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Loren Hontanilla 🎏 MCM London AA H-03

@solelle.bsky.social

0 - The Fool 🎭 #criticalrolefanart

The Fool tarot card, fanart of Bolaire Lathalia from Critical role! A mask is floating above a dead person's face, who's holding a rapier.

October 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM

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Maahri ~ Open for Work!

@maahri.bsky.social

#MavkaTag | #VtM | #OCsky

Stigmata

An image of Mavka Yuhanna, an OC with pallid skin and delicate frame, holding her hand up. Its fingers are overlong, spindly things flensed of flesh, and dark burgundy blood oozes from the open wound of them, dripping down onto her sleeve. Their pointed tips tear the moon behind, bleeding it onto the crescent below

October 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM

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Helen Whistberry

@whistberry.northsky.social

Today's #Whistober is inspired by a photo offered by @elizabeth-snow.bsky.social

Love all the subtle variations in color on hydrangea blooms!

#SciArt #BloomScrolling

Digital painting in close up of a very pale blue hydrangea bloom with hints of pastel pinks and purples.

October 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM

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チムニー

@chimney1022.bsky.social

🎃Candy Cuties🍭

October 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM

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@narkmisquote.bsky.social

I'm so sick of killing the same enemy 500 times in Souls games to get my required 50 Special Items so I can complete the quest and finally get a sword that Is Actually Pretty Mid and I Wont Use

October 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM

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nobu

@nobu-25m.bsky.social

落書き✏︎

September 19, 2026 at 9:58 AM

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@narkmisquote.bsky.social

we're still recommending glaze and nightshade? my pc couldnt even run them

October 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN

@patsux.bsky.social

Digital painting of video game character "Alucard" from the Castlevania franchise, wearing a dramatic vampiric cloak, his signature sword, with elements of the background upside down, referencing the "Inverted Castle".

October 12, 2026 at 12:21 AM

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@narkmisquote.bsky.social

I have two wounds in my current Project Zomboid run that were almost the death of my character, both are from clipping through stairs. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

October 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM

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alex siple 🏳️‍🌈

@alexsiple.bsky.social

ARCHANGEL

A painted illustration of an angel in medieval armor. They are stabbing what looks like a dragon-like creature off-screen with a large spear shaped like a cross at the top. The wings of the angel are covered in anime-style eyes. There is text in illuminated manuscript style that reads: "archangel"

October 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM

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CHERRI👽Glorptuber

@cherrichus.lol

Short on a student loan if anyone wants a skeb 😳

CHERRI👽Glorptuber @cherrichus.lol · Feb 1

Hii still have #commissions available!! Opened up $50 doodle skebs to get the rest of rent, anything helps!!

October 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM

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@narkmisquote.bsky.social

How to communicate to black cat he shouldn't lay down where I can't see him because I don't want to step on him

October 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM

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@narkmisquote.bsky.social

Sometimes watching a Blender tutorial, they'll say now hit this button and when I hit the button mine does something completely different. Which derails everything, because now I am on a journey to find out what the correct shortcut is on my version of Blender.

October 10, 2026 at 2:10 PM

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Lio🌿@MCM Londong AA H-02

@kroovv.bsky.social

Ledger Sprites 🪦📖

#Art | #Gravehearts

5 sprites of Ledger from the visual novel Gravehearts. Ledger is a pretty man with long bluish grey hair, wearing great roman style robes and flowers in his hair. Hes holding an old book filled with ribbons. There are 5 expressions on the sheet, smiling with eyes closed, surprised/embarrassed, laughing, explaining and then neutral.

February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM

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Lio🌿@MCM Londong AA H-02

@kroovv.bsky.social

Wyatt sprites!

#art | #gravehearts

6 game sprites of the same character showing various emotions. The character has a cowboy style with a big black coat and hat, purple waist coat and little red bow tie. He has long green hair done in three braids and half his face is scarred. He has red pupils with yellow scalars and yellow teeth. The expressions from top left to bottom right are him looking disgusted, laughing, angry, smiley, neutral and then explaining with a smile.

March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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feef

@feefal.bsky.social

would you?🍎🐛

October 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM

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Anodyne

@anodynesix.bsky.social

"There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S. – who are disproportionately Black and other people of color – are the result of policies and practices that enable and even encourage police violence. ... American police kill civilians at incredibly high rates[.]"

October 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM

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jess m. ☕🍂

@jametc.bsky.social

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!

pinlite.app

someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

October 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM

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Jake Grumbach

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

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,…

October 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM

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Waldorf Sixpence

@waldorfsixpence.bsky.social

Despite looking like a shitpost I clicked through and these things have fucking asbestos in them

Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 2d

The annual murder-gonk cull is upon us. I hate these things with a passion. Every year at my old job, we'd be instructed to destroy them on sight because they're a massive fire & cancer risk. I've ripped the heads off so many, I feel like some kind of elven serial killer.

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