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Rafe Meager (they/them)

@economeager.bsky.social

Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.

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the cry of the human heart here is just undeniable

09.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sign in store window: please just few min. Thank you

Sign in store window: please just few min. Thank you

Me, just before I nap

09.03.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Your regular reminder to exercise some caution when proclaiming the US electorate to be hopelessly polarised based on answers to cheap-talk survey questions. direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

09.03.2026 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

check it out!

09.03.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer GNX 🫒

09.03.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All I ever wanted was a black Grand National
Fuck being rational, give 'em what they ask for

09.03.2026 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's charming dont worry i was enjoying my outburst

09.03.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOUKAS

09.03.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking about Bolano's By Night in Chile again. Highly, highly recommend this book.

09.03.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

09.03.2026 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2093    πŸ” 502    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

you sure are!!

09.03.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ooooh dog-envier oooh (etc etc)

09.03.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tag yourself meme i'm more micro make more spin near wall

09.03.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

it's hot change machine summer

09.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hardest opener to an analytic philosophy paper in history?

09.03.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

oh it's always a damp towel and some deep breaths with you!!

09.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the eldest daughters of society, if u will

09.03.2026 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my brain saw these 3 tweets and inexplicably produced the following as a response: oracle of DEIlphi

09.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

which old study no much talk

09.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
WTI crude is up 24%
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Inevitable-Scheme-38 1h Edited

This is what we get for Abraham Lincoln not letting General Sherman absolutely shitface the entire South. This is what we get for letting Southerners vote in the first place. Get ready folks, the best is yet to come! The dumbest people in the US are the ones with all the voting power, yay!!

WTI crude is up 24% 187 upvotes 64 comments Inevitable-Scheme-38 1h Edited This is what we get for Abraham Lincoln not letting General Sherman absolutely shitface the entire South. This is what we get for letting Southerners vote in the first place. Get ready folks, the best is yet to come! The dumbest people in the US are the ones with all the voting power, yay!!

your average r/stocks poster now has "William T Sherman didn't go far enough" as a baseline, things are going Well for capitalism I see

09.03.2026 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1107    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 11

this is actually so good, learning about interest is really hard to do (it's just so so hard to accept that what seems like a very small % will eventually lead to a change that is very very large) i think you are net winning here!!

09.03.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

huh

09.03.2026 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

scanning the bio "university of florida.... ah of course, a certain type of slavery for sure... NO RAFE FOCUS IT CANNOT HAVE BEEN A UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA JOKE IN THE OPENING LINE...."

09.03.2026 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"and I can say this
perhaps with greater feeling than most, having in a manner of speaking been a slave"

IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING ????

fastest google search i ever fired off in my life, had to know immediately

09.03.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Rizz power will do nicely as a term in like ten years I reckon, inshallah we make it to then

09.03.2026 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lmaooooo

09.03.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The real trans agenda

09.03.2026 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Odes to Ovid: 2,000 years of art inspired by Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum With works from Caravaggio to Louise Bourgeois, this spectacular Amsterdam show reminds us of art’s eternal pleasures

Belatedly following up on the discourse on transfem depictions in art, the Rijksmuseum's new Ovid exhibition showcases Bernini's 'Sleeping Hermaphroditus' (1620) which has the integrity to show us as we truly are: sooooo sleepy. πŸ₯±πŸ’€
God I love naps, and that mattress looks so comfy...

08.03.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly !!!

09.03.2026 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

08.03.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1543    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3