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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Who had the inside scoop and traded on it illegally?
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by Polymarket Intel, with the handle @Poly
..., posted 2 hours ago. The post reads: "Massive call options on $SPY were opened minutes before Trump’s 'buy' post—then surged 2100% in an hour." It includes a mention of @unusual_whales
. Below the text, there is a chart showing the price movement of $SPY call options over a few hours, with a significant spike labeled "Insiders" just before a larger spike labeled "Public." The chart indicates a rapid increase in value following Trump's post, suggesting potential insider trading activity.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
chef’s kiss
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Putin Quietly Exits ‘White House Team’ WhatsApp Group
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Putin Quietly Exits ‘White House Team’ WhatsApp Group
NOT WANTING to draw attention to his presence in a highly secretive WhatsApp group formed by Donald Trump's inner circle at the White House, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made the decision to exit...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
All you need to know about Twitter
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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Italy this Saturday pushed Ireland all the way: The tournament favourites escaping with a narrow win that left everybody shaken. So, how did Italy push them so close, and was this a great escape by Ireland or a troubling performance? youtu.be/k7OhRbS9gOI
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So how did Ireland overcome Italy? | Men's Six Nations 2025
YouTube video by More Squidge Rugby
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The White House: A Safe Haven For Sex Offenders
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Send your answers in the comments below
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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Ireland are looking to win the Championship. Italy have Brex. Who wins? We dig into the two team's likely tactics, what Crowley at ten means for the gameplan, and just why Italy have dropped captain Lamaro... youtu.be/nkgCqfdK4iI?...
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Italy v Ireland | A Preview | Men's Six Nations 2025
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 11/03/2025
A non-invasive new breakthrough technology is capable of slashing greenhouse gas emissions from manure by more than 80%, writes George Lee.
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The breakthrough tech reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Manure from the cows owned by dairy farmer Raymond Goggin produces about 1,000 tonnes of slurry every winter, and this year's supply contains more nutrients than ever before.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kremlin Staff Getting Pretty Sick Of Donald Trump Winning ‘Employee Of The Month’
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Kremlin Staff Getting Pretty Sick Of Donald Trump Winning ‘Employee Of The Month’
MAKING their way to lower floors of the Kremlin for the latest unveiling of the Employee of the Month award, excited staff were soon left with a familiar sinking feeling in their stomachs. "But the m...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 01/03/2025
Seagrass covers just 0.1% of the ocean floor but stores up to 18% of oceanic carbon, prevents erosion & supports food security. Yet, almost 30% has been lost since the late 19th century. This #WorldSeagrassDay, join #GenerationRestoration to protect these precious ecosystems: bit.ly/3fNtmjj
An underwater scene with a dark blue ocean background, featuring digitally drawn neon-like outlines of marine life, including seahorses, fish, coral, and a sea turtle. Green seagrass is illustrated growing on the ocean floor. White bold text in the center reads: “LET’S RESTORE SEAGRASS BEDS.” Below, smaller white text says: “Join #GenerationRestoration.” Logos for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UN Environment Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are displayed at the bottom.
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tepid-takes.bsky.social @tepid-takes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@simonharrisireland.bsky.social any chance we can do this in ireland too please! Surely this is a vote winning policy! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Denmark to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs
Government accepts advice of commission that also says children under 13 should not have their own smartphone
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tepid-takes.bsky.social @tepid-takes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@irishexaminer.bsky.social Why is the Examiner leading with a headline on Dept of Arts spending €3.2m on consultants over two years, when in the same article there is just a fleeting mention of the Dept of Agriculture spending €65m on IT consultants in half the time? Very disingenuous!
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 22/02/2025
Front page of today’s NY Post
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It's summer in the southern hemisphere, and solar is surging... Chile remains in front, with 29% of its electricity from solar panels in January👏
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“The energy transition is failing!” Just leaving this here…
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s.

The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession.

Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. 

Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I love this
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
UK facility starts sucking CO2 out of seawater to help the climate. Story by @alecluhn.bsky.social: www.newscientist.com/article/2466...
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UK facility starts sucking CO2 out of seawater to help the climate
Stripping carbon dioxide out of the ocean could be much more efficient than capturing it from the air. Researchers are hoping to show its potential at a pilot plant in Weymouth
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/02/2025
Trump's a puppet and everyone knows it except for him.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 05/02/2025
💡 Carbon Pricing: A Tipping Point for Green Growth? Carbon pricing can trigger a critical transition - pushing industries to adopt cleaner tech while maintaining economic growth. But without redistribution, it may worsen inequality. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateChange 🧪
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Carbon pricing drives critical transition to green growth - Nature Communications
This study reveals how carbon pricing can trigger critical tipping points, driving rapid and lasting emission reductions. When paired with redistributive measures, these policies can simultaneously fo...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China. They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.
Solar and wind growth in China has ramped up to 1400 GW of installed capacity.
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hi from Damascus. Fascinating interview for podcast with fighter turned president of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa. We discuss on @therestpolitics.bsky.social tomorrow and full interview on LEADING on Monday. A few fabulous trees thrown in. Pic 2 Tree of the Day. 100 years old according to the man at base
Hello from Syria
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tepid-takes.bsky.social @tepid-takes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Interesting reading ahead of a global trade war #tariffs #trump #tradewar #economics #politics #usa #canada #mexico yalebooks.yale.edu/978030026144...
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at th...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The government isn't like a household. It certainly isn't like a Swabian housewife paulkrugman.substack.com/p/revenge-of...
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Revenge of the Black Zero
How Germany became a cautionary tale
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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A “Michael Lowrey” – with an E – took ownership of a new home before selling to independent TD Michael Lowry’s daughter for €50,000. Lowry’s refrigeration company later bought the house from his daughter for €290,000 and remains the current owner. www.ontheditch.com/michael-lowr...
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Michael Lowry's company for secret property transfers
A “Michael Lowrey” took ownership of a new home before selling to independent TD Michael Lowry’s daughter for €50,000.
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Chris Prosser @caprosser.com · 27/01/2025
1) I've never heard of 'the polling company Craft' which apparently did the research. It's not a member of the British Polling Council or the Market Research Society, and I can't find it on google.* * This might be because they have a very ungoogleable name.
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Dave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 24/01/2025
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🤣
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Sealioning - Wikipedia
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 22/01/2025
Many Reddit channels have banned or are considering banning links to Twitter (X) after Elon Musk's controversial hand gesture "Fuck this guy"
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 29/11/2024
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How does Ireland’s PRSTV electoral system work?
Voters give their vote in order of preference, with lower preferences coming into play only when higher ones are either elected or eliminated
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interesting how businesspeople who didn’t inherit and bankrupt companies actually understand and take seriously the laws of supply and demand. 🤔 www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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