Jim Rossignol (@rossignol.bsky.social)

@hausofdecline.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:25 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:43 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:46 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Scatches - Stilts worn to keep one's feet above mud, filth, or other unpleasant substances when walking through dirty places. “Every time we visit Uncle Clud, I feel obliged to don a pair of scatches merely to traverse the mountainous heaps of mullock that have accumulated about his premises.”

A "Grandiloquent Word of the Day" meme featuring the word “Scatches,” defined as stilts worn to keep one’s feet above mud, filth, or other unpleasant substances. On the right, a black-and-white Victorian engraving depicts a man in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat walking on tall wooden stilts while holding a staff. The example sentence humorously describes needing scatches to navigate the mountainous heaps of rubbish accumulated around Uncle Clud’s premises.

@rossignol.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:48 PM

Non-trivial logistics involved.

@rossignol.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:43 PM

One of my pumpkins is bigger than the others.

@josefoshea.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:02 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:40 AM

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

@rossignol.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:49 AM

Got some real world appointments this week after literally months of isolated staring at the the computer. Getting my "Hello, is this real life?" patter ready.

Lady from Arrival doing the Human sign thing.

@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:34 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Adult life is like "Having friends and hobbies prevents you from getting lonely, experiencing health problems, and developing dementia," and then adult life does absolutely everything it can to prevent you from having friends and hobbies.

@eyepatchguy.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:04 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Oh my god

Despite the curiosity generated by his name, local media noted that Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez had been elected mayor of Yúngar in 2018.
He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde after campaigning on the slogan “I'm the good Hitler".

@btfstills.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:05 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

ON TRACK FOR THE EIGHTIES (1980)

@rossignol.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:46 PM

I will put some copies of GOLD TEETH and our award-winning zine FALSE KINGDOM on sale quite soon. It will be UK shipping only for the time being, we're sorting distribution in other realms, tbc.

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @rossignol.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,…

@amanita-design.net Oct 8, 2026, 4:14 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Seventeen years later…
The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧

Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

@soulmuppet.co.uk Oct 9, 2026, 5:33 PMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Our love letter to Epic poetry and ancient Greek mythology, Atrapos, has fully funded on Kickstarter!

Huge thanks for all your support & if you haven't checked out this #TTRPG of doomed heroes, vengeful gods and perilous journeys home... nows the time!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

@rossignol.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:21 PM

Starting a YouTube channel about my embrace of decline.

@damianshields.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:27 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

'Passing through' Glen Coe from Beinn a' Chrùlaiste 2016 #Scotland #GlenCoe #Lochaber www.damianshields.com

@nickharkaway.com Oct 8, 2026, 10:13 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

I am so bloody tired of government by electoral attack strategy. You WON, now get off your collectively irresponsible arse and govern for survival, happiness and prosperity, not the fantasies of billionaire US tech-and-sex-party magnates.

@robertsaunders.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:07 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

@fionacreates.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:04 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

Was digging through old art files and found all these moths, from when I was having fun playing with the mirror tool.

some kind of orange and brown spotted moth, it has wee feetsies

@rozmilner.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:29 AMReposted by @rossignol.bsky.social

you know Vladimir Nabokov once noted that Gregor samsa never seemed to realize that at a beetle he now had wings and could fly