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mostly economist articles, photos of mountains and American politics

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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 11h
www.ft.com/content/39de... US government debt rout triggers ‘vicious loop’ of selling Be nice to think for some small % traders there’s an ‘hmm well it’s marginal but Bessent’s a smug bastard ok sell’
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US government debt rout triggers ‘vicious loop’ of selling
Yields on 10-year Treasuries soar half a percentage point in worst month in four years
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19h
We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a... Sounds worth a watch
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In 'A Man of His Time,' Swann Arlaud plays a zealous minor civil servant under the Vichy regime
For his second feature film, Emmanuel Marre draws on family archives to tell the story of his great-grandfather, who was compromised by his involvement in Pétainism.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots of different euphemisms for “I can’t get the price I’m looking for” I guess
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am the house.” @pkrugman.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 29/09/2026
Anthropic IPO docs: "Give us 💰 or the species gets it"
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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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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
economist.com/europe/2026/... ‘Europe is going “very cold against the Lord”, says Tyler Hamrick, the pastor’s son, who has followed him into the ministry. “Satan has definitely—a veil has been brought over the eyes of the Europeans.”’ I often wonder WTF is going on with American education but um
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Why MAGA hates and loves Europe
Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/lifestyle... I’d go with ‘no unless you’re cool with being screamed at for the outrage of wearing something nice’ , sigh
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Is it ever a good idea to... be elegant in politics?
COLUMN. In fashion, as in life, it is important to know the lines you should not cross. Or else, to do so deliberately.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Been reading Alistair Horne’s book about the Paris Commune. Had not known it killed more people than the Terror, and that it taught Lenin a lot of ‘don’t do that’ lessons without which the Russian communists likely wouldn’t have succeeded
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People talking about massive tax cuts or simply piling all the taxes onto businesses/billionaires thinking it will solve all are unserious, and symptom of a political class which is petrified of doing anything.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Voyager 2 wide-angle view of Jupiter (July 8, 1979) - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/2ebde9P
This was one of the last wide-angle views of Jupiter that Voyager 2 snapped, before the planet became too big to be photographed in a single frame. Jupiter appears truncated due to inconsistent and inaccurate pointing of the probe’s scan platform, which housed the camera systems. 

The orange, green, and violet frames were taken early in the morning of July 8, 1979. The planet was 1.35 million miles distant. The dark, fuzzy spot is the shadow of Galilean moon Callisto.

