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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Countdown to: "I always knew Biden-appointed Kevin Warsh was a total loser. [...] Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Prompt idea: The famous scene from La Dolce Vita, with Natalie Harp as Anita Ekberg and Donald Trump as Marcello Mastroianni. Location: the Reflecting Pool.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Gianni, what I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 4 goals, which is one more than the Belgians have, because the US won the match."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Tired: Celebrating 1776 by giving guys attacking America $1.776 billion Wired: Celebrating 250 years by giving Iran $25,000,000,000

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

NATO countries called upon to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz might propose a deal like this to Trump. - There should be no tolls. But as the US has conceded that already, second best is that at least Omani tolls are waived. But ...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

On another note, just imagine travelling back in time to 2012 and showing this to your average Washington analyst alongside pictures of that Jewish-Ukrainian comedian and the leader of the Syrian Al Qaeda splinter group negotiating arms and trade deals in Damascus

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Have thought about the probability of this (nuking Iran): Talk of "unconditional surrender" sounds eerie. Probability that Trump would bring it up goes to 1 over time (if it isn't there already). Conditional probability Hegseth would get onboard = 1. Now what could stop it? ...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/03/2026

Having failed to secure the Snickers or M&Ms that were my original objectives, sources tell the Washington Post I will now be refocusing all energy on extracating my hand from where it is stuck inside the vending machine and restoring said machine to the working order it was in prior to my arrival.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Just guessing how it developed: Israel had the intelligence to take out Khamanei (plus others plus critical infrastructure re: nuclear program/ballistic missiles), wanted to do a limited strike out of the blue. So they ask the US for backing. Have to act now or the intelligence becomes useless. ...

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We won our tariff case!! Yay!! A 6-3 decision. Much more to come later. Here is the link to the decision: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I love Western movies. But calling them a civilization?

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Waiting for: Hyperloops on the Moon where self-driving EV cabs shuttle data centers around that mine cryptocoins meant to pay for sending AGI robots to populate Mars and save humanity somehow.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Wow, was not aware of how early it started, that it went up massively against Canada already under Biden. I guess the view of Europe is coming down from a peak during Trump I. Also weird how there's some traction with Democrats who I'd have expected to polarize in the opposite direction.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Just my personal experience. For many years, I was willing to engage with an American perspective, glossed over the ignorance with: Maybe there's a kernel of truth in it. By now, it is: Please add an "unsubscribe" button. It's like trying to get a second opinion from Scientology or Bigfoot hunters.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just saw a headline on Bloomberg about whether Europe has broken the "Trump code." I guess the Trump cipher is to replace lower case letters with upper case letters?

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If this goes on, the Fed will have to step in to defend the peg to the Turkish Lira.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/01/2026

Canada ⬇️

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19/01/2026

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Interesting argument about a possible deal where the US gets VZ and Russia gets UA. Some random thoughts. First off: My hunch is there might really be one or even a wider secret clause with a sharpie line on a map, eg. US = Americas + Western Europe as a protectorate, RU = SU + former Warsaw Pact).

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Though I suspect the original name was "Northern 20-Inch White Crusader Steel Sledgehammer", but they asked him in the Signal chat to tone it down a bit.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Also something like a week before, when Zhirinovsky blabbed out the exact date. My misunderstanding was: I expected an invasion each year of Trump I. So when it was Biden, a unified NATO again, I concluded Putin would not be so stupid to ignore that. But he did. Still unsure why he waited so long.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Also the other charts people post in the comment. Fits my intuition that bond markets tend to be less untethered from reality. But also interesting how the British stock market correctly reflects that Unternehmen Barbarossa is a colossal failure despite its initial successes.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

To stop the war in Ukraine text STOP to VLADIMIR To stop the tariff war with China text STOP to XI

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Wonder what inspired me six years ago. It was buried so deep on YouTube I had forgotten about the piece myself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMv2...

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Meta-Funk: The Art of No Deal

YouTube video by Kapitalistenschweine

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Had to laugh so hard at this on Bloomberg, something like "US asked China to request a call." Isn't that that the US requested a call? It is like "I ask you to request a date from me."

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I see we've reached the "don't worry, the Finance Minister is a Western-educated former fund manager" stage of the emerging market crisis playbook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wasn’t directly involved in setting the steepest American tariff rates since before World War II. But he’s now in charge of negotiations to avoid them getting implemented.

The former hedge fund manager has vaulted to the front of the line in President Donald Trump’s list of advisers in recent days, in a context where a historic selloff on Wall Street put pressure on the administration to ease off of its maximalist position on import duties.

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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s the stupid, economy.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Now 28 days for the initial prediction: Looks pretty exact with Musk turning against Navarro and Trump's tariffs. I don't think I am that clairvoyant actually. When I wrote it, my hunch was that I would be proven right, but it might as well take three or six months.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It was a bold bet 22 days ago. I may misread the development. But am I completely wrong that Musk's role is not as dominant as it was? His failure in Wisconsin shows he has no Wunderwaffe to bail Trump out. Exploding rockets and imploding Tesla sales do not help either.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I found it notable that Zelensky stressed the "soon" here. Could mean many things: 1 - in any event: feeding the paranoia 2 - he knows something about Putin's health 3 - Ukraine taking aim at him personally 4 - they know someone else is planning a coup/assassination 5 - a mix of 3 & 4

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Trump administration meets the first rule of European politics: |￣￣￣￣￣￣| | TROIKA | | ALWAYS | | WINS | | ＿＿＿＿＿_| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Dip every Canadian bullet in vaccine. They'll never invade.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Seems as if I got that right. Interesting that it is now a slower process of sidelining someone into irrelevance while in the first term I would have expected a sudden dismissal by tweet.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Since everybody is focusing on Musk so much, who granted is the most visibly annoying exponent of all this. My hunch is that he is already on the way out and will very soon have more time for his families. Trump will stab him with glee once he feels Musk is more of a liability than an asset.

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Paraphrasing Wagenknecht: "What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 13,435 votes, which is one more than we have, because we got to 5%."

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Years - 3 Victories - 0 Casualties - 850,000🌻 Coups -1 Ruble -💩 War crimes -♾ NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪 POTUS -1 Budeskanzler -0 Assad -Moscow Warship -Submarine Submarine -Sub marine Aircraft - 🚀💥 Refineries -🔥 Raccoons -1🦝 Donkeys - -36🐴 Red lines - ➡️ I remain a master strategist

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is a very good explainer of the tempo effect (among other things). Folk demography is all the rage, esp. in the US, whether media, blogs, social media, often with a catastrophic framing and political conclusions. I'd think there are two markers to separate wheat from chaff. ...

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Bannon, Musk, and Vance - the intellectual trifecta of Western Civilization - called on them to vote for the unpopular populists. But the Germans did not listen. SAD!

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groundloop.bsky.social @groundloop.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As for Ukraine giving away its resources for nothing, my hunch is that what we see is just dragging it out for as long as possible and keeping hope alive with the master negotiator. What I hope & also expect is that the EU will jump in at the last minute with a counter-offer that wins hands-down.

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