Flying Mezerkis
@bananapantz.bsky.social
Ne'er do well, sailor. The Jim Belushi of poasters. Biding my time.
Every day and in every way, I’m trying to become a better Lieutenant Junior Grade.
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time.
Every day and in every way, I’m trying to become a better Lieutenant Junior Grade.
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time.
Anyway!
I’m off this app allegedly for a bit to do some cocktail hour stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Be good to each other. Good luck cooking and see you all way too soon. I’m sure.
I’m off this app allegedly for a bit to do some cocktail hour stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Be good to each other. Good luck cooking and see you all way too soon. I’m sure.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Anyway!
I’m off this app allegedly for a bit to do some cocktail hour stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Be good to each other. Good luck cooking and see you all way too soon. I’m sure.
I’m off this app allegedly for a bit to do some cocktail hour stuff.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Be good to each other. Good luck cooking and see you all way too soon. I’m sure.
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Nestled within this bizarre story is the important news that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken the first steps toward striking down its state’s GOP congressional gerrymander, a move that could net Democrats 2-3 more seats in the House of Representatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander
It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
slate.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Nestled within this bizarre story is the important news that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken the first steps toward striking down its state’s GOP congressional gerrymander, a move that could net Democrats 2-3 more seats in the House of Representatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
How I’m sailing in to Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How I’m sailing in to Thanksgiving
Techbro invents trolling
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Techbro invents trolling
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
Interesting.
GS says there has never been more short interest against US public utilities since 1985 (oldest data).
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
GS says there has never been more short interest against US public utilities since 1985 (oldest data).
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
What are the hedge funds shorting?
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Interesting.
GS says there has never been more short interest against US public utilities since 1985 (oldest data).
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
GS says there has never been more short interest against US public utilities since 1985 (oldest data).
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
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Those electric car doors popularized by Tesla have become hazards — sometimes deadly hazards.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Electric Door Tesla Made Famous Is Now a Danger in Other Cars
Electric doors have locked owners out of their cars, or trapped them inside.
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Those electric car doors popularized by Tesla have become hazards — sometimes deadly hazards.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Must have been the AI.
GOLDMAN: “.. Since the Late 1990s, US Labor Productivity Has Grown More Than Twice as Fast as Other Advanced Economies” 🇺🇸
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Must have been the AI.
My “Special Redaction Project” baseball hat has people asking questions already [redacted] by the [redacted]
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My “Special Redaction Project” baseball hat has people asking questions already [redacted] by the [redacted]
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Forget your medieval peasants, consider the abject misery humans lived in for eons.
Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Forget your medieval peasants, consider the abject misery humans lived in for eons.
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scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
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Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Oh god
Awful stuff
*HONG KONG LEADER SAYS 36 DEAD, 279 MISSING IN HIGH-RISE FIRE
*HONG KONG LEADER SAYS 36 DEAD, 279 MISSING IN HIGH-RISE FIRE
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Oh god
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So all the relatives and extended people are here and last night like 8 adults kept asking my kid what 6-7 meant and she was like "I don't know what you're talking about" and later she and I were playing Kart and she just blurted out to me "we just say it because it makes Mrs S. mad at school" 🤌🤌🤌🤌
Honestly good job kids with the 6-7. I didn't think modern times would have anything like the "satanic messages in backwards music" bullshit we grew up with but you guys have angered and confused the adults to such an extent that there's like a whole 6-7 media beat now. Respect
Headlines That Look Like Shitposts
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So all the relatives and extended people are here and last night like 8 adults kept asking my kid what 6-7 meant and she was like "I don't know what you're talking about" and later she and I were playing Kart and she just blurted out to me "we just say it because it makes Mrs S. mad at school" 🤌🤌🤌🤌
Atlantic: “our sympathetic portrayal of RFK asks, what if his decade-long addiction to heroin & belief that he inherited god-like political powers from his uncle, is the unique key that unlocks the mystery of why 15% of Americans are skeptical of vaccines. My exceptional access suggests it might”
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Atlantic: “our sympathetic portrayal of RFK asks, what if his decade-long addiction to heroin & belief that he inherited god-like political powers from his uncle, is the unique key that unlocks the mystery of why 15% of Americans are skeptical of vaccines. My exceptional access suggests it might”
Our system failed to uphold itself by convicting this criminal of trying to steal the elections.
And it’s unsurprising that people are mad as hell and dispirited in losing faith in the system.
