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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 12h

does legault know about this

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 12h

what’s this i’m hearing about an election

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 02/10/2026

look i have swapped my usual and customary seven espressos for decaf, i am not exactly firing on all cylinders right now

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 02/10/2026

cannot tell if he is about to roll up the rim or bolt through that door

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People keep asking me if the BLS jobs data is being tampered with for political reasons, and given the strength of other sources in September it's time to joke "yes, they're faking data to make the job market look worse than it actually is" [JOKE!!!]

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NPV10 @npv10.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I keep going back to this and it just feels like a really callous dismissal of lived experiences of people like myself: having to manage quarterly pe marks to counter the rise in wacc... you know how annoying it is to change a biz plan in october??

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 30/09/2026

you’re gonna love pharmaprix, brexit island. it’s– well it’s a loblaw with higher and also usually inaccurate price information

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 30/09/2026

“The Bloomberg keyboard used by ‘Bond King’ Bill Gross has his login and password taped on the front.”

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 28/09/2026

it would be better for stable viewing if the polariscope had *two* little risers with adjustable arms, one for the the interference sphere, one for a little stone holder clip like on a darkfield microscope stage. though this would make manipulation of these items even slower 🙃

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 28/09/2026

still trying to figure out conoscopy. well and other stuff. i got many things! spectroscope with a turntable that does both reflectance and transmission, little calcite dichroscope fitting one’s ring finger, different lighting and magnification to make the results of a london dichro show up clearer…

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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 24/09/2026

You can now pick up the Meta/Blue Owl Project Beignet bonds (secured, rated A+) at a 7.3% yield, or about the same as Mexico’s (unsecured, BBB-rated) US dollar bonds at a similar maturity.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 22/09/2026

i’m gonna put it on the visa infinite ripoff next time i transit toronto and report back what it codes as

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 22/09/2026

they accept CARDS at the gnocchi window in toronto

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 22/09/2026

this is just incredible. and really the blame starts and ends with the talk show host and/or premier of alberta. an optional, discretionary choice to hold this plebiscite (…or ten) that no one was asking for and few understand.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 22/09/2026

sometimes everyone really IS against you

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 21/09/2026

i think they take mir cards in minsk, maybe try that

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

“there will be no facility like this anywhere in the world” that’s right

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

this marvellous software promises relief from tedium and that one will be focussing more on what matters. suppose nothing matters except as means to micro-lot gins one cannot buy without travelling countries and veblen utility in ever-better portuguese towels and the pretension to make them legible.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

i am not sure if i am to be flattered that i am highly proficient at information design and can convey meaning absent any context, or annoyed that this no longer matters

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

and from there, simple questions: what are these objects, why are they in this order, are there any gaps, do the gaps themselves contain any information well this software had a pretty good handle on that considering it cannot handle the material. VRAM you said it runs on? how much can i buy.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

i tried something i thought this software may be excellent at to see what was up. scanned a page of a… technical… exhibit of canadian fiscals from late 1870s negotiable instruments that is beyond published research. blanked out all text and diagrams. the only information was hierarchy and sequence.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

now where is my praise for being able to feign introspection

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

appearing reasonably intelligent (i’m thoroughly mediocre thanks) got me out of the vagaries of circumstance and i’d like that open to other, younger versions of myself (no one is younger than me) if similarly motivated by only pecuniary and domineering interests and don’t actually care much

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

fantastic software that has made my party trick of identifying bird feathers, probable migratory destinations of that population of that bird given [location] at [time], rambling about trivalent europium, the treaty of seeb, and handle on TSX firms down to ~$125MM market cap far less interesting

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

everyone loves conoscopy, the quick, 30-second trick to separate two yellow, uniaxial, weakly pleochroic, doubly refractive stones with overlapping RI ranges and specific gravities that takes only 15 minutes

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

yknow not to gas myself up too much but i did resolve three more optic figures tonight

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

anyone have 🔗 cnn international is currently cultural programming out of nairobi

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 20/09/2026

the man sures does hate camp david

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

like many people google identifies as "podcaster and former advisor," i often talk about trivalent europium ions – and not about work – at my gracious dining table. i am sure the millers are the same way. what an excellent exchange of ideas.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

someone independently observing the red phosphors scene could come to the conclusion that they should have exposure to europium in a jurisdiction that does not produce much of it, co-incidental to decisions taken by the US executive with price impact. yes,

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

katie, specifically, has disclosed the largest single-name in her IRA as the REEs miner in california that popped when the US president announced it would be (a) partially nationalized and (b) offered price protection so idk maybe don't do stuff like that. it looks like what it looks like, and such

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

this would all be much easier if the US – i welcome their firms and individuals, who are easy to deal with, to buy things at world prices – was not framing the good sense of its protectorate on the sill of the leeward antilles exclusively in terms of below-market rates on crude oil

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

the excellent news: that observation is highly diagnostic! not excellent: diagnostic for quartz first time we've talked about conoscopes on this website apparently. so let's have at it. i suck at this. how does one grow to suck less at using a conoscope.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

see, the conoscope is already paying for itself

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

letting out a triumphant "yes!" (sanitized, this is a family website) that i resolved an optic figure with an interference sphere groaning that it's an airy's spiral in what was supposed to be a heliodor

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

we are all adults here so surely it is unnecessary to state i would not be particularly enthused about chinese or russian FDI in greenland and instead find the notion that a third country is claiming a veto on inbound investment to be unusual and extraordinary

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 19/09/2026

i've no recollection of any so-called "screening mechanism" and am interested to hear from the danish MFA what they represent they've agreed to

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

they cannot stop voting in the affirmative for vague and ranging tariff legislation, containing no restrictions defining facilitation, in the middle of this farce that many of them claim to be against.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

many of the other misused bits of the US code are there for what were reasonable to consider Good Reasons also

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

no one in the US cares about discretionary tariff authority.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

going to need clarity on "all other needs" and "sensitive investments"

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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An amazing deal that allows us to operate a military base on Greenland.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

can they get the WX ticker back it is currently being used by a dog-theme levered ETF

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

the refusal to be humiliated by being a compromised and humiliating person would be admirable in other contexts. i bet it is briefly entertaining to be in a craps pit with kash patel.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

any valued and treasured problem drinkers in the audience who think i am casting aspersions can be assured that nothing is a problem so long as i do not know about it.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

you would like me to take his serious concerns seriously. it's very serious.

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

podcaster paid by the falun gong, i hasten to add. with a drinking problem and hot takes on beastiality!

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Andrew Papenheim @papenhe.im · 18/09/2026

it is very good that people who are not me are in charge of interfacing with this podcaster and bourbon white-labeller playing a lawyer in real life

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Helene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The bears have come out of hibernation.

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