Otis Anderson
@oldjacket.bsky.social
Californian in New Hampshire. Very much a dad. Several seemingly unrelated topics! Data, analytics, SF Giants baseball, health care, econ. Occasional political outbursts. Sorry.
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Otis Anderson
@oldjacket.bsky.social
· Nov 9
“there is a great deal of ruin in a nation”
The kids are growing up
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The kids are growing up
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Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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unbelievable to me that rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead was written in 1966. what a towering work
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
unbelievable to me that rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead was written in 1966. what a towering work
The Giants 40 man is definitely at Farhan levels of odd construction right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The Giants 40 man is definitely at Farhan levels of odd construction right now
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There’s a local Turkish restaurant that constantly gets mentioned when someone asks for the best Greek food around Manchester NH.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There’s a local Turkish restaurant that constantly gets mentioned when someone asks for the best Greek food around Manchester NH.
The older I get, the more important I find it for my own sanity to talk about sports.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The older I get, the more important I find it for my own sanity to talk about sports.
I bet there are a lot of moments in history when bystanders were like “all of these people are awful but only one can be right.”
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I bet there are a lot of moments in history when bystanders were like “all of these people are awful but only one can be right.”
It’s $20 and I’m hungry 2.5 hours later
Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
The fast-casual chain Sweetgreen's struggles are worsening.
cnb.cx
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It’s $20 and I’m hungry 2.5 hours later
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Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
The fast-casual chain Sweetgreen's struggles are worsening.
cnb.cx
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Why Americans are giving up on Sweetgreen
just be normal, Rockies
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
just be normal, Rockies
This generally a pro Farhan account but the Tom Murphy/Joey Bart thing was an unforced error.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This generally a pro Farhan account but the Tom Murphy/Joey Bart thing was an unforced error.
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both of these notions are flat out wrong. if we actually taught humanities classes with the same rigor we do with STEM, a lot of people would actually fail. if you've ever had a kind of "literary version of insane ballet instructor" teacher, you understand this
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
both of these notions are flat out wrong. if we actually taught humanities classes with the same rigor we do with STEM, a lot of people would actually fail. if you've ever had a kind of "literary version of insane ballet instructor" teacher, you understand this
going to make carnitas burritos for my kid for tuesday night dinner/wednesday lunch. Just realized that I would probably never put rice in a homemade burrito but it is standard with takeout.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
going to make carnitas burritos for my kid for tuesday night dinner/wednesday lunch. Just realized that I would probably never put rice in a homemade burrito but it is standard with takeout.
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Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
That was a pretty great post-season, now the rest of the teams need to step up and do everything they can to prevent a three-peat.
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
That was a pretty great post-season, now the rest of the teams need to step up and do everything they can to prevent a three-peat.
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Recency bias notwithstanding, I feel like Vladito and Yamamoto are two of the most astonishing sustained postseason performances I've ever seen. I'm sure Madison Bumgarner has a case but I don't want care to think about him at this moment. I'd rather think about the cool guys.
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Recency bias notwithstanding, I feel like Vladito and Yamamoto are two of the most astonishing sustained postseason performances I've ever seen. I'm sure Madison Bumgarner has a case but I don't want care to think about him at this moment. I'd rather think about the cool guys.
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This is one of the best games I’ve ever seen, but I’m a Pirates fan so that really doesn’t say all that much
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is one of the best games I’ve ever seen, but I’m a Pirates fan so that really doesn’t say all that much
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Rooting for Max Scherzer because I, too, am old as hell.
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Rooting for Max Scherzer because I, too, am old as hell.
My reaction to every 5th post on r/softball
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My reaction to every 5th post on r/softball
Pinch run for that man
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Pinch run for that man
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I think all of this should start with a rebuttable presumption and the guy who just set the postseason whiff record and did this to Ohtani is going to hit harder at initial glance than anything Griffin or McGonigle did this year
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I think all of this should start with a rebuttable presumption and the guy who just set the postseason whiff record and did this to Ohtani is going to hit harder at initial glance than anything Griffin or McGonigle did this year
Bluesky is officially good for sports.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bluesky is officially good for sports.