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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

terrible news of Perry Mehrling passing. RIP to a wonderful scholar & teacher who demystified the global financial crisis that wrecked a generation. He has left an oeuvre with a powerful message: Money is a hierarchy of promises & payments, anchored by central bank money sites.bu.edu/perry/lectur...

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 21h

One day, a century from now, we will learn the secret provisions of the Saudi-UK treaty that commit Charles to accept the light of Islam and to go to war against the Dutch

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Actually it's about ethics in blogging / journalism?

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I see so many paper license plates, supposedly temporary, but often expired! I guess there is only minimal enforcement

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You Can See Everything is opening on two screens at the downtown AMC. That is simply astonishing.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

spotted on facebook, creator unknown (feel free to tell me and I'll post)

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just saying - there's a lotta great microbrews in SE Pennsylvania

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The electoral situation has developed not necessarily to the Republican party's advantage ..."

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Several reports misidentified Boulos as the owner of Boulos Enterprises owned by another family of the same name. He confirmed to the NYT that he had no relationship with Boulos Enterprises ..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_...

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A trope is a trope, but they call it LE TROPE

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

gonna find out exactly how many divisions the pope has!

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"If there's a bright center to the universe you could own a home on the planet that it's farthest from!"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wow you all are VERY horny for Mrs Met

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Animatronic Bird $15,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Be Clown, Do Crimes!” “Stonewall Was a Happy Meal!”

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s not a Franken-house, it’s a Franken-home

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Had a ghost tour booked but then the guide just … didn’t turn up? We even called the tour company and they were like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The company offered us our money back, but couldn’t explain what happened to the guide. We were completely… ghosted?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Got to see & hold the most famous Roman coin in history, the Ides of March coin Brutus had struck after assassinating Julius Caesar. The numismatist said it was Caesar putting his own face on coinage that precipitated his assassination, so Brutus doing the same thing did not go over well.

Two fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring two knives and a Liberty cap between them. Under them is written in capital letters Eid Mar which is the Ides of March

Two fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring the face of Brutus and the legend BRUT IMP

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/10/2026

I spoke with @nature.com on the US Administration's new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work. I estimate that the tax will sharply reduce the use of Optional Practical Training & thus talent inflows to the US economy. My estimates in this new paper —> www.iza.org/publications...

nature.com

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As everyone knows, Horses are friends with Mars Monsters

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 09/10/2026

Trump admin striking a bold blow against the dollar's position as the world’s primary reserve currency. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

The new sanctions, unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department, would prohibit transactions with the court after a grace period of six months. Any companies doing business with the court afterward could be subject to punishment by the U.S. government. The threat of that could constrain the institution’s ability to carry out daily operations.

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, it was 1968. Penn (including Wharton) was a lot less selective back then

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Mathematics Georg, who does math all day long and earns seventy kajilion dollars per year, is an outlier who should not have been counted”

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ah yes, “el gato” we used to call to call him. Good times

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My uncle is an old hippy who used to enjoy cats back in the sixties. I introduced him to a modern cat and his mind was blown! He didn't know cat potency has increased tremendously in recent decades

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Prefers specialized writing instruments with smooth ink flow" smh, everyone knows chunky, inconsistent ink flow is the way to go

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's infuriating how the U.S. is treating our international researchers. We are so incredibly lucky that talented people want to come to our country to study, research, work, and build. Trump, Musk, and their cronies are destroying the best parts of science in the U.S.

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everything in graphic design is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I must have been very young the first time I watched this, but I never picked up that the Martin Landau character was gay. At one point, James Mason's character even accuses him of being jealous of Eva Marie Saint!

A young, hot Martin Landau stares smolderingly into the camera on the set of NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What if Falling Water were in the South Dakota Black Hills? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandamm...

en.wikipedia.org

Vandamm House - Wikipedia

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A great scene, but it has got to be one of the dumbest, least efficient was to murder someone. Guy in a biplane with a semiautomatic pistol fails to kill Cary Grant for 15 minutes before accidentally flying into an oil truck? We tried “stab him” and “make him drive drunk” and we’re all out of ideas

Crop dusters plane pursuing Carey Grant in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The history of the Northern Pacific Railroad is fun. The business case for a rail connection between Minneapolis and the PNW is obvious, but it took decades of subsidies and multiple bankruptcies to get there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...

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Northern Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 2026 Emmanuel Moulin is master of the Bank of France Interest rates are now battlefields

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"You probably don't understand the difference between insects and arachnids, you fool. You utter clown."

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here are some of the best swindle names: “Pilfering Green Cloth by Pretending to Steal a Goose” “A Daoist in a Boat Exchanges Some Gold” “Forged Letters from the Education Intendant Report Auspicious Dreams” “A Geomancer Uses His Wife to Steal a Good Seed” “Using Dream Sorcery to Rob a Family”

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Most of these tales are accompanied by summary text that sensationalizes the action while notionally condemning it. “How terrible that someone committed this cool, cool crime!”

Title image from FUTURAMA. The caption reads “The show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery!”

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My favorite part is that Zhang Yingyu doesn’t want to take a firm stance on whether killing and eating young boys would actually regrow one’s missing genitalia: “Some [eunuchs] succeed, some don’t.” Ok sure, cannibalism works - but it’s wrong, and you shouldn’t do it

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“By no means should [poor parents] serve [their son] as a tasty morsel to a eunuch”

Eric Andre meme. He is leaning back in his chair. “Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?”

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passivelurker.bsky.social @passivelurker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For example, the author here gives a stern warning against ::checks notes:: cannibal eunuchs

Destitute people who sell their sons are fools! If their livelihood is insufficient for raising a son, why not beg in father-son teams, as they do in Fengyang prefecture? That way, the parents could protect their flesh and blood. Should doing so truly be impossible, the only other recourse would be to sell the son into servitude in a wealthy household. By no means should they serve him up as a tasty morsel to a eunuch. Selling a son to a chapel or temple as a servant or attendant is equally unacceptable. Doing so would reduce one’s son to a level below that of a beggar. The State employs eunuchs for the sole purpose of keeping the palace in order and transmitting imperial orders, yet eunuchs wield power and exact profits, wallow in hedonism, and - worst of all - attempt to regrow their organ in order to defile women. (Some succeed, some don’t.) Even if their cannibalism could be considered analogous to “wanting to mend one’s decrepit body,” did they not accept that it was their fate not to be whole? Such outrageous behavior is utterly intolerable. Mencius says: “He keenest for battle deserves the severest punishment” - and the eunuchs too engage in conscription and slaughter. They treat human life as worthless, and for no good reason. If their cannibalism law of the land is to shine forth, such eunuchs must not be allowed to go on living.

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