@datanerd.bsky.social
A very fine bearded economist. Chattanooga, TN; near Washington, DC; and New Smyrna Beach, FL. Profile pic is of a gator next to a canal, banner is of roseate spoonbills, both at Merritt Island NWR.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
10.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who orders half a guinea pig?
10.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tim Kaine and Mark Warner need to step the fuck up for vets. There's a ton of them in Virginia.
10.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
10.10.2025 00:27 — 👍 12279 🔁 2268 💬 308 📌 272Do we know which billionaire bought him seats?
10.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That was me in school.
09.10.2025 08:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You subjected us to more Scott Baio? To the Hague with you!
09.10.2025 03:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or Vermouth, aka Vermut. Delightful on ice.
09.10.2025 02:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not sangria. Tinto de Verano, red wine mixed with lemon soda.
09.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0bsky.app/profile/data...
09.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Post is beclowning itself with its Opinion section. I finally cancelled last month after 26 years with them.
09.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 54 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1The Post is beclowning itself with its Opinion section. I finally cancelled last month after 26 years with them.
09.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 54 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Yep.
09.10.2025 01:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What in the actual FUCK?
09.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Committing new constitutional violations by breaching the rights of a man named Miranda during an arrest?
If this goes to the Supreme Court it would be the mother of all ‘weird that it happened twice’ moments.
siri what happens when the brains of the world’s most powerful hegemon melts out of its ears
08.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0At his age he, like my mom, should get looked at 2 times a year.
08.10.2025 22:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.
07.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 1744 🔁 338 💬 107 📌 9
Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
07.10.2025 02:26 — 👍 333 🔁 154 💬 11 📌 20"The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don't actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
I'm going to refer to Betteridge's law of headlines and say no. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
07.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm going to refer to Betteridge's law of headlines and say no. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...
07.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My wife and I were talking about the striped chewing gum of our youth this weekend.
07.10.2025 02:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0to quote the aliens in the Farscape episode that was riffing on Pulp Fiction ... WHY SO DIFFICULT
05.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 71 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Reminder that Benny Johnson took money from russia to spread divisive content in the USA.
04.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 706 🔁 174 💬 18 📌 3Drat that Tim Apple.
04.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.
Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
