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Optimist. Dumb.
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agramuglia.bsky.social
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film.

Holy shit.
October 12, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
Acrylic paint on a roughly 8x8-inch canvas. Yellow and brown grass background with a couple of pumpkins and white sheet-style ghosts floating over top.
October 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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explodingpiano.bsky.social
someone made this with snoopy
snoopy showing the steps to making a martini
October 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
October 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far” https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
October 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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frydawolff.bsky.social
Nic Cage:
He continued: “How do you survive AI? Amazon is a very AI friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested to OpenAI. I am not an AI friendly actor. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. It’s kind of like I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again. But that’s OK. So I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that.”
October 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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shinywark.bsky.social
re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.
October 10, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
October 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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cjzero.bsky.social
get you a quick shine
October 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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peloriemate.net
i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo
October 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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murdoink.com
biddy blas
October 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
news.berkeley.edu
October 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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atrupar.com
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
October 10, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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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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ericlevai.bsky.social
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
October 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Six months ago:
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
theonion.com
October 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social
October 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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bugsmaytrix.bsky.social
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ? Nikita Bier @nikitabier • 2h Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.
October 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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almightybob.bsky.social
Hemingway eat your heart out
r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211 Toilet exploded
October 7, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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kybosh.bsky.social
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
8 Closed Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123 nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a agg23 commented yesterday If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think would ever see this implemented (I also didn't expect LLMs to exist). However, this is not something you can PR here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and you somehow expect me to review it. There is SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never minding all of the docs and Python, you've somehow touched basically all of the upstream HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk what in the world you're doing. This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into; completely unrequested. I hope for the sake of all responsible maintainers that you do not do such a thing again. Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM supposedly got this to work. It has no place in my world.
October 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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hannahartwork.bsky.social
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
October 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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mudron.bsky.social
October 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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headfallsoff.com
sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.
October 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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postoctobrist.bsky.social
I got Forza 5 on the Playstation and my wife has been stealing it from me because she enjoys it so much. I walk into the living room this morning and see this
The Forza livery editor being used to apply a weirdly exactingly detailed depiction of the twin towers and the number ‘911’ to a Porsche 911
May 30, 2026 at 12:13 PM