Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's kind of impressive how quickly they have managed to break everything. 111
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"anything which increases the productivity of the solution factory is also likely to increase the output of the problem factory" THE PROBLEM FACTORY, forthcoming from @profilebooks.bsky.social next year! 1438
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right? 251171183
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them. 401998531
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Perhaps being in constant contact with all of humanity at all times is not great for us. 010
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 11/09/2026French data show that firms become large primarily through occasional, large 'innovation bursts' rather than innovating at persistently higher rates. Industrial policy that entrenches the position of incumbents may slow down the churn that sustains aggregate growth. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky 184
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BLS, with revised 2Q data: “The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947." (via @mtkonczal.bsky.social) 1524596
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The extent to which the US is currently sanctioning the US should not be underestimated. Thankfully. one of the lessons in recent years is that sanctions are not all that effective. 000
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm in Carmel by the Sea. Lovely town, but this has to be the highest concentration of resting Scott Bessent face in the country. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dinkeric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026AI effects on students all in one set of figures. Makes homework super easy and fast. Make brane not think gud. 55219
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A great quote in how AI might struggle to solve our big problems: "Most of our issues in the world are not bottlenecked by intelligence, but by the promise of cooperation, coordination, and essentially alignment of large groups of people toward a common shared goal. " www.wired.com/story/youre-...wired.comYou’re Thinking About Online Trends All WrongFrom pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral. 020
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dinkmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026i mean it's just an objective fact that they find elected officials plotting to violently overthrow our system of government to be less objectionable than, say, the president of harvard having sloppy citations in her phd thesis 151502351
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It is worth noting that the people in charge of the entire federal government are still incredibly angry about everything. Perhaps, asking liberals to listen to and understand the perpetual grievance machine that cannot be satisfied by getting everything they asked for is not the path forward? 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Not going to pretend that I know who the best candidate for Wisconsin governor is but it does seem pretty rich that a tweet from seven years ago is apparently a big political scandal given the shit we see posted every single day by everyone in power 644942532
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Meanwhile the discourse is mostly about how dangerous the left wind of the Democratic party is with their calls for healthcare and concerns about genocide. In America, nothing to your right, no matter how far, is ever framed as dangerous as the person one step to your left. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Kind of remarkable that so much of the discourse is about the dangers of extremism in the Democratic Party. 23808182
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Dear magic box, make good decisions for me, thanks! 010
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Hard to get more dystopian than this, but I'm sure we'll manage. 000
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Turns out that, if you establish yourself as a piece of shit upfront, the press won't bother to report on you being a piece of shit because it is just expected. Trump, but also the entire Republican party, has taken full advantage of this. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/08/2026PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p... 8233197880
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The wild swings we are seeing everywhere simply cannot be good news. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026GREG IP: “.. it feels like he’s winging it.” @wsj.com 60999229
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Please enjoy this home security footage of an oddly human-like bear raiding a fridge in Lake Tahoe www.wsj.com/us-news/blac... 24508147
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dinkmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There's a kind of "missing bottom" in American housing markets which is why street homelessness ultimately seems to be a factor of how many spare bedrooms are available in working class areas (since these become a de facto release valve for these pressures) bsky.app/profile/elec... 359855
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 21/07/2026At some point this shit dissolves the union. 010
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Precisely this. Everyone asking if this is a gambit to put pressure on Canada in the context of the USMCA talks is missing the forest for the trees. No matter what Canada concedes, it will never be enough to buy trade peace, because the US isn’t interested in peace. That’s the lesson here. 410040
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com 10163051462
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO 36992984331
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas. No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers. At her side, a pink rolling bag. Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot & yanked from a car he’d been driving. He lay handcuffed in the street, where he'd remain for 5 hrs."sunjournal.comICE agent kills man in Biddeford, spurring protestsJoan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said. 6238153
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Democrats can't even be bothered to check if an R is dead so they can run a special election and they expect us to vote for them as if they will do a damn thing to fix this mess. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dinkmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him 281701436
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Secret Panel HERE 🔥 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/08/ruinternet 837871105
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There are certainly trade-offs, but I think one of the best things we did for our daughter was moving to a walkable, transit friendly area. 020
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A crowd of workers at the Russian oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk gathered as if for an airshow to watch Ukrainian FP-1 strike drones attack their plant. 2445954
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/07/2026"The Pacific is experiencing a historic marine heat wave — but it’s far from alone. Every major ocean basin across the globe is currently experiencing unusually warm sea surface temperatures driven by climate change." Learn more in our latest Climate Shift Index alert:climatecentral.orgSuper Typhoon Bavi intensifies over climate-fueled ocean heat as marine heat waves grip every major ocean basin | Climate CentralSuper Typhoon Bavi underwent extreme rapid intensification over exceptionally warm waters in the Pacific Ocean that were made up to 80 times more likely by climate change. The Pacific is experiencing ... 47229
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkRaw Story @rawstory.com · 06/07/2026On Monday, new reporting revealed that at least $90 million in national park entry fees had been diverted to pay for the President Trump's beautification projects in Washington, D.C.bit.lyOutrage as extent of Trump’s ‘looting’ for personal projects exposed: ‘A cruel joke’President Donald Trump is facing a fresh round of outrage Monday after new reporting revealed that at least $90 million in national park entry fees had been diverted to pay for the president’s Washington, D.C. beautification projects.“Just your daily reminder that Trump is looting the Treasury!” wro... 18200142
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 02/07/2026That the modern world has incentivized people to never to get to the fucking point when communicating is fucking killing me. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Everybody knows this is bullshit. Shame on all the news outlets putting this lie in the headlines. apnews.com/article/refl...apnews.comTrump says 6 people have been arrested for damaging the Reflecting PoolPresident Donald Trump says six people have been arrested for damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which Trump recently ordered to be painted what he calls “American Flag Blue.” 441153279
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/06/2026RBADVISERS: “.. Sorry folks, it ain’t just the war. The SuperCore PPI (i.e., no food, energy or trade) has been accelerating for 11 months.” 23513164
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkAustin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Important milestone today - inflation-adjusted Personal Income for households is now lower, year-over-year, than it was last April. Households have 0.4% less income now. It's starker for my estimate of bottom 50% households - 1.6% less income. 420687
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The extent to which none of the major problems facing humanity are solved by AI cannot be overstated. 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky Dinkclintballinger.bsky.social @clintballinger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026“let me reassure you that I have discussed this with bond traders, central bankers & more than a few financial economists, and these conversations have always ended with them agreeing that in principle the bond market is an anachronism which we do not need open.substack.com/pub/stevenha... #econsky 151
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 21/05/2026DNC, "Why don't we hire some consultants to see why the consultants we use keep losing us elections?" 000
Reposted by Skeety Marinky Dinky DinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026FREIGHTWAVES: “.. Truckload spot rates hit an all-time high, topping the COVID peak.” 15412143
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 17/05/2026It is very much intentional. How is Trump supposed to extract resources from Taiwan if he doesn't threaten withholding support? 010
Skeety Marinky Dinky Dink @harveyfliester.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I wonder if there is any precedent in history for know nothing populist autocrats fucking up economies? 020