NASA / JPL / Ian Regan
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trees in Bloom - 1872 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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ron-hill.bsky.social @ron-hill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fascinating point of view. Controversial in liberal circles, which means it should probably be read. @helenlewis.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar
The scourge of COVID led to drive-by whinings disguised as activism.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nice evening out
Thamesclouds over embankment
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Wind" Painting created in 1988 By Pang Maokun
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Never understood why facial recognition came came to be seen as preferable to fingerprint on phones. Irritating having to pick the thing up and hold it when I just want to check my delivery isn’t too close yet
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Premonition botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
"Premonition" by Remedios Varo explores the mystical interplay between mechanical elements and ethereal figures draped in flowing garments, set against a surreal, otherworldly landscape. The scene evokes themes of destiny and the uncanny, characteristic of Varo's imaginative and allegorical style.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This, in reply to the question "who is the most famous person you've met", takes a turn
My mother set herself on fire by accident on a movie set and John Cleese put her out. I love the  Monty Python boys.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
after I watched ‘De Gaulle: Resistance’ I found this in the french history section in waterstones. can’t recommend enough, loads I didn’t know.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I seemed to have missed the part where someone - I assume - went to an interview with an iced latte or similar and it went badly
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Going to Peter jones in search of a sugar bowl for my sugar that isn’t sugar, pretty exciting may I tell you
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Says a lot about my personality that if I log on here and there’s a lot of notifications I instantly have a mild panic re why anyone is paying attention to anything I said, despite that being the entire point;)
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear Norton, see I don’t need to ‘act now’ re my expiring anti virus sub, bc your sub-optimal UI meant my original path of least resistance was stymied, and now using BitDefender
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25/09/2026
Horror movie idea: An endless line of Trump sources calling and screaming at you "MARK HALPERIN"
My Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare imaginable has arrived... panicked texts and emails from GOP insiders are blowing up my phone. They're all saying the same thing: MARK HALPERIN
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The AP style book has spoken apnews.com/article/open...
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My thoughts on how frontier AI’s claims and warnings seem prone to colliding with reality, whether that’s in economics, medicine or cyber security ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-ai-clai...
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Frontier AI’s real world problems
Many of the claims and warnings about the impact of frontier AI seem to collide awkwardly with the realities of the specific subject in question
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spoke to the BBC yesterday (7min25) about the FBI hack: if confirmed, one of the worst data breaches in history (And then ranted about why so few are paying attention to this because they’re worrying about an AI agent reading a website because y’know, AI) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
bbc.co.uk
World at One - Hackers claim to have details of all FBI agents - BBC Sounds
The Agency says it is "aggressively investigating" the apparent breach of its system
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
economist.com/united-state... So on top of everything else that NYT piece is full of factual errors that even a trivial amount of research would have caught.
economist.com
Schools for the poor are not poor schools
A viral personal essay leaves its political implications unsaid
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... I don’t understand this approach. If you have limited resources why on earth wouldn’t you focus them on what the private sector can’t or won’t do (say, local journalism!) than um, dumbass reality shows, say.
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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Le Monde are offering subscribers one year’s free NYT sub, v good if one did not already have both ;)
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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cold botfrens.com/collections/69/content…
The artwork "Cold" by Remedios Varo depicts a spectral figure riding an ethereal crystal through a dark sky, scattering what appear to be snowflakes over a barren, wintry village. Varo, known for her dreamlike and surreal paintings, often infused her work with mystical and ethereal elements, capturing the enchantment of the unconscious mind.
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202... so the ‘well he didn’t seem very serious last time he was in national government but maybe now he will be’ Q i think now fully answered FFS. q aside from anything else, watchers of other sports um aren’t similarly restricted for a reason
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Andy Burnham signals he may lift ban on alcohol in football stands
Prime minister says measure is discriminatory when fans of other sports are not similarly restricted
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dear me so GOP congressmen who’ve always known exactly what the orange cretin was but went along to appease their moron voters now panicking at the prospect of having to go and live with said voters . Is this more or less amusing than red hatted morons whining about ‘gas’, hmmm
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Been watching Fabrice Luchini films. One of the many things to like is that when someone realises they in fact do not wish to spend a single second longer with whoever they’re married to, it’s Right I’m Off/ Get Out. The other person usually - also hacked off- is momentarily annoyed then agrees :)
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
economist.com/middle-east-... “Not since Lyndon Johnson escalated America’s role in Vietnam has a president so thoroughly wrecked his term with a foreign war.” Throwing away this much power and influence, all bc millions of cretins thought the man on the Zee Show was a Big Businessman…
economist.com
America is stepping back from a region it never managed to remake
It is not leaving the Middle East, but it is giving up the job of running it
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“All this raises an uncomfortable question: if America poses a threat to allies’ security, should they spy on America? “ economist.com/internationa... from The Economist
economist.com
How middle powers are rethinking espionage
Allies are grappling with threats from Russia and China—and perhaps America
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Space-going mirrors could offer daylight on demand economist.com/science-and-... As seen in Khazad-dum:) (sort of:)
economist.com
Space-going mirrors could offer daylight on demand
Applications stretch from disaster relief to street lighting
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... The number of people who convinced themselves this guy was a good thing because he talked - some - sense on economics, despite the fact he was always patently a nasty piece of work and an utter whack job
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Milei threatens at UN that Argentina will take ‘matters into our own hands’ on Falklands
Argentinian president accuses United Nations of being filled with ‘parasites’ in bellicose general assembly speech
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/67f1... The west does not have a leadership problem
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The west does not have a leadership problem
If Friedrich Merz and almost everyone else is unpopular, perhaps governments aren’t the issue
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eigerjoch @eigerjoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Waterstones cafe playing ‘head over heels’, thus pleasing all patrons who remember 80s;)
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The latest Economist/YouGov poll has Trump's approval -28 and Democrats leading the generic ballot by 14 points among likely voters. If replicated in November it would be the biggest popular vote victory for either party since 1976
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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Trump's approval for the economy has gone so low it actually broke the scale on the Ipsos graph
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The term “lame duck” would be haunting any other president’s sleep. But the concept is alien to Trump. He spends more of his time telling people about his architectural plans than he devotes to Iran, AI or the economy. Insoluble problems hold no interest." My column. as.ft.com/r/928f5cb7-6...
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Trump is checking out of his presidency
With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself
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