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I forget who posted it but the idea that Americans live inside a “casino run by murderers” has not left my brain since I saw it

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 8h

This premieres tomorrow at 1pm EST turn on your silly little notifications.

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 8h

lollll well! it exists in our imaginariums now!

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 8h

YOU should make that, and also not install it on my computer 😆 portse dot cx

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 9h

Blue Cross Blue Shield is being sued as a monopoly after the state found it's been in a conspiracy to restrict access to healthcare. Corporations should not have this much power. We need money out of politics, money in our pockets, and Medicare for All.

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Michigan attorney general sues Blue Cross, alleging illegal monopoly

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in "arguably the most consequential antitrust case" of its kind.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 09/10/2026

i’m off that yeeeeeeowwch tip. i’m doing waaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hoo. lock in. goofy mode

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10h

Seeing the ever-escalating size of front yard Halloween skeletons better helps me understand the moai of Easter Island

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

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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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 8h

it’s wild that racists think other groups of people are “ruining the country” when it is self-evidently the racists who are tearing it down!!! the dissonance twists my head around until it unscrews and floats up the chimney

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

Gretchen on Flanagan has me screaming with joy

Would you like to watch teenagers talk to each other about cancel culture in desaturated, non-specific upper-class suburban homes? Would you like to see a version of Stephen King’s classic horror novel Carrie in which the titular character is a naive but irrepressibly positive little darling not too dissimilar from an alternate version of Pippi Longstocking who’d been raised by a survivalist cult? Maybe you’d like to hear Lana del Rey inexplicably crooning “fuck me to death, love me ‘til I love myself” over footage of kids going to prom, or watch parents, faculty, and students have the same exchange about bullying and social media half a dozen times. If all of that sounds good to you, Mike Flanagan is here, and he’d like to talk to Carrie White about the Avengers Initiative.

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BlumineOnion 🧅 @blumineonion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:

From the afterword of I Love You So Much, I Hate You by Yuni

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22h

I do not want ICE. I want universally accessible paths to citizenship. I don't want more police. I'd rather reallocate funding to preventing crime from happening by giving people Enough. I don't want the death penalty. Two wrongs still don't make a right. I hate this timeline.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine being ethered harder than this. You can't. It's a small consolation, but I'll take it.

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, have any genre writers organizations come out against the terrible contract that's mandatory over at the big three short story markets? Hello? Is this on? Anyone? It's lonely in here. And cold.

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 13h

i don’t remember, but now we may / must!!

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 13h

it’s good that none of the gas station hoses are for water or soda. too dangerous, despite the appeal

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

last day

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 22h

i miss the craig ferguson show. been watching clips, and remembering that for a few years, it was the only show i tried to watch live whenever i could

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popagenda @popagenda.co · 08/10/2026

🟨⚔🐸❕

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

max headroom, screenshots, zx spectrum (1986) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtq...

max headroom, pixelated version of the virtual polygon'd computerized face that had his own tv show eons ago, is on a television (channel 23) smiling, mouth open.

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Laura Sofia 🏳️‍⚧️ @taw.moe · 08/10/2026

I'm not 1000% ready to announce this fully with a trailer yet, but I'll be #GodotFest showing and letting people playtest my new project #CourseCraze! Wishlist now while the screenshots are still full of placeholder models! #godot #madewithgodot #gamedev #indiedev

store.steampowered.com

CourseCraze on Steam

Hover at high speed through loops, halfpipes and wall rides. Chase gold medals, hunt your own ghost, build tracks, share them on the Workshop.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 08/10/2026

This is an amazing story to read, and also a reminder that any country's government - *cough* Canada *cough* - could instantly become a leader in open-source development by spending maybe $20 million a year on an incubator/development fund

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Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 08/10/2026

From Majuular's Ultima retrospectives, if you're not watching these you're seriously missing out. youtu.be/35SKawn2SDI

youtu.be

Ultima Online Retrospective | The Last Hurrah

YouTube video by Majuular

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Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 08/10/2026

You'll never guess where this goes

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 08/10/2026

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026

Happy International Lesbian Day, from VGAPride! Here's one of the many lesbian pride flags (the 5-stripe variant of the "sunset" flag).

The 5-stripe sunset lesbian pride flag, shown on a beige DOS computer and CRT screen

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 23h

I can’t believe I just connected this dot!

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Hammermime @hammermime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mamdani is proof that the field is wide open for charismatic leftists and we don't have to accept establishment democrats to win. Raising the bar off the floor is an important step. The ultimate goal is a nation in which Mamdani is a moderate.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I, too, love to purchase companies older than most nations, with names that are known to multiple generations of people all over the world, and then get rid of the names and replace them with the name of a thing nobody gives a shit about.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

That aside: the idea open models are "better" in terms of sustainability is wildly overplayed. There's *some* difference but it's small Ecosia are scamming a huge, huge number of eco-minded people and pushing them into wasteful, private-jet-esque search habits cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com

a scatter plot showing open vs closed makes no difference to climate impacts

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Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Friend is making something incredible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZipG... Wishlist, please! store.steampowered.com/app/2885890/...

youtube.com

Gloom Break - Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by Gloom Break

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

somehow, I never got it. I just thought, “Okay, there’s something called a Sunset Pig. Maybe it belongs in a hippie ritual” one of those lyrics I’ve heard since I was young that finally clicked over 😆

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nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when joni mitchell said, “I’ll even kiss a sunset pig” was she talking about a hollywood cop???

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i watch video game streamers sometimes (mostly for Slay the Spire) and the ads have slowly morphed into ~80% sports betting adds (the other 20% being ads for doordash framed as "so you can eat something while you do your sports betting.") grim.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you know Vladimir Nabokov once noted that Gregor samsa never seemed to realize that at a beetle he now had wings and could fly

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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To wit: This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.

Now what exactly is the "vermin" into which poor Gregor, the seedy commercial traveler, is so suddenly
transformed? It obviously belongs to the branch of "jointed leggers" (Arthropoda), to which insects, and
spiders, and centipedes, and crustaceans belong. If the "numerous little legs" mentioned in the beginning mean more than six legs, then Gregor would not be an insect from a zoological point of view. But I suggest that a man awakening on his back and finding he has as many as six legs vibrating in the air might feel that six was sufficient to be called numerous. We shall therefore
assume that Gregor has six legs, that he is an insect. Next question: what insect? Commentators say cockroach, which of course does not make sense. A cockroach is an insect that is flat in shape with large legs, and Gregor is anything but flat: he is convex on both sides, belly and back, and his legs are small. He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice
observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that
they have wings.)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/10/2026

RFK Jr is a eugenicist and you should not listen to him. Do not drink raw milk.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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EFkyo (Commission Open) @efkyo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sprite commission for @alisawildeflame.bsky.social. #pixelart

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 08/10/2026

Streetwear Muppets or something

Sketches of Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and Kermit all stylized as humans wearing street clothes.

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