Tom Piggy
@tompepinsky.com
Teacher, researcher, globalist, republican.
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My Name is Jonas
London Calling
Cinnamon Girl
I Wanna Be Adored
(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
London Calling
Cinnamon Girl
I Wanna Be Adored
(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My Name is Jonas
London Calling
Cinnamon Girl
I Wanna Be Adored
(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
London Calling
Cinnamon Girl
I Wanna Be Adored
(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
In support of our collective mental health,
- the only objectively bad food is sweet pickles
- the only meaningful difference between matzo ball soup and Amish chicken corn soup is corn
- the best food country is Australia and it’s not even close
- everything should be fusion. I want rendang tacos
- the only objectively bad food is sweet pickles
- the only meaningful difference between matzo ball soup and Amish chicken corn soup is corn
- the best food country is Australia and it’s not even close
- everything should be fusion. I want rendang tacos
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In support of our collective mental health,
- the only objectively bad food is sweet pickles
- the only meaningful difference between matzo ball soup and Amish chicken corn soup is corn
- the best food country is Australia and it’s not even close
- everything should be fusion. I want rendang tacos
- the only objectively bad food is sweet pickles
- the only meaningful difference between matzo ball soup and Amish chicken corn soup is corn
- the best food country is Australia and it’s not even close
- everything should be fusion. I want rendang tacos
The MAHA brain worm has consumed the NYT. “You’d be surprised how healthy it is to eat an enormous meal of salt and starch at 3pm and then go take a nap."
(if you’re only eating white meat turkey, are you even alive?)
(if you’re only eating white meat turkey, are you even alive?)
Psst: Thanksgiving Is Healthier Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The MAHA brain worm has consumed the NYT. “You’d be surprised how healthy it is to eat an enormous meal of salt and starch at 3pm and then go take a nap."
(if you’re only eating white meat turkey, are you even alive?)
(if you’re only eating white meat turkey, are you even alive?)
My favorite lecture slides are pictures of United States presidents standing next to Southeast Asian heads of state
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My favorite lecture slides are pictures of United States presidents standing next to Southeast Asian heads of state
Reposted by Tom Piggy
It is important as a profession that journalism not work this way but as a parent of small children if I had a one-on-ome sitdown with the man who brought back measles and whooping cough I would treat the meeting exactly the same as if I were wrestling a gun out of the hands of a mass shooter.
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It is important as a profession that journalism not work this way but as a parent of small children if I had a one-on-ome sitdown with the man who brought back measles and whooping cough I would treat the meeting exactly the same as if I were wrestling a gun out of the hands of a mass shooter.
Our whole political order depends on our ability to complain, to criticize, to speak truth to power, and to question authority.
Never forget how the free speech brigade, once in control of our peak institutions, immediately suppressed any criticism of the most powerful people in the world.
Never forget how the free speech brigade, once in control of our peak institutions, immediately suppressed any criticism of the most powerful people in the world.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Our whole political order depends on our ability to complain, to criticize, to speak truth to power, and to question authority.
Never forget how the free speech brigade, once in control of our peak institutions, immediately suppressed any criticism of the most powerful people in the world.
Never forget how the free speech brigade, once in control of our peak institutions, immediately suppressed any criticism of the most powerful people in the world.
The administration just announced the end of TPS status designation for Burma, which will affect anyone from Burma in the U.S. with TPS status right now.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21069.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21069.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The administration just announced the end of TPS status designation for Burma, which will affect anyone from Burma in the U.S. with TPS status right now.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21069.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21069.pdf
The mere possibility of a drive-by Chotinering has me reconsidering my social media presence
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The mere possibility of a drive-by Chotinering has me reconsidering my social media presence
Too bad the crypto Nazis also invented a currency to circumvent this entirely
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Too bad the crypto Nazis also invented a currency to circumvent this entirely
A reminder indeed 👀
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A reminder indeed 👀
East Coast regional variations in Thanksgiving menus are like accents. This identifies my heritage as South Atlantic WASP:
1. white rice (no potatoes, mashed or otherwise)
2. spinach casserole (no green beans)
3. ambrosia as a side dish (no dressing, no marshmallows)
4. cherry and pumpkin pies
1. white rice (no potatoes, mashed or otherwise)
2. spinach casserole (no green beans)
3. ambrosia as a side dish (no dressing, no marshmallows)
4. cherry and pumpkin pies
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
East Coast regional variations in Thanksgiving menus are like accents. This identifies my heritage as South Atlantic WASP:
1. white rice (no potatoes, mashed or otherwise)
2. spinach casserole (no green beans)
3. ambrosia as a side dish (no dressing, no marshmallows)
4. cherry and pumpkin pies
1. white rice (no potatoes, mashed or otherwise)
2. spinach casserole (no green beans)
3. ambrosia as a side dish (no dressing, no marshmallows)
4. cherry and pumpkin pies
My theory, tested through exposure to Australian higher education administration, is that they are hopelessly captured by the consultants, and that higher education consultants are particularly shallow and uninteresting.
i really struggle to understand why centre left parties do not like universities, do not like the soft power we wield (imagine getting to educate the children of your geopolitical rivals!!!! IMAGINE!!!). i dont believe that albo, starmer, etc are this stupid, it's got to be hatred. but y.
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
My theory, tested through exposure to Australian higher education administration, is that they are hopelessly captured by the consultants, and that higher education consultants are particularly shallow and uninteresting.
Arby’s new Triply Robust Panel Estimator.
We have the E[εᵢₜ]s.
We have the E[εᵢₜ]s.
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Arby’s new Triply Robust Panel Estimator.
We have the E[εᵢₜ]s.
We have the E[εᵢₜ]s.
Reposted by Tom Piggy
Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”
If it hadn’t been for that horse, I never would have gotten into college
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If it hadn’t been for that horse, I never would have gotten into college
Every kid who even mildly was into music in the mid-1990s agreed that the Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin were beyond criticism. There was some disagreement about The Who. The Beach Boys were uncool.
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Every kid who even mildly was into music in the mid-1990s agreed that the Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin were beyond criticism. There was some disagreement about The Who. The Beach Boys were uncool.
Reposted by Tom Piggy
Update! Pulling an "I'm in charge here," Rubio confirms that he is not, in fact, the nation's top diplomat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Update! Pulling an "I'm in charge here," Rubio confirms that he is not, in fact, the nation's top diplomat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
You know where you are with
We are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
And I am a material girl
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
You know where you are with
lol sorry about your perfect season
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
lol sorry about your perfect season
Check it out!
Our paper just got accepted in the @thejop.bsky.social 🎉 and is now on the journal website: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... For me personally, it's a milestone: my first paper accepted after a peer review!
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Check it out!
Can’t even post classic Hieronymous Bosch because of woke
Checking the socials for the latest updates on our fallen, corrupted political class
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can’t even post classic Hieronymous Bosch because of woke
Checking the socials for the latest updates on our fallen, corrupted political class
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Checking the socials for the latest updates on our fallen, corrupted political class
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
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Mani, you were adored
Mani, you were adored
Very sad today. Thank you for being such an incredible bassist and person Mani! We will miss you. 😢
#GreatestBandEver
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
#GreatestBandEver
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Mani’s writhing, relentless bass was the Stone Roses’ secret sauce – it taught indie kids how to dance | Alexis Petridis
His love of ‘good northern soul and funk’ was always in evidence and had a lasting impact on alternative music
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Mani, you were adored
Mani, you were adored