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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 02/10/2026

screaming, crying, throwing up

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 02/10/2026

5.25% per year for ten years is pretty good money!

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 01/10/2026

circling back on this community pizza fire dot gif

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 28/09/2026

today in Stories That Got Away I visited the Burj in Dec '25; in the lift down from the observation deck, the doors opened on the 144th floor and it was AIX all I could think was "how on earth can a rando WM afford three floors up top of the Burj?" WELL! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

ft.com

Investors pursue Dubai investment group over missing payments

AIX accused of having skipped or delayed payouts on bond-like products offering double-digit annual returns

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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 @josh.sg · 26/09/2026

the banter outcome would be if a nonfinancial company tried it, like a random PE-firm portco experimenting with new forms of creditor-on-creditor violence

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 26/09/2026

I am LEVITATING, who’s going to be the first to try this

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

I have a new favorite novelty account.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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 @josh.sg · 19/09/2026

AP style book assumes oil prices are strictly positive

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 19/09/2026

AP style book still prices options off flat vol

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 19/09/2026

AP style book still trades Libor swaps

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 19/09/2026

AP style book still settles T+5

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

AP Style sez "Treasurys" for USTs. This is, clearly, completely deranged. @apstylebook.com, who do we have to talk to about this

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

two out of three, but the long bond is *lower* in price terms on the day, womp womp

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

sticking a flag in the ground: we're gonna go 25 this afternoon, Warsh won't be able to muster consensus for a hold; and the long end is gonna rally

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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 @josh.sg · 15/09/2026

Current niche annoyance: Cloudwatch dashboards are comically bad on mobile. It's not even the widget reflowing; Cloudwatch's own controls don't render properly either! God forbid I want to look at some metrics on my phone instead of having to pull out my laptop

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

Folks absolutely loved buying 10s on a 5 handle last time we were up here in Oct ‘23, IIRC it printed >5 once intraday and then bounced like a superball let’s see if the buyers come out of the woodwork again

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

issuing correction on a previous post of mine,,,

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

I think @metronorthcapital.bsky.social coined "oil is fake, diesel is real" and this is my new mantra

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

Is Safran still printing TARFs in enough size that they're moving the EUR vol market? Haven't heard much about them lately.

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

*cheering and crying with undisguised national pride* AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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 @josh.sg · 04/09/2026

also the rate product/credit product confusion is laser-targeted @rajakorman.bsky.social bait

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 04/09/2026

the Guggenheim 2031 term loan is about to get kicked in the shins for the second time in two weeks

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

so it really is just "we're doing long-end liquidity-support purchases but yelling really loud while we do it" Colbert eyebrow emoji

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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 @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 @josh.sg · 31/08/2026

today from the "everything is supply chains" department: Wizards announces that supply of the next MtG set will be delayed due to a drought in Panama causing traffic jams at the Canal magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

magic.wizards.com

Reality Fracture Play Booster Supply May Be Tight at Release

An update regarding Reality Fracture Play Booster delays in North America.

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 30/08/2026

writing a groveling apology to my high-school French teachers for whatever this is

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 30/08/2026

Jolène, Jolène, Jolène, Jolène je demande "ne pas prendre" en français Jolène, Jolène, Jolène, Jolène tu le prends parce que mon français mauvais

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @josh.sg · 29/08/2026

I found the original MIT story and oh my dear lord what was that student thinking

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

I successfully touched grass, highly recommend, would do again

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Jamie Lee Kurtosis @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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