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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 6h

Die Menschen, die sich als die Herrscher der Welt berufen fühlen machen in ihrer Freizeit Abwägungen über den Wert von Leben. Faschisten. Übermenschentum und Selektion.

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Plotbunny Games @plotbunnygames.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Am 06.10.2026 geht es los: Wir crowdfunden die deutsche Übersetzung des grandiosen Telenovela-Rollenspiels Pasión de las Pasiones! Ihr könnt euch schon jetzt für eine Benachrichtigung zum Kampagnenstart anmelden: www.gameontabletop.com/cf6241/pasion-de-las-pasiones.html #pnpde #TTRPG #PasionRPG

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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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Jüdische Allgemeine @juedischeonline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

++ EIL ++ Der AfD-Landtagsvizepräsident Hans-Thomas Tillschneider hat versucht, an der Gedenkfeier für die Opfer des Anschlags von Halle teilzunehmen. Aktivisten der JSUD stellten sich ihm vor der Synagoge in den Weg. buff.ly/hTiRcaL

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Eklat in Halle: AfD-Mann Tillschneider will an Gedenkfeier für Anschlagsopfer teilnehmen

Aktivisten der Jüdischen Studierendenunion Deutschland verhinderten, dass der Landtagsvizepräsident die Synagoge betrat

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is depraved and so is a country that lets them do it.

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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 08/10/2026

Die Deutsch Lehrerin in der FAZ Redaktion hat sich eine schöne Frage für den heutigen Besinnungsaufsatz ausgedacht u Jasper hat sich besonders viel Mühe gegeben.

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Merz warnt nach der Wahl des AfD-Landtagspräsidenten vor voreiligen Schlüssen und hält zugleich eine False-Flag-Operation anderer Parteien für möglich. Wie ein Vater, dessen Kinder Schokolade im Gesicht haben und der vor Spekulationen warnt: Es könnte auch der Nachbarshund die Kekse gegessen haben.

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ich muss das loswerden, weil es mich seit gestern Abend wütend macht. Gestern wurde beschlossen, dass das Deutschlandticket zum dritten Mal teurer wird. Parallel startet heute der Tankrabatt. Zwei Nachrichten, wenige Stunden auseinander, und sie erzählen alles über diese Regierung. 🧵

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hier mal etwas zum Durchatmen von einem klugen Kopf. (Auch wenn ich nicht völlig überzeugt bin.) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Why Europe’s centre will hold

The 1930s are not a good guide to the politics of the 21st century

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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 30/09/2026

PS: Ich will das gar nicht gegeneinander ausspielen... aber irgendein Signal in Richtung ÖPNV/E-Mobility etc. wäre schon auch schön ("gerecht"?).

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Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 30/09/2026

re: Palantir

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Die Doku „Inside CDU“ zeigt viele Probleme der Konservativen auf. Aber die komplett entgrenzte Aufregung über einen verdammten Strandkorb sagt mehr über die Empörungsmechanismen des politisch-medialen Betriebs als über Philipp Amthor aus.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

houstonchronicle.com

Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In broad terms, reform ideas in the US break down into anti-party (or party weakening) and pro-party (i.e. multi-party). Anti-party reforms have superficial appeal but frankly don't work. Pro-party reforms aim to produce more coherent and more legible choices on the ballot, which is what does work.

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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ich empfehle sehr, den Essay von @dnah.bsky.social in der taz zu lesen. taz.de/Antisemitism...

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Andreas Püttmann @puettmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hier my two cents zu den drei Landtagswahlen, Friedrich Merz' bisheriger Bilanz, dem Zustand der CDU, der Natur der AfD und dem Trend nach Linksaußen. Nie ohne Adenauer! 😉 www.domradio.de/artikel/poli...

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Politologe Püttmann fordert nach Wahlen Neuausrichtung der Union

Die Union verliert bei Wahlen und in Umfragen an Zustimmung. Politologe Andreas Püttmann sieht einen Grund dafür in der Abkehr vom christlich-demokratischen Profil und fordert eine Rückbesinnung auf d...

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Someone in my fb comments just now left a good reminder : community kills fascism. The regime will never survive us coming together. As Possibility Maven says: Community, human connection is the most abundant resource on the planet. Let's harness it.

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vondenburg.bsky.social @vondenburg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The last 4 TTRPGs I played were: Stonetop (player) Dungeonworld 2 (player) Masks (player) Fabula Ultima (GM) The last 4 Adventures: We don't play published modules.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Phanthorsten @thorsten2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bielefeld

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s hilarious to me that people continue to purchase this nonsense! 😂

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 10/09/2026

Wir möchten in Magdeburg ein Büro eröffnen, um die Menschen vor Ort zu unterstützen. Wenn Ihr dazu in der Lage seid, helft uns bitte bei der Finanzierung 👇 Ich glaube, solche Projekte sind jetzt wichtig. Genau hinsehen, klagen, verteidigen — eben den Rechsstaat aktivieren, wo es geht.

