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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

this is the most annoying type of Star Trek fan. the guys who adopt science fantasies about FTL travel being possible rather than focus on Roddenberry's real message (you should be having more and weirder sex, possibly with dolphins)

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seeing lots of people go well Mamdani can't do anything about the NYPD because they won't obey him and you do see how this makes your entire political project a joke right? Like if that's true then you just spent all of your time electing a hostage Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I like it and I'd like more of it

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

completely distracted by and very much need to know more about what's going on with the person in red here

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gary Busey fucked a *whole* lotta rich guys' wives

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Rebecca 🍉 @rebeccaylee.com · 07/10/2026

Ah yes, the typical "bean pot" of an average American kitchen 😂 Costco, you *know* that's a cauldron lol

Listing on the Costco Same-Day Order (Instacart) app for "Denmark Tools for Cooks 6-quart Pre-seasoned Cast Iron Bean Pot". The item number is 1927970, and it is being sold for $34.04 each.

The first photo in carousel is shown, depicting a small black cauldron resting on a grey-blue quartz countertop. The lid is uncovered and resting on the side of the pot, and the pot is filled to the brim with some sort white bean salad or soup.

A screenshot of the other 4 photos shown on the listing for this pot. When closed, it looks even more like a cauldron.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026

DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms theonion.com/dnc-releases-preemptiv…

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026

‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's been such an awful couple of years. Let's honor one of the best people on the planet.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

me trying to write a brief history of ‘race science’ and its modern resurgence in academia:

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it really should be a bigger story that Karen Bass enthusiastically supports the cult of Scientology

The Honorable
Karen Bass
Speaker Emeritus
California State Assembly
SCIENTOLOG
ahd this new Church of Scientology. is an exciting moment

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I spent six years in university for PoliSci and never had a class in Organized Crime and the State, or anything about the actual systemic workings of Intelligence services and I have realized what a huge glaring omission that is in actually understanding politics

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/08/2026

many of u appear to be trying to play a sophisticated game of chess while your opponent is pointing a gun at you and also pulling the trigger on the gun pretty frequently and you're being shot by the gun a lot

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

presales for my first novel start in less than two weeks. let's get it together shall we

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Nobody talks about how we're all paying $15 for sandwiches now and just pretending that's normal. Five years ago that same sandwich was $8. The price doubled and the only explanation we got was "supply chain issues" which apparently means "forever."

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 13/07/2026

When It Happens, if any Democratic politician utters a single word for him other than pure contempt and scorn, I will be waging a holy war against that person for the rest of my natural life

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Michele @burienwino.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's like we have been sent an appetizer because the main course is taking too long.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Democrat who was supposed to just sit there and lose to Graham by 20 points

accidentally became important at work n its ruining my life

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026

NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social

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How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unrel...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

excellent thinking sir don’t forget that drinking water is gay

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/06/2026

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.