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New Year, New Paul
@paulfish.bsky.social
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Urbanist and Economist who likes Cats and Beta hats. Also writes mysteries for tabletop games.

Site: pauljfisher.com

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Paul Gregory Fisher is a British economist, who left the Bank of England in July 2016 after 26 years service. In September 2016 he was appointed chair of the London Bullion Market Association and in December 2016, he became a non-executive director at the UK Debt Management Office. Fisher has been a visiting professor at Richmond, The American International University in London since 2012; and is a senior research fellow in the new DAFM Centre of the Business School at King's College London. He was chair of the board of trustees at the London Institute of Banking and Finance, from 2011 to 2017. .. more

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h
Holy fucking shit. Posted on the Fed’s official YouTube channel, no less.
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
A roll is done while drinking wine and any 6 is a success. If a mom skill applies roll both dice. A player can reroll as long as they are drinking continuously from the bottle.

The game ends if the players have thwarted their enemy’s evil plan or all players have drunk their bottle of wine. /fin

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
GB will narrate the action and players described their mom’s actions. GB will call for a roll if the mom’s attempt something beyond the ability of a typical suburban mom. 5/6

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
Enemy:
1: Rival PTA.
2: Incompetent husbands
3: ICE
4: Motorcycle gang
5: Crooked Property Developer
6: Cabal of Fitness Instructors
Evil Plan
1: Kidnap Children into cult.
2: Sell Drugs to kids.
3: Better birthday party.
4: Relocate school.
5: Implement 4-day school week.
6: Shutdown the mall. 4/6

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
Choose hair colour, vehicle (if not already selected), name, and iconic article of clothing. Also describe at least one of your children.

GB secretly rolls for an enemy and evil plan:
Enemy:
3/6

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
Mom Creation:
Roll 2d6 twice on the Mom Skill Table:
2: Has a gun.
3: Rides a motorcycle
4: Knows martial arts.
5: Knows a gal
6: Has SUV with 4-wheel drive
7: 3 Row mini-van
8: Former Athlete (choose sport)
9: Black Amex
10: Workshop of tools
11: Purse of useful things
12: Undercover cop
2/6

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2h
Wine Mom Gangs: 1 Page RPG
For 4-5 players. Select one player at Game Bitch (GB)/designated driver. All other players need 2 6-sided dice and a bottle of wine (or non-alcoholic sparkling beverage). 1/6
scottjshapiro.bsky.social Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4h
“organized gangs of wine moms”
Fox News • • Follow ٠٠٠ 27m • 0 STOP THE MADNESS: "What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime," writes David Marcus.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 4h
“organized gangs of wine moms”
Fox News • • Follow ٠٠٠ 27m • 0 STOP THE MADNESS: "What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede ICE agents is not civil disobedience. It isn't even protest. It's just crime," writes David Marcus.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 8h
I've been mostly offline today and I saw Erik Von Daniken died. He was a virulent racist and bigot and a convicted felon, and his alien archaeology "theories"
did incalculable harm to the field of archaeology. Those are his legacies.

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 23h
Same for you!
An orange cat curled up on a blue blanket.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 1d
The only ICE I support:
An HO scale model of the German ICE (intercity express) train

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 2d
WE WON BITCHES

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 2d
A spicy Hot Toppi for @jdotj.bsky.social and @gokp.bsky.social .

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Claudia Balducci @kccclaudia.bsky.social · 3d
Today at the @sound-transit.bsky.social System Expansion Committee, Board Vice Chair Claudia Balducci announced the Crosslake Connection — the 2 Line across Lake Washington and the I‑90 floating bridge — has entered pre‑revenue operations. Test trains are running daily. 1/6
A picture of a two car light rail train crossing the I-90 bridge in the daytime and it's raining.

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Lawyers Behaving Badly @badlawyerpod.bsky.social · 3d
New episode out today! Come for the meat raffle, stay for former SCOTUS practitioner Tom Goldstein doing Japanese rope bondage.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Shibari n' Stolen Elections
Podcast Episode · Lawyers Behaving Badly · 01/08/2026 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d
I am still mad, but our little 3D printing whistle club grew by 30% today, folks sent everyone enough filament to print another 100,000 whistles, and the government may all suck but the folks I see every day do not.

