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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 20h

Limited posting for a while as I have to finish a manuscript

Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Weber is right High energy prices caused by a schock are deflationary (households as well as non-energy companies have to pay more for energy and have, hence less income/money/credit to spend on other items). High interest rates aggravate this, investments in savings/clean energy alleviate it.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Graph of 02 10 2026 1/.. Meta: nowadays it´s easier to find statistics on participation rates etc. (derived statistics!) than statistics on the total labour force(measured data) (I know, the border between derived and measured is not clear cut). Why?

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Growth in FRED users well above 20% *per year* for 30 years. That's impressive!

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Graph of 01 10 2026 1/.. New EU unemployment data, August 2026. It´s moving sideways. Remarkable: data for males, Greece (mind: high out-migration). That´s lower than in the Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the austerity darlings which were seen as examples after 2009.

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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 30/09/2026

fd.nl/opinie/16137...

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Graph 0f 30 09 2026 1/.. Statisticians like to put people in boxes. About this (total fertility rate: the average number of children a woman is expected to have): a) There are 4 boxes too many in this graph because

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good news. My experimental PayPal account is closed down. PayPal is a bad and way to expensive solution to the terrible US payment system; if you´re living outside of the US, do not use it.

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

VVD Frame "Het hardnekkige frame dat NL een probleem heeft met ‘extreem-links’ wordt door VVD herhaalt. Extreem-links wordt gezien als een idee dat de democratie wil vervangen, geweld goedpraat of revoluties nastreeft, met totale overheidscontrole of geweldsopstanden. In TK vind je daar niets van."

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Niet links, maar rechts is extreem in het parlement - Joop - BNNVARA

Wetenschap laat zich niet beïnvloeden door politieke reclame.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Graph of 29 09 2026 1/.. A Research Gate bot suggested this to me (attachment). Interesting, a non-Indo-European perspective, etc. But it only included time-series data up to 2019, from the ´tridge´ website. Can we do better? ´Tridge´ obtains its production data from the FAO website. About this:

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you missed it... The ideas of the extreme right about civil war in European countries and the USA are serious. They want and promote this.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like the Russians have decided to prod the Poles into massively improving their antidrone defenses

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That´s 1% of the Russian population. 2% of the male population. 4% of the male population of the right age. 8% of the male population physically/economically able to be expendable. And about as many as already have died/are severely mentally or physically injured in the Ukraine war.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Graph of 28 09 2026 1/.. For the first time in decades, more Polish people are returning to Poland from the Netherlands than vice versa (De Volkskrant 28 09 2026). Main reason(s): favorable econ development in Poland (and cheaper houses). According to the article: Sweden, Germany: same development.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Graphs of 27 09 2026 1/1 Where do the EU imports of oil, coal, liquefied gas, and gaseous gas come from? Increasingly, from the USA, which, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, rapidly replaced Russia. High energy prices are good for the USA. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is one song - and one song only - which always gives me goose bumps. And brings tears into my eyes. Everytime I hear it. No matter how its played.

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Boswachter Tim 🕊️🇺🇦 @boswachtertim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kan gewoon hè 🌳💚

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Kremlin press office published an article about a short special military operation in Lithuania * Suwalki gap * Belarus

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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Het staatspersbureau van het Kremlin heeft vandaag een artikel gepubliceerd met de titel "Rusland staat voor een nieuwe speciale militaire operatie. Die zal van korte duur zijn". Het bespreekt een militair conflict met Litouwen. Twijfelt er iemand nog? 🙃

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My son is at university. The naivite of the teaching staff is hilarious.

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Jaap Friso @jaapfriso.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Deze poster van Wakker Dier mag van de NS niet op de stations hangen. Dus laten we hem vooral veel aandacht geven.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Young man..., the attention of the United States secretary of war for the erections of men in uniform...

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I was young I did not spend inordinate amounts of money on record players. I did spend on outdoor gear. Contemplating my life: the oldest gear I still use is a down sleeping back, bought in 1982 at sporthuis Haan. 2nd: the tentpins bought in 86 in Yosemite holding this 23 year old tent tight?

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Graph of 24 09 2026 (yes, one day ahead) Staggering differences between countries in the reading ability of first and second generation migrants in Europe. Policy choices cause these differences.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Graph of 23 09 2026 Our World in Data (OWD) published, based on Food and Agriculutural Organization data, this graph on undernourishment. ´No Hunger´ is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. OWD tracks these; one of the indicators is undernourishment. The world is falling behind.

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Nick O'Donovan @nickod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In another sense, the history of ‘stranded assets’ exposes the naivety of the policymakers who sought to insulate market provision from political control. Deregulation did not replace a messy political order with a harmonious economic order: it merely replaced one political economy with another.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 23/09/2026

How is the world doing on the development goals it set for 2030?

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Human losses in Ukraine keep increasing. Mind: both Russia and Ukraine already are in demographic decline, without these losses.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is human trafficking on a massive scale.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

French nuclear umbrella for Latvia?

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As an outdoor guide in the treacherous Dutch coastal shallows I'm dependent on the Dutch version of this (KNRM). This is an effective tradition of centuries, people literally risking their lifes. He belongs in jail.

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Sylvana Simons @sylvanasimons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

36 dagen cel en een taakstraf.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc

Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads:
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

According to the article, a Santander payment was made in March of this year

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grapsh of 21 09 2026 1/.. @casmudde.bsky.social points us to these graphs. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... They show that ingroup pro-social behaviour correlates, on average, with outgroup pro-social behaviour. Shorter: the good Samaritan was probably good at home, too.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dankzij de avondopenstelling op dinsdag tot 21:00 en het goedkope buiten de spits treinabo heb ik er veel gezeten, de afgelopen tijd. Dit is één van de resultaten. De funeste gevolgen van de vierde Engelse oorlog en, al vóór 1795, de toenemende schermutselingen op zee zijn duidelijk zichtbaar.

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Graph of 20 09 2026 Nerdish 1/.. Today I found myself in Frederiksoord, in the museum of the ´colonies of benevolence´. A kind of 19th-century job guarantee (they even had their own money to prevent people from buying booze...). Hey, a graph of the total potato harvest!

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is what the extreme right wants and is working to realize. Not just in the US. It won't be restricted to migrants and people of colour

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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just in case you were in any doubt about how ugly and violent the right-wing nationalists are when given space. In the UK they are intimidating and physically attacking people who give up their time and risk their lives to save people, whoever they are, who are in difficulty at sea. 🤦 #RNLI

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Merijn Antifa Knibbe @merijnknibbe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Graphs of 17 09 2026 From broad unemployment to greenhouse gas emissions and from air quality and asylum applicants to government deficits: the new EU statistical monitor. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cac...

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European Statistical Monitor

European Statistical Monitor: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/dashboard/european-statistical-monitor/

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Jasper Lukkezen @lukkezen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doe het. Zet die handel stil. Heel benieuwd wat er met de dollar gebeurd. En misschien wordt er dan ook eens een keer een Europese regeringsleider wakker...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"If imports are excluded it must be because they are produced under conditions which are intolerable to the socialist conscience and not because they are produced in any particular country"

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

😂 the Trump White House *are* the radical right. It is a personalist authoritarian regime. In their strategy documents they say they seek to pursue ethnonationism in Europe. They are not going to help us!

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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bloomberg: Duitsland is begonnen met het inventariseren of ziekenhuizen duizenden gewonde soldaten aankunnen in geval van een Russische aanval op de NAVO.

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