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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3h

My case is the red star.

I am over 300. most of them are all below 100.

Days between docketing of interlocutory appeal and dismissal of appeal, all circuits, 2009-present
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 6h

Finally got the chic book screenshot...

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M. Dean Cooper @fractalchurn.bsky.social · 21h

Finished at last. My takeaway is this: all George really wanted, the idea that got him out of bed in the morning, was to make was dogfighting spaceships. Everything else Star Wars became is the result of him essentially looking up “story” in the dictionary.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have no faith in the success of any platform that rewards tedious people as efficiently as X www.garbageday.email/p/no-one-act...

I don’t disagree with that diagnosis of who is still on X, but I do disagree with the idea that “X diehards” are the same kind of people that made Twitter feel like Twitter. And I’d also say that X is actually going to through a profound and possibly permanent eternal September as it slowly onboards every out of touch oligarch and his legion of sycophants jockeying for their attention all day. In fact, I’d also say that there hasn’t been one single day since Musk took over the platform that I haven’t seen some miserable middle-aged edgelord Silicon Valley C-suite doofus share a years-old Twitter or Reddit post that’s been rewritten by some Verified content farmer in the global south and react to it like it was the first time they’ve ever seen it. And I really can’t imagine anything more eternal September than that!

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i'll be in London next week! will have some time for coffees if anyone wants to say hey, DM me!

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

hell yes @pablo.show has the footage www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6x...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

South Africa had nukes! And they still have, what 200ish kg of highly enriched uranium?

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

shane gillis won't see your mean posts but your nearly 40 year old friends who made a regrettable facial hair choice a decade ago but don't know enough gay people who could have counseled against that might

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13/10/2026

- The sound a cow might make when spanked - Onomatopoeia in a Batman comic panel where he’s flipping a pancake - The sound a bee makes when flying around a flower before pronouncing the first letter of the word “flat” buff.ly/zlLH4L9

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Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise

- The National Association of Xylophone X-Ray Zebra Paleontologists, briefly - The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage dis...

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 13/10/2026

I have a soft spot for hard tech companies doing something completely outside the industry trend. To that end, here's Longshot, a company building the world's largest gun to shoot things into space techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/f...

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Forget rockets — Longshot wants to fire cargo into space from a gun. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

Longshot is trying to build a gun big enough to make space data centers a reality.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Erwin Rommel getting smoked by the Toyota Hilux would be entertaining on a couple levels

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

yes!! most of my cultural blindspots come down to the fact that the typical american spends an hour in their car every day and i don't. so, like, the whole sirius xm family of products is just not a component of my day. but like we have podcasts in New York too and I have heard of none of this shit.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 13/10/2026

uhhhnnghhnhnhgh yes. “two b- or c- or z-listers talk about nothing for no reason: the hole where our money goes”

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

my thirties have been a procession of "I don't get it, either I am just out of touch with the culture on this OR this an astroturfed phenomenon with no juice" and while I can't claim to be batting 1000 I am actually largely in credit

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

APPLE: we live in an age of alogorithmic miracles. we have coaxed an omniscient God from sand and steel. we know more about any random civilian than their own spouse. APPLE PODCASTS: i see you have listened to 200 hours of NADDPOD. perhaps you would like to listen to Office Ladies?

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 13/10/2026

the hudson news bestseller rack of podcasts

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

you know, the stuff that is front and center on the biggest real estate in the app that you exclusively use to listen to actual play dungeons and dragons games:

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i am looking forward to this being relentlessly promoted in The Apple Podcasts Chumbox Of Shows With Two Hosts, No Clear Reason To Subscribe, And No Discernible Cultural Footprint

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 12/10/2026

The Las Playas Intaglio is a 272-foot fish carved into the Arizona desert 6,500 years ago, older than Stonehenge, the oldest geoglyph in the Americas. It survived every civilization on 2 continents. In April a border wall contractor scraped a 50-foot path through it. CBP: "inadvertently disturbed."

