Algol

a lot of this is basically ways to bilk retail traders

Why...did CNN do this

thats gotta be such a huge relief 🙏🙏

like maybe youre insured in some band but the straight closes and you start getting margin calls and you have to decide whether you unwind and hope everything blows over in a month or risk an even more adverse environment later on

depends on the leverage, no? and they dont even have to be speculators really. anyone buying or selling in large quantities is hedging in all kinds of ways, especially for something like oil which is relatively volatile i think

>> if a huge commodities fund (or set of funds, or industrial suppliers or high volume consumers) are levered/hedged up in some arcane way that affects the market as readily as what an economist might think of as "fundamentals"

one thing i think is underestimated by econ, as opposed to finance, types is that what "fundamentals" means is often quite murky in practice >>

i feel like this sort of thing is why my default smalltalk answer for this is always some variation on "keepin busy"

bolsonaro and yoon will both be pardoned by the next right wing government in their respective countries

i hope you feel better soon 💙💙

rfk standing very normally in a steak and shake

leland palmer in the black lodge

Verge headline: ‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet by Janus Rose Photo illustration depicts a distorted Kansas drivers license

After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples' licenses, experts warn the discrimination will extend to online spaces.

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/89207...

time for chainsaw mans successor: boltgun man

getting back to this and yeah this sounds so good

something interesting about looking back and forth between here and twitter is that while theres a lot more international news theres also sooooo much total garbage being passed around and lots of people complaining that its a nightmare to navigate

@JDfromscrubslol Had a dream there was an emoji like 💯 except it was only 60. Some post said "popeyes fries be tasting so good (60)" and I laughed so hard I woke myself up

Thinking about the 60 emoji again

Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

ill pick a better one later but i wanted to reprise this one since i used to have this scene from the manga as a pfp

updated makio

i suspect that the power of the tension and chemistry between makio and kasamachi in ikoku nikki/journal with witch comes in part from someone whos written a lot of yaoi writing het romance

A graphic showing a 1650ft long warehouse broken into small, cramped pods that are designed for 68 people each captioned “ICE plans to put 8,500 immigrants in this building”

The NYT evening briefer showing me this transatlantic slave ship style graphic and telling me “some experts” believe it’s below par for health and safety is jaw dropping

yeah i guess thats just how i felt like the idiom would translate to?

ich frag mich ob italiener/innen deutsche spaghettieis offensiv finden

shes so cozy in the new place 😭

launch got custody of chiaotzu

haven't had this but if you use signal worth checking out this warning:

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity

Hopefully, there will be more articles written as follow-ups to when CEOs lie about laying off workers by claiming AI is replacing them. The news media needs to stop doing stenography and free PR work for tech CEOs.

Ads and racist algorithms are coming.

Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille.

This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.