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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 10h

mainstream media used to be normalizing too but oligarchs fought back. there's probably already LLM powell memo.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Philosophies of blind utility maximization are inescapable in today's society. We should learn when they are misapplied.

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Utility maximization is unescapable. We should learn when it’s misapplied.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 01/10/2026

There are some really beautiful public swimming halls in Sweden.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the one fad I happily joined in on!

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why shouldn’t reddit have a museum. happy for everyone involved.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

good thread on the man city situation

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This @the-downballot.com piece is an important analysis! Its significance becomes clearer in the light of @gelliottmorris.com's account of how "all polls are models now." substack.com/inbox/post/2... [Nerd warning] You can describe this in the mathematics of control theory - short thread 1/n

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All polls are models now

Traditional polling is dead. A new paradigm of public opinion research has high uncertainty, and pollsters need to do a better job communicating about error.

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not sure there are many Kalecki heads on this website but I'm going to give this a try anyway. If this isn't your cup of tea, you might want to hit mute now...

A journal cover page for "An analytical heterogeneous agent macro model of concentration, markups, and falling labour shares" by Karsten Kohler, Jo Michell and Ayoze Alfageme, published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

The abstract text is: This paper presents an analytical heterogeneous agent model (HAM) to explore micro-level concentration dynamics and their effects on macro-level distribution and growth. It contributes to recent work on macroeconomic agent-based models (ABMs) by comparing a small-scale ABM with bilateral firm-customer matching to a simplified HAM without direct agent interactions. The HAM replicates key ABM results while allowing for analytical solutions. In the model, larger firms benefit from lower unit costs due to economies of scale, gain larger market shares, and set higher markups. More profitable firms temporarily grow faster, leading to endogenous changes in the firm size distribution. The resulting right-skewed distributions create a divergence between the average profit share across firms and the aggregate profit share, which is driven by the largest firms. The decline in the labour share reduces aggregate consumption and slows growth. Despite its simplicity, the model captures key empirical patterns related to superstar firms and declining labour shares.

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

great stuff happening in Lund tomorrow: a public lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, by Sciences Po professor Jonathan Levy, on his ongoing book project on the history of money! www.lusem.lu.se/calendar/lec...

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The first social housing in Amsterdam built under the breakthrough 1901 Housing Law was built in Van Beuningenstraat in 1909 by the Rochdale Cooperative Building Association formed by municipal tram workers and named after the Rochdale Pioneers. It was designed by JE van der Pek.

Undated black and white photograph of six-storey corner block courtesy of Amsterdam City Archives

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

to be fair maybe he’s aiming for 20% nominal gdp growth

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Laughing Cavalier, painted in 1624. Look closely and he isn't really laughing: his mustache is just twirled up. Well, the eyes are laughing! By Frans Hals, whose day is today.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

yes, do it, I’d rather have iran/china/etc sink the uss donald trump

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Marcel Moran @marcelmoran.com · 19/08/2026

Amazing study of the growth in private jet travel globally: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"The share of campaign dollars consumed by fundraising costs had ballooned from 8 cents per dollar in 2008 to more than 50 cents by 2024"

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Mark Schmitt @mschmitt9.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

An essential post by @adambonica.bsky.social, who brings academic rigor to the question we all wonder about who those ridiculous spam PAC texts work on, and why it matters. It never ceases to upset me that the largest org working on money in politics now, End Citizens United, is a notorious spam PAC

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of the most insane things about the ~8 years of legal sports gambling in America is the off-the-charts _volume_ of betting Hollenbeck et al. (2024) reports an online-bet handle in some states like Indiana on the order of ~$1,500 per capita per month papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Table 2 of The Financial Consequences of Legalized Sports Gambling, showing average handle by channel per state (excluding Nevada). The data does not include handles for states where tribal lands run the offline sports gambling market.

It shows a cumulative monthly handle of $38.28 billion in New York, $23.41 billion in New Jersey, $22.57 billion in Illinois, $22.06 billion in Pennsylvania, $11.95 billion in Colorado, $10.98 billion in Indiana, $10.05 billion in Michigan, and more. In these big-online-betting states, the monthly online-bet handle amounts to between $1,000 and $2,000 per capita. (Of course, not all people bet on sports, so the actual per-bettor handle is even higher.)

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Swedish interwar Co-operative movement posters, from a time when co-ops were a key pillar of social democracy and the labor movement. Photographs from ongoing auction at "Wickmans". Was going to make a bid for the urban development one, but they are not looking like they will be cheap...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Came across this stunning photograph of Lund's 1938 public baths in goodwill bargain book from 1950. Quite the milestone in the local spatial politics of public luxury that was rolled out as social democratic welfare planing in the postwar era. The architects were Hans Westman with Tor Andersson.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

moving on from emily wilson, what do edith hall and paul cartledge think of the movie?

