Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics

Really this is my fault. How have we been together this long and I never taught him the basics of encoding qualitative variables? I should be a better partner.

My boyfriend recorded his survey data without an encoding… each cell containing the whole response to the corresponding question… some full sentences INCLUDING COMMAS… never been so disappointed in him

“Since the time of John the Baptist the kingdom of Heaven has been subjected to violence and violent men are taking it by force.” – Matthew 11:12 (REB)

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Trump says college sports is more complicated than geopolitics.

A terrible intellectual legacy of Jim Crow is that American broad left tends to view conflict that isn’t just a civil war as being Jim Crow-shaped and therefore there’s a side that’s ~blameless and a side that ~doing bad stuff for basically unsympathetic reasons, and this is actually a rare dynamic.

My point, to be clear, is that this is a version of sanewashing.

It's not quite that, but it's blame-shifting: Blaming incompetence, where we have abundant evidence that many, if not most, of the reasons she will be remembered were either intentional or known inevitabilities.

One thing I learned while reporting this story was that even though sex trafficking dominates megaevent headlines, "there is no empirical data demonstrating an increase in sex trafficking" during major events.

What does increase dramatically during megaevents? Labor trafficking

You could've exited with a tidy profit if up until April 2024 or so (price floors around April 19th at $10.42) but before Roaring Kitty started tweeting again, thus hyping the shit out of the apes, there was no indication that the stock would go anywhere but down. I remember those halcyon days.

Dan Olson's "This is Financial Advice", Sep 30th 2023: GME at $17.53

Roaring Kitty's Return Stream, Jun 7th 2024: GME at $28.22

Today, March 6th 2026: GME at $24.06

I'll never forget that if you shorted GME after Dan Olson's "This is Financial Advice" released, you'd have lost your shirt less than a year later when the return of Roaring Kitty spiked the price and you'd still be down now, another year and a half later, despite Gamestop's continued decline

make it a sequel to A Pound of Flesh

Pound of Flesh II: A Barrel of Oil

The one time I try to time the market, and I get it right.

That's how it tricks you.

same exact fucking story here. I shoveled all my fun money into the market the Monday after "Liberation day" and didn't pull it out until August.

The (Theological) Mystery of the Stock Market:
- Everything is priced in
- The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent

repeat the Bogle mantras: "that would be really stupid", "it's literally just gambling", "all options contracts have an expected value of 0"

I don’t own a car and I live in a mild climate city I say all hydrocarbons should go to a trillion

Dobald Trump saw “How to Bomb a Pipeline” and said he’d do us one better by bombing a global supplier and shipping route in one go

extinction rebellion did the theory, donald trump did the praxis

That’s true, but Wakefield seems to have gotten significantly more play in the British press, including some of the more “serious” outlets

frankly the War Queer was just badly broken design-wise, due to the ability to take both weapon and sexual specializations

Screenshot of headline that reads, "Haitian man living in Boston dies in ICE custody, family says." Full text linked in reply.

I’m calling on ICE to investigate the death of Emmanuel Damas, a Massachusetts community member who died in ICE custody after being denied timely medical care. His family, and dozens of families like his, deserve the truth about ICE's treatment of their loved ones. ICE must be held accountable.

Honestly nothing illustrates Newsom's unfitness for higher office than his willingness to talk to the absolute worst podcasters.

Hugely a fan of how the creators of Smiling Friends ran out of ideas or just weren't feeling it and said "okay bye show's over" with two more seasons greenlit and announced

hugely a fan of how rick and morty started off making the absurdity of its premise the central joke and then every subsequent season has taken itself more and more seriously, drawing in more lore and recurring characters and all of it fucking sucks ass

I thank her for her service at "sack"

the speaker of the house is a young earth creationist. I am losing my fucking mind

I... I have questions.

Why is the national security advisor there lol?

in the land of the grandpa made oil $150/bbl for no reason, the man with the hoopty 2009 honda fit is king