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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 8h

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social · 7h

Higher 0.8 mmb SPR drawdown last week to 283.8mmb, no change in sweet at 98.6, sour now at 186.9.

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A fascinating thought experiment here - well worth the read for AI, energy, & macro watchers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

RBADVISERS: “.. For those who don’t think the world is changing, LT Treasury returns are now negative for the 1st time in 40+ years.”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13h

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

SCHWAB: “.. The last time we had this low of a % of S&P 500 members trading above their 200d moving average, the S&P 500 was down by ~12% … today, it‘s barely off its all-time high.”

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

"AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do." I had seen the news clips on Mustafa Suleyman's recent warnings, but only just read the source. Wise words, strongly recommended. mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab...

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A warning about ‘model welfare’

AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Analysis of 200,000 films released between 1994 and 2023 found that on average, films written and directed by women make higher profits, even though their male counterparts are routinely awarded bigger production budgets www.thetimes.com/article/64f9...

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Show me the money? Films directed by women make the most profit

But research also finds every movie of the past 30 years with the biggest production budget was directed by a man, leading to renewed allegations of misogyny

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Election Truth Alliance @electiontruthalliance.org · 24/09/2026

This is deeply concerning. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has sent observers to monitor every U.S. federal election for the past two decades. Governors need to pick up the phone and find out if an invitation extended by leaders of states can fill that federal gap.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Putin: “Russia will continue to fight for the rights of compatriots abroad, including in the Baltic states, but through international legal methods.” Also Putin: “We have no intention of invading Ukraine” one day before invading Ukraine.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why I don´t talk about helmets? I lost too many wearing them. On Car-Free Day, 22 September, Nicolò, a seven-year-old child, was killed by a motorist in Turin. He was riding in the bike lane, wearing his helmet, riding to school with his father. A car driver killed him anyway. Photo Fabio Ferrari

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“.. None of the incidents were breaches, OpenAI said, but were examples of its technology behaving in unexpected and concerning ways.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning from above the clouds on Great Mis Tor

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Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today looking up details to correctly cite a scholar I found she's also made some art. #DHMakes This is Interference Pattern II by Frances Rothwell Hughes. She started each square when she had time to embroider and stopped when interrupted by her newborn www.francesrothwellhughes.com/interference...

Detail of textile artwork, showing 6 by 4 squares. Each square shows the same pattern in different stages of completion, ranging from dashes, to diamonds, to a complex geometric pattern filling the entire square.

Framed textile artwork consisting of 4 rows of 25 squares. Each square contains a different number of embroidered stiches in black thread.

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astonishing sunset on Great Mis Tor tonight!

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026

no notes. ban the pervert glasses.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SCHWAB: “.. While we have seen this level of yields before and some say we are just back in the ‘old normal,’ I think what sometimes gets lost in the discourse is the speed with which rates have moved higher ... we haven't seen this kind of 5-year increase in the 10y yield since the '80s.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“.. 10-year yields have been higher for 7-months in a row, inclusive of September, tied for the longest streak in 50 years.” - Jefferies desk

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026

guys if you go rogue that many times, it's a feature, not a bug

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Try having been IFS director for nearly 15 years!

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aalborg now has 241,000 m³ of hot water storage, the largest in Denmark, plus 150 MW of electric boilers and a 177 MW seawater heat pump. That's 217 MW of flexible demand, holding one to three winter days of heat. District heating in Denmark is becoming a critical flexibility resource.

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another SPR trickle 0.4 drawdown last week to 284.6mmb. Sweet remains at 96.8, Sour 187.7. Lowest rate since March.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Surprisingly often the answer to this was ‘they had an effective union’. IIRC there are several unions for oil workers and off shore workers and they were quite effective over the Grangemouth refinery closure.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That wall of water, mud and debris likely triggered by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas, killing c1400 with over 5k people still missing, is likely a forerunner to more and not just in the Himalayas. Places like Alaska and the Rockies too and European Alps apple.news/AxjHjS3FLQTC...

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"Can and will happen": A deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’ could soon hit the US, warn experts — BBC Science Focus Magazine

The recent disaster in Nepal may be a warning of what's to come for the rest of the world September 21, 2026 Late last month, a wall of water, mud and debris – likely triggered by a glacial collapse h...

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Crug Hywell Iron Age Celtic hillfort, above Llanbedr on the edge of the Black Moubtains, Wales.

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ever since mr joshua started writing alt text it has become required reading. a wonderful insight into his process. thank you pants

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire. The geoglyph has migrated uphill over millenia due to soil creep.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

China is covering its reservoirs with floating solar panels, cutting water evaporation while the panels themselves run cooler and more efficiently.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Re-upping in honor of WB today:

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just to update this chart: 1 - AI salience has increased dramatically in the past week - increasing as much in the last week as the previous year combined

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm starting to wonder if this is inflation expectations: "buy it now, as it'll cost more next month".

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Refreshed free link on the Pete Hegseth of the Treasury as.ft.com/r/deebf56b-f...

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Scott Bessent’s wobbly house

Politics seems to be messing with the US Treasury secretary’s head

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week the SPR shows astonishingly little change. Just a draw down to 285mmb, which is 0.4 for the whole week. Very striking in a time of great shortage, high prices and huge uncertainty. Link: www.spr.doe.gov/dir/images/i...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026

Hoo boy, this episode of Odd Lots is ... bracing. To do any of the things we want to do -- clean energy, electrification, AI, name it -- we need *shitloads* more copper & right now it takes decades to open a new copper mine, much less produce anything. Same for several other metals/materials.

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Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper

Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · September 12 · 1h 10m

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Canada has a total ban on company/corporate donations. Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions and it's capped at $1,750 a year. They still have functioning parties and the sky hasn't fallen in. Quite the opposite... www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💷 TODAY: Peers debate big money in UK politics Reports that Reform UK secured £72m in pledges from two crypto-billionaires is a watershed moment. But it's not new. UK politics' dependency on mega donors risks corruption & policy capture by the super rich. It's time to cap donations. Watch ⤵️

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Chris von Simson @chrisvonsimson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A super day of volunteering today. Helping others is a tonic for me.

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