Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵

Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?" Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... " His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.

Politicians love visible gestures. Economists ask the annoying follow-up: does it work? ⁣ ⁣ On gas tax holidays, the answer was basically no then, and no now.

"Stocks just had a great month because they previously had a terrible month." That’s not a boom; that’s a rebound from a scare.

Oil prices are falling, but don't celebrate at the pump just yet. The Strait of Hormuz is "open" — for now. We're 5 days into a 10-day ceasefire. A lot can still change.

For families and firms, this isn’t academic. If the people steering monetary policy are chosen for cable-news combat rather than analytic clarity, the cost shows up in jobs, prices, and uncertainty.

Two things can be true at once: the U.S. is more energy independent than in the 1970s, and an energy shock can still raise inflation. Independence isn’t immunity.

Private credit now wants retail money: because apparently the lesson from finance was, 'What if we made shadow banking available in family size?'

Private credit is the bit of finance that’s not banks and not public bond markets, but is now big enough to matter for everyone else. Translation: a lot of business lending migrated somewhere less visible.

If you remove phones, you haven’t removed boredom, status competition, or conflict. You’ve just changed the setting. That’s why the first-year effects can look messy.

Highlights from the UK Premiere of 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu'. Starring Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White, and Jonny Coyne. In theaters May 22. #themandalorianandgrogu #themandalorian

special thanks in Civil War part 3 #capfact #captainamerica #marvel #comics #mcu

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Democrats just caved, again. No reforms, no cameras, no answers. If this is what winning looks like, I’d like to see what losing looks like.

Mars Attacks - Horror Fun Facts Doc- #mars #aliens #marsattacks #martians #horror #tradingcards #cards #alien

Jamie Leighton (JPLRepo), a former Kerbal Space Program developer now working on Kitten Space Agency, on what he hopes KSA can inspire in the next generation of people excited by space. #space #spacesim #gamedev

Kyoto Station Bus Stop Terminal, Japan #Japan #Nippon

If you’re out and about in the Titanic Quarter and Queen’s Road area keep an eye out for our new Harlander autonomous vehicle! Not ready for passengers just yet, though, as it’s currently mapping out its route ahead of deployment. For details, visit bit.ly/430AgsU

You've spent another day pushing consumer prices higher and trying to get out of that no-win unprovoked war with #Iran You deserve a rest. #SleepyDonDozingOffAgain #SleepyDn #Trump

Sometimes the answer isn't less chaos—it's more. How quantum computers learned to weaponize noise & what it teaches us about living with uncertainty 🌊✨ New Heliox episode explores a breakthrough from UMD, MIT & IBM researchers who solved one of physics' hardest problems by doing the unthinkable.

Year on year, rents are up 7% in Dublin, 13% in Cork and a whopping 18% in Galway. A generation of young people are being priced out of their future. They should not feel embarrassed, the Government should feel embarrassed for failing them.

This indie developer is making an action rogue-lite with extraction elements, with the interesting bit being that the characters are inspirited by MOBA design, and just released a new update, making it the perfect time to jump into Raider of Blackveil. Have you played this?

la putisima actuación con la que tendría que pullear para tener MEDIA CHANCE contra esa mierda

The Reform energy bill street lottery scam just got scammier

Bottle to Arsenal? 🤔 Can you complete this Wikipedia Challenge? 🧩

A new class of music legends is heading to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Phil Collins will enter this time as a solo artist. In 2010, he was inducted as part of the band Genesis. He will be joined by artists Sade, New Order, and Oasis, plus Luther Vandross and the Wu-Tang Clan, among others.

Tony Blair enters the debate...

Good luck to everyone running the Boston Marathon today! #bostonstrong #bostonmarathon #hope

This week on Punk, Love, & Compassion, host Bo Wolfe talks to Matt from Massachusetts, who got his start in Hartselle, Alabama. Here, he talks about just missing a scene in Alabama. For the full episode, head to the site or any podcast app!

TONIGHT’S WEDNESDAY MOVE 🌴🔥 Good food, cocktails, hookah, NYC’s top DJs & nonstop vibes till 2AM 🎶🍸💨 Pull up to Hush Lounge Garden and turn your midweek into a movie ✨ 📍 Maspeth Queens 🌐 hushloungegarden.com #HushLoungeGarden #WedVibes #QueensNightlife #NYCVibes

Downhill VR skateboarding game Bomb The Hill, inspired by 1970s era skateboarding pioneers, is launching on Quest this spring. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/bomb-the-hil...

