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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 05/10/2026

I am going to make a novelty account that just posts Toto Wolff reacting to things

Toto Wolff looks at something. His eyebrow is arched disapprovingly.

Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 27/09/2026

🎵 she’s eating paper, I can tell by the crunching coming from the other room 🎶 🎶 and even though I plead with her to stop, there’s nothing I can do 🎵

Chanel, a small tuxedo cat, is sitting in a Costco cardboard box, staring at the camera with a “who, me?” expression on her face

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 20/09/2026

posting to share in a DM, please disregard

A screenshot of Claude telling me which grape varietals rhyme with “beer” or “near”. The only one it knows is “emir”

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 18/09/2026

absolute sicko behavior, this is from the 2026 AP Stylebook did this fall through a time warp from 1926

A photo of the actual AP Stylebook, 58th edition, published THIS YEAR, that refers to US government securities as "Treasurys" spelled with a Y.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 17/09/2026

me when anyone asks me why I’m pitching a 2000-word feature on muni-bond ballot measures to the student newspaper

A two-panel of Björk. In panel one, she says “the minute I need to start pleasing five people, I won’t please anyone.” In the second panel: “but if I only please myself, I might please ten people, you see”

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 16/09/2026

Your humble correspondent makes an appearance, front-page, above the fold

A copy of The Skyline View, with a huge headline "District Gift Card Cuts", with the article written by me

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 16/09/2026

absolutely love it when the FT throws some shade www.ft.com/content/fab7...

A screenshot of an FT article on the salmon-pink background. The highlighted text says "This is decidedly not a piece of wanton quick-fix gimmickry cobbled together to shift a few hundred watches in a difficult market."

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 13/09/2026

*extremely darts-commentator voice* one hundred and NINETY!

A screenshot of a Pointed scoreboard, showing a perfect 190

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 10/09/2026

Thursday palate cleanser: meet some residents of the Wildlife Images Rehabilitation Center in Grants Pass. The Center takes in animals that can't be released into the wild, and runs an animal hospital and wildlife education programs as well.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/09/2026

posting to share in a DM, please disregard

A graph of retail gasoline prices in California, Oklahoma, and Ohio over the last eighteen months. Oklahoma and Ohio prices are very close to where California prices were as recently as January.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 05/09/2026

please meet Chanel, who is about to celebrate one whole month since I adopted her from the lovely folks at Peninsula Humane Society her favorite food is my house plants; her favorite hobby is doing crimes; and despite all that she is a Very Good Cat

A tuxedo cat, black except for white on her nose and paws, sits on a wooden floor and looks contemplative. Her eyes are a quite distinctive amber.

The same cat, photographed at a chaotic angle, is going absolutely HAM on a Churu. Her eyes are narrow and lowered, like she will cut you if you get in the way of her churu.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 05/09/2026

everyone else is doing it so I figured I would too

A screenshot of a Claude Chat screen. In the chatbox is written "Prove the Goldbach Conjecture. Make no mistakes."

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 02/09/2026

SOME PERSONAL NEWS baby's first photo byline, my parents will be so proud read the whole thing here: www.theskylineview.com/flipbook/fal...

A screenshot of a news article—Skyline Men's Soccer Defeats Napa Valley—with two superb action shots credited to yours truly

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 02/09/2026

In case you find yourself wondering how mass media got to be the way it is, my journalism textbook for this semester appears to be recommending that I hunt for stories on **4chan**

A photograph of a textbook page, in the “digital and mobile story mining” chapter, prominently noting 4chan as a “similar site”

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 28/08/2026

Friday palate cleanser: selected pics from a recent blat up to Crater Lake National Park.

A wide-angle view of Crater Lake, an enormous lake in the caldera of an extinct volcano. There is snow in the near foreground; the lake itself is an implausibly deep sapphire color.

A dimly lit view of Crater Lake in the very early morning, pre-sunrise. The sky is a gradient from deep blue on the left to a faint orange streak on the right; thin, misty clouds streak across the lake. Pine trees are silhouetted in the foreground.

A female deer looks inquisitively at the camera from behind a tree. Her ears are implausibly large, the size of her head, and angled directly toward the viewer.

