Datanerd
@datanerd.bsky.social
A very fine bearded economist. Chattanooga, TN; near Washington, DC; and New Smyrna Beach, FL. Profile pic is of a gator next to a canal, banner is of roseate spoonbills, both at Merritt Island NWR.
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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This is what David Ellison paid for:
December 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is what David Ellison paid for:
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1. The National Zoo in Washington is free.
2. Capybaras are judgy AF. The way they cut their eyes at you.
2. Capybaras are judgy AF. The way they cut their eyes at you.
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
1. The National Zoo in Washington is free.
2. Capybaras are judgy AF. The way they cut their eyes at you.
2. Capybaras are judgy AF. The way they cut their eyes at you.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of think the jilted ex-fiancé gets to say things like “she cheated on me with the leather-faced vaccine-denying falconer grandpa, and that’s why our coauthored book project has been scrapped.”
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of think the jilted ex-fiancé gets to say things like “she cheated on me with the leather-faced vaccine-denying falconer grandpa, and that’s why our coauthored book project has been scrapped.”
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
Ryan Lizza is trash, but this ain’t one of the reasons why.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
I've had this when visiting Singapore. The wet bathroom is something.
I am staying at a place with the toilet in the shower and it is >$400 per night
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I've had this when visiting Singapore. The wet bathroom is something.
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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Thoughts and prayers with Justice Kagan in her never-ending struggle to find judicially decorous ways to rage-scream "Did anyone in the majority actually do the work here, or did you dipshit fuckers just spend all this time jerking off over a photo of Antonin Scalia?"
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Thoughts and prayers with Justice Kagan in her never-ending struggle to find judicially decorous ways to rage-scream "Did anyone in the majority actually do the work here, or did you dipshit fuckers just spend all this time jerking off over a photo of Antonin Scalia?"
With any luck, he will keep doing this until he's out of office.
Trump taps new ballroom architect, replacing the one he hand-picked (and clashed with, as Trump micro-managed project and pushed to increase its size).
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the president and the original architect had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
With any luck, he will keep doing this until he's out of office.
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Other countries:
Lapland: Come and visit Santa and his reindeer!
Czech Republic: Come and visit Wenceslas Square!
Ireland: We killed Santa. Would you like to see his grave?
Lapland: Come and visit Santa and his reindeer!
Czech Republic: Come and visit Wenceslas Square!
Ireland: We killed Santa. Would you like to see his grave?
You come down the chimney in the middle of the night in rural Ireland and well...
Santa Claus buried in Kilkenny? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
December 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Other countries:
Lapland: Come and visit Santa and his reindeer!
Czech Republic: Come and visit Wenceslas Square!
Ireland: We killed Santa. Would you like to see his grave?
Lapland: Come and visit Santa and his reindeer!
Czech Republic: Come and visit Wenceslas Square!
Ireland: We killed Santa. Would you like to see his grave?
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You come down the chimney in the middle of the night in rural Ireland and well...
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
You come down the chimney in the middle of the night in rural Ireland and well...
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Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Oh great, the New Yorker of the ë and the é are here to ask if Louis CK has met the bar of great clarity after having made people watch him jack off into plants. Fortunately Betteridges law says No. Nope. Nope nope nope.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Oh great, the New Yorker of the ë and the é are here to ask if Louis CK has met the bar of great clarity after having made people watch him jack off into plants. Fortunately Betteridges law says No. Nope. Nope nope nope.
I figured it was a general thing, not just one guy. But that tracks.
nah it's the billionaire who funds Texas Tech complaining that other people get to pay players now too
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I figured it was a general thing, not just one guy. But that tracks.
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nah it's the billionaire who funds Texas Tech complaining that other people get to pay players now too
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
nah it's the billionaire who funds Texas Tech complaining that other people get to pay players now too
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All of us who graduated from The Wheatley School with Steve Witkoff in 1975 can take great pleasure in knowing that almost nothing any of us could ever do would make us the biggest asshole in our class.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
All of us who graduated from The Wheatley School with Steve Witkoff in 1975 can take great pleasure in knowing that almost nothing any of us could ever do would make us the biggest asshole in our class.
Around the corner from here, the history of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Around the corner from here, the history of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem