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you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The stats in this thread are mind boggling These feedback loops to redirect more and more of the money to the billionaires whilst beggaring everyone else are theft in plain sight

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voidcat @voidcat.at.app.wafrn.net · 12/10/2026

I've been working through my first true RG kit, the Amatsu Mina This is a kit that I was interested in just off aesthetics, and its been really fun I love the asymmetric design elements, and the gold runner parts hold up well (in my non-painter opinion) I've reached stickering, which is having [...]

RG 1/144 Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina, fully assembled with backpack unit extended

RG 1/144 Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina, partially assembled (missing head), posed with right arm outstretched

Built and sticker decorated legs from gunpla kit: RG 1/144 Gundam Astray Gold Frame Amatsu Mina

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 11/10/2026

This is why so many people end up quitting brain drugs that are actually helping them stay sane. Your brain is EXTREMELY good at telling stories about how you're all better now because of that new shirt you bought or the fact that you had a salad last Tuesday.

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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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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

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Non-place - Wikipedia

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Make art. Make bad art. Learn. Get better. Fuck AI.

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ばぶみおぎゃりかわ @re-claw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

水星の魔女４周年おめでとうございます #水星の魔女 #ガンプラ #ガンダム #gunpla #gundam

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

kbarton1001
On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Crim Reaper @crimreaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seiryū (青龍 Qīnglóng) - Bluegreen Dragon of the East, Deity of the Spring

A Long Chinese dragon holding a water orb and floating around a valley of high mountains. Its head resembles a sakura tree and there are clouds flowing from its body as a mane

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Hazelnoot @fedi.hazelnoot.dev · 27/09/2026

**Feminizing HRT Facts that You (Probably) Won't Hear From a Doctor** (everything moved to replies for Mastodon and BlueSky friends with a short character limit) #HRT #Trans #Transgender #TransFem

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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voidcat @voidcat.at.app.wafrn.net · 25/09/2026

TIL that what I know as "parfait" spoons (long handle, small head) are known by some as "iced tea" spoons I see it, but I am also baffled

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Because it’s prosecuted by the state itself — rather than a traditional class-action — there’s no limit to the damages Tesla could be liable for if the state wins.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mikhail has gotten hold of several of the letters sent out to the press by Clare Locke LLP, on behalf of Kotick, and has spent the last two years trying to understand the effect they've now had. Are these letters being sent out for good reason, or are they exploiting a fearful games media?

A promotional image from Clare Locke's website featuring one of the firm's founders sitting next to a poster with the words "KEEP CALM AND FILE LIBEL SUITS".

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Folks, you’ve gotta get comfortable saying “your behavior is fucked up, and justifying it using the language of social justice and therapy doesn’t change that.”

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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The Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...

Zelda
28 Feb - @TheZeldaZone@mastodon...

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

16:18 - Feb 28, 2025

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Aranock @aranock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There is something crushingly exhausting about how much time we as trans people have to spend arguing that our rights actually matter including to most of the self proclaimed cis allies. If you don't get why politicians throwing trans people under the bus is a bad move then fuck off forever ty

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know it's where we're at in 2026 and we all know it, but it bears stating the obvious that every major company in the world is openly throwing a tantrum that people expect them to provide goods and services instead of just sending them a payment of $200 every month for nothing

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Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Some movie credits run for over ten minutes, but many manga translators have to beg for clients to even allow their work to be listed on a private portfolio, let alone anywhere that the public can actually see and use, and manga production teams are *significantly* smaller. It's obscene, honestly.

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Momo @peach-cube.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Study of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind that I don't think I ever posted #pixelart

A scene from the Ghibli movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, rendered in pixel art. In the background, a large Ohm shell sits in a dark lake illuminated by a few beams of light. In the foreground, two heavily cloaked travelers sit astride large birds surrounded by various alien and fungal foliage.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The painful thing is how those of us in the disability community predicted this outcome - both that ignoring COVID and taking no measures to restrict it's spread would lead to a massive increase in disability, and that those disabled would be blamed for their own conditions.

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Chirs but sexier @chrisnsfw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

thanks to the whole payment processor ordeal selling pornography online is basically functionally illegal now and the only reason anyone's still making any money is uneven enforcement, and all the non-porn people I've talked to about this either have no idea it's happening or assume I'm exaggerating

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 02/09/2026

Continued survival is more important than anything else. If clocking in takes more out of you than you get back in payments, that is not sustainable and something must change. You would be surprised what you can live through.

When I don't think I can any more, I:
1. Make a list of the symptoms and when they happen
2. Try to find two potential Why’s for each
3. I write down what assumptions that justify each why
4. I make a list of potential options for each

Beaten into me growing up was crisis management:
- Professional persona is a stoppable workload
- Anyone who disagrees is a symptomatic of the problem
- If something is breaking you, stop what you are doing NOW

For selecting options:
- The insurmountable is always negotiable or avoidable
- All non-explicit ultimatums are assumptions of the other
- Most of the work is finding the right words or leverage

If you are suffering or feel suicidal:
- People would almost always rather change than lose you
- Do not repeat the behaviour which creates those feelings
- Even if it means you come to a complete stop for a while

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voidcat @voidcat.at.app.wafrn.net · 01/09/2026

Every day I am further radicalized towards the position of "actually, the public doesn't need the 'product' of genAI, chatGPT, Claude, any of this bullshit, just ban it" They're harmful, they're being used to do harm, they're demonstrably damaging communities both online and physical [...]

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KILLY krat muahah >w< @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 28/08/2026

I fear that the video game industry's drive to make bigger and bigger games has met its match: the fact nobody can afford the hardware to play these games

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Brandon Bovia @brandonbovia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Freelancers are the foundation of your industry, and the foundation is sagging."

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

transnews.network

Boycott The New York Times

For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Bothpalms lightbox 716 @bothpalms.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

scientist, mother, woman

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Budgie🦤 @spoonybird.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

a whole lot of budgerigars

A digital drawing of a whole lot of budgies in different poses and colours. There is the classic wildtype green parakeet, as well as 14 other colour and pattern mutations ranging from sky blue, cobalt, olive, gray and violet spangle budgies, to lacewing, lutino, albino, pied, cinnamon, yellowface and goldenface budgies.

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franoween 👻🎃 @huelebicho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

anyone who still plays on 3DS and wants to move pokémon around games without trading: mod your consoles and use PKSM instead 😌 github.com/FlagBrew/PKS...

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Storage

Gen I to GenVIII save manager. Contribute to FlagBrew/PKSM development by creating an account on GitHub.

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