And it’s unsurprising that people are mad as hell and dispirited in losing faith in the system.
".. He even argued that 'reasonable minds could differ' as to how to interpret the .. call between Mr. Trump and Brad Raffensperger ..
But "Mr. Raffensperger, in his 2021 book .. was unequivocal .. 'The president was asking me to do something that I knew was wrong.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
But "Mr. Raffensperger, in his 2021 book .. was unequivocal .. 'The president was asking me to do something that I knew was wrong.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Our system failed to uphold itself by convicting this criminal of trying to steal the elections.
And it’s unsurprising that people are mad as hell and dispirited in losing faith in the system.
And it’s unsurprising that people are mad as hell and dispirited in losing faith in the system.
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👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼
Me and, unusually, @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on:
- who's shorting what and why (spoiler, it rhymes with 'AI hubble')
- nerds
- u ok, crypto maxis?
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
Me and, unusually, @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on:
- who's shorting what and why (spoiler, it rhymes with 'AI hubble')
- nerds
- u ok, crypto maxis?
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
What are the hedge funds shorting?
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼
Me and, unusually, @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on:
- who's shorting what and why (spoiler, it rhymes with 'AI hubble')
- nerds
- u ok, crypto maxis?
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
Me and, unusually, @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on:
- who's shorting what and why (spoiler, it rhymes with 'AI hubble')
- nerds
- u ok, crypto maxis?
open.spotify.com/episode/6EYU...
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wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
One thing I don’t understand about people like Garry Tan is.
They are obviously smart. They are also obviously very fortunate.
But why do they repeatedly, aggressively and publicly say some of the dumbest things that have ever been said.
They are obviously smart. They are also obviously very fortunate.
But why do they repeatedly, aggressively and publicly say some of the dumbest things that have ever been said.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One thing I don’t understand about people like Garry Tan is.
They are obviously smart. They are also obviously very fortunate.
But why do they repeatedly, aggressively and publicly say some of the dumbest things that have ever been said.
They are obviously smart. They are also obviously very fortunate.
But why do they repeatedly, aggressively and publicly say some of the dumbest things that have ever been said.
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Yes, scrapings of earnings reports post pandemic show companies managing headcount down more patiently through natural attrition & higher performance standards (for cause) than mass layoffs
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Yes, scrapings of earnings reports post pandemic show companies managing headcount down more patiently through natural attrition & higher performance standards (for cause) than mass layoffs
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Full endorsement of this take from an FX guy. Stablecoins are best thought of as derivatives on the dollar with massive embedded counterparty risk. I don't understand why the US policy establishment thinks these things will play a big role outside cross-border payments in developing countries.
So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Full endorsement of this take from an FX guy. Stablecoins are best thought of as derivatives on the dollar with massive embedded counterparty risk. I don't understand why the US policy establishment thinks these things will play a big role outside cross-border payments in developing countries.
I’m not an expert on Tether in particular. So I’m slightly presuming various things here.
But this is one of the worst things from a public policy thing to exist. It’s an ur-example of what’s wrong in society with the wealthy privatizing gains and socializing risks.
Tether is a giant bag of $$
But this is one of the worst things from a public policy thing to exist. It’s an ur-example of what’s wrong in society with the wealthy privatizing gains and socializing risks.
Tether is a giant bag of $$
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’m not an expert on Tether in particular. So I’m slightly presuming various things here.
But this is one of the worst things from a public policy thing to exist. It’s an ur-example of what’s wrong in society with the wealthy privatizing gains and socializing risks.
Tether is a giant bag of $$
But this is one of the worst things from a public policy thing to exist. It’s an ur-example of what’s wrong in society with the wealthy privatizing gains and socializing risks.
Tether is a giant bag of $$
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Stablecoins are neither harbingers of stability nor will they be "coins" that replace dollars. But they just might cause the next systemic banking crisis:
I wrote @barrons.com about the Genius Act, Stablecoins, & what it means for financial stability (no good, potentially very bad) & the future of dollar dominance in global finance (somewhat paradoxically, likely reinforcing)
The Genius Act Raised The Odds Of A Crisis. No Bank Is Immune.
A broad adoption of stablecoins will threaten the stability of the entire financial system, Mark Copelovitch writes in a guest commentary.
www.barrons.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Stablecoins are neither harbingers of stability nor will they be "coins" that replace dollars. But they just might cause the next systemic banking crisis: