iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

knighting myself with a plastic knife in the bathroom at Medieval Times

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Vanilla Starlight would be a good name for a racehorse, a sailboat, a fragrance, a child whose parents are in a cult, a new drink or add-in at Starbucks, a desktop theme on a Chromebook, or a half-elf multi-class ranger/paladin in Dungeons and Dragons

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the odyssey but ithaca is a bagel shop in new york in the 1970s, and instead of shooting an arrow through a row of axe heads, the old man proves he’s odysseus by throwing a lit cigarette like a dart through all the holes in a long line of lined up bagels

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

thought I saw Pearl Jam in the clouds. I couldn’t believe it: all five members exquisitely rendered in bulbous mists overhead. my eyes watered. I asked my friend if he saw it too. he took one look at the clouds and squinted and said “that’s Weezer not Pearl Jam” and he was right

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

To add to all the Dolly Parton anecdotes being shared, here’s mine: I only met her once, but it was a VERY memorable encounter. She shot me in the head with a gun, killing me instantly

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I believe that this is the very first time we've heard from Larry Summers since his Epstein files retirement. Is he coming back?

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is our chance to found a new game theory journal without commercial publishers. Let's go for it!

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can’t be the only person who thinks about how great Aragorn would’ve been at golf if golf had existed in Middle Earth, and how he would’ve been a popular golfer among both die hard and casual golf fans. I suspect even some who hated golf in Middle Earth would’ve loved him

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

They're "there there, there's their there. there."

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Wanna talk about Pampers?”; the vi; “Isn’t this…”

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kenpom @kenpom.com · 02/07/2026

Life's a BIH and then you die

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

roberts sotomayor kagan barrett jackson

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

juice box hero

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Forms that the energy in this room can take besides electric:The energy in this room is hydraulic. The energy in this room is pneumatic. The energy in this room is tectonic.

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

looking forward to finding out on thursday if the supreme court lets balogun keep playing for the usmnt

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One eighth of the shebang

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

sotomayor kagan kavanaugh barrett jackson

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

one of the only downsides of actions is consequences. but it's a big downside.

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

thomas, sotomayor, kagan, gorsuch, barrett, jackson

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

in my opinion its crucial that you use a semicolon between tl and dr

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Theoretical Economics @econtheory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Polarization happens www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

every toilet in the world should be connected to the internet, and flushing it should mine a digital asset

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"It's a new world; it's the same Constitution." Chief Justice Roberts drops a bit of a hammer.

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Mad Men Season 1. The show is uniquely good at character, setting, vibe, and just actors delivering great dialog. The show is below average at plot. Halfway through Season 1 it appears they decided they needed a plot and the show suffered seriously as a result. 1/2

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

a kalshi market that pays off if its own price is less than 50 cents.

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

a prediction market enabling you to bet that regulator X does *not* do action Y is essentially a platform facilitating bribes to X to do Y.

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We want the holodeck but are getting the Borg

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Roberts sotomayor kagan gorsuch barrett Jackson

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Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The first time I saw this Tara Lipinski commercial during these Olympics I truly *never* would have guessed what her monologue was selling before it gets revealed.

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's scary how smart the algorithms are getting. We recently bought a fire pit and now they're showing me ads for bulk buys of J. D. Vance's book.

An ad for making bulk purchases of Hillbilly Elegy

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"where isn't waldo?" - the buddha

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

you're in her DMs, I'm the letters D and M, developed slowly over time, distillations of hieroglyph, devoid of purpose until combined w other meaningless squiggles

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

*economist holding a bong hit in voice* love is supply & pain is demand

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

[worried] what if god’s not one of us

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

[dog holding a bong hit in] we let ourselves out

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

popular culture: be true to yourself! self: *ever shifting cipher occasionally assigned to an unreliable collection of molecules*

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 17/11/2025

I'm sorry, I'm still talking about the fact that Larry Summers only stopped emailing with Jeffrey Epstein because *he got arrested*. Like there was truly no line in the sand for Summers.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Beautiful article on Ali Riley who has retired after an amazing career in soccer. (If her last name sounds familiar to you as an economist, then that's no surprise. She's the daughter of UCLA auction theorist John Riley.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

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Angel City's Ali Riley used her voice for others while playing. She hopes to do more in retirement

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

halloween costume ideas: milk crate seeping something foul everyone but you an old clown mask but just the smell a half burn catcher’s mitt a halloween party that you aren’t at nothingness in the shape of you halloween itself santa claus a literal breeze

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kenpom @kenpom.com · 23/10/2025

I have an unnatural obsession with player name trends, so indulge me for a few graphs about this season's names. First, the incredible wave of Jalens continues to decrease.

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

a police scanner hooked up to a baby monitor a social media app that bans you for being kind a phantom limb petting a dog a profile picture that ages as you do a notification that the EMT destined to find your corpse received certification

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Jeff Ely @jeffely.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A genre of film that works only if you suspend disbelief to exactly 73%

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

trebek: this highly vaunted act is a form of violence toward everything that isn’t its object contestant: what is love

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