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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I forgot music existed for a moment and got really excited about the idea of a trade show about the properties of various building materials

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Currently at the bathroom at NYCC having the worst shit of my life and someone outside of my stall says "Erica Henderson is here" and it takes me a few seconds to realize they mean the con and not the toilet

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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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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why is pineapple the only one with a number on it?

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay how in the Hello Dolly is everyone else pronouncing raspberry.

A cheat card for learning musical note durations and timing which seems to indicate that raspberry has four syllables?!

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Incredible that that's the bar.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's the same issue as with as quippy dialogue or sympathetic villains. It's only really a problem because it's *everything*, which means everything's starting to look the same. People will have these specific complaints, but what we really want is for TV and movies is to just change up the formula.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

ft.com

Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts

Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's honestly impressive how nobody talked about that show for like a year after the finale aired, pretty much until somebody pointed that out and reminded us the show exists.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Game of Thrones is probably the quintessential example from modern times

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bizarre structure, too. It felt like the first 5 episodes were a complete season and the next 3 were Season 2.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I played Talisman once and had no desire to go back but every time I see the full voltron like this it makes me reconsider.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should follow up this marathon by watching Widow's Bay. The antepenultimate episode is literally just a parody of the first Halloween.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's just those people who put the Santa hat on their Home Depot skeleton but traveling the other way on the holiday Feynman diagram

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The early Star Trek movies did that too, didn't they? I wonder if Incredibles 2 doing that was a reference to the era.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Okay so I gotta see 2018 then

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's crazy to me that your video basically presents the two common campaign lengths as "one shots" and "six years." I've run 3 campaigns to completion and they've always been about 2½ years long.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Put a hat on that hat and have his driving instructor literally be Dracula who's himself learning how to surf.

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I liked that it established the tension right away. Jamie Lee Curtis sees him in the yard early on and so she and the audience are slightly on edge the whole time. Contrast that with Friday the 13th where none of the characters knew anything was happening until the climax. And the sit-up is iconic

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the first might be my favorite of the classic slasher films. Almost feels like the blueprint the rest of them (should have) followed.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d

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Matt Hewes @stellarhewes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Especially annoying when I'm at work, because emails take extra long to get to our server for whatever reason, and I don't get a cell signal at all in that room.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.