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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 8h

Then again, I also loved Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 9h

Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

A stuffed stork – white with a black arse and red legs and bill. It has a long arrow through its neck.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 9h

Went to see it at the cinema, and it’s actually pretty… great?! #DiggerTheMovie

Tom Cruise as Digger (movie still / poster)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 12h

Just a last-minute wee sign of encouragement. No need for PB’s!

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 15h

Mensen kunnen überhaupt niet lezen

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 18h

I would thank them in the book then too, I guess. No harm in being generous with your acknowledgements.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 18h

Unless you will use the material for other publications?

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: Jüdische Studierende (JSUD) verwehren dem Neonazi & "Landtagsvize" Tillschneider den Zugang in die Synagoge von Halle.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 21h

Ik vind de suggestie dat men AI zou kunnen gebruiken voor vertalingen ook armoedig. Prima als je een algemene indruk van iets wil krijgen, maar te onzorgvuldig om daadwerkelijk iets te begrijpen.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well what an unreal long run that was this morning in Trento along the river admiring the mountains. Also my first 15k since 2020 and all in aid of fighting dementia - so here is where I shake my tin again. £2 - less than your morning coffee - would mean the world! www.justgiving.com/page/emilie-...

Mountains and river and a church- Strava run 15.01 km in 1h42

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22h

The passing of Chris Wickham is hard to take in. Few have made a bigger contribution to their field, with such personal warmth. He's going to be missed by a lot of people.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“After a month of looking at these Renoirs,” said one suspected burglar, “we just couldn’t take it anymore.”

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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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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Is gewoon een app waarop je bijhoudt welke films je hebt gezien

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

“This movie had no business being as good as it was. 2,5 stars “

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

A friend has just discovered my Letterboxd account, and now I think we can never see each other again

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Hier nog wat meer informatie (verder besproken in Ada’s boek) cc. @adapalmer.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/adap...

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Opened today at Nasjonalmuseet - W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Painter www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitio... The show presents some 50 paintings by artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Clara Peeters, Michaelina Wautier and Lavinia Fontana alongside works by their teachers. #womenartists #artherstory

An installation photo of the exhibition W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Painter, in which the viewer sees paintings partially obscured by people standing in front of them. At the center is Lavinia Fontana's painting of Minerva dressing, flanked by a Michaelina Wautier's "Education of the Virgin" on the left and "Pieta" by Mechtelt toe Boecop (or van Lichtenberg) on the right. At the far left and right, a painting is partially visible.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Punching my ticket to Kalamazoo

Graphic labelled "Types of Medievalist Paper" based on xkcd.com/2456/. 12 pictures of 'papers' appear with overlaid titles:

You Won't Believe What Nuns Were Up To
HEY, I FOUND A TROVE OF OLD RECORDS! THEY DON'T TURN OUT TO BE PARTICULARLY USEFUL, BUT STILL, COOL!
The Silk Road Is Not Just A Website for Buying LSD
Niche Tax Documents in Provence, 1370-1373
Everything That Happened in Asia, 622-1914
Ships Might Be Very Important
Introducing "Spatula' The New Journal for Medieval Studies
Globalizing the Middle Ages: An Examination of England *and* France
How l Got the University to Pay for My Trip to Venice
Did You Know? Arabs Had Science and Culture Too
We Remembered Spain And It's Right Where We Left It
More Viking Shit Found in Unexpected Place

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah zo, ja ze parafraseert het onhandig, maar ze wilde die twijfel benadrukken.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Ik ken het filmpje verder niet, maar die interpretatie van Descartes zoals hier weergegeven klopt wel, als ik mn colleges van Van Tongeren goed heb onthouden

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Sven Kockelmann, lapdog van de VVD. Hij zou het ook echt heel goed hebben gedaan in het Hongarije van Orbán.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · 07/10/2026

Today marks 20 years since Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow. She recognized Putin's true nature earlier than most—and the regime could never erase the truth she died to tell.

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Simon Gray @protexblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“If it should turn out to be true that knowledge and thought have parted company, then we [will have] indeed become … thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is.” Hannah Arendt, predicting the future in 1958

Hannah Arendt, in her late 50s or early 60s, sits looking at the camera, leaning to one side with a cigarette in her left hand.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 07/10/2026

I once had someone tell me, and I do mean this literally, that LLMs transcend the limits of turing machines and computability because they are not constrained by having to give correct answers

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Draaien ze daar nog zo laat? Of ben je net terug?

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Nee precies. Het zijn overwegend malloten daar, dus ze hebben het er zelf naar gemaakt. Jammer dat ze de rest van de wereld in hun val meeslepen

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Bizar dat een branche die nooit iets heeft bijgedragen aan het vergoeden van de door haar veroorzaakte schade óók nog eens beloond wordt met gemeenschapsgeld om dat wapentuig niet meer te mogen verhandelen.

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Berlin, people voted for a party that wants to expropriate large property owners; in Spain, the government was toppled by housing protests; in France, students are protesting for better education. The call for public affluence as an alternative to unbounded private accumulation is growing louder.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Heerlijk! Hier beginnen studenten al te mopperen als je twee artikelen per week opgeeft voor een seminar.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Heel toffe lijst! Ik heb er zelfs vrij veel van gelezen. Lezen studenten delen eruit, of is het de bedoeling dat ze de boeken integraal lezen voor het seminar?

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"the Italian Renaissance, broadly defined historically as the period ranging from the 14th to the 17th centuries and geographically to include transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.)" i.e. NOT just Italy, so go for it

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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📢Fully funded PhD position in #earlymodern history! At University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, in the framework of my project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy." isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline 16 October 2026! #skystorians

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Bertrand Russell won for his books, that wasn’t literature either. Someone needs to be the first art historian to win!

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess your chances for winning Thursday’s prize went up as well then! Lightning can strike twice in the same street 😜

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