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Data October Thirty-nerd

@datanerd.bsky.social
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A very fine bearded economist. Chattanooga, TN; near Washington, DC; and New Smyrna Beach, FL. Opinions are not of my employer; self-employed. Profile pic is of a gator next to a canal, banner is of roseate spoonbills, both at Merritt Island NWR.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h
In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 13h
Molon labe, but for two spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. Also for the oxford comma. And proper em dash use.
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james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
seriously be careful out there everyone i had 2 Microsoft Copilot licenses in my car, and someone broke in and left 4 more
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Picturing Erling Haaland being sold at police auction like a drug lord's speedboat.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Southern democrat but espousing southern democratic values from the 1970s without the racism. Health care, minimum wage, that sort of thing.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At least until we play Texas.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And a few connect through Atlanta.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
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Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good morning to the woman on Threads arguing with me that not all millionaires and billionaires are unethical, may the ghost of Antonio Gramsci lecture her about cultural hegemony in her dreams, with his poofy hair and glasses.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📈📈📈
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

the ONION
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(spoo)key @lefttwix.com · 04/09/2026
a blue flag with the words

“marked safe from
  being influential
           today”
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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
*puts away summer depression *takes out fall depression
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
it's like having kermit the frog say "fuck that guy" about you
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🍄Abyssal Thaum🍂 @thaum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Norway's renegade bus driver has stolen his fourth bus, this time he even had a passenger! He is still 14 years old.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I've been there. My dad "graduated" from hospice care. I'm lucky he had excellent medigap insurance.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Core, The (DO NOT PERCEIVE) @the-core.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“That was a joke, here’s the password” I like this guy already
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Core, The (DO NOT PERCEIVE) @the-core.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Just out of curiosity do y’all have WiFi here” “No, but we’ve got Marlboro Reds and Camel no filters” Oh boy we’re in for one tonight folks
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the people will stop at nothing short of sainthood bsky.app/profile/musi...
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MJdowntheshore @mjdowntheshore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#DollyParton
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was today years old when I learned Dolly Parton recorded Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" in 1980. It's a heartbreaking song about immigration and specifically deportation plane that crashed in 1948 killing dozens of Mexican "bracero" workers. Her version is beautiful💔
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Dolly Parton - 04 - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
YouTube video by littlesparrow185
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 26/08/2026
A phenomenal woman
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
not to be rude but this is the stupidest thing i've ever read in my life. Roko's Bureaucracy
hailey @hailey.at
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bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:
future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
3:14 PM • Aug 25, 2026
O Everybody can reply
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've done both I think. Only problem is that I can't remember who the horn player was.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Angry goose meme: Why is Canada retaliating? Why is Canada retaliating, motherfucker?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
optimist: the bowl of french fries is half full pessimist: the bowl of french fries is half empty me: we should just order another bowl of french fries
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I never really cared for his financial advice, but it helped some people, it doesn't have to help everyone. But with his pivot into public "Republican Jesus", he's ruining what reputation he had.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In before the real communism has never been tried and the people who think 1970s Republicans were communists.
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"On the one hand, the mayor of New York wants to tax people who have second homes in New York and slightly cheaper groceries in more accessible locations. On the other hand, some people want a white ethnostate where women know their place. Boy howdy, I can't tell who the villains are "
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
The reason Mamdani can do this - and the reason billionaires can't - is that the fraud and waste that undermines governments at all levels come from the super-rich, with their tax-dodging, their no-bid contracts, their addiction to public subsidies. 39/
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Very interesting. According to Politico a big reason slimeball Rep. Andy Ogles got whacked in Thursday's primary is because he was targeted with $2M by a super pac funded by solar execs. They didn't user solar or enviro arguments. They used standard right wing ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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How the solar industry helped take down Ogles
An aggressive new PAC backed by renewable energy supporters notched a major win last night by helping unseat Rep. Andy Ogles.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2026
Y’all. Trump-backed candidate Rep Andy Ogles - the George Santos of Tennessee - is losing his primary right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/08/2026
again I ask, on top of everything else in this clip, what the hell is going on with Trump's hair?
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I wonder if the special Lilly peptide he is on for compassionate use isn't causing his hair to thin so he's wearing a hairpiece.
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Mixtress of Dorkness @pinballwitch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the real issue with the internet in 2026 is nobody talks about Domo-kun anymore.
Domo-kun, the brown, rectangular Japanese mascot character holding a blue snake.
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“he dies of alcoholism, suicide or cancer. a short illness followed by a heart attack.” What

Facebook • The National Newspaper
17 minutes ago
BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged...
Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness. he dies of alcoholism, suicide or cancer. a short illness followed by a heart attack.
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This seems to be Facebook AI - it was not part of our story at any stage. I checked again and it has invented more false copy. First time I've spotted that. Concerning
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I don’t think you could have said this (in the screenshot) in public 10-15 years ago without swift backlash, which is a pretty clear indication of the level of decline we’re looking at
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 01/08/2026
“19th century Germans were insufficiently racist and their woke blood taints their descendants” is a wild thing to have running around in your head.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
skeleton lifting a huge set of weights with caption "MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS [SPECIAL PROMOTION! -75% $4.99 Add to Cart] INTO [PLAY TIME 0 Minutes LAST PLAYED Never]"
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Malm whale in Sweden
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters
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Data October Thirty-nerd @datanerd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I was just wondering what right wing dipshit the Times would get to replace Douthat.
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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🧵 Quick Thread! 🧵 Orientalism, Islamophobia, and 'inshallah' -- how language translation today both reflects, and continues to transmit, the anti-Muslim stereotypes inherent to Western imperial logic and colonial domination in the so-called Middle East. 1/12
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What if, just spitballing here, the government gave a foreigner billions of dollars and made him the richest man on the planet
Elon responding to a tweeting quoting him saying "A government that treats foreigners better than its own citizens is, by definition, treasonous and illegitimate"
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