If This Goes On (Don't Panic) (@itgodp.bsky.social)

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:08 PM

Accurate. Ask me how I know.

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:06 PM

I'm sure @matthewkressel.net is aware of this, but just in case....

@meidotwav.bsky.social Sep 2, 2026, 12:26 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:09 PM

I think I've gotten 1 magazine in the last 2 years...

@cornellwriter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:39 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

This also affects Analog Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

@wtalabi.com Oct 9, 2026, 2:40 AMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Africanfuturism is an anchor point for science fiction that is not just by Africans, or set in Africa, but about Africa. This is an excellent sampler from my brilliant publisher @dawbooks.bsky.social
Its a great deal!

www.humblebundle.com/books/africa...

humblebundle.comAfrican Futurism: Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, and Adam Oyebanji by DAW BooksRead daring, imaginative science fiction stories in this African Futurism ebook bundle! Pay what you want and support BINC!

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:29 PM

Damnit!! I want the F&SF and Asimov's thing to work out so bad.

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:20 PM

I love Lightspeed! Help the Kickstarter if you can.

@jenbached.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:59 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Last week on If This Goes On (Don't Panic), sci-fi author Nadia Afifi dropped by for an unmissable conversation on finding strength together, Palestine, being radicalized, and more.
Catch her insights here & tune in here: itgodp.libsyn.com/a-fugitives-... @itgodp.bsky.social @catrambo.bsky.social

@mayor.nyc.gov Oct 7, 2026, 12:40 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Black text on white background
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:23 PM

Thanks! 🙂

@keithwdickinson.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:28 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Got an email that said:

- Preorder Keith W. Dickinson’s upcoming book -

and I thought what the hell? I don't have a book coming out. Except it turns out I do! 😂

CHALLENGING THE TIDES, the solarpunk anthology I'm a part of, is available now to preorder. 👍

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

The cover of the Challenging The Tides anthology. In stylised graphics that are blocks of colour, a lighthouse sits on a sand dune, a boat with yellow sails on the sea beside it. The yellow sun is in the sky, and the sky is a circuit board. In black text, Challenging the Tides, and anthology of hope, edited by Susan Oke and Shellie Horst.

@ivygrimes.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:45 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Y'all, we made it to 100. Met the goal! And yet, wouldn't you know it...now we have a new goal! And that goal is...uh....125!

This offers a screenshot of Goodreads as undeniable proof that The Cellar Below the Cellar has now reached 100 ratings. The screenshot is a little blurry, though.

@flowerhorne.com Oct 5, 2026, 12:39 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

@older.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:29 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

@pauljessup.com Oct 3, 2026, 11:00 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Oh no! Don't come any closer! It's only two more hours until #HorrorWatch

@itgodp.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:28 PM

Congrats everyone!

@tco-anthology.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:10 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

We are celebrating BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION all month long!!! What’s on your TBR for October? 🪐🧞🧛🏿‍♂️

A piles of speculative fiction books by Black authors, including “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” “Forged in FIYAH,” and “A Necessary Chaos.”

@jenbached.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:01 PMReposted by @itgodp.bsky.social

Happy October Pod People! If This Goes On (Don't Panic) has an interview with the illustrious horror author, Ramsey Campbell, coming up. He's won 23 literary awards including 4 lifetime achievement awards. What burning questions do you have for him? @itgodp.bsky.social @catrambo.bsky.social