Spite & joy, motherfuckers. Spite and fucking joy.

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KP @gokp.bsky.social · 4d
Shameful secret time: I spent my pre-teen to young adult years modding IRC channels - and this has long been true of all online spaces, as well. The more aggressive you are about dealing with assholes swiftly, the better. This has been on my mind as I set up a @badlawyerpod.bsky.social discord...
thewyzard.bsky.social The Wyzard @thewyzard.bsky.social · 5d
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 5d
Because in a lot of cases the incentives don't line up so instead you get either the upper aristocracy deciding it is in their interest to crush the yeomanry down and get control of all the land or you get the 'rich peasants' (e.g. hoplites) jealously guarding their position against the poor.

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 5d
Could you delete the AI images? They are not helpful and are likely to mislead readers.

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 6d
Reminds me of Charlie Munger’s obsession with windowless dorms. Even the most level headed people go insane somewhere in the 8 figure range.

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 6d
Semi related, have you read @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ‘s The Unaccountability Machine? It has a lot about responsibility for automated process and who should be responsible?

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 7d
A whole thesis can be written on George Washington’s “Do you want kings again? Because this is how you get kings.” and Sam Vimes’ “Humans are predisposed to bend at the knee and we need fight against this instinct to our last breath.”
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again. It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees

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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 8d
Want to see what MAGA is thinking right now?

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 9d
there is SO much going on in this case

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Christopher Gilbert and some friends were on a dock at a waterfront bar and restaurant in Lincoln Parish, when he nearly drowned after a friend pushed him into the water during horseplay. While Gilbert was hospitalized his somewhat estranged mother retained an attorney, Claudia Payne, who immediately undertook aggressive efforts on her social media accounts to create publicity about the incident and promote her involvement. Payne promoted a narrative suggesting criminal activity on the part of the friend who pushed Gilbert into the water and identified race as a potential factor in the incident. Payne solicited broader media coverage and participated in a resulting interview on a local television station, repeating her carefully crafted narrative of race-based motives and exaggerating circumstances regarding the already serious incident. Upon his discharge from the hospital, Gilbert determined that he disagreed with Payne's theory of his case and ended her representation of him. Payne's activist approach to representation of him. Payne's activist approach to the incident and assertions she represented Gilbert after her termination continued, however. Gilbert's new attorney then issued a statement that corrected the narrative put forth by Payne, to which Payne filed a lawsuit claiming defamation against Gilbert and his new attorney. In response, Gilbert and his attorney filed a special motion to strike, pursuant to Louisiana's anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuits against public participation) statute, La. C.C.P. art. 971, which protects free speech in connection with a public issue, arguing that their press release regarding the drowning and resulting publicity was true. The trial court granted the special motion to strike, dismissed Payne's claims, and awarded attorney fees to Gilbert and his attorney. Payne now appeals the trial court's ruling granting the special motion to strike. For the following reasons, we affirm the trial court's ruling and increase the attorney fee award to account for this appeal.

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
This is the funniest shit. I laughed till I ran out of air.

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
Guys with stingers on deck feels like a much simpler solution followed by turret with 20 stingers. /end uninformed take

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
I’m not super convinced. Water streams lose strength at range so interception is pretty dang close to ship (unless you detonate munitions) so it’s still likely a hit albeit imprecise. I’m also guessing you need a pretty decent lead time to line up the shot so not great during swarm attack. /2

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
The article frames it as a solution for drones with 10-15 ft wingspan and a couple hundred pound total weight approaching at 100-150 mph.

- Can a hose effectively target an object at that speed in range?
- How much water impact is need to reduce the drones precision or cause it to miss?
/1

paulfish.bsky.social
New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
It’s amazing what we can do now. I literally built a next train/bus arrival board for my home using parts that cost ~120 and a few hours of work. It uses these standardized apis and can work with most operators. So much better than consulting a printed timetable of dubious accuracy.
A wood framed LED sign showing the next three trains to arrive at a wmata station.

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New Year, New Paul @paulfish.bsky.social · 9d
The nazi plan for eastern europe was kill the slavs and establish organic family farms. They set up test settlements in Crimea before getting shit kicked in by Soviets.

Likewise, Herbal tea’s popularizers were into ghost alien Jesus stuff that was a spin-off of 7th day adventists.