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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 23/09/2026

Here in Ireland, a lot of people drive diesel cars. I’m quite happy to be an EV, given the price of diesel

Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/09/2026

Inspired by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com's FT Alphaville Substack I brought up the chart of European potato futures and boy is this a volatile commodity!

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 06/09/2026

This could be the end of the line for my beloved Dana Designs backpack, which traveled around the world with me and has served me admirably. Dates to the 1980s!

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 04/09/2026

What the Frank Gehry tower on Spruce St looks like on the AI-generated isometric.nyc

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 31/07/2026

I think I’m safe in saying that a UK publication would never, ever, ever pick a font that included this utterly bizarre italic J. Why on *earth* does it have a crossbar? Only USian Cursivites will ever understand

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 03/07/2026

Dean where are you getting your PE of 40? I see 27.5 on the S&P 500

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 27/05/2026

Just found this in Settings. Feels suboptimally high

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 10/05/2026

Often they’re moved to the north side of Canal Street for some insane reason and then just left there indefinitely.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 04/05/2026

Counterpoint: Yes they can

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 25/04/2026

I’m not sure @hels.bsky.social appreciates how truly embarrassing this is. Obviously it’s both easier and more accurate to just weigh 20 pinches and divide by 20.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 01/04/2026

Well this is going to be interesting!

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 07/03/2026

Even in Detroit, the latest sunrise would be 9am.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 08/02/2026

Gloriously concise and on-point summary from Walt and Kira. Really helps explain why people like @vandehei.bsky.social get so excited about Claude Code and why 99% of the rest of us do not. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 06/02/2026

I have to admit this chart surprises me, it's holdings of bitcoin ETFs in bitcoin. I would have expected the recent selling to show up here and it doesn't seem to have done so. dune.com/hildobby/btc...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 10/01/2026

I am begging @hellgatenyc.com to allow subscribers to sign in with a username and password. No one wants to wait 12 minutes for a code to arrive via email.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/12/2025

As @matt-levine.bsky.social heads off on a well-earned break I just want to point out the degree to which he’s changed the world. 10 years ago, the answer to “Have you seen all the other fraud indictments?” was “no”. Now, thanks almost entirely to Matt, it’s “yes!”

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 03/12/2025

Wait did the MTA kill the Bowery J/Z station? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/s...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 22/09/2025

Always, ALWAYS take the over

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 16/09/2025

This has to be AI, right? Interesting example of the use of AI in data journalism cc @zachseward.com www.wsj.com/business/air...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 10/09/2025

Someone explain to me how a restaurant in Astoria can charge $32 for six oysters lifeatmars.com/dinner-menu/

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 21/08/2025

I think “breaking NYT” here, from an MSNBC person, not a NYT person, just means the news is breaking (in tv terms) and here’s the NYT article. The NYT piece both credits and links to the original story, and makes no claims to being a scoop.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/08/2025

But @netgalley.bsky.social is on my whitelist and has been for years

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 11/08/2025

If the art of taxation, as @dsquareddigest.bsky.social says, is to extract the maximum amount of feathers with the least amount hissing, then the stock buyback tax might be the perfect tax. No one seems to have blinked an eye at it.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 28/07/2025

Are they deliberately trolling me www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 27/07/2025

Bloomberg push alerts as Jeopardy clues

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 23/07/2025

Imply! Not infer! www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 29/06/2025

74% of NYC's 120k construction workers are immigrants. comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/our-... You can solve the housing crisis by building more, or you can try to solve it by shrinking the population. The latter solution is disastrous for tax revenues and the city budget, no mayor would ever want it.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 29/06/2025

Current Connections status

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 20/06/2025

smh do none of these members of Congress know what “begs the question” means

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 12/06/2025

Great story about why your phone doesn’t work in London, even when it says it’s on 5G (it’s probably lying about that). #nimby www.londoncentric.media/p/real-5g-co...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 05/06/2025

@secondmentions.bsky.social “the tusked thief” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MXsXG1/

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 30/05/2025

Just remembered this cloud formation

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 26/05/2025

@jwherrman.bsky.social where do I find these volumes? Whenever I ask SEO types why they believe what they believe, they just say “trust me I’m an expert” rather than pointing to any kind of primary-source chapter and verse.

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 19/05/2025

Wild how “Substack” has become a generic term for “newsletter”, eg in this item from @semaforben.bsky.social

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 18/05/2025

In 99% of art-market reports, whenever there’s a sign of weakness someone will be quoted saying that while middling works are struggling there’s still money for great pieces. This @thegraymarket.bsky.social piece is the first time I’ve seen that formula reversed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 15/05/2025

Interesting glass/bottle pricing strategy

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 12/05/2025

This is very exciting!! You know your publisher has published the cover already...

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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 29/03/2025

Conceptually it’s easy, you just need to have variable-height shelves

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