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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 3h

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

The President sent a mob to the Capitol to have people killed when he lost the election and then he let all those psychos out of prison. This is entirely the fault of MAGA and the media who didn't report on this shit honestly. The end

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

What do you expect, scorpion and frog, etc etc but it's astonishing what a piece of shit this guy is. Just psychologically, easily one of the worst people alive

Her breaking point came after the president called her a "traitor.
Of the torrent of threats that followed, one stood out. It was aimed at her son.
"That's the one that bothers me on a visceral level," she said.
Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks.
She got a five-word reply from the president: "Your fault, you deserve it."

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 4h

it’s national coming out day and yours will be a lot happier if you do. yes, even now. there’s no air in the closet. and if a trans person comes out to you, and you’re cis, “thank you for trusting me. what can i do to support you?” works just fine.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

Being friends with a teenager is a whole trip in context. getting rear ended by another car is super annoying, cellphone dying is national tragedy

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

The stans know this and don't care. The stans know data centers are being dropped into black and brown communities and do not care. The stans know Musk & Co can put their thumb on the scale and change AI outputs based on their wants and needs. Are the stans racist in addition to stupid and lazy?

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

This is before we get to the fact that the most prominent booster is an open white supremacist and the technology has proven time and time again to reproduce systemic biases.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

The grim irony is that if Trump hadn't started his damn fool war with Iran, we could have shifted much of those interceptor stocks over to Ukraine to protect Ukrainian civilians and then we would actually have the leverage to ask Zelensky and Ukraine not to kinetically sanction Russian oil.

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 7h

speak for yourself, i'm stoned every day and i never said some shit this stupid

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“Hucklebuckets” @hucklebuckets.bsky.social · 6h

public democratic control of sports teams and leagues. private equity, sovereign wealth funds, tech oligarchs. don’t let them make you think they’re necessary or essential, they’re not. the money is there because you watch

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6h

i try not to learn about disney’s post-OT canon but i feel like “this former imperial is allowed to walk around in his uniform without social consequences, we all need to come together!” is probably how you end up with a new republic that gets nuked by a mall goth and his gooey CGI boss

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Extremely lib coded, sure, but I do like the element of "yeah what happened to all those stormtroopers? like they didn't just go away"

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 20h

Like an animatronic that only knows branding and nothing else.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 19h

Gonna say it again and again until y’all get sick of me: America has become an authoritarian state.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 19h

this has gotta be the least contested two-point conversion i've ever seen in my life

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18h

If Modi had been European they'd be talking about him like Kim Jong un was riding around on a palanquin made of the bones of the founding fathers

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 22h

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

My takeaway from this is that Ben Shapiro is more evil than the Pope is good and God was like, welp sorry Leo I can't let Daily Wire Damien feel any joy

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 13/09/2026

arch when he isn’t playing against future dentists

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 10/10/2026

and to the haters, i’d just like to say this: i hear you. you are on my mind constantly. i’m rattled, frankly

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think we can all agree public executions are barbaric and whatnot, that said, the amount of people who seemingly think private executions without cameras are far more noble is also distressing to me.

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 10/10/2026

wait her necklace did this guy decide his computer wife was ukrainian or was that the image generator going rogue

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 23h

I never get in a wreck when drunk driving, that’s why it’s OK when I do it.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 23h

life might be short but my intestines are long as hell bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

what i want out of the next two years of an at least partially democrat-controlled congress is robust dossiers on every criminal in this administration ready for relevant agency heads and state governments at 12pm on january 20, 2028. impeachments are one avenue to help build them

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump really is on Russia’s side. He wants the kind of dictatorship that Putin has.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also, if the press had done their jobs covering the Nazi pedophile criminal organization masquerading as a political party accurately, we wouldn't be so surprised by his frank talk because we'd have been hearing this shit from more than just him.

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 10/10/2026

everybody knew who this guy was before he got to the league and not only did it never matter, nobody even pretended for a second that it would ever matter

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026

A lot of trans advocacy focuses on mental health outcomes and risk of suicide, and much of the modern reactionary pushback against trans healthcare is based in proving that it doesn't make us any happier. Keep that in mind when you think about the fact that WE ARE ABUSED WHEN WE TRY TO ACCESS CARE.

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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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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i'm interested how the tech hype spiral progresses from feasible but too-soon promises, to unfeasible sci-fi nonsense, to 'you know what, fuck it, we're gonna cause a doomsday event and kill everyone' like that last step seems counterproductive, but maybe it's the only way to keep turning the dial

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

israel has the same right to exist that apartheid south africa and rhodesia had, which is none whatsoever

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

Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

here's mine: trains are cool and you knew it when you were 5, why are you lying to yourself now

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have never ever understood this phrase because to me it has always sounded like "get a gun and you can be a complete asshole and ppl will put up with it in case you shoot them" like if you need to be armed to get ppl to be nice to you maybe you should just go fix your fucking personality chad

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

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Sly Reference @slyreference.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's almost nothing about the massive student protests in *France*, let alone somewhere like India or Indonesia.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

how the fuck is this gonna happen to you and you're not thinking its a robbery

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