Trump has always been a eugenicist, obsessed with "good" and "bad" genes, but the media largely ignores or sanewashes it.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 Peace with Iran 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

“It’s only Iran, Michael. How many men would it take to invade? 2,500?”

So, this?

If market hopium were combustible, there would be no oil & gas shortage.

Materializing nude from a bolt of lightning in 2005 to show my younger self this image

I can see why people become oil traders. It probably attracts the same people who enjoy jumping out of planes.

FT found the guy for the AI/crypto cycle: uses chatbots to decide when to get in on Polymarket 5-minute up/down bitcoin bets. " I don’t consider myself a gambler,” said the 29-year-old who claims to have doubled his money over the past two months.

“But except for the war in Iran, tariffs, the weak job numbers, disappointing tax refunds and stress in private credit… what is really the bear case?”

Free the European workers, forced to work to afford social security ✊🏻

Record outflow from financials

They wouldn’t have to do that if people didn’t leave insane reviews about spiciness levels.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Is this a solution?

“We”

Omg they’re going w “high oil prices are good, actually.” God bless ‘em.

Focusing on the important things, I see…

🤣 www.ft.com/content/5574... “Deutsche Bank seeks to expand private credit offerings”

I saw this guy in Southampton. Imagine an entire street of high rise residential buildings and a couple of basement floors on fire.

“Crypto fixes this”

[mysterious old lady flips a tarot card & reveals a ship named M/V World Economy being hit and sunk by an Iranian ballistic missile in the Strait of Hormuz] Me: Is that good?

Oh look, a ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz! oh...

You can’t have Paddington on them, though. It would be considered bad luck to carry images of the British psychopomp in your pocket…

My neighbor told me coyotes keep taking his oil barrels so I asked how many barrels he has and he said he just goes to the SPR and gets a new barrel afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding oil barrels to coyotes and then his electors started crying.

It’s just contracts and people. They can work online via email, physical infrastructures are worthless (unless you hit a server/database, I guess).

“Take me somewhere expensive”

Who knew that head-butting the boss of the enemy faction didn’t immediately change the colour of their building and units to yours?

Trump just telling Iran where it hurts, so they can press harder.

it's the most over war in history, everyone is saying so

Good morning, Europe.

If you are not long oil, you’re short oil.

Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:

If I were the oil markets, I would simply have priced in the correct series of events last week when the war started.

The markets, they are very sick.

OK so my suggestion is that instead of putting the oil price up, which everyone agrees is very alarming, you just make the barrels smaller but charge the same, and that won't cause nearly as much uproar. It's a clever little trick that I like to call "reduceflation"

Up - a fun adventure for kids, a devastatingly poignant meditation on grief for adults.

Aïe aïe aïe…

Do you feel liberated yet?

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process. It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see *BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS

the hysterical right wing backlash to starmer refusing to be totally dragged into trump’s fucking mad war has got me defending him more than basically anything he’s actually done