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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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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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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes! If you want to ‘optimize’ your family life sometimes YOU need to be the one DOING it. It’ll be at the expense of ‘optimizing’ your time (in the literal sense), but you can’t forge good relations w/loved ones AND have unlimited personal time. YOU have to figure out when it’s best to do which.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you have a baby, you aren’t spending an hour reading them War and Peace, you are taking 10 minutes to read them a few board books. It would probably take him longer to set up his book-reading bot, so what’s really being optimized here?

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s time to make a damn ruckus again. This is just evil, done in our names and on our dime.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why is this not a massive national news story? This is political violence, and my understanding is the media - and the Republican Party - have made it crystal clear how much they oppose political violence, yes?

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Brooke Lierman @brookelierman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Delaying an attack on reproductive freedom until after Election Day doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Don’t let Donald Trump and his allies hide their agenda behind campaign promises. Our rights are on the line. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/abo…

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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Make the tech bros sad by not doing this.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.

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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)

The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I just want people to see that it's not a coincidence -- that it's connected to a certain psychology that is prone to conservatism. The media will *never* go there obv.

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t experience side effects because I’m built better 😉

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today was my family’s annual Get Rekt, Bobby! Day

A close up of a shoulder with a bright red bandaid on it.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WITNESS MEEEEE!!!

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Joel | Porch Weather Games @jhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

✅Indie game ✅AI-free ✅On sale ✅✅All fun Porch Weather Games titles in the Autumn Sale right now! Support an #indiedev #solodev and get entertainment in return. What a deal! store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/... store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

This camper is so excited about going to get some Porch Weather Games in the summer sale they are taking the *special* shortcut

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My FIL keeps getting AI slop videos that he thinks are real, no matter how many times my husband explains it to him (who has a PhD! Like, he’s a smart guy). And I suggested that the next time we’re at my FIL’s that we autoplay Max Miller to try to cleanse his algo a bit. Plus I know he’d love Max.

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Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I get why people think so much of the grandiose statements from LLM world are a grift (because everything is these days). But I think it's equally possible everyone there actually believes every word of it because they, like members of a cult, have simply gone insane.

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Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Oh no I've made my matrix multiplication too big let me ask a Rabbi if it's conscious"; get a fucking grip y'all! If these things are dangerous it's because the people using them or making them have ill intent.

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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My free annual newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween, hits inboxes tomorrow! One spooky-themed email with cool art and links every day of October, and then it goes back in the crypt. (Did I mention it's free?) Sign up here: buttondown.email/31daysofhall...

buttondown.email

31 Days of Halloween

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should not have to grieve the justice that so many people were robbed of so often

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always assumed the reason American universities have fraternities is because they think it looks old worldy and fancy, even though we don't have them in the UK, apart from one or two extremely weird groups like the bullingdon club (Obv the reality of a frat is not at all fancy, I know)

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'It's because they're racist' yes that's my point, they're trying to emulate the British ruling classes of the 1800s

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

drunk history wolf 359

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seeing a major music magazine, whose whole reason for existing is to be entrenched in music, acting flabbergasted and scolding because not everyone knows a particular artist and their particular song from a (frankly) niche genre is making me think that we need to bring back hipster as an insult.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Rose Gold Dust Woman @stephtacularly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only iced coffee discourse I’m interested in:

Ken Kirby, as hot as hell Dr. Shen on The Pitt, sips his iced coffee through a straw hotly.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some pilots are part of the furry community

An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."

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Dr. Creed Willems, PhD @nafer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

people begging for a Joe Rogan of the left and the only reason people haven't accepted that he already exists is because he's a big weirdo from Highlandtown

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