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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Extremely disappointed to discover that the Norwegian word for “spork” is «spork» and not «skjaffel» («skje» + «gaffel»)

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Seems like there might be lessons here about the importance and benefits of establishing your left-wing bona fides and making it clear whose interests you serve

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Not good for getting a pro-transit president. Six car-brained states, with only the partial exception of Northern Virginia.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 16/07/2026

It's kind of weird how watering down Net Zero has become a political litmus test in Labour. Net Zero was in the last TORY manifesto!

We are proud of our record and remain committed to delivering net zero by 2050. Today the UK is home to the five largest offshore wind farms in the world. Half of our electricity comes from renewables, compared to just 7% when Labour were last in office. We have reduced emissions further and faster than any of our competitors and the UK is the first major economy to get halfway to net zero. And we have done this while growing our economy by 80%, demonstrating to other countries that there is a positive economic path to tackling climate change.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

'Nowadays the foreigners admire the new Amsterdam working-class neighbourhoods. The Social Democrats have achieved this. Vote 25 May.' Election poster for Floor Wibaut (1859–1936), the first social-democratic alderman of Amsterdam.

Cartoon election poster showing visitors in newly built area of public housing

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New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Arguably no advanced economy struggled more to invest and build than the United Kingdom. And the picture doesn't materially change for real GFCF, whether as a share of output, per capita or per hour. Have a piece on this later this month.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry press to the steps of Downing Street." bulk-distributor.com/2026/07/form...

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Former BD journalist set to become UK PM - Bulk Distributor

Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry pre...

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

A man with his back to the camera, wearing a blue jacket and a grey woolen hat. A puffin is sitting on top of his head. On the left, an arm holding a mobile phone can be seen. In the background, a green slope and the sea beyond.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I want paul thomas anderson to buy the film rights

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I had the privilege of being supervised by Istvan Hont as an undergrad. A session on Hobbes went roughly: "So, what is the correct analogy for Hobbes's theory of state authority today?" "ummm... I don't know" "THE REFEREE IN SPORT OF COURSE! EVEN WHEN HE'S WRONG, HE'S STILL RIGHT!!"

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The pardoned guy profiled in this story was convicted of tampering diesel trucks to remove emissions controls In 2020, the EPA estimated 550,000 diesel trucks on US roads had been illegally modded in this way, roughly 15% of all non-grandfathered-in diesel trucks www.epa.gov/enforcement/...

Based on this analysis, for the cases that EPA has investigated (further described in Sections 3 through 5), AED estimates that the emissions controls have been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks in the last decade. As a result of this tampering, more than 570,000 tons of excess oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and 5,000 tons of -articulate matter (PM) will be emitted by these tampered trucks over the lifetime of the vehicles. These tampered trucks constitute approximately 15 percent of the national population of diesel trucks that were originally certified with emissions controls. But, due to their severe excess NOx emissions, these trucks have an air quality impact equivale to adding more than 9 million additional (compliant, non-tampered)
diesel pickup trucks to our roads. This Report describes these estimates in greater detail and explains AED's underlying analysis.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

that would be twice as loud as a loud rock concert

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 27/06/2026

What climate fiction movie is this again? Denmark hit highest ever temperature (37C) and had golf ball-sized hails today.

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John Handley @jwhandley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

After adjusting for regional price parity within the US and PPP with the UK, hourly wages in the UK are as high or higher than California up to the median -- but 25% lower at the 90th percentile

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What is the philosophy of work and democracy that follows from the historic labour movement? In my new article, I develop a democratic defense of labour unions and show how it leads to a distinctive vision of industrial democracy. Forthcoming in the APSR stevenmklein.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thread about our new @wid.world working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and Svante Prado on income inequality and structural transformation in Sweden, 1870–1970! Link to paper: wid.world/document/inc... Thread 1/

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

have come to the view that the banknotes should have neither animals nor eminences on them but instead a range of great British weirdos. the Somerset gimp. The Glasgow catman. A Whitby goth

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Quite amazing what California is achieving.

Graph showing: California's grid power mix: 11 June 2026

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

new working paper out today! we explore the role played by structural transformation in shaping the Swedish income distribution between 1870 and 1970 ehes.org/wp/EHES_305....

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

not going to read the article but what trump is good at is communicating in the manner of an AM sports talk radio caller. actually knowing anything about sports gets in the way of monday morning quarterbacking

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Lowkey if I had to choose one economic idea from the past I'd resuscitate it'd be the Rehn-Meidner Swedish model.

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

just throwing this out there: aufhebungender

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snilttroll @snilttroll.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

when you compare the number of people working in finance versus gosplan it’s clear there wasn’t enough planning going on in the ussr

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John Handley @jwhandley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"Just consolidate the progressive vote" is easier said than done, but the split on the right means that this is enough to be a winning strategy now

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