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The Oldest Artwork in the Americas Survived 6,500 Years. Then It Met a Border Wall Contractor.

The Las Playas Intaglio, a 272-foot fish older than Stonehenge, lasted through every civilization on two continents until a crew with heavy equipment scraped a 50-foot path through it in April.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Kelly Clarkson in the Criterion Closet: "I'll take the shelving system please."

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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What a lede ☠️ www.washingtonsun.com/sports/washi...

As soon as the clock hit zero, Dan Quinn ripped the headset off his backwards-ballcapped head and spiked it to the turf, in much the same way a well-prepared quarterback of a well-coached team might be expected to do with the football, when his team is out of timeouts and well within range of a game-winning field goal in the final, ticking seconds of a critical NFL game.

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

really really thrilled I got to interview Punko at NYCC to talk about the new Stagtown book www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

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Numlock Sunday: Punko on Stagtown and Cinderella Boy

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 10/10/2026

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

Ryuka, 5, said he’d prefer to keep the park — and the playground — over a road during weekdays.
“Playground,” he said softly, avoiding meeting this reporter’s gaze. “I like the ship.”
Asked what would improve the park, which sits feet from Ocean Beach, he was decisive.
“More sand,” he said, burying his hands in the stuff.
Ads separate from the “no” campaign but featured on its Instagram page (opens in new tab) argue that car crashes in District 4 have declined since the Great Highway closed and that Sunset Dunes is the city’s third-most-popular park.
Ryuka’s mom, Denise Leo, 50, supports Prop. G because it would restore the road for weekend commutes. She drives Friday mornings for work as a library aide in San Mateo and wants the option of taking the Great Highway, rather than 19th Avenue. The pathway above the highway always worked when she wanted to go for a run, anyway. Or, wait, does she oppose G?
Told that a “no” vote keeps the road closed to cars, she paused. In 2024, she pointed out, it was the “no” vote that kept the highway open.
“I’m gonna vote to open it,” she said, looking at her son. “Even though he likes it.”

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

alright i consider the favor-slash-curse returned haha

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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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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

part of a famous comedy duo? Prominent game show presence? played a teacher in an internet popular comedy sketch? if this is keegan michael key they have misunderstood the appeal

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

my hope is, naturally, David Mitchell

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The number of times I’ve seen a season end with “Dracula finally gets the surfboard” only for the first episode of the next season to start with “Surf Dracula has decided he is not in a good place to surf emotionally right now so he’ll need another season of character development first.”

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Paramount-WB tapping Tony Blair for an advisory role is hilarious. Oh, you need a yes man for your inescapable quagmire? Need a guy to join you as you squander a hundred years of global prestige in a matter of months? yea actually there is in fact a guy for that!

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theo @theoplum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my gay fantasy romance comic about two scholars surveying an ancient cursed castle is out on itchio! here's the first 15 pages theo-plum.itch.io/the-quiet-en...

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"It’s useful to think of Brazil, a long-time test kitchen for Silicon Valley, not as a mirror of America, but as a particularly vulnerable outpost on the frontline of the techno-fascist culture war that’s impacting every democracy on Earth." www.garbageday.email/p/voting-onl...

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Voting only gets you so far

Read to the end for a really good storefront

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 05/10/2026

This point regarding AI-produced proofs is of course not new, but is beautifully put here. www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en... @quantamagazine.org

It’s as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what’s around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.

Instead you’re perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/10/2026

Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/

Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Jailed for violating banking laws", much like Hitler met his end after losing a battle with suicidal ideation.

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Mossforatu @dinolich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

thinking about this post again

tumblr post by fabcreature that says "when gerard way sings “the broken, the beaten, and the damned” and when kermit the frog sings “the lovers, the dreamers, and me” they’re talking about the same people btw"

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 04/10/2026

CONGRATS, GMEN

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mr Turner was widely considered to be a fine gentleman, even on the unusual occasions when caught out of doors on a full moon. As his friend Mr Cmnb-/78 remarked, sheep are common and good company rare.

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