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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Paging @snowden.st what are the optimal outcomes this weekend for our rooting interests and transitive vibes? This is a tricky one, please do not take it as a sign my discipline and commitment to Eck thought is wavering.

Michigan hosts lowly UTEP; Oklahoma’s first opponent in a lopsided 51-0 opener

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend discovered—after weeks of me opening posts they share in a group chat only to discover I’m blocked by people I followed—that I was added to the “trolls” list May 11th. My only posts that day mildly pushed back on Aaron Rodericks’ suspension fest and inability to use the site he moderates.

I am added to the Trolls list and get instantly blocked by 2k users lol.

A thread by me quoting aaron and asking how bluesky objectively determines what constitutes harassment. He then detached his post from my quote and pointed out that’s it’s weird to get upset about a discourse you yourself are perpetuating.

Aaron Rodericks complaining of “coordinated harassment” and “abusive pile-ons” when people made jokes about him liking porn from his work account. I asked why he didn’t disable responses and quote posts on his thread to begin with if he didn’t want people engaging.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“just let the scorpion on your back, it needs to get to the other side 🙂.” You first, guys!

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lots of people confused. These guys came out of Heaven to debate Charlie? Charlie’s not in Heaven? Correct! Charlie is burning in the entry pool to hell and has to debate all these guys, God of War style, until he reaches and debates God infinitely, thereby asymptotically merging with the Godhead.

Charlie steaming as he rises from heaven’s moat as his debate powers increase.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sorry I’m being unfair, Matt cogently argues something far worse than material harm would befall the Big Ten in the event of Michigan losing that necessitated them rigging a second hail mary attempt: uhhh league… uh… bragging rights. (this is what everyone sounds like tn btw)

“And the Big Ten just can’t have that, people.

Can’t have the conference that has won the past three national titles, that has cruised by the SEC in the my-conference-is better-than-yours argument, losing at home to something called Western Michigan.”

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

check out this rig job motherfucker *i slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, it’s not clear what I trying to rig or why*

“I’m pretty sure we all just witnessed Big Ten officials rig a game for a conference team.” Matt Hayes

“Michigan lost to Western Michigan. The game was over. Big Ten officials then decided to add one second to the game clock because, well, none of us really know,” writes well paid USA today sports columnist Matt Hayes

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You’re all laughing at JJ now but you have no idea how annoying things are going to get when he inexplicably turns the Browns around by fully embracing the evil auras there.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Chicago Bears Rivalry uniform features a lot of tasteful hand stiching details, is clean, and pulls elements from their deep and rich history. Unfortunately the Detroit Lions can’t do this because the franchise was founded in 2003.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Local High School Given Blessing to Wear Special Detroit Lions / 2008 Oregon-inspired Uniforms.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I hope it’s not too observant and clever of me to just check for myself whether she was rebutting the original meme or just adding an additional editorial flair of her own?

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Anyway hope someone here can help explain away this, too!

proof bitecofer was indeed just adding a new valence to a racist meme she basically endorses!

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh this at least makes more sense now. Every time I’ve ever tried to explain Big Ten universities (and, inevitably, college football) to europeans it always goes one way.

three word phrase stun locked man thinking “???”

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don’t know how this kid is doing this in Letterboxd and want to appreciate it but the low-effort Gen Z joke writing of it all is kinda pissing me off.

Alfie Byers fake acting credit as Aura Farming Man #1 in The Dark Knight on Letterboxd

Alfie Byers fake acting credit as Tungos Sahouros (meme character Tung Sahur) in The Odyssey on Letterboxd

Alfie Byers fake acting credit as Young Shrek in Shrek 2 on Letterboxd

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Omaha smoking the petrified forest pack tn I guess.

implausible AQI (1023) readings from Omaha, even for fireworks, list showing highest in country currently.

Somehow 2 sensors blocks away showing 1k+ AQI in Omaha

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is what White Identity is all about. They want to take this away from you!

dumbass soaking wet with sweat from having to step outside.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Haha tfw you’re eating a quantum entanglement taco with your local ann arbor friends who are real and have real fingers.

