Eerookah
@eerookah.bsky.social
Internet muskox, queer person, economist & a bunch of other stuff. 40/any pronouns. Don't expect a cohesive brand from me.
Please no begging/solicitation. I'm tired and poor as fuck.
Please no begging/solicitation. I'm tired and poor as fuck.
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Eerookah
@eerookah.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Love the charts. I wish people were more curious about why people's lived reality doesn't match up with the charts, because nothing is more frustrating to poor people than feeling like they're being gaslit by exasperated Democrats
Everyone has utterly lost the plot about the actual material state of the economy. It's as if the last 4 years did not happen. Denial of the shape of the earth. There's really no other conclusion other than that nothing actually matters anymore. We're through the looking glass into pure vibes.
Just to Start, since this is a member of my discipline either obfuscating the truth or forgetting it: The cost of shelter has risen much faster than the cost of the items used to measure inflation (usually a 'basket of goods')
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I wrote a piece about the NCAA being responsible for developing the world's top women's hockey talent at the 2017 Worlds and that has only become more true in the 9 years since
I definitely think the women's game is massively undeserved (here in Canada) right up until pro. Even once they're out of minor hockey unless they've got something special lined up the only reliable path seems to be the NCAA if you want to play at a high level. It doesn't need to be this way though.
February 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I wrote a piece about the NCAA being responsible for developing the world's top women's hockey talent at the 2017 Worlds and that has only become more true in the 9 years since
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More money, less sexism and an actual commitment by their Federation.
An actual path of developement. And frankly the N. Amer. teams aren't even that good at that at the youth/teen level. But there's just not as much depth from the European countries
An actual path of developement. And frankly the N. Amer. teams aren't even that good at that at the youth/teen level. But there's just not as much depth from the European countries
What will it take for another country to break through at the national level other than Canada and the USA
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
More money, less sexism and an actual commitment by their Federation.
An actual path of developement. And frankly the N. Amer. teams aren't even that good at that at the youth/teen level. But there's just not as much depth from the European countries
An actual path of developement. And frankly the N. Amer. teams aren't even that good at that at the youth/teen level. But there's just not as much depth from the European countries
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I dunno, it seems kind of obvious that, given you can get to a place, being able to walk around is more conducive to shopping. I mean, shopping malls were generally not built like giant drive-thrus.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I dunno, it seems kind of obvious that, given you can get to a place, being able to walk around is more conducive to shopping. I mean, shopping malls were generally not built like giant drive-thrus.
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
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There may be an argument on whether the team with the top pick needs an F or a D, but IMO you take her no matter what.
The drop between her and the next best D in the draft (whoever they are) is much bigger than the drop between Abbey Murphy and the rest of the F who'll go in the 1st two rounds
The drop between her and the next best D in the draft (whoever they are) is much bigger than the drop between Abbey Murphy and the rest of the F who'll go in the 1st two rounds
Is Harvey the consensus number one in the draft?
February 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM
There may be an argument on whether the team with the top pick needs an F or a D, but IMO you take her no matter what.
The drop between her and the next best D in the draft (whoever they are) is much bigger than the drop between Abbey Murphy and the rest of the F who'll go in the 1st two rounds
The drop between her and the next best D in the draft (whoever they are) is much bigger than the drop between Abbey Murphy and the rest of the F who'll go in the 1st two rounds
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also, how about IIHF, literally the organization in charge of hockey, saying that 2-time World Champion Abbey Murphy is playing so well she should be compared to the zero-time World Champion Tkachuk brothers
February 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
also, how about IIHF, literally the organization in charge of hockey, saying that 2-time World Champion Abbey Murphy is playing so well she should be compared to the zero-time World Champion Tkachuk brothers
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Because it's fast and pretty!
Without open-ice hitting, they have to use great passing and puck handling to get around the defense. There's a finesse to the women's game that gets lost when you can just upend someone.
Without open-ice hitting, they have to use great passing and puck handling to get around the defense. There's a finesse to the women's game that gets lost when you can just upend someone.
Why is it so much fun?
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Because it's fast and pretty!
Without open-ice hitting, they have to use great passing and puck handling to get around the defense. There's a finesse to the women's game that gets lost when you can just upend someone.
Without open-ice hitting, they have to use great passing and puck handling to get around the defense. There's a finesse to the women's game that gets lost when you can just upend someone.
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We don't remember many Spartan plays, or Spartan philosophers, or Spartan artworks. That's not to say they didn't exist - they're historically attested. But few of them survive into this day.
So actually, the legacy of empires IS defended in marble.
So actually, the legacy of empires IS defended in marble.
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We don't remember many Spartan plays, or Spartan philosophers, or Spartan artworks. That's not to say they didn't exist - they're historically attested. But few of them survive into this day.
So actually, the legacy of empires IS defended in marble.
So actually, the legacy of empires IS defended in marble.
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It's notable to me that Athens as a city has existed since its inception unto this very day in a meaningfully similar spirit, whereas Sparta had to be rebuilt from scratch after it was sacked by Visgoths after becoming essentially Disneyland for Romans for several centuries.
