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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 01/10/2026

Am I crazy or is that chart using full year visitors for all past years and YTD for this year? The article says -2m projected visitors this year which is bad but not nearly as dramatic as the visual. Feels like an absurd chart crime.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 28/09/2026

Asked Claude to convert this all to cumulative. LA only +1% since the start of 2020 is wild.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 24/09/2026

I think you might even be understating it. $600 then is $928 now, so inflation adjusted iPhones have gotten cheaper.

Inflation calculator showing $600 in 2010 is equal to $927.55 today.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 20/09/2026

I think they hid it. Used to be near the top of the left nav. Now you have to click your profile in bottom left, and a submenu lets you click into usage. Dark pattern.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/09/2026

Could also imagine it running the other direction — stereotype resonates so you buy in. Regardless, super interesting!

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 19/08/2026

Recently toured a house that had undergone a tasteless renovation. I said as much to my wife, in less kind words, and the real estate agent shushed me. She pointed to a hidden mic installed by the sellers. Struck me as insane behavior.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 19/08/2026

Dataviz of the day, so intuitive

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 16/08/2026

This is likely because they got shares in private SpaceX as LPs in VC investment, as opposed to investing once SpaceX was public, no?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 11/08/2026

I see it more like tax underreporting in a state with widespread evasion and low enforcement. On the one hand, to pay full tax is to be a sucker. On the other hand, to underpay makes you a criminal, even if in name only. One choice has the moral high ground but it doesn't solve collective action.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/08/2026

I think being self-employed has been great for me but I wouldn't recommend it for most people. It requires a real comfort with being alone, volatile income, and "what does it all mean?" daydreaming with no structures to imply clear answers.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/08/2026

I'm kind of into it! Anytime someone uses the wrong insure/ensure I still know from the context exactly what they mean. Let's just all agree to consolidate.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 10/08/2026

My pregnant wife agrees with you

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 07/08/2026

An irregularly shaped object that frequently gets lodged in a position that prevents the drawer from opening.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 06/08/2026

And I now *really* understand the appeal of sleep-away camp. Unimaginable parenting freedom.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 06/08/2026

This is exactly how I'm feeling with a toddler (who I love dearly) and another one on the way. The daily grind is just...unrelenting? I can't event take a two week parenting vacation?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 04/08/2026

I had to create a Facebook account (after deleting many years ago) just to use Facebook Marketplace to give stuff away. I will admit, though: Marketplace really works.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 31/07/2026

Getting hit by a car is also a Sixers thing, as Kelly Oubre can attest

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 28/07/2026

I think often people mean "front running" when they say "ring chasing" — ie joining a team already in the consensus top tier.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 26/07/2026

Ha d’oh you’re totally right. And now that you mention it, not sure I’ve ever heard terrible before either.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 26/07/2026

I think if you’re talking two vehicles you’re talking household income too, which is >50% higher, so the assumptions have to stretch again. Not saying it’s insane but it feels like an even more extreme outlier than 6%. (And this is using 80th percentile, which is the lowest possible.)

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 26/07/2026

Even driving 80 miles a day, 7 days a week, at $4.50/gallon and 20mpg only gets you to $6,580/year — only 5.6% of the 80th percentile income.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 26/07/2026

Honestly wondering how it’s even possible — are these high earning cross country roadtrip influencers?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 22/07/2026

Will never forget going to Inside Out and the child in front us who, moments after Bing Bong sacrifices himself, asked loudly: "Mommy, what happened to Bing Bong?" (I burst into tears.)

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 20/07/2026

How do you reconcile this with the G Elliot Morris averages?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 20/07/2026

My wife's grandmother used to say that only three things were the work of the devil: 1. Raisins 2. Bingo 3. Camping

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 15/07/2026

Oh god, right. It's actually kind of disturbing how prolific he has been!

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 15/07/2026

Gasped at the absence of a particular trilogy.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 12/07/2026

I don’t understand the commentators feeling this yellow is harsh. It was an obvious flop, this is exactly what the rule is for!

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 09/07/2026

I'm actually surprised at how modest the growth in (domestic) flights has been per capita. This uses FRED data for both pieces of the equation. Enplanements specifically are here: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ENPLA...

Chart of enplanements per capita, rising from a peak of 200 per 1,000 per month in mid 2000 to 225 in mid-2024.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 09/07/2026

After reading the paper I feel like the conclusions are much sketchier than the chart's title suggests — the data is based on projections of future income and asset returns, which of course reflect current starting point but also have lots of uncertainty.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 02/07/2026

Also, using the categories in my chart (again, slight diff to the original!), we've now had more consecutive months in the negative than during either post-2008 or the end of the dot com bubble.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 02/07/2026

This is not quite apples to apples because it excludes the publishing segment (a function of what Fable could easily fetch online), but tells the same story:

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Time to check back in on the Utah high school rodeo standings for the real sicko names www.rodeoprogram.com/utah/rgn1aa....

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Côte d’ivoire” is French for “down the shore”

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 09/06/2026

I think "essential claims about people" is almost always more serious than "essential claims about things" because of where it tends to lead

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 06/06/2026

This is the start of a pretty good subway take! (Sublimated fascism: HOAs, extravagant bachelorette parties, parking placards.)

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 06/06/2026

Tiny rocks would like a word: - Pebble in your shoe - Sandy sheets at a beach house - Grit as your slurp an oyster

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 01/06/2026

Okay got it, this totally makes sense, thanks for the clarification. In general it is really striking how financial markets now feel like they have huge stabilizing buffers, but it _feels_ like there's a hidden cost somewhere that will come due when debt gets too high or sentiment swings too fast.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 01/06/2026

Can you expand on the unemployment part of this?

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 23/05/2026

Guinness 0.0, which tastes like the real thing and is a truly remarkable feat of engineering.

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Andrew Bartholomew @abartholomew.com · 01/05/2026

One other thing (among many of course): It looks like >50% of Chinese car buyers are first time buyers. US is 10-15%. So much less brand loyalty, anchored expectations, habit changes needed to go electric. We’re stuck in our ways.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/04/2026

nothing punctures our wildly overblown sense of technological mastery like biology

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