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Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 07/09/2026

Geht ja gut los mit diesen "Demokraten".

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s a species of shark called the ninja lanternshark. It glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks. It’s called ninja because the scientist who discovered it was explaining her discovery to family at Thanksgiving and then her young cousin shouted “ninjas are cool, call it the ninja shark!”

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not stated strongly enough.

Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research. These funds were provided to support research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Der @raulkrauthausen.bsky.social und ich haben eine Bitte an euch: Schickt uns gute neue Mobilität, die barrierefrei umgesetzt wird. Wir wollen diese Beispiele sichtbar machen. <3 katja-diehl.de/katjaskolumn...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026

Woah.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026

A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.

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Anne Rabe @annerabe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Das autoritäre Erbe, das chauvinistische Denken, die patriarchalen Strukturen unserer Gesellschaft werden gerade auf vielen politischen Ebenen sichtbar. (Und ja auch anderswo in der Welt, aber dazu später…). Wir sehen nicht nur den Aufstieg der Rechtsextremen, der längst soweit fortgeschritten 1/30

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Frau Monk 🌻 @fraumonk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Bekannte hat ihren inzwischen erwachsenen Sohn nicht impfen lassen. Sohn hatte Mumps. Sohn bekam Hodenentzündung (typische Komplikation nach Mumpserkrankung). Sohn nahezu unfruchtbar bei deutlichem Kinderwunsch von ihm und seiner Freundin. Nun bereut sie es zutiefst. Lasst eure Kinder impfen!

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Leute, es brennt richtig!🔥 Unser Support ist voll mit Menschen, denen das Jobcenter die Miete kürzt. Wir können das nicht alleine stemmen. Eine Betreuerin hat sich an uns gewandt: Ihrer psychisch kranken Klientin wurden 168 € der Miete gestrichen! Sie lebt da seit 9 Jahren!

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vondenburg.bsky.social @vondenburg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Man Playing 'White Christmas' Song

Alt: Danny Kaye in "The Court Jester"

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Enno Park @ennopark.de · 26/07/2026

Gebt dem Mann einen Orden. (€) www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

Heckel: Um das ein für alle Mal klarzustellen: Es gibt für Lehrer kein Neutralitätsgebot , jedenfalls nicht in dem Sinne, wie die AfD es wieder und wieder bewusst falsch darstellt. Es gibt kein Gebot, wonach auch jede rassistische oder verfassungsfeindliche Position als legitim dargestellt werden müsste oder Parteiprogramme nicht kritisch analysiert werden dürften. Mich macht das wirklich wütend. Ich muss mich an das Gebot der Verfassungstreue halten. Bei einer gesichert rechtsextremen Partei wie der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt steht nicht zur Diskussion, ob ich vor ihr warne. Laut Lehrauftrag als Staatsdiener muss ich vor ihr warnen.

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vondenburg.bsky.social @vondenburg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jetzt seid ihr dran. Ein Lied. Ein Film. Keine Worte nötig. Bei welchem Lied denkst Du sofort an einen bestimmten Film? youtu.be/znfYwABeSZ0?...

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Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi

YouTube video by Yann Tiersen - Topic

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Hanna Herbst @hhumorlos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I can't even. Patrick Frei (57), rechtskonservativer Ex-SVP-Kommunalpolitiker im Aargau, muss vor Gericht wegen Vergewaltigung, versuchtem Mord & sexuellen Handlungen mit einem Kind. Noch gilt für ihn die Unschuldsvermutung. (1/13)

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/07/2026

Rubio at ASEAN: "What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what's happening in the Straits of Hormuz. It's a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation. If that is threatened, the global economy is threatened." Comedy? Who started this whole thing?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In his 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton identified the passions that had animated fascistic political cultures over the previous 80 years. These may sound familiar.

eelings t
hem "mobilizing passions":
• a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;
• the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;
• the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;
• dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
• the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;
• the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny;
• the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal
reason;
• the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success;
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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 16/07/2026

Nein, das ist nicht echt. 😵‍💫 Marterbauer & Kickl haben sich nicht im ZiB2-Studio geprügelt und auch keine Investments empfohlen. Himmel, wie kann wer solchen Unsinn glauben? 🤯 Aber richtig übel ist, dass Tiktok, Meta & Co diesen Dreck nicht löschen, sondern mit Betrugsanzeigen Milliarden verdienen. 🤬

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