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Eric Crampton @ericcrampton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Terminating reciprocal agreements to enforce a citizens-only rule will likely have reciprocal effects. Maybe the policy shouldn't be taken literally. It will be taken seriously. NZ should be competing to get the world's best. Telling them that NZ hates foreigners isn't a great way of doing that.
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MetService NZ @metservice.com · 25/08/2026
We have a recipe for snow! ❄️🌨️ A Heavy Snow Watch is in place from 6pm Wednesday until 9am Friday for the inland South Island. But why?? 🤔 For snow to form and fall to low levels, you need two basic ingredients: moisture 💧 and cold temperatures 🥶 down to the Earth’s surface!
A sateliite image of the tasman sea covering New Zealand and eastern Australia. A blue L is located over victoria, with a white arrow showing its expected path across the tasman sea towards New Zealand. Orange arrows to its north indicate warm moist air coming from New South Wales or Queensland, white blue arrows push up from the southern ocean
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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
How can we give policymakers the timely, causal, granular evidence they need to respond to crises as they unfold? A short thread on our updated working paper with @trfetzer.com, @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and @iyotzov.bsky.social.
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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New article in early view at RHE-JILAEH! Together with David González-Agudo and Valentina Ramírez, we reconstruct the cost of housing in Toledo between 1489 and 1810. This is one of the longest such series in existence anywhere in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810 | Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History | Cambridge Core
The cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 22/06/2026
And that's why there's an original 1989 Game Boy displayed on the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Just sent out this post--the US-Iran war has revealed three things that are pretty stark and need to be understood. So far the US and arguably Europe have drawn mostly wrong lessons from the Russo-Ukraine War--hopefully they change now. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Early Lessons From The US-Iran War
The Three Key Analytical Points So Far
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Should your council merge with the council next door?
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Should your council merge with the council next door?
The government wants to squish councils together into a few super-councils. Is it a good idea?...
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 09/06/2026
Up to $1tn of SpaceX’s IPO value rests on Elon Musk htting multiple moonshots, including reaching Mars with reusable rockets and putting data centres into orbit. "You’re paying for a possible but not nearly entirely likely scenario," said one analyst. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/JsaeSPl
Bar chart comparing the price-to-sales ratios of SpaceX and major technology companies. SpaceX has by far the highest valuation, with a price-to-sales ratio of about 92, compared with roughly 25 for Broadcom, 20 for Nvidia and 16 for Tesla. Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft are around 10, while Meta and Amazon are lower still. The chart highlights how much more highly valued SpaceX is relative to its revenues than its Big Tech peers. Source: FactSet.
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Liberalism.org @liberalism.org · 29/05/2026
Democracy and liberalism are not the same thing, and the tension between them is more apparent than ever. @ilyasomin.bsky.social shows how majority tyranny and the rise of illiberal movements pose real threats to liberal values. See what a real response could be: www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism...
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Liberalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Democracy
Liberalism can’t do without democracy. But sometimes, democracy errs. What then?
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I read in an econ book that panel four is a thing that actually happens, and I've been terrified ever since. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/future-4 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of an 5-panel SMBC comic update. This first part has 4 panels. Two women are in an office during a job interview. The one conducting the interview asks the applicants where they see themselves in that office in one year, five years and ten years. The woman being interviewed answers over the course of 3 panels : "doing less but believing I’m doing more. Earning more but telling people it’s harder to get by. And, all the while, developing a vast sense of confidence due not to having made good decisions, but to having made many decisions."Part 2/2 of an 5-panel SMBC comic update. This second part has 1 panel. The woman conducting the interview states "sorry. I like your attitude, but you’re too self-aware for management." The woman being interviewed corrects herself in a panic "I meant to say growth mindset! Shitloads of growth mindset!"
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 31/03/2026
This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10
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Aaron Schiff @schiff.nz · 30/09/2025
These words that Nigel Latta wrote in 2015 have always stayed with me
What's the hardest thing about being a parent?

It isn't the sleepless nights, or the endless fights. It isn't the constant worrying about every last little thing, or the constant pestering about every last little thing. It isn't the impact on your work life, your love life, or your social life. It isn't the lack of money, the lack of time, or even the lack of anything approaching a life of your own.

It feels like it's all of those things, but it it's none of them.

In the end, the hardest thing about being a parent is truly understanding that everything comes with a number. You get a certain number of bedtime stories, and a certain number of bedtime kisses. Your get a certain number of roads they'll cross holding your hand, and a certain number of sports matches on a Saturday morning. You get a certain number of bike rides, and a certain number of bad jokes with no real punchline. Most of all... you get a certain number of hours.

One day you'll go to the bucket, and it will be empty.

So--and I'm saying this as much to myself as to anyone else--get as much as you can, of all that you can, for as long as you possibly can. It's the only score you'll get that will ever truly mean anything, and it's also the hardest one to keep track of.

Good luck.
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