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Frog of Earth

@sonofterra.bsky.social
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College Student. Texan. 27. Progressive Democrat. He/Him Interests: Fandom, Religion, Philosophy, Politics, D&D, Art, and Coin Collecting. "Strong is fighting. It's hard and it's painful and it's every day. It's what we have to do." --- Buffy

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22m
what's the probability that someone yells that BBC reporting accurately about Indian protests is somehow trans ideology

Neha Bora is a theatre artist and activist who has been with the All India Students' Association (Aisa), a Left-wing organisation known for campus politics, for the past decade and been its president for the past two years.

But Neha's - who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns - visibility is no longer limited to campuses.

Viral videos over the past few days show them being dragged through the street by a group of female police officials, climbing on top of police barricades, raising their fist and shouting slogans, and being detained.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h
Holy shit. Rick Jackson didn’t just duck a debate with Keisha Lance Bottoms. He left her debating an empty podium. And the moderator made damn sure everyone knew it. Moderator Jeff Hullinger: “Mayor Bottoms, you may now ask a question to your opponent represented by the empty podium.”
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 12h
I really fucking hope so...
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me: "Wow, I am SO hungry!" Horse: *nervously* "So how hungry ARE you?"
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are two famous Max Millers, and they are very different people. I used to only knew about the Max Miller who did historical cooking recipes, so there was a brief moment where I was confused in a BAD way.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(I'm not familiar with Ryan Murphy. I just wanted to make a math sexuality joke.)
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kinsey Scale polynomial where x equals 0 and two imaginary numbers.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
eating that much. A lot of individual days are over 4,000. I don't really know how I'm going to change my habits at this point, but I don't see a world where I'm around very long if I don't. I guess I'm just glad I know where I stand at this point, even if the information isn't pretty.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(The following is about diet and weight loss stuff. Skip this one if you need to.) I've been tracking my calories for the past week. Nothing else. Just tracking. I eat an average of 3500 calories per day. There is no world where someone with my height and level of activity should be
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That would require Paxton to have something analogous to a spine.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's never cliche to bring up the brilliance of this movie. Nor, for that matter, it's contemporary relevance. It's definitely my favorite among the Disney animated films (excluding Pixar).
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canada last executed someone in 1962. Somehow we still manage to have a per-capita murder rate that is 1/3 of the USA without having to use heinous methods of deterrence.
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Canada's Last Hanging - Canada's History
Sixty years ago, on December 11, 1962, the death penalty was carried out for final time.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love that there is a whole subreddit just devoted to Jordan Peele's 'Nope.' The movie is just so incredibly brilliant. I need to re-watch it soon. I've never screamed (woth terror) in a public theatre as much as when I saw one particular scene in that film.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The way to deal with the right is simple: out vote them. deprive them of power and influence. do not operate like they have anything to contribute and constantly ridicule their stupidity
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Physics Exam in 36 minutes. God help me...
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To bed I must go! The Exam awaits me when I rise...
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Was the pizza thing the precursor to Q'Anon? Or was that a different conspiracy theory?
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm pretty sure I knew at least one flat-earther.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's gotten way better now that I'm back at college. The anti-LGBT bigotry is bad. Additionally, conspiracy theories are the DEFAULT way people look at the world back home. You have to actually work pretty hard to extricate yourself from them and learn, like, real science and history.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is why I think of the area I grew up in as Trump-Land. Just whole regions of the country are dominated by fascists.
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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People can say "it's childish to expect the state to fix your ennui" and "it's not the place of the liberal state to provide meaning" all they want, but the truth is that if we don't provide it, someone else will. In this age of comfort, the future of liberalism requires us to find an answer.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did you hear? The right is conducting a WAR ON SALSA! 😠
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I have been studying like I ain't never studied before! And I'm not quite done yet. Exam tomorrow...
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alas, I doubt my professor will accept such an answer on Monday's exam! Unless...
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Physics is, apparently, rather difficult.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More or less my thought process.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
REVERSE! REVERSE!
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The world is a better place with this painting in it.
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
older people's 2020s art is about the cyclical nature of progress and having to look your child in the eye and say "sorry" younger people's 2020s art is about getting (usually abruptly) ripped from the world you thought you would live in and scraping together a reason to live in the new
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this happens, I will openly weep. "O lord, I see what you've done for other people...I want that for me..."
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am stressed out when I see Americans post they have complicated feelings about capital punishment. There's nothing complicated about it. Don't do it.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Going to a friend's wedding next week. The gentleman at the tuxedo rental place was like, "Not gonna lie, most places wouldn't even try to fit you. But I like a challenge!" So I have to live with that.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The song 'Chip on my Shoulder' from Legally Blonde makes me cry. Honestly, one of the best musicals of all time.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I suddenly recall listening to a 90-minute video on Calculus to go to sleep the other night. Tonight, I'll listen to a documentary on math to get to sleep. Why not?
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Nicole Votes 4 Harm Reduction @nicokow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Both parties. Not the same.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you ever just stop and think about how, in Buffy S7, Dawn casually reveals she can read ancient Sumerian? No? Just me?
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The feeling of canceling your piss poor health insurance because it's still too expensive <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Fetish's Barely Disguised Author @lynnlandra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hi, I'm a random internet commenter and I completely misread and misunderstood your post, assuming that it was about me (like all things are), and I'm genuinely offended that you were wrong about it, so I'm gonna need you to fucking fix it right now, and make reparations, and also stop being suck.
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I go to YouTube for math help. Now the algorithm is like, "Are you interested in making math your entire personality?" And like...I'm kinda mid at math y'all, but like... maybe?
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seasonally appropriate ghost of kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the death penalty should absolutely be banned.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly chilling how much the justices love killing people.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Frog of Earth @sonofterra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a Texan, I approve this message!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026
Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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