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I was a Woke Youth :( Blogging at someunpleasant.substack.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1h
last week brazil banned sports betting. this week a football player started influencing people to buy the death of ivan illich
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1h
what's the obsession with the talmud about. 90% of it is very long and boring arguments about what happens if a donkey kicks a lamp
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1h
New post: why is country music so big and why are we so nostalgic? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/choosin-it...
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Choosin’ Ithaca
Our age of bronze is collapsing
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1h
“Can't believe Mamdani is a proud supporter of a terrorist group's awful tactics” “Yeah man the intifada stuff was rough” “What's Hamas? I'm talking about Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal”
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🆕 Who gets what? Budgets and discretion in community-led social protection targeting Today on VoxDev w/Kibrom Abay (International Food Policy Research Institute), Guush Berhane, Daniel Gilligan, Kibrom Tafere (World Bank Group) & Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse: ow.ly/lJmh50ZP1QX
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Who gets what? Budgets and discretion in community-led social protection targeting
In Ethiopia, community leaders tasked with selection of beneficiaries for social assistance prioritised coverage over transfer size when budgets were cut, while discretion allowed them to reach poor and conflict-affected households.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
why are they all wearing fedoras
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The first tweet is right, this is unbelievably crass.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
gen z boss and a mini was a folk hero that emerged during the late 2020s as an agglomeration of figures characterized by their objection to the era’s conservative values. gen z boss and a mini is credited with inspiring the peasant uprisings that led to the destruction of the american empire
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how it started: cry, stupid libs, we’re going to flatten iran and take over the middle east how it’s going: the houthis control the strait of bab el mandeb
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
So Oxford United just launched, and then quickly withdrew, a new American football-style shirt collection. This was the launch image:
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No notes.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a lot of people saying that ai safety loses its mass popular appeal because the rationalists are weird... brother i guarantee you karen and bob from pittsburgh don't know who aella is. they think ai is google
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18/09/2026
"Human beings may overcome the economic problem(s) of the human species, but the question of meaning and existential satisfaction will remain 'the permanent problem of the human race.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/you-should-r...
You Should Read Keynes

Keynes was a liberal for our age: morally serious, hopeful for a better future, and yet reconciled to the compromises necessary to preserve the fragile liberal order.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
lmao
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New post: AI safety - it’s kinda crazy, kinda communist, kinda anticommunist. But most importantly: does it make any sense? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/apocalypse...
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Apocalypse When?
The very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
lonely but exciting road... what a song
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
sadly i'll be on vacation during the best football match of the year... como versus roma... la joya versus el heredero...
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we need to protect women's sex-based rights, which i believe shouldn't exist
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
i'm a right wing writer. i believe that trans women should be kept out of women's sports to protect women's sports, which should be abolished
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so is anybody in the professional political media going to ask any Republican candidates whether they disavow Elon Musk (the single largest GOP donor) and his white supremacy?
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i am a tech company from 2026. i am called nazgul after the evil soulless gouls from the lord of the rings that go around killing people. i have no viable products and no profits. my ceo is a crazy drug addict who keeps talking about war and jesus christ on tv. give me a trillion of your tax dollars
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Rosalía went to watch an aura farming battle with her French model girlfriend in Mexico City” You bolt awake in the mountains of Tennessee. You are not online. It is 1977 AD. You are the senator Albert Arnold Gore, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Arpanet must burn.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Why is Lewandowski playing for the Chicago Fire” “why is Messi at Inter Miami” if there's one thing I'm not surprised by is an Argentinian wanting to live in Miami and a Polish man choosing Chicago to move to
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
how my writing sounds when i read it back
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Socialists: Joseph Stalin would be in the DSA and love Mamdani!! ︀︀Other Socialists: NO! He would hate WOkeness!! ︀︀Josef Stalin in 2026: Comrade Ezra Klein, thank you for having me on your show. I'm a massive fan of your recent book. We need a Five Year Abundance Plan.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I like the MLS is half teams larping as European clubs and half clubs larping as NFL teams so every match is like Borussia Minneapolis Calcio versus the Tallahassee Torpedoes
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
when is geese magazine going to cover the cameron winter / ivy wolk situation
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Was waiting for this! "It’s Emily Wilson versus Joyce Carol Oates for people with STATA licenses."
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New post: what’s the deal with Gen Z? Why are young people these days like that someunpleasant.substack.com/p/okay-zoomer
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Okay, Zoomer
Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At long last, we have rebuilt the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from Robert Caro's classic biography of Robert Moses, "Don't Build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway"
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New post: why was everyone freaking out about Daron Acemoglu? Was it all just character assasination by AI shills and Jeffrey Epstein’s friends? Is he actually The Real Deal? And what’s the deal with settler mortality, anyways? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/extraordin...
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Extraordinary Machine
I am joining the war on Daron Acemoglu on the side of Acemoglu
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Arday affair is disastrous and only made worse by how clearly avoidable it was. An absolute and total failure of any sort of ethical behaviour at every stage of the proceedings, entirely based around massaging the egos of senior figures at the university.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Transmission of Reliable and Unreliable Information,” by Graeber, Noy (@shakkednoy.bsky.social), and Roth: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Transmission of Reliable and Unreliable Information*
Abstract. Information often spreads and influences beliefs regardless of its reliability. We show that this occurs in part because indicators of reliabilit
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States,” by Vivalt, Rhodes, Bartik, Broockman, Krause, and Miller: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States*
Abstract. We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Girl wearing a collar from Petsmart at the club: I like it because I enjoy the feeling of being owned, y'know? Like I always have a place and a structure. I like being a loyal dog Me [drunk off one non-alcoholic beer]: Right, like Sandor Clegane
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW— Richard Hanania has become a celebrated “former” white supremacist with profiles and accolades in mainstream news outlets. But as the person who first exposed Hanania’s past, @letsgomathias.bsky.social argues in this piece that his current views on race show an unaccountable and unchanged man:
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026
“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"move paramount to tennessee to get political control over a dying news network" say goodbye to the film industry it was good while it lasted
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max @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
yellow star shit
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3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New academic study: Inclusionary zoning costs renters $800k per affordable unit created. This is more than the per-unit cost for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. While LIHTC which is largely funded by the rich via income taxes, IZOs are regressive because they place the burden on renters.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
attn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXn...
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Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys (Official Video)
YouTube video by PhoebeBridgersVEVO
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