolish ICE.

On Thursday October 8th, ICE shot a man in New York with his 5 year old next to him.

His child screamed, "Papa, don't die", while reaching for their father lying on the ground.

We cannot ever let this be normal.

Abolish ICE now.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19h

"Use AI as your therapist." Um, sorry that doesn't save me time. It's far more efficient to train an LLM on my traumas and neuroses, then have an AI avatar attend my Zoom therapy sessions. The AI can distill the psychological breakthroughs I experience in bullet point form. Boom.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19h

There is considerable risk in making so much depend on a single legal term - one that clearly has enormous moral weight, but also one that is exceedingly difficult to get the court to recognise. All this when it is clear that Israel is guilty in numerous other crimes against humanity.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19h

There are at least two international experts I know - both fierce critics of Israel's destruction campaign of Gaza - who believe the ICJ will not find Israel guilty of genocide, due to the highly conservative approach of the court. This is a real possibility, that should be considered.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20h

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations to @terriwindling.bsky.social, Brian and Wendy Froud and all the contributors to this magnificent book of art. (I have 2 short pieces in this collection, v honored & grateful to be included!) Now available in bookstores.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 20h

there’s a lot of actually sensible curiosity about the minutiae of a US state-sponsored execution—who does lighting? are there ads? is there chat? who’s on crafts? is it multi cam? this is the actual banality of evil & if you are asked to facilitate this it is your task to instead stand in its way.

courtney love lies bleeding says:

who's gonna be the first company to sponsor that televised execution?
i am fascinated by the idea of ad breaks and what the cost will be.

emily blight says:

this is the actual banality of evil shit. the person who provides the facilitator guide in an interactive pdf. is there a crafts table? someone will set that up.
you should not be one of these people.

zoë “baddie proctor” quinn

there's gonna be a guy who does the sound check for the first livestreamed state execution. they'll probably have someone stand where the guy is gonna be shot to death by the state so that they can make sure the lighting, color, and framing is "correct" when people watch a man die.

some producer, probably within the next month, will decide if this man's death is a single camera setup or if they're going to do multi camera and if there will be
commentators. They probably have to design what will cover the faces of the shooters or look at headshots if there's no coverings at all

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when they put out their side of the story on the shooting of Oscar Belgal that they will lie about anything and everything.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 21h

So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 21h

But we should not set our sights on survival. To survive is not to live. To survive is not to flourish. And we need such extravagant public goods as education and art in order to flourish.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 21h

Neither universities nor museums nor opera houses nor concert halls nor, even, theatres, should exist to make profit. They are public goods. To educate and elevate the human spirit, to make us better at being citizens and being humans in society, is a public good! They're not cheese.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 21h

MRM's plan seems to be "acquire all rights as cheaply as possible and then make bank when we sell the options on for media development" which, NO. That cash belongs with the AUTHORS. We had media queries for stories via Uncanny. We. just. forwarded. those. to. the. authors. Ethics aren't hard.

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Sinboy [He/His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 20h

He gleefully endangers the "right people's" children. His children are safe. Ours are not. He's dumped kids in foreign countries by themselves. He separates families to cause fear in parents. His agency uses kids as bait.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21h

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 21h

my general view on this is that you learn exactly nothing about scholarly *quality* by considering the *topics*. to take another example, an excellent, scholarly dissertation can be written about twilight, and a middling, tedious dissertation can be written about moby dick (i'm sure many have been!)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

"Police union militants in Detroit basically demanded the city stop spending money on everything else but the police, which is more or less what ultimately happened."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

"Police were also fighting in this era for the ability to live outside cities. They were not paying taxes into city government. They were not affected by the libraries closing down, the parks equipment falling apart and rusting, the potholes in the streets, the reduction of garbage collection"

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