alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival

YouTube video by American High it’ll look so good for the catalog #collegelife #campus #schoolphoto #photographer #diversity

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i think i should buy a map of denmark on ebay or sth and put it on my wall

happy 12th birthday to my sporcle account, created at the peak of my denmark phase

what am i even doing bro

copenhagen's 2023 budget agreement did not include either of S or SF but it did include everybody else on the council, including the communists, which are the largest single party on the council

looking forward to the danish local elections next month. a reminder that in 2021 in bornholm the communists (which came first) joined forces with the danish people's party (which came third) to elect a mayor from the conservatives (which came fourth) over the candidate from the socdems.

🇳🇱🗳️ La majorité au conseil municipal de Rotterdam :

➡️Leefbaar Rotterdam
Droite populiste héritière de Pim Fortuyn

➡️VVD
Libéraux conservateurs

➡️D66
Sociaux liberaux du prochain Premier ministre

➡️DENK
Pro-migrants, conservateur culturel, islamiste soft

🤯

i take the perspective that my lack of taste buds pair well with my miserly emotions on spending

and i'm just saying that i think generally the received wisdom is that the more educated you are the more likely you are to form your own strong political beliefs and i think union members with more educated probably have more fully-formed strong political beliefs at the point of joining up

kind of, but when people talk about 'union membership gets people to vote left' we want to partial out the selection effects and assess only any causal effects of union membership on voting behaviour

like the risk preference profile of people who choose to go into finance for example

i think what you said (believing that union membership strengthens your actual negotiating position) is real and overlapping but distinct from what i was going for

not to mention conceivably people could sort into jobs that are more unionisable based on political preference, and/or be shaped by those jobs into more solidaristic politics.

i wonder if one can even disentangle the causal relationships between union membership and voter preference among college graduates. like to some extent graduates choose to join unions as a political/ideological signalling device.

Union members have polarized by education level, with non-college members now less affected by their union membership. Union members have maintained their Democratic partisanship only by becoming more educated over time
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currently in the part of the trade course where every homework exercise requires me to look up 1.7 definitions

i am nowhere near that 10% obviously

I just realized that the Maine Senatorial election is actually more than a year away, and I now love parliamentary systems even more than I did two hours ago.

declaring my interest here (tweed pervert)

what supermarket does platner buy groceries from? does platner own shares? what sports does platner watch? etc.

as long as the north east megalopolis is not subject to this trend i'm okay with this

i do think pronouncing it as mandani is kind of normal in the same way that most people actually pronounce the n in sandwich as an m (and elide the d altogether), but generally i just think this doesn't matter and mamdani himself hasn't really dwelled on this i think

Why Are Hipsters Wearing Carhartt?

article from *2017*

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who are all these supposed highly-skilled people countries are so desperate to attract (aside from medical professionals, that i get) bc i've seen some of the places you'd expect to find a lot of them and i can't imagine more than 10% are people you actually *need*

UK income inequality has not trended up since 2000, but the UK has generally become poorer relative to its peers (this is income Gini index)

www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/d...

and also that education is mostly funded by local taxes in america

the holiday that also reminds us that americans (like people from other countries) like to live in communities that self-sort by income and prefer to give insurance-like support to people who they perceive as more like them

you've decided you get to pick and choose who to let in, that's sth only the top countries can do!

why are you at the ONS book club library