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Umit Singh Dhuga

@usdhuga.bsky.social

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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

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · Jan 27

“But the eggs didn’t go down?”, oil on canvas

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Helps to hedge your sustained prayers with sustained self-flagellation.

Spirit-cost averaging is a good way to neutralise the impacts of spikes in devotion.

Not investment advice.

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Also don’t forget the long and variable lags that come with prayer.

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Banger.

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Bcc @lorak.bsky.social

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Bcc @pppgrifter.bsky.social

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 14h

It’s the Y.

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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 18h

Hi, how are you? I’m agog over this 3,500-year-old Hittite poem translated and published in @theparisreivew.bsky.social

Photo of a page from the Fall 2025 issue of the Paris Review containing a Hittite poem called “Telipinu went,” written between 1450 and 1350 BCE

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 14h

He threw home because he’s human.

Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 14h

The Bible contains exactly three references to EBIT. Neither depreciation nor amortisation were part of Jesus’s wheelhouse.

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On God.

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not sure whether Jesus knew GAAP.

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Not investment advice.

Not even @dcslider.bsky.social advice.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 15h

"A change is gonna come" Otis Redding www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhL... #music #freedom

Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 14h

Mangosteen Republic.

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 15h

Fixed it.

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Banger.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

L-R:
Tether - Bitcoin - $Trump - Actually The Underlying Technology

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God / Jesus / Holy Ghost

We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 2d

Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense

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I made a short film to explain the productivity gains, which are twofold:

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Umit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 15h

8.5” x 11” or A4?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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