Brother who invited you onto the pitch?? I love the NPL for shit like this tho I remember Kevin Muscat daddying John Kosmina back in 06 But as a Victory fan I really just wanna ask Kev, wtf were you thinking doing that to Adrian Zahra? Shit was pure violence and made me uncomfortable as a child

“15 puppets on one string” -Ant describes the OKC Thunder after being eliminated in the WCF

💬 "Ce sont des propos d’une personne quasi dérangée" Dans le dernier épisode des "Grands entretiens d’Anne Rosencher", Richard Malka, l’avocat de Charlie Hebdo et essayiste, revient sur les propos de Jean-Luc Mélenchon à propos de Mohammed Merah ➡️ https://l.lexpress.fr/65K

On Tech Ethics Podcast Episode 39: Voice as a Biomarker of Diseases This episode discusses voice as a biomarker of diseases, including ethical considerations and how this technology could change the way we diagnose and monitor diseases. https://post.citiprogram.org/3XMG9rC #DiseaseMonitoring

Georgian Song "Kirialesa" ♥️

Have you heard the new rumor that Lester Bush's Dialogue research in part inspired Zootopia 2? Listen to the newest Face in Hat to learn more! www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vwibg-...

No, hoy no es mi día para jugar al Pokémon Champions, creo que vale por hoy.

Imaginem esse reencontro no novo Star Fox?! Com tudo melhorado e fico na torcida que James McCloud tenha sobrevivido, seja resgatado e vire um conselheiro no próximo jogo ao lado do Peppy Hare, que já estará aposentado! Desculpem, estou com hiper foco em Star Fox 😂

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Meena Waseem (WRDSB trustee & vice-chair) and Julie Wright (City of Waterloo councillor) share the challenges they faced while campaigning for and serving in office. #WomenRun

You are a Dungeon Crawler because you are a baby in a Dungeon and babies crawl. #baby #Nintendo #tinybabycrowngames #indiegame #gamedev #xbox #nintendo #steam #rpg

A mother went from caring for children as a pediatric nurse to caring for her own daughter. Hear her story on this episode of The Rounds, available wherever you get your podcasts. buff.ly/SQGfPJ9

El enviado de Trump a Groenlandia y gobernador de Luisiana, Jeff Landry, a los niños groenlandeses: “Si venís a la residencia del gobernador en Luisiana, podréis comer todas las galletas con chips de chocolate que queráis”. –Orla Joelsen en X

In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, we're improving access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents.  🎥 Diana Dáila, our medical activity manager in Honduras, tells us how her team provides this care.

🌍✨ Dive into the future! Join us on a transformative journey as generative AI reshapes education & media. 📚🤖 Witness the revolution, powered by AI's incredible potential, leading the way for groundbreaking changes. But with such power comes responsibility. UNESCO champions global safeguards to

Hi Gen Xer! Yes, it has been a loafing "stay cation" mostly.🤗🌄🤗 Wonderful! Hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend as well.💚 These new babies are hilarious. The baby birds learning to bird out back is cute viewing as well. Little flutter butt birds that still have parent feeding instinct.🤗 Enjoy!

Ke Kaddáfímu, hm.

THREE DAYS left until exchange sign ups close! We've got rare pairs galore, and you've got the tropes and AUs to go with them! Don't miss out!💎 archiveofourown.org/collections/...

This isn't surprising, he has a vested interest in AI. But why should anyone listen to this bozo in the first place? Because he has money? F that.

🗳️ Este domingo se celebran las elecciones en Colombia. En Canarias hay alrededor de 13.000 colombianos censados y por ello se han habilitado centros de votación en Tenerife, Gran Canaria y Lanzarote

It’s “Friday Crazy Night.” Gotta look sharp!

She woke up with no memory… but her past is hunting her. A winged warrior. A stolen daughter. A deadly destiny. 📖 Start reading now. www.amazon.com/Volcan-Knigh... #UrbanFantasy #FantasyRomance #ParanormalRomance #SupernaturalBooks #FantasyBooks

Mr Finch has a nice, quiet meal by himself. #birds

The Delaware River Basin Commission just published a 3-year study showing PFAS pollution “is persistent and pretty much everywhere” according to Executive Director Kristen Kavanagh: www.wfmz.com/news/area/pe...

Servers crashed just when I started pulling the match back, but I mean ngl this was kinda funny #DeadbyDaylight

#SpaceX valued at just $780 billion by Morningstar, less than half its IPO target We think the company has been🫳 significantly overvalued, Morningstar's analyst wrote. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti... #Reality #Fraudsters #southafrica #mining #Portfolio #News #Markets #Research #Finance #Videos

More questions than answers today as to how the Queensland Police Service got itself into such a financial mess. The report suggests it has been defying the Qld government by directing funding away from the intended purpose. Report now referred to the Qld CCC. #qldpol

#noice #notorture #noiceprisons Let's Not Support ICE Prisons or Torture of Fellow Humans. Thank You. 🤍🕊️

O Presidente Lula vai encarar o Trump de igual para igual, e não como um servo submisso a um império em espiral decadência.