A tiny chipmunk sits on a rock, high on a cliff, with miles of pine forests stretching off into the distance.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 28/08/2026

"where does the secondary market for chips trade, contingent on one of the frontier labs going bust" feels like a question with a very unappealing answer feels like AVGO's sold some very funky low-delta wings here

A cropped screenshot of a diagram of the cashflows in an AI structured product. The key paragraph: "on Anthropic default, Broadcom covers the senior shortfall after reselling the chips". The color scheme is Financial Times salmon.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 24/08/2026

I'm sorry, WHAT www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The idea [to build a six billion dollar Dragonball Z theme park just outside Paris] was born after French President Emmanuel Macron and the Saudi crown prince discovered a shared enthusiasm for Dragon Ball Z during Macron’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2025, Macron advisers said.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 18/08/2026

you literally would've done better buying US regional banks, even though there's a smoking crater where three of the biggest names in the sector used to be

A five-year chart of KRE, the US regional banks ETF, currently trading at $76.72. In late October 2021 it was trading at $70.91, and has paid consistent quarterly dividends since then.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 18/08/2026

jeez Tesla gets a lot of mindshare for a stock that's done absolutely zero total return in five years

A five-year stock price chart of Tesla, currently trading at $336, showing that in late October 2021 it was trading at $371. The stock has paid no dividends since then.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 16/08/2026

"…I'm sorry, you're going WHERE for the eclipse?"

A Google Maps screenshot of the path of the 2028 total solar eclipse, clearly showing, within the path of the eclipse, a village named "Eromanga". There is also an "Eromanga Showgrounds" and an "Eromanga Natural History Museum".

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/08/2026

I was out of the market by the time of The SNB Incident but I would absolutely believe this happened

I am told that one bank’s Swiss trader ripped his EBS screen from its stand and turned it, devoid of bids or offers, for his tormentors to see. ‘I said there are no fucking rates,’ he screamed. ‘Do you believe me now?’

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/08/2026

hey, this is very unkind, FX options traders aren’t effete nerds… …I’m sorry, my producer is telling me something…

our colleagues regarded us options traders as odd fish (indeed, with my master’s degree in engineering and an MBA, I was considered to be an overeducated freak). I’m pretty sure that the older members of the spot desk thought there was something just a little bit effete about us.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/08/2026

that would be TP Icap, or, to give it its full ceremonial name, Tullett & Tokyo Liberty Prebon Marshall Yamane Garban Totan Intercapital… did I leave any out?

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/08/2026

“Deutsche’s former head of global FX writes about FX electronification from 1990-2015” is content that is absolutely laser-targeted at me specifically, how have I gone such a long time without reading Why Aren’t They Shouting

The cover page of Why Aren’t They Shouting, by Kevin Rodgers

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 06/08/2026

I keep it on my "miscellaneous shitshows" watchlist in memory of a family friend, a connoisseur of ASX mining shitcos, who pitched me on the name in 1998-ish. It... hasn't done much since then.

A chart of Bougainville Copper's stock price since the late 80s, showing it IPOing at $3 in 1988-ish, trading up to $4 in 1989, then immediately slumping to about 20 cents by 1992 and never recovering. There is A LOT of red on the chart.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 06/08/2026

Bougainville Copper might be the apotheosis of janky ASX junior mining stocks. Hasn't produced anything since 1989, the mine was the nexus of a ten-year civil war in the 90s, the government owns 72% of the stock, and their mining license has just been revoked… but the market cap's still $80mm!

A "notice to the ASX" from the board of Bougainville Copper, dated 3 August 2026, conforming that "there has been no production since 15 May 1989".

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 05/08/2026

Cropping the original so as not to continue the pileon on OP, but… non-alcoholic drink options have exploded in the last couple years; HIV was a death sentence, now it's ~100% preventable with a twice-yearly injection; & sunscreens in the '80s maxed out at SPF 15. Yes! Some stuff is *much* better!

A screenshot of a post: "air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime. question though: has anything in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten better? like, there's more stuff, sure, but is any of it better?"

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 30/07/2026

if Situational really incinerated 45 yards in a month, as CNBC seems to be reporting, then we have a new #1 that's going to be very hard to beat

The fund grew to as big as $45 billion at the start of July before big losses took hold, according to a person familiar.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 28/07/2026

Assorted Jellybeans: unnecessarily artsy photos from a trip to the Jelly Belly factory up in Fairfield.

A multicolored river of mixed jellybeans, polished to a high sheen, shot in shallow depth-of-field, flows from right to left into a hopper.

Looking down at the Jelly Belly factory floor from a high angle. Hundreds of crates of jellybeans—in rich blue, red, yellow, green, and cyan—are stacked high as far as the eye can see. A worker, clad in white, pushes a dolly laden with red jellybeans away from the camera.

