european investors own trillions of dollars worth of US financial assets -- if it's true (per FT earlier today) that (counter suggestions) this *can't* be counter-leveragerd politically, that's just one more (v big) demonstration that the market set-up has become a ludicrously unstable trap
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 PM
european investors own trillions of dollars worth of US financial assets -- if it's true (per FT earlier today) that (counter suggestions) this *can't* be counter-leveragerd politically, that's just one more (v big) demonstration that the market set-up has become a ludicrously unstable trap
my actual hands-down favourite poster here (also on twitter) posts very little these days 😔 i fear things are getting to her in her job or the world (or worse she's just growing out of posting)
i dont know her or anything i just came across her feed thx to a silly buzzfeed article & photo in 2019
January 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM
my actual hands-down favourite poster here (also on twitter) posts very little these days 😔 i fear things are getting to her in her job or the world (or worse she's just growing out of posting)
i dont know her or anything i just came across her feed thx to a silly buzzfeed article & photo in 2019
also bcz they were always housed in the bathroom! the family friends who inspired me to become a writer -- she was a translator-novelist -- had stacks of little books there of early mad magazine (which i didn't really like or understand) & cartoons by long-forgotten french satirist siné
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
also bcz they were always housed in the bathroom! the family friends who inspired me to become a writer -- she was a translator-novelist -- had stacks of little books there of early mad magazine (which i didn't really like or understand) & cartoons by long-forgotten french satirist siné
I know this is not smart of me — I even studied german, I must have been off for that lesson — but I was genuinely startled when i discovered JUST LAST YEAR that faust is the german for fist
January 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I know this is not smart of me — I even studied german, I must have been off for that lesson — but I was genuinely startled when i discovered JUST LAST YEAR that faust is the german for fist
havent read the offending FT piece yet (also still havent watched barkan vs ganz lol) but "more iron age chieftain than a fascist leading a modern state" is way too abraracourcix-coded
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM
havent read the offending FT piece yet (also still havent watched barkan vs ganz lol) but "more iron age chieftain than a fascist leading a modern state" is way too abraracourcix-coded