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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18/10/2026

a norwegian on Threads posted this and i just don’t know how much more clearly we can emphasize how much Americans are being ripped off by our system which is built to concentrate wealth at the top

Cost of Living:
Seattle vs Oslo
A couple with children. Parents in their mid-30s.
Dual income (median), two children aged 1 and 3.
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Seattle
Oslo
Dual income
221 579 1)
Median couples w/children income for 2024
1757134)
Median couples w/children income for 2024
Income taxes
45 7762)
20,7% tax rate. Federal + FICA. No state, no local tax in King County.
44 953
Calculated. Effective tax rate: 25,6%. Includes
"social security tax" of 7,7%.
After tax income
175 803
Calculated from the income and tax numbers.
130 760
(4)
Median after tax income for families w/childrer
Childcare
41 280
(3)
Current number
5565 5)
Capped by law (max fee + sibling discount.
Much cheaper from 2025.
Healthcare
15 240
3)
Employee share of premiums and out-of-pocket.
668
6)
Max out-of-pocket for public health services for two adults in 2024. Children are free.
Housing
32 6523)
29 398 7)
Basic living costs
47 040 3)
Food, transportation, other necessities.
Includes sales tax.
421208)
Food, transportation, other necessities.
Includes sales tax.
"Life money"
39 591
53 009
2024 numbers retrieved and currency conversions done on Feb 11th/12th, 2026.
All numbers converted to USD for readability. Comparison is based on real local costs, not PPP estimates.
Sources:
1) https://data.census.gov/table?q=B19125:+Median+Family+Income+in+the+Past+12+Months+(in+2024+Inflation-
Adjusted+Dollars)+by+Presence+of+Own+Children+Under+18+Years&g=160XX00US5363000&y=2024
2) https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
3) https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/budget-map/
4) https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank/table/06944
5) https://www.udir.no/regelverk-og-tilsyn/barnehage/foreldrebetaling/
6) https://www.helsenorge.no/en/payment-for-health-services/exemption-card-for-public-health-services/
7) https://www.ssb.no/priser-og-prisindekser/boligpriser-og-boligprisindekser/statistikk/leiemarkedsundersokelsen

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Stuff I found @stuffifound.politicalmemes.org · 08/10/2026

White people telling black people to "get over slavery" basically just don't want to learn the lessons history taught us #antifascism #antifa #antiracism #slavery #enslavement #history #HumanRights #activism

Don't tell black people to get over slavery when white people still haven't gotten over losing their slaves

[Photo of lots of people waving confederate flags]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I'm so #happy for my new job and my new part-time home and for something new and fun happening!

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I took this over 3 decades ago, and found it while I was digitising my old negatives. #silentsunday #dogsOfFedi #photography

An elderly black Labrador rests its head on the windowsill of a partly open sash window, so it can watch the world go by with minimum effort. A lace curtain hides the interior of the room. The houses opposite can be seen reflected in the glass above.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The label said “Kodak Ectochrome 25 ASA”. “Hahaha did you 3D print that for a halloween prop?” “No this is the real deal” “Bullshit, aura sensitive film is an urban myth” “Nope, the CIA commissioned it as part of the PURE SPIRIT program to employ ghosts as espionage agents.” “What, why? How […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

People who find LLMs useful when "used correctly" don’t understand that they manage to use them correctly because they spent 20 years of there life learning their craft without LLMs. LLMs is the only tool where the less you use it, the better you become at using it.

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

During World War II, the British Royal Navy experimented with using ice reinforced with wood pulp to build an aircraft carrier. Now researchers led by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel have extended that idea from the 1940s by adding plant-based crystals to ice, creating […]

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The Press should be asking every Far Right politician in the UK "do you think Royal Marines should be machine gunning refugees in the Sea?" Let's see if they do... #UKpol #UKPolitics #UKPress #FourthEstate #Fascism #FarRight #RefugeesWelcome #HumanRights

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Unfortunately the answer appears to be "no". The graphs that have gone viral seem to be search engine spiders and the like, rather than social media activity. BBC News - Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots? - BBC News […]

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Supermarket fridges have remote management and a defrost mode, which briefly raises the temperature. Hackers programmed some older models to stick on defrost mode, raising the temperature to 50°C overnight and even starting small fires. BBC News - Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber […]

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A+B=C

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The United States should not be in the business of making a snuff video. www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/c…

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A war on walking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. The #UrbanTruth is that #CarDependency is still the norm in far too many cities, and the #RoadLobby will do everything they can to keep it going. Don’t buy the lie. #WarOnWalking

Picture of a luxury car parked mostly on the sidewalk with an elderly couple with mobility aids forced to walk around the car on the street into traffic. The text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 10/10/2026

Aurora alert on red - if you're in the UK and the skies are clear it might be worth a look up?

An aurora forecast map showing the Northern hemisphere

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I have recently had a glimpse of the other side of this. One of my other colleagues is highly dependant on Claude for everything, and has been working with a couple of contract programmers on creating some new telescope automation software for a couple of their projects. I got asked to help a […]

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

you should be prepared for polling error. There will probably be some. But "nobody can tell you with any confidence ahead of time which direction it’ll run. This election looks like a blue wave whether you’re looking at fundamentals, state polls, or other indicators. If the current map shocks […]

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 04/10/2026

Autumnal morning jewel.

Dew drops on a spiders Web, looking like a string of pearls.

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@baoigheallain You're not going to tell me they've each got all their laundry, a laptop, a smart-speaker and some books packed in to those bags are you?

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026

I was immediately reminded of @catsalad

caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@TimWardCam @FSonder The marketing is key. Not just because it gets your book in front of potential readers, but because it acts as an unforgeable signal that someone other than the author thinks that this book is saleable, and therefore probably worth reading.

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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Are we write. So let's start;+)

Things that make writers anxious.

Not writing.
Writing.
People reading their stories.
People not reading their stories.
Editing.
Not editing.
Not having any good ideas.
Having too many ideas and not being able to decide which to write.
Having one really good idea and worrying they're not good enough to write it.
Not having time to write.
Having time to write.
No reviews.
999 good reviews and that one fucker who thought the title was too long.

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A quotation from Pratchett > Whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place. **Terry Pratchett** […]

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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Curiouser and curiouser. #fairford BBC News - One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqn8m34…

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 29/09/2026

You go shopping and… #Linux

A large digital advertising display in a shopping centre showing Spotberry running on a Raspberry Pi, with the entire interface upside down and a login/shutdown dialog visible in the centre.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OTD in 1939 USSR and Nazis issued a communique saying that unless France and UK accepted Hitlers terms, they would be responsible for continuing the war

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

incidentally, I am still open to finding a job I enjoy more 1) I work from home in Amsterdam. If you are also in Amsterdam, I can physically appear before you on a regular basis. 2) I am not at this exact second a Dutch citizen but I'm working on getting that sorted and finally getting my US […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Stefan Urbat @stefanurb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the approach of two plasmoids FRC fusion with D-He3 @helionenergy.bsky.social follows is physically highly questionable, there are several peer review papers questioning its practicability

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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