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Austin
@auedbr.bsky.social
VT Econ PhD
Pittsburgh -> DC
https://auedbr-vt.github.io/
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I wanna be a Harlem Globetrotter that isn’t from Harlem and can’t play basketball.
December 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Clippy did this himself lots of times
September 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This guy clearly knows that a funicular is a PAIR of cable inclined elevators and is just posting this as rage bait
At what point does an inclined elevator become a funicular
Sex is great, but what about the inescapable allure of the inclined elevator.
June 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Every Will Stancil complaint is like

“I just can’t stand how he treats people who substitute three DoorDash screenshots for the BLS CPI like they’re stupid”
April 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I wonder if she says anything relevant immediately after the quote in the caption. One can only wonder
April 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Did Mark Cuban’s kid disown him after transitioning to being FDIC insured or something?
Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They download coin base or Robinhood app and buy crypto. That's their savings

If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men
This is legit the dumbest thing I've ever seen him say
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Anti-brutalism is for empty people who believe a building should give them a soul
Amid the orders President Trump signed on his first day back in office was a memorandum implicitly taking aim at Brutalist buildings. By revising guidelines for public buildings, he is attempting to imbue new ideals into the nation’s built environment, Anna Kodé writes. nyti.ms/4bfV8Ag
February 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
“I want Boeing and my scheming second-in-command to collaborate on a rush-job airplane”

he’s clearly playing chess in dimensions the human mind cannot comprehend
NEW: Trump, frustrated by delays on new AF1s, has empowered Musk to consider drastic options to make Boeing move faster, including relaxing security standards for some working on the planes or buying a new jet to retrofit. With Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Eric Schmitt.

nyti.ms/3X9UJt3
A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto
Among the ways being discussed to force faster delivery of two presidential planes are relaxing security clearances for Boeing workers and even purchasing a temporary luxury plane and retrofitting it.
nyti.ms
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I have wondered if the New York Times has been acting as handmaidens of fascism because the paper's leaders find it appealing, but now I'm wondering how many people with prominent positions there are just genuinely stupid.
February 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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logging on
Always anchor your TVs and furniture to the wall.
February 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Trump appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment system to block USAID payments, emails show.
Treasury Sought to Freeze Foreign Aid Payments, Emails Show
Trump administration appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury’s sensitive payment system to block payments.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The writing is on the wall; this will be used to cash out the crypto industry

www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m so sick of the cutesie nicknames for criticizing Trump; grow up and be serious.

Imagine a poster in the 1940s recruiting soldiers to fight “Nasty Charlie Chaplin”
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
You all are talking a big game about resisting the Gulf of Mexico renaming for people who gladly complied when they invented The Southern Ocean two decades ago
January 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The TikTok ban sets an obviously troubling precedence, but then I’ll come across a post like “Without TikTok, how are people ever supposed to learn how to file their taxes” and I suddenly feel less inclined to be concerned
January 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I know Chumbawumba are hard but when they refer to beer as "a lager drink" it's always given me "Niles Crane in a biker bar" vibes.
January 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NFL Sundays are a breath of fresh air on BlueSky offering a brief glimmer of hope for a future where people who have never heard of Jesse Signal post on the site.
January 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My statistical model predicts that, after ruminating on it for 10 years, Americans will realize the horror of the Access Hollywood tape and reject the GOP and Trumpism en masse, leading to a landslide blue wave in midterms.

The DNC pays me seven figures a year for these insights
January 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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December 30, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Wake up, babe, David Lynch is playing quarterback for Pitt.

Mulholland Drives 🚫
Touchdown Drives ✅

Blue Velvet 🚫
Red Zone ✅
December 26, 2024 at 7:31 PM
The comparison to Walk Hard has been made a million times already but this feels like a fake behind the scene but they’d do to market Walk Hard
December 21, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Establishing the run
squidward from spongebob is standing in a boat
ALT: squidward from spongebob is standing in a boat
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Cooper Flagg knows a lot of people from the DMV are watching him play GMU and really doesn’t want to be a Wizard
December 18, 2024 at 12:53 AM