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Gray Kimbrough

@graykimbrough.bsky.social

Economist, UNCG PhD, "serial millennial myth debunker," labor, housing and time use researcher, AU adjunct prof. Views are my own and not any employer's.

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Post image 26.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It looks like @brendanvduke.bsky.social can add "noted WSJ Wife Guy" to his bio.

25.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic.

The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.

16.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 229    🔁 78    💬 11    📌 4

I'm over here ruining the pairs figure skating by doing the math from the opening graphics and noting how many pairs formed when the man was an adult and the woman was not 18.

16.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It seems like a pretty basic rule that no training should suggest that employees speaking to customers say that suicide is "one option." www.govexec.com/management/2...

14.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2

I needed a marriage certificate from DC and made a point to collect it in person because the Marriage Bureau is such a lovely place to stop by.

14.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there already a Discourse around how Bad Bunny did a Turn Down For What, or do I need to start one?

09.02.2026 01:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I did not expect to be so affected by a throwaway illustration of a toxic relationship as a cactus that keeps pricking you when you try to reach out to it, but here we are.

07.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Top tier public testimony here, and a stark reminder that we are all responsible for what is done in our names.

04.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I could actually be a little more precise: the gaming activity code in the 2024 codebook explicitly includes "playing computer games," but doesn't actually mention videogames.

It also explicitly includes some potential gambling activities like poker and bingo.

28.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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I suspect that ATUS gaming time includes a lot of gambling. There is a code for "playing games" under Relaxing and Leisure for all games, with specific examples including video games, poker and bingo. There's a separate gambling activity code under Arts and Entertainment, but I haven't looked at it.

28.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to work from home with this kitten in my lap.

27.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

24.01.2026 23:31 — 👍 8122    🔁 2277    💬 95    📌 68
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I recently learned that swaddling cloths for cats exist. This one definitely makes it easier to clip the kitten's nails!

22.01.2026 01:58 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.

20.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 1217    🔁 130    💬 12    📌 25
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This adorable kitten is glad that we're back from our weekend trip.

20.01.2026 02:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I agree with your point here, but I also think that the way many Dems are insisting that this is the *only* issue they will discuss is bad politics. Politicians just don't have that much power over prices, so when they fail to bring them down they'll have nothing else to point to.

20.01.2026 00:23 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm not so sure about that AI overview.

19.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's so awful over there. No reason for anyone serious to engage with the awful people dominating the discussion there.

19.01.2026 03:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Which at this point seems to be

18.01.2026 22:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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18.01.2026 22:03 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man holding a piece of paper with the words " what 's the worst that could happen " ALT: a man holding a piece of paper with the words " what 's the worst that could happen "
18.01.2026 21:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She's still not from Greenland though

18.01.2026 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
18.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...and then that happened.

18.01.2026 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't look into FIFA too much

18.01.2026 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What I don't understand is why the ref lost control of the situation before that? It seemed like everyone was standing around for ages after the call before they walked off.

18.01.2026 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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18.01.2026 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please let me know if you figure it out bsky.app/profile/gray...

18.01.2026 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Perhaps one day we can figure out how to use these screens to display stops (like the one we're currently sitting at!) instead of meaningless messages.

16.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0