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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recession indicator
A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts
a graph showing music as a % of consumer spending, with album sales rising through the 90s before crashing in the 2000s and being replaced with concert revenue
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mélenchon gaining momentum in French presidential polling while the centrist field remains fragmented and weak ⬇️
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spy test question: “What does KGB stand for?”
Spies Like Us
PG, 1985, 1h 49m, Comedy
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Looking for a way out of their mundane government jobs, Austin Millbarge (Dan Aykroyd) and Emmett...
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Loser shit
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/09/2026
5% on the 10Y
static.klipy.com
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026
"the public needs to have a stake" taxpayer dollars are so clearly the direction of travel here
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Same energy
The “Guy in a Bear Suit” moment from The Shining
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My house burned down and I left as a “precaution”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That went well. @cnbc.com
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Bill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
7%! Early estimate of 30 year fixed rates www.mortgagenewsdaily.com
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Core core PPI high at 4.7% YoY
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So it would appear that the White House has banned the importation of Crown Royal, Canadian Club, and all other Canadian whiskeys/scotches. Stock up if they're one of your favorite brands, because the U.S. might not get any new supply for the next couple years...
A picture of Canadian Whiskeys from the Wikipedia page "Canadian Whiskey." It shows, left to right, bottles of R&R (Rich & Rare), Pendleton, Seagram's VO Gold, Crown Royal, Wiser's Very Old, Canadian Club, and Black Velvet.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: the national average price of *gasoline* has risen 9.6c/gal so far today, the biggest one-day jump since April 30. The largest single day rise in 2026 was 12.1c/gal on March 3.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Putting a tariff on Labatt is declaring war on Erie County, NY
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Saying “I was at 9/11” is never going to be enough for Trump. Pretty soon he will be saying “I did 9/11”
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Chris Whittall @chriswhittall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Feels toppy
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Norm Macdonald saying “I don’t know if you guys are history buffs are not” from his “Germans” bit.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Canadians right now
Alex Colville’s “Pacific”
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gas prices
Gasoline, Diesel Prices Are Pushing Higher Into Fall
US gas prices have never averaged over $4/gallon in September before / National average gasoline price (regular unleaded) / National average diesel price
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What if it was actually the opposite?
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Incredible
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dollar/Yen climbs to 156.44, its session high, after previously falling as low as 155.25.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Century of humiliation
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrives at the port in Laem Chabang, Chonburi, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Guys I’m starting to think “let’s blow up random carry traders because I think the yen is undervalued” may not be the world’s most sound and well thought out plan for lowering US borrowing costs by Bessent
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Translation: stfu Walsh.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This isn’t the first white supremacist Linux distribution is it?
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*US 10-YEAR YIELD RISES TO 4.75%, HIGHEST SINCE JANUARY 2025
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Moms in Toronto when Trump compares Canada to Iran
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🔴 The Yen weakens to 160 per dollar for the first time since July 31st
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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolute cinema from the TL as Warsh praise meets the bond market
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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This jackson hole speech is not exactly reassuring yet Warsh: Transparency isn't the goal, communication is meant to manipulate expectations (you're not supposed to say the second part out loud)
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
youtu.be/1MstHgdGjqs?...
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"You'll receive The Order of Lenin for this, Captain."- The Hunt For Red October
YouTube video by fortunateson14
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
donald trump won’t see your posts but your friends wearing stillsuits that convert diarrhea into diet coke will
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Respect to the source who suggested to me this morning that, while a deal seemed likely, the bad sign to watch for was Howard Lutnick showing up.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 20/08/2026
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 19/08/2026
"we can learn so much from these betting sites"
kalshi screenshot of Dem Senate nominee odds
 showing vindman at 95% for most of it and then it flips to Nixon at the end
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/08/2026
lolz
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
INDOPACOM century of humiliation continues apace
A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, 1 am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, "No thanks!" Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J.”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Compelling and important piece this:
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The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A vision of the future.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US RETAIL SALES MOM ACTUAL -0.6% (FORECAST 0.1%, PREVIOUS 0.2%) $MACRO
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Interesting, no one has tried sanctions against Iran before this.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There’s a guy named Hank in the interior of BC and he built a diesel submarine that he is testing out youtu.be/COHYMiXGJXk?...
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Surface trials in home built diesel submarine.
YouTube video by Hank Pronk
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He got turned around by the Russians because of high ice levels. Really too bad, he was doing a fundraiser since 80% of arctic research was cut by DOGE.
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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This guy was attempting single handed single season circumnavigation of the arctic and posting videos from the Kara Sea. All I can say is dudes rock. He got boarded by the Russian Coast guard this week. youtu.be/_yZrQmhoMWI?...
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Alone in the Arctic Ocean Week 7
YouTube video by Ocean Research Project
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 12/08/2026
Explosive deflation
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'lots of middle aged men are taking gear' very underrated explanation for what's going on in the world right now
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