A conveyor belt laden with jellybeans ready to be mixed into a flavor assortment. The bean colors blend from pink at the top, to yellow and purple at the bottom, with green scattered throughout.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 26/07/2026

posting this to share in a DM, please disregard

A news headline: “Man arrested after screaming ‘stonks’ outside of GameStop high on PCP for 36 hours”

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 25/07/2026

posting this to share in a DM, please disregard

Toto Wolff looking quite disapprovingly at something. His brow is spectacularly furrowed.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 24/07/2026

presenting my latest work of art in the medium of Pointed scores: I call this one "SK Hynix"

A chart of my scores in this week's Pointed quiz, showing a perfect 190 anchored by 60 points on the second-last question and 90 points on the last question. The chart resembles an exponential curve

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 21/07/2026

Distressing news from the $HAS Q2 earnings call for anyone hoping for Universes Beyond: Sex and the City

Chris Cocks — Chief Executive Officer

Well, certainly Kamigawa is a sequel to when the last Kamigawa came out. It became the best-selling first-party set of all time. But then basically every other first-party set that came out after that kind of took the crown. I would anticipate that the new Kamigawa do likewise. It should be pretty fun. The other two sets are more original settings for us. And then in terms of the Universes Beyond that we'll have next year, I don't want to give away too much on those.

Each of them I think will be pretty cool. I think we have a different kind of announce strategy which is more IP-specific around some significant dates and significant events associated with those. I think the one thing I'll say on the Universes Beyond partners that we have next year is they'll probably be a bit more fantasy-adjacent. And I don't think any of them will take place in New York City because we definitely have gotten that feedback from some fans.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 12/07/2026

for those of you mourning the loss of The Nation's Smallest Bank: there are still two Actual Banks out there with less than $10m in assets! * Equitable S&L (Cadiz, OH) is the new Smallest Bank in America, $8.7m of assets * State Bank of Burrton (KS) is the second-smallest ($9.4m)

A list of the seven smallest banks in America by assets. Four are subsidiaries of larger organizations; one (Kentland) collapsed into receivership on Friday; and two are still extant.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/07/2026

on second thought, I like this one better www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Winnie-the-Pooh tuxedo meme:
Winnie-the-Pooh: it's coming home
Winnie-the-Pooh in a tuxedo: we recommend selling cable gamma due to a possible unscheduled public holiday on July 20th

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 08/07/2026

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Winnie-the-Pooh tuxedo meme:
Winnie-the-Pooh: Betting on England to win the cup
Winnie-the-Pooh in a tuxedo: short July 20th cable gamma in case Starmer declares a bank holiday

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 04/07/2026

I am going to make a novelty account that just posts Toto Wolff reacting to things

Toto Wolff is frowning VERY intensely at something off to the right of the screen

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 26/06/2026

the quiz is completely correct, no lies detected, I will not be taking questions

Quiz results showing that I am roughly evenly split between “tech bro” and “Luddite”; mostly “woke”, not “chud”; mostly “hopepilled”, not “doomer”; and extremely “Davis”, not “Dubai”, and I am closest to Mark Carney in these respects

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 06/04/2026

Went for a sunset walk in Redwood Shores (with the new R5 Mark II)

A rabbit, standing in a patch of bark chips, looking mildly surprised in the direction of the camera.

A white egret, beautifully backlit, stares at his own reflection in the water.

A bird sits sulkily on a rock, looking to the right at something out of shot.

A wetland and a high-voltage power line are silhouetted in front of a vibrant post-sunset sky. There's a streak of dark red clouds along the horizon; the sky is pale cyan; and at the top of the picture, some puffy cumulus clouds are deep, dark navy blue.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 03/04/2026

if only the Pointed gave out slabs of beer for first place like the Reuters Friday quiz used to

A screenshot of my score on the April 3rd Pointed, showing a perfect 190

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 03/04/2026

Since we're doing Reuters/Bloomberg discourse, here's my favorite souvenir from my entire time in markets: a Reuters convo from the AUD parity-party day in 2010.

#* Conversation *#
REF. NO: 375 DATE: 021110 TIME: 0809
TO DRBS COMMERZ FFT - DB SIN
OUR TERMINAL: DRMS OUR USER: Joshua Giersch
# AUD 3 SELL AT
# #INTERRUPT#
# 1.0000
TO CONFIRM 3 MIO AGREED AT 1.0000 I BUY AUD
VAL 04NOV2010
MY AUD TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP, MELBOURNE
THANKS AND BYE
#
#INTERRUPT#
#END REMOTE#
^ ##ENDED AT 08:11 GMT##
(209 CHARS)
#* End of Conversation *#

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 28/03/2026

tech sector out here reinventing the O’Hare Straddle

A Will Manidis tweet: “ a friend who thought he owned some SpaceX via a slightly odd SPV just found out (allegedly) the manager sold the underlying to some offshore family office and fled the country”

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 27/03/2026

(please disregard last week where I got smacked by the mythical –90)

A scoresheet for the Bloomberg Pointed quiz showing a perfect 190 points

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis, But Spooky @josh.sg · 04/03/2026

if @bloomberg.com adds this as a feature I will pay for a Terminal

“Panic sweeps Korean stocks in biggest one-day crash since 2008”, but it’s in the Pokopia font

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