$ai generated human eating a prismatically fractured taco object, his fake fingers digging into the brown fleshy taco innards.$

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Very excited for extra dimensional taco hallucination fest!

full page ad for “ann arbor taco fest” featuring ai generated people eating tacos that bend the laws of physics.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Timelines with threatening auras

Ennui-tery posts “UBER ALLES” after the Jenny Holzer bot posts “SEPARATISM IS THE WAY TO A NEW BEGINNING”

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is not really beating the cynical short-termism charges! My point is that it’s entirely fucking rational that people do not want want The Deafening Hum Building That May Well Lie Empty in One Year in their city or county?

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Actually, could it be addressed to Lis? She would appreciate it more than even The Geniouses.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Well this certainly gives me a “vibe”; I would say this shapes my “sentiment” about “current economic conditions,” as well as my “expectations.”

“From 2020 through 2025, the most recent data available, $2.7 trillion in new wealth was created for the top 0.0001% in the U.S., a group of about 250 people, according to an analysis of data from the tracker Realtime Inequality. That is roughly as much wealth as was created for the top 0.0001% in the prior 39 years, adjusted for inflation.” From WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/r360-novus-rich-kid-seminar-5cbb657a

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The biggest sustained decline ‘21-22 is 36.4 points (Current attached, expected is roughly the same). For comparison, Current had a sustained 48 point decline during a period from ‘07-‘09.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Expectations tracked same or lower than current during 22/25 troughs? Or do you mean relative to something else other than each other?

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I mean, I see “vibecession” as a term of art being used to make the normative claim that people are “wrong” about economic health all the time, as if the U of M survey asks “are these graphs wrong”? Again, half the questions are “where do you think thing will be in the future.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

*Walter voice* Ceteris Paribus, Dude! Ceteris fuckin’ Paribus—you’re conjuring econometrics; you’re giving primacy to a closed, unfalsifiable system, even if it allows limited external inputs! All. Other. Things. Are. Not. Equal. Here, Dude!

Americans are expressing some of the deepest, broadest, and stubbornest economic pessimism ever recorded. They’re doing so even though nearly every American who wants a job has one and the stock market is booming. Things aren’t perfect, and people have plenty of reasons to be disappointed. But I couldn’t come up with a coherent explanation for why people are this down about an economy this good, or why they are so mad right now.

Instead of trying to understand why the American people were right, I began trying to understand why they were wrong.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Give your hats lots of sun and then, once in awhile, treat them with the miracle substance (sodium percarbonate) and enjoy a tasteful level of distress no pre-fab factory process can replicate.

Michigan sailor bear cap after treatment to remove oil build up and grime, with the cotton looking brilliantly and naturally worn and faded.

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Prettyman @thirdpartyinternet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Always resort to apples and oranges and sneering reductionism when rigorously anticipating any critique or counter-argument would be too hard! Graph unrelated.

Graph depicting precipitous drop in labor share of value post 2020 brief recovery. From the article in DoubleLine:

“Labor’s share of output in the U.S. nonfarm business sector stood at 66.2% in 1960 and remained near 63–64% in 2000. Today it sits at 53.8%, the lowest reading in the series dating back to 1947. The decline spans multiple cycles, monetary regimes, and technological waves. The pandemic briefly interrupted the trajectory, but the series has returned to a level roughly 10 percentage points below where it stood at the turn of the century.

The pandemic lifted labor share sharply before it retraced; the series moved several percentage points higher during 2020–2021 before returning to the low-50% range. Output fell while many firms retained workers and fiscal transfers supported income as wage growth accelerated. Margins compressed, then recovered. The episode sits within the cycle rather than the longer structural trend.

The longer trend is visible in the relationship between productivity and compensation. Output per worker has continued to advance while real compensation has risen more slowly. Over extended periods, that difference compounds and shifts a larger share of output to capital.”

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