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Lee Colleton

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
It would be 'very unfortunate' if the trash cheap climate polluting budget flights would become more expensive. #FlyingLess
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This feels like the sea level rise answer to the Ontario wildfire train this summer - both nightmarish scenarios.
ctvnews.ca
‘We’re encased in flames’: Video emerges of train halted in wildfire, union lambasts CN Rail
The scenes outside the window of the train are breathtaking. A wall of flame engulfs the treeline just feet away from tracks.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026
Social media companies need to be explicitly pressured into not allowing any images of the execution on their services. They have the content recognition systems to block it. If they allow it, it's an abdication of any responsibility to their users. There will be children that see it.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i thought this was normal but the Oil & Gas people have assured me this is not how a terminal is meant to look
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Elder Scrolls Items @tes-itemsbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Report back to the Bound Orc about the Nord, whatever the cost may be
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what ICE is. Firing repeatedly into a car with a baby inside. Whether it was negligence or deliberate, it is absolutely unjustifiable. This is literally the sort of thing that happened in Moscow during the 'Wild East' days of utter lawlessness. This is also Trump's America today.
theguardian.com
ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old reportedly in car
Police say man taken to hospital and mayor says child physically unharmed as he condemns ‘unconscionable’ act
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(1/2) "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
‘Years of dog pee’ blamed for fallen street light in San Diego’s Little Italy
timesofsandiego.com
'Years of dog pee' blamed for fallen street light in Little Italy
Transportation workers said the base of the streetlight was corroded from 'years of dog pee."
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Bomb Culture @giles99.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Crash! (1971) Dir: Harley Cokeliss J. G. Ballard pontificates on the symbiotic human relationship with the car, released two years before his auto erotic literary collision of car, violence and flesh, Crash, was published. #JGBallard #AtrocityExhibition #Crash www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jinz...
youtube.com
Crash! (Harley Cokeliss, 1970)
YouTube video by Jujyfruits
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admitonefilmaddict.bsky.social @admitonefilmaddict.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A fractured, surreal dive into media, war, and sexual obsession. Jonathan Weiss adapts J.G. Ballard’s novel into a disorienting fever dream, blending archival footage with psychosexual breakdowns. Uncompromising, disturbing, and pure Ballardian madness. #AtrocityExhibition #JGBallard
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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
[see alt text for context] - astonishing stuff from young C P Stewart: inserting cigarette cards of the Mechanized Age collection into the Motor Cars album, with a result that is both subversive futurism & anarchic, disruptive satire on incipient 1940s petro-consumerism. #AtrocityExhibition: Room 1

- a preview post for an old “Illustration of the Day” series from the other place, as that account may not exist indefinitely and I’d like to preserve at least one IoD series, reposting it  all here. 
The image shows a cover of an album for cigarette cards, entitled “Motor Cars”, but emended to “Mechanized Age” in a hand that has also written “Charles Peter Stewart” across the top of the page; the same name in the middle of the page, made with a handheld stamp that also has the date 19th June 1940. Ink sketches of trees, a motor car, and a shepherd printed on the cover.
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@Om* @atomjack604.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
#usa #atrocityexhibition
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Sharp Tranket transistor radio (1960)
A radio that combines the design language of old American muscle cars and the spacerace. The top is forest green with tailfins, the bottom is ivory white, and the front is shining silver, on a silver stand. Up top we find a single antenna, a red power/volume dial, and you turn the 'intake" of the rocket to change the stations (the tuning display is immediately behind the engine, incoporated into the body).