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
It's notable to me that Athens as a city has existed since its inception unto this very day in a meaningfully similar spirit, whereas Sparta had to be rebuilt from scratch after it was sacked by Visgoths after becoming essentially Disneyland for Romans for several centuries.
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The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week” is such a strange sentence to read.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
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I am reminded of people on the internet being mad at me for explaining WARNING and DANGER had different meanings.
Yes, the stuff used to kill Navalny was a toxin.
But the Novichok that nearly killed him before was not a toxin.
Not everything that is poisonous is a "toxin"
But the Novichok that nearly killed him before was not a toxin.
Not everything that is poisonous is a "toxin"
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I am reminded of people on the internet being mad at me for explaining WARNING and DANGER had different meanings.
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This is what happens when the humanities atrophy and people get their history from 300
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is what happens when the humanities atrophy and people get their history from 300
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The right-wing obsession with Sparta is so weird to me. They were a culture that mandated pedophilia, were ruled by corrupt oligarchs, and eventually collapsed because of their dependence on slave labor and I see it now, that's on me.
February 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The right-wing obsession with Sparta is so weird to me. They were a culture that mandated pedophilia, were ruled by corrupt oligarchs, and eventually collapsed because of their dependence on slave labor and I see it now, that's on me.
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once again at "i am not actually bothered by kids being kids in public, but i do wish they would not scream for being happy the exact same way they scream for being in pain the exact same way they scream for being just kinda bored". got me activating distress signals in the brain cuz you saw pikachu
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
once again at "i am not actually bothered by kids being kids in public, but i do wish they would not scream for being happy the exact same way they scream for being in pain the exact same way they scream for being just kinda bored". got me activating distress signals in the brain cuz you saw pikachu
I didn't know anything about him but you could tell he was One Of These by the way the eulogizing went.
Lowell Green was a racist demagogue who used his CFRA radio show as a soapbox to rant about immigrants and target racialized communities in Ottawa
Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him
Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I didn't know anything about him but you could tell he was One Of These by the way the eulogizing went.
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As a Norse heathen and overall mythology nerd, I can feel this post in my bones.
It's always "is this a potential new friend with a mutual interest or someone who will call me a race traitor and inform me, incorrectly, for the millionth time, that my ancestors would have drowned me in a bog?"
It's always "is this a potential new friend with a mutual interest or someone who will call me a race traitor and inform me, incorrectly, for the millionth time, that my ancestors would have drowned me in a bog?"
February 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
As a Norse heathen and overall mythology nerd, I can feel this post in my bones.
It's always "is this a potential new friend with a mutual interest or someone who will call me a race traitor and inform me, incorrectly, for the millionth time, that my ancestors would have drowned me in a bog?"
It's always "is this a potential new friend with a mutual interest or someone who will call me a race traitor and inform me, incorrectly, for the millionth time, that my ancestors would have drowned me in a bog?"
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Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
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tumblin thru today lowkey
February 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM
tumblin thru today lowkey
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As a fantasy author and reader, a folklore nerd interested in (real) Norse and Germanic myth and fairy tales, a singer: I have spent SO much time scouring profiles and bios for Nazi dogwhistles. Used to it.
So when I say the rise in use of the word heritage is freaking me out…yeah, it’s bad.
So when I say the rise in use of the word heritage is freaking me out…yeah, it’s bad.
February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
As a fantasy author and reader, a folklore nerd interested in (real) Norse and Germanic myth and fairy tales, a singer: I have spent SO much time scouring profiles and bios for Nazi dogwhistles. Used to it.
So when I say the rise in use of the word heritage is freaking me out…yeah, it’s bad.
So when I say the rise in use of the word heritage is freaking me out…yeah, it’s bad.
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Threatening to remove state funding from public schools because students are protesting is...
THE MOST TEXAS THING YET.
The schools are clearly failing to coerce young Texans into believing his Abbott's white, Christian nationalist view of their state.
THE MOST TEXAS THING YET.
The schools are clearly failing to coerce young Texans into believing his Abbott's white, Christian nationalist view of their state.
Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants to Punish Their Schools.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Threatening to remove state funding from public schools because students are protesting is...
THE MOST TEXAS THING YET.
The schools are clearly failing to coerce young Texans into believing his Abbott's white, Christian nationalist view of their state.
THE MOST TEXAS THING YET.
The schools are clearly failing to coerce young Texans into believing his Abbott's white, Christian nationalist view of their state.
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a very accurate distillation of conversations among covid cautious people 😮💨
I had a long chat with my Covid conscious piano tuner today, and like every conversation with CC people, you hit a point where you all just go “I don’t understand. I don’t understand these people who are otherwise smart and kind consciously making this choice to harm people. It baffles me.”
February 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM
a very accurate distillation of conversations among covid cautious people 😮💨
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The starship in TNG like a police station or hospital or other institutional setting. The space station in DS9 is like a frontier town. The starship in Voyager is like a small town car dealership run by the dumbest extended family you've ever seen
February 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The starship in TNG like a police station or hospital or other institutional setting. The space station in DS9 is like a frontier town. The starship in Voyager is like a small town car dealership run by the dumbest extended family you've ever seen
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also frankly if you can't make an argument that somebody sucks for shit they said and did publicly and recently and need to dig up pre-transition photos to spread around it kind of makes it look like you don't