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Chris Skedgel

@chrissked.bsky.social
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Consultant, Health Economist, and Globalist 🌍 currently living in Vienna. Occasional Virtue Signaller.

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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today the UN voted to adopt the Equal Earth map projection. As a map nerd, I'm a fan! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_E...
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Equal Earth projection - Wikipedia
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Difficult to think of a justification for this, other than the obvious one...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/07/2026
Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crime scene. buff.ly/lEN2gxU
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I Am Your Family’s Air Fryer, and I Have Seen Things
Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crim...
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
There is so much solar energy coming into the grid right now, the price of electricity in Vienna is *negative*
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Credibility, once lost, is hard to get back."
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Office of Health Economics @ohenews.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
ASCVD costs the world roughly $680 billion yearly in healthcare costs, yet much of this is preventable. Better management of LDL-C could avoid billions in costs and gain millions of healthy life years globally. Read more: www.ohe.org/publications...
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The burden of LDL-cholesterol-driven atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases - OHE
ASCVD drives major global health and economic burden, with LDL-C responsible for up to one-third. Better prevention and management could reduce costs and save lives.
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A coincidence that the 'happiest' nations also have the lowest financial barriers to higher education? (Yeah, I don't think so either)
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The US is the single greatest beneficiary of the global rules it primarily set and primarily enforces, not somehow the victim. Reverting to "law of the jungle" will hurt everyone, including the US.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
1/6 The White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller here shows exactly *why* the new brand of fascists are so intent on lying about the West’s imperial past.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The RFK, jr effect.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle… Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Such a good article by @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social in this weekend’s FT! ftedit.ft.com/Ju3k/9qcmj1rd How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
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How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Bravo! 🤣 www.truthdig.com/articles/map...
Trump doesn’t have the first idea how he would prosecute a war against Canada; it’d be surprising if the joint chiefs had anything drawn up with a name better than “Operation Pyrrhic.”
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 03/03/2025
If Trump was President in 1940
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Getting things done will mean “giving people a voice, but not a veto.”
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Getting Big Things Done | Understand the news that matters
Three books on why it’s so hard today — and how to do better.
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This (tongue-in-cheek) @politico.eu analysis shows adding Canada as "the 51st state" would give Democrats a small advantage (assuming future competitive elections), but why not apply the Wyoming model: by that standard, Canada would add roughly 66 Democrat-leaning states (minus Alberta, of course)
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Here's how annexing Canada would change American politics
We took Trump literally, not seriously, about the push to make Canada the 51st state.
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
3 of the EU's 4 largest economies (Germany, Italy, Spain) have "ultra-low" fertility rates and the 4th (France) is below replacement levels. Meanwhile, anti-immigrant rhetoric continues to get stronger across Europe. Something is going to have to give: less immigration or less wealth?
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Interesting insight as I endlessly scroll through Netflix trying to find something worth watching over the holidays
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
cartoon of the day
A satirical cartoon of a passenger on a plane saying the pilot has lost touch with regular passengers before adding: “who thinks I should fly the plane?” Everyone puts their hands up.
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It's a couple of days old now, but this is the best discussion I've heard so far about the implications of Trump's victory for USA and the world. podcastaddict.com/world-review...
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World Review with Ivo Daalder - Trump's Election Victory: Reactions, Implications, and Expectations - Podcast Addict
Listen to World Review with Ivo Daalder - Trump's Election Victory: Reactions, Implications, and Expectations by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on Podcast Addict. This week, Americans overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump to become the 47th president of the United States. While the polls predicted a tight race, they underestimated Trump's support, and he soared back to the White House along with large Republican gains in the House and Senate. Susan Glasser, James Harding, and Peter Speigel join World Review with Ivo Daalder to discuss the im
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Fascinating visualisation of how the recent UK climate has departed from historical trends. Looks like climate change is going to lead to warmer and wetter weather in the UK (although be careful of reading *too much* into the changes given the relatively narrow range of the axes!)
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I have a charge from @bookingcom.bsky.social that I don't recognise and I'm trying to contact them to resolve the situation. Delightfully, their customer service system won't communicate with you unless you provide the confirmation number for a booking you never made. Nice Catch-22!
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Chris Skedgel @chrissked.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Interesting test of the (false) claim that immigration lowers median national income. Even under EU free movement, median income among immigrants exceeded UK national median income within 7 years of arrival. #Immigration makes us wealthier!
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