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
72-year-old man shoots off-duty ICE agent who assaulted him and his daughter, after they woke him up on the lawn of their Fresno home
abc7news.com
72-year-old man shoots off-duty ICE agent found asleep on Fresno lawn, agent arrested: Police
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026
Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...
anildash.com
We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Wonder-Waffle 🦆 @wonderwaffle93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wise words to live by given by buff bun #art #furryart #oc
Darcy Darby screaming out PUNCH THINGS while clutching her fist with a hyped up expression. Heavy chested, and heavy strong she is ready to punch things
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
With few exceptions, US corporate media decided that Trump's call for Iranian nuclear strikes on Los Angeles and San Diego was just not reportable news... This is the subject of commentary across Europe, Canada and Latin America today. bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Activists Are Pushing Cities and Companies to Cancel Parking Contracts With ICE Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine theappeal.org/activists-ar...
theappeal.org
Activists Are Pushing Cities and Companies to Cancel Parking Contracts With ICE
Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/03/p...
themarshallproject.org
The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech
From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install.
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Deerposts @deerposts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ur not allowed in my pillow fort without the password... #deer 🦌
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here’s What Happens When You Become Institutionalized. “Everyday changes frighten me,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I am way more comfortable in places where everything is structured.” www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/02/y...
themarshallproject.org
Here’s What Happens When You Become Institutionalized
“Everyday changes frighten me,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I am way more comfortable in places where everything is structured.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
to Cielo Diaz (Jr.) @ Pike Place Books
if time holds too
tightly to the reins, and the
winds do indeed resist change 
these pages will exalt you
if wings refuse to carry 
you in tow, and the hands that pilot
them decide to stoop low
the high brow has nothing much to
bestow 
these pages will exalt you
godspeed on your skyline view
and your most close
felt truth
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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We have been taught that if any Canadian system is even marginally better than an American one, that's good enough.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
nbcnews.com
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 30/09/2026
given its llms, jev and ml rather than ada dbc this thing will be exploitable by foreign actors and is likely designed to be and it'll also fuck up lots and lots and lots in absurd exploitable ways less skynet (which isn't thermodynamically possible nor sustainable), more ed-209
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don’t think this is a good idea
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pixie Sharts should give the ability to fly #transonic 🧚🏼‍♀️🤏🏼🪄
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dreamtime third eye exam
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well musk DID once say a cyberschmuck could “serve briefly as a boat,” so
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very very good. This is life after cars.
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Justin Case @punchnazisitsokay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
5 Indianapolis officers are facing termination over misuse of Flock. One stalker tracked his ex-wife almost 1,000 times. Sources say police bosses are upset officers stalked the wrong people & abused the tech in a way that wouldn't generate money for the municipality. www.wymt.com/2026/09/25/5...
wymt.com
5 officers charged with Flock misuse; 1 allegedly tracked women to interact with them
Indianapolis police say several officers abused the Flock camera system.
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
* Be Advised * 40 Route to Pinball #METRO #BUS
Add a Ball
Black Cat Bar
Just the Tab
Jupiter Bar
Shorty's
Game Works
The Tilted Table 
TIME WARP
Garage Billiards & Bowl
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
q: is this immune to attacks? a: lol
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More than 1,000 cyclists ride from Koreatown to downtown LA in protest against traffic violence abc7.com/post/more-10...
abc7.com
More than 1,000 cyclists ride from Koreatown to downtown LA in protest against traffic violence
More than 1,000 cyclists gathered at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue for an L.A. Critical Mass ride and die-in protesting traffic fatalities.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#AFAF yo
Sticker trades bin
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is an extremely bad idea and also something suitable for #FALL (or: Dodge In Hell)
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Lee Colleton @sleepylemur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go. I promise.
Two chuncks of chocolate on a biscuit in a glass; one slipping off
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I see...at least 100 officers." @jordanchariton.bsky.social covers NYPD ARRESTING United Nations protesters who are there to speak out against Netanyahu and Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My painting TOWERING STORM
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透明屿 @taiyangyu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#Storm Storm repost
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twk6.bsky.social @twk6.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
16,100 pogo stick jumps with NO HANDS. Joey Man is going for the world record, all for the cats. It's a mental thing, y'all. Check the full episode to see if he crushed it: play.teenswannaknow.com
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