Umit Singh Dhuga
@usdhuga.bsky.social
Hedge fund manager.
Former Classics professor (PhD Columbia 2006; postdoc Harvard 2008).
Author of three books (philology & poetry)
Hyperpolyglot.
Pope.
Author website: https://www.usdhuga.com
Academic website: https://columbia.academia.edu/UmitDhuga
Former Classics professor (PhD Columbia 2006; postdoc Harvard 2008).
Author of three books (philology & poetry)
Hyperpolyglot.
Pope.
Author website: https://www.usdhuga.com
Academic website: https://columbia.academia.edu/UmitDhuga
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November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Share a 90s movie that you think deserves more love:
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November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Today we launch a new @empirepoduk.bsky.social mini-series to mark the beginning of the Ashes:
A FOREIGN FIELD:
THE HISTORY OF COLONIAL CRICKET
With Tim Wigmore @timwig
Author of Test Cricket: A History
Winner of this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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A FOREIGN FIELD:
THE HISTORY OF COLONIAL CRICKET
With Tim Wigmore @timwig
Author of Test Cricket: A History
Winner of this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year
share.google/rukQ1zLzMQT8...
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
If you haven’t read David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel “Flesh”, I highly recommend it.
Here’s Stormzy reading from it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Rz...
Here’s Stormzy reading from it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Rz...
Stormzy reads from Flesh by David Szalay | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If you haven’t read David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel “Flesh”, I highly recommend it.
Here’s Stormzy reading from it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Rz...
Here’s Stormzy reading from it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Rz...
“But I am not Enron”, oil on canvas
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“But I am not Enron”, oil on canvas
Watching the close like
a man wearing glasses is reading a newspaper in a dark room
ALT: a man wearing glasses is reading a newspaper in a dark room
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Watching the close like
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I had a Saturday job around here but now I remember it more from the show I heard about where, when Earth was illuminated in the cosmic dome, somebody started booing.
Postcard via Bill Melhuish
Postcard via Bill Melhuish
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I had a Saturday job around here but now I remember it more from the show I heard about where, when Earth was illuminated in the cosmic dome, somebody started booing.
Postcard via Bill Melhuish
Postcard via Bill Melhuish
Ladies and gentlemen — the weekend.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ladies and gentlemen — the weekend.
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You gotta love getting to witness something that’s only been seen three other times in more than 32 years sherwood.news/markets/us-s... $SPY
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You gotta love getting to witness something that’s only been seen three other times in more than 32 years sherwood.news/markets/us-s... $SPY
“But it’s not a bubble”, oil on canvas
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
“But it’s not a bubble”, oil on canvas
NVDA earnings today reminded me of the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
NVDA earnings today reminded me of the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30
VOO is 222 bps behind the VanEck JP Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF on a total return basis YTD with considerably less volatility.
Not investment advice.
Not investment advice.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
VOO is 222 bps behind the VanEck JP Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF on a total return basis YTD with considerably less volatility.
Not investment advice.
Not investment advice.
A stunning chart — which is also a #ChartCrime
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A stunning chart — which is also a #ChartCrime
If “these goods cannot be produced in sufficient quantities domestically”, perhaps one ought to reconsider H1B visas and, while one is at it, immigration altogether.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products
The executive order allowing products like coffee and bananas to escape tariffs comes as the Trump administration faces mounting pressure over rising prices.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If “these goods cannot be produced in sufficient quantities domestically”, perhaps one ought to reconsider H1B visas and, while one is at it, immigration altogether.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ladies and gentlemen — the weekend.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ladies and gentlemen — the weekend.
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Luke is so so good. Follow and click.
How speculative tech stocks lost one-third of their value in the past month
Answer: Quickly
Other answers:
sherwood.news/markets/unpa...
Answer: Quickly
Other answers:
sherwood.news/markets/unpa...
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Luke is so so good. Follow and click.
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QQQs and 50day. Only the 3rd time since April that we've approached the 50 day
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
QQQs and 50day. Only the 3rd time since April that we've approached the 50 day
Honda Odyssey is probably the most familiar example of this sort of mythological hilarity I know.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Honda Odyssey is probably the most familiar example of this sort of mythological hilarity I know.
On God.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
On God.
On God.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
On God.
On God.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
On God.
I think CPI has to be released or you'll be in default on TIPS
*LEAVITT: OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY NEVER TO BE RELEASED
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM