Les von Darrow
@lesvondarrow.bsky.social
"We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us."
When I was six my parents would regularly send me on runs to a corner shop a few blocks away to buy them cigarettes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
When I was six my parents would regularly send me on runs to a corner shop a few blocks away to buy them cigarettes.
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Incredible to think it’s nearly nine years since Arsenal lost 10-2 to Bayern. I went to both of those legs, the team & indeed the whole club were a mess. Everything was futile, joyless & shallow. Fans ran on to the pitch to protest against the owners (rightly).
Arteta’s turnaround is miraculous.
Arteta’s turnaround is miraculous.
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Incredible to think it’s nearly nine years since Arsenal lost 10-2 to Bayern. I went to both of those legs, the team & indeed the whole club were a mess. Everything was futile, joyless & shallow. Fans ran on to the pitch to protest against the owners (rightly).
Arteta’s turnaround is miraculous.
Arteta’s turnaround is miraculous.
“Poker is not very left coded” is just such an incredibly stupid take.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“Poker is not very left coded” is just such an incredibly stupid take.
Arsenal were pretty good 20 years ago and are pretty good now so I don’t reckon much can have happened in between.
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Arsenal were pretty good 20 years ago and are pretty good now so I don’t reckon much can have happened in between.
Although I very much doubt this was in their thinking, the forecasts will definitely be wrong one way or another. A surefire way to increase the chance they will be wrong on the downside rather than the upside is to frontload a bunch of fiscal consolidation. Better forecasts, pre-election goodies.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Although I very much doubt this was in their thinking, the forecasts will definitely be wrong one way or another. A surefire way to increase the chance they will be wrong on the downside rather than the upside is to frontload a bunch of fiscal consolidation. Better forecasts, pre-election goodies.
More than snubbing To Potami, the bigger issue was that they just weren’t ready yet (hence stupid shit like appointing Varoufakis as finance minister). It’s another reason why they just shouldn’t have forced an election because they could have done with the extra year to get ready.
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
More than snubbing To Potami, the bigger issue was that they just weren’t ready yet (hence stupid shit like appointing Varoufakis as finance minister). It’s another reason why they just shouldn’t have forced an election because they could have done with the extra year to get ready.
It comes down to a problem I think a lot of analysts have when coming to a country, as there’s to look at what party is close to what on the political and so end up working together, whereas in fact a lot of it comes down to who hates who.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It comes down to a problem I think a lot of analysts have when coming to a country, as there’s to look at what party is close to what on the political and so end up working together, whereas in fact a lot of it comes down to who hates who.
The thing about the To Potami link up is that it was never actually on the cards. To Potami’s “kingmaker” role was talked up a bit in the international press, but Syriza were having none of it. The coalition with ANEL was deeply cynical and unprincipled, but you could see the logic behind it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The thing about the To Potami link up is that it was never actually on the cards. To Potami’s “kingmaker” role was talked up a bit in the international press, but Syriza were having none of it. The coalition with ANEL was deeply cynical and unprincipled, but you could see the logic behind it.
Big lol (though I needed a trigger warning before seeing those two handles! 😂)
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Big lol (though I needed a trigger warning before seeing those two handles! 😂)
I have no idea how he is on game theory as that's really not my thing, but he's risible as a macroeconomist and showed no sign of understanding accounting principles (which I suspect he deemed beneath him). Good macroeconomists put this guy on a pedestal, and I just don't understand it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I have no idea how he is on game theory as that's really not my thing, but he's risible as a macroeconomist and showed no sign of understanding accounting principles (which I suspect he deemed beneath him). Good macroeconomists put this guy on a pedestal, and I just don't understand it.