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Your effective tax rate this year is likely lower than you think. We break down the brackets to show you how.

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Over the past 12 months, The Wall Street Journal has taken you to farmhouses in Vermont, to spaceship-like homes in Ohio and curved mansions in hilly San Francisco.

Each month, you’ve voted for your favorite, and now it’s time to crown the ultimate winner of 2025.

29 Shots in 24 Seconds: How a Killing Was Cast as Self-Defense Authorities declared Scott Spivey’s death a lawful homicide, a decision under scrutiny by a special prosecutor after a WSJ investigation.

It took 24 seconds to fire 29 shots from a pair of 9mm pistols. One round killed an insurance adjuster holding his own gun. The shooters claimed self-defense. A WSJ investigation reopened the case.

Chinese Forces Battle Dizzying Altitudes to Expand Military Footprint A Wall Street Journal analysis of more than 100 satellite images shows clear evidence of the country’s expanding air power and reach.

A WSJ analysis of satellite images shows clear evidence of the Chinese military’s expanding footprint through a network of facilities that dot the Tibetan plateau.

building these swoopy lil drones was very fun!

fun little run through of the day i made! I now know officially too much about the layout of windsor castle 🏰

a little is done with github copilot, most is done with claude code (which i feel is vastly superior to copilot??)

idk yo i think it's neat you can vibe scrappy lil productivity apps without coding anything yourself

own it!!!

latest by me:

RIP Norm 😞

From Arrest to Removal: How the Deportation Process Works U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show a higher pace of arrests since President Trump took office, but a slightly slower pace for deportations versus the last year of the Biden administrat...

from arrest to detention, through court cases to eventual removal — my latest on how the deportation process works. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

my latest: turns out, China flat-out isn't reporting key economic info any more. Unemployment indicators, land sales data and soy sauce production stats — all cut off. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Tipping Is Everywhere and Consumers Are Fed Up. Here’s How Some Are Coping. Diners are rejecting digital prompts, using cash and eating more at home.

Betcha didn't know that (as of writing):

45% of WSJ readers say they'd tip on two coffees and a muffin...

10% wouldn't leave a tip at a nice restaurant if the service was bad, and...

1% would tip on a bottle of water at airport!

How do your tipping habits stack up?

www.wsj.com/business/hos...

latest from me:

what are marginal and effective tax rates? how does itemizing (or standardizing) your deductions change what tax you pay? and how much tax could you end up paying?

www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

switched off electric state after 30 mins, but the line "Mr. Peanut signed the Treaty of Surrender with President Clinton on the White House lawn today" will live with me forever.

wait this was meant to be a gif... but you get the idea

why yes my bluesky account is just a place to post vaguely-related simpsons screens when celebs die, why do you ask?

"Brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what's going on."

#RIPDavidLynch

rest easy, history's greatest monster 😞

in case anyone's wondering how hyped up estella is after christmas, she's currently lying on my lap, an hour after her bedtime, singing "Christmas Time, Christmas Time" over and over and over and over again

When ‘Middle Age’ Arrives in Your 20s Stress is making young people feel older, with mounting concerns about job security, debt, child-care costs and caregiving.

latest by me: how old is middle age to you, and how old is it to other readers in your age group? www.wsj.com/health/welln...

'grats!

😖 eeek, i hope you get seen soon (and that you're doing well generally!!)

got up-to-speed with GitHub copilot, finally... spending less time writing boilerplate but a lot more time wrangling AI hallucinations

posted on the other site a few years ago: "violet's favourite activity right now is repeatedly listing everyone she knows 🥰"

... happy to update that estella's favourite activity is now the same 🥰

just setting up my bluesky 💙