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ilikebluethings.bsky.social @ilikebluethings.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, the lesson everyone needs to learn is: Don't put any effort into pleasing people who've made it clear they will never be pleased. These folks aren't going to vote, and in many cases can't because they're not American or just kids. They just want to look cool. Let them do so alone.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, between “geoengineering” firms blocking sunlight and this company redirecting it, we’re headed toward daylight as a service, aren’t we?

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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

I think I've told this story here before, but I'll keep telling it until it's no longer relevant. A friend was sent to China for a couple months for a work assignment. After about a month, his Chinese colleagues decided they trusted him enough to start asking questions about American life.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

See, I think of Bidenism as spending money to support large-scale investment in renewable energy and manufacturing—stuff that was a departure from previous policies. Policies that are what every previous president would have followed shouldn’t be called “Bidenism” IMO.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Reaganomics” and “Obamacare” were both attempts to drag down presidents with seemingly unpopular policies but they wound up providing support to those policies among the mass of folks who liked those politicians. 2/2

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I haven’t looked at Ossoff’s policies per se, just using him as an example of someone who could come in with a lot of goodwill with factions who hated Biden. While I believe policies are important, I think their (un)popularity derives from who backs them, not the other way around. 1/2

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Bidenism without Biden is the way. From talking with my Gen Z son, it seemed Biden was unpopular with young people because he read like a cranky old grandpa. They disliked him and *then* looked for policies to justify that dislike. Dress Bidenism in Ossoff’s skin and it’d be fine.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Biden was unpopular before his policies were even enacted. See: The huge drop in polls after a messy but not catastrophic withdrawal from Kabul. Never had a reservoir of goodwill to draw from. I think the more important question is why.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here’s the university PR write-up. “The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a [B]lack driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.” news.stanford.edu/stories/2020...

news.stanford.edu

A ‘veil of darkness’ reduces racial bias in traffic stops

After analyzing 95 million traffic stop records, filed by officers with 21 state patrol agencies and 35 municipal police forces from 2011 to 2018, researchers concluded that “police stops and search d...

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 13/10/2026

"We estimate that for each barrel of oil not produced... global oil consumption would drop by 0.2–0.6 barrels over the long term." We're seeing these dynamics, governed in part by elasticities of supply and demand, play out in real time in the extreme, real-world example of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There is still controversy over the question of whether supply side interventions can make a difference to greenhouse gas submissions. If you understand that the fight for climate stabilization is a political process, it becomes clear that fighting supply side projects is essential.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My mom’s colorful measure of poverty—so poor they didn’t have a pot to piss in—hit different once I realized the farmhouse she grew up in didn’t have an indoor toilet. Between 1940 and, say, 1970, American standard of living just skyrocketed.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Evil Dodgers”? Isn’t that just the Yankees?

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I’m emperor, I’m building a second New York City just to absorb some of this revealed demand.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean, market rent is set by demand as well as supply. And the revealed demand to live in New York or Los Angeles, as revealed in rents, is enormous. Clearly many more people than live in NYC/LA desire to live here. (I’m not leaving Brooklyn.) Not sure you can say that about Sacto or Columbus.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Shares of selected Asian and Western countries in global GDP (all calculated using 2011 PPP dollars)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

even in a perfect world where Bsky did everything its critics wanted it to do, it would never have the advantage simply of being patronized by powerful people who create courtier networks around them

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He will absolutely Kennedy Center the entire country if he can.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

worldscientific.com

Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Great news. I’ve been able to get some articles via the Wayback Machine, but that’s a clunky method.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/10/2026

For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.

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Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket

For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of my pet peeves. In the title “attorney general” general is an adjective—it’s describing the type of attorney. Same for secretary general and (I think*) surgeon general. *SG is part of a uniformed service, but the ranks are naval; apparently the SG is a vice admiral.

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is one reason why he is so resentful. He thinks he’s the only one who is open about everything being a rip-off - & yet HE gets called corrupt! Normally we don’t think of mercantilism as paranoid-style politics but the ‘flouride is elites trying to poison you BUY GOLD’ impulse is longstanding.

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Tom Pollin @tjpollin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone who wants to question the moon landing doesn't have the brains God gave a goat. So glad the Bears didn't draft this moron.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I gave up ham, bacon, etc. after I learned South Pacific cannibals called human flesh “long pork.”

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or not. I should have checked to see if the links had rotted. Try this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sijx...

youtube.com

Rockford Files Answering Machine Messages (complete season 1)

YouTube video by MJR2090

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/10/2026

open weights model? no I said open Waits model. it just makes vague growling noises and talks a lot about New Orleans.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s like Google has decided to get out of the search business and into the handholding/therapy business. Makes you wonder what most people are actually using Google for. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/1817108...

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Neko Case — Hell-On (ANTI-)

Hell-On by Neko Case Thematically, there’s nothing new about, “Baby, I’m afraid, but it’s not your fault. Maybe I should go home alone tonight,” the chorus of Hell-On’s best song, “The Curse of the...

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminded, today, of this poem by Thomas Lux

Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City

Early germ
warfare. The dead
hurled this way turn like wheels
in the sky. Look: there goes
Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall,
and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies,
and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar
over the parapet, little Tommy's elbow bent
as if in a salute,
and his sister, Mathilde, she follows him,
arms outstretched, through the air,
just as she did
on earth.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This. This. One hundred times this. Honestly, I feel like gambling (and not just sports/casino betting, but prediction markets and crypto speculation) promises to be more corrosive to society than opiates or the 80s crack epidemic.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The ballroom is harmless, it's everything else that's the problem. Trump is not one guy, he's our system expressing itself in current form, as you can see in this thread. Trump represents what FDR called 'organized money,' but unlike the 1930s, we're at physical limits... bsky.app/profile/whst...

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The race to find the first exoplanet. There’s some actual drama involved.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“When politics is colonised by the attention economy, then public discourse becomes a constantly shifting sea of outrage. Today, this; tomorrow, that. It is a state of affairs entirely inimical to emancipatory politics….” This from @equatormag.bsky.social is an X-ray of the global political crisis.

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just saw a Ken Paxton ad on my Brooklyn television. Someone is burning donor money in a dumpster.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

thank you to @mgiraldi.bsky.social, who pointed me to the insta acct for the photographer (www.instagram.com/kevinlohmanp...). the story and the other two photos are 24k gold.

kevinlohmanphotography
Santa Cruz, California
Are You Kidding Me?
Can this Great Horned Owl's eyes get any bigger?
I'm excited that my photo "Are You Kidding Me?" was selected as one of just 43 finalists in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, from more than 10,000 entries representing 112 countries!
The story behind it is just as crazy. I was photographing this seven-week-old owlet when a squirrel suddenly launched from a nearby branch and landed directly on its head, knocking both of them out of the tree.
And believe it or not, a squirrel knocked this same owlet out of the tree THREE TIMES that morning! Fortunately, the owlet was fine and eventually settled down next to its mother.

(photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history)

second photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

third photo showing the squirrel in question making contact with the owl like the lil furry-tailed (if short-sighted) badass he is

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, yes. There was a time when the three major professional sports in America were baseball, boxing, and horse racing. Two of the three are fringe interests today. Nothing is guaranteed. Even football could fade away in the coming decades.

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My favourite chart from the @IEA special report on electrification. Electricity is only 23% of Final Energy (No big deal), but it's 37% of Useful Energy (What?) and delivers 46% of GDP (Wow!) And it's going clean, fast. Still think there's no transition? iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/1c696...

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Jeffrey Winters @jeffreywinters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thomas Pynchon, but only if he makes a public appearance to collect the medal.

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