David Peetz

I'm leaving X. You'll find me in Bluesky. Lots of reasons. Most are obvious. But you'll be shocked how much higher engagement is there. Like most people leaving X, I won't close my X account. With trolls, and well-known difficulties in doing so, why would I bother?

Folks, you're yelling into an airport hanger that was once full of people. Now it's almost totally empty, apart from a few engineers and a lot of robots that yell back at you to make you think someone's listening. They're not. See you in another place. You've heard about it.

The relative number of users on X and Bluesky vastly overstates X's importance. In theory, I've many more followers on X than Bsky. But I just posted something on both forums that got a far greater response on Bsky. I'd say most on X have left, just not closed their accounts.

BREAKING NEW: Food and Drug Administration to be headed by the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter.

@ALeighMP An excellent idea.

An open register of ownership will show who ultimately controls companies operating in Australia. We're taking the next steps towards making it a reality ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/andr… #auspol #ausecon

@kevinbonham carping on about this?

***cue images of furiously protesting fish***

@GavinWhite18 @holland_tom @mrianleslie Yesterday and Michelle make sense. Surprised that Hey Jude would be covered more often than Something, but that includes in a lot of obscure albums. Would be interested to see a list that had "covers in top 40".

@holland_tom @mrianleslie That list is the same as the one here. The other 5 are 1 Paul, 1 George, 1 John & 2 joint J&P. beatlescovers.nl/covers/statist…

“Paul didn’t hate authority so much as refuse it. He didn’t dress outrageously or insult his teachers. He would listen to them, and smile, and do the opposite of what they said.”

Inflation is within-target-zone and falling, yet RBA won't cut rates. Other central banks are cutting quickly, but the RBA's perverse ideological inflexibility is amplifying the pain felt by working people. Our @JimboStanford explains for @TheNewDailyAu: thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/1…

100 Korean truck drivers carried out a hair shaving protest in front of the National Assembly demanding passage of new Safe Rates legislation #SafeRates4Alll #SafeRatesSaveLivez

I read the post on SkyNews on their website before this deletion. Remarkably, it gave a much clearer depiction of what the Israeli fans had been doing before the assaults on them than did the @abcnews coverage.

Scathing statement from Bernie Sanders on the election results “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them…”

This is what I wrote in 2021. I was ridiculed and worse. I am from Nuremberg. I stuck my head out and called for strategic price controls because I had studied the history of inflation and inflation control for years and was worried inflation would bring Trump back.

If Trump implements even half of the policies he’s promised, the USA will soon be a very unattractive place for the world’s brightest researchers and students. It’s a unique opportunity for countries like Australia to seize the opportunity to turbocharge our research sectors.

@kevinbonham Unless something changes radically (feasible but unlikely) it's nowhere near as close as the polls suggested. From what I've seen so far, poll averages overstated Dems across all swing states and several not-far-from-swing states. Of course, this could all shift...

Seeing some 'the models said this was extremely close and it is extremely close' type stuff. At the moment it is projecting towards a close-ish win for Trump in terms of uniform swing margin but not that close, say 2%, much less close than 2020.

Big networks are now calling NC, assuming Trump has it and GA then the main pathways for Harris (none currently look good) are PA/WI/MI PA/MI/AZ PA/WI/AZ/NV

@Waugh1963 Sorry. Can't.

@PeetzDavid Please say it ain’t so

Gonna be a lot of people saying "the leopards are eating my face" over the next few years.

@geofflangdale @kevinbonham I think Kevin is talking about the projected result (NYT needle) that already accounts for differences in timing of counting. Harris is in trouble.

@kevinbonham At least some of this effect (probably not all) is due to urban vs rural counting. PA for example has counted very quickly in Allegheny County (I used to live in Pittsburgh) which led to a huge, illusory D lead, but lags in Philly. This happened in 2020 as well.

NY Times

Dep of Jobs & Skills data showed just 1% of employers raised the offered salary when unable to fill a vacancy @GrogsGamut in @GuardianAus Telling that some employers will do almost anything except raise the wage to attract workers. #auspol Read more: theguardian.com/business/grogo…

BREAKING: Our Senior Researcher @lisasheap has a powerful new report out today: "Doing in Tough" on how the living standards crisis is affecting Australians (hitting lower-income and working Australians hardest), who they blame, and what to do about it: futurework.org.au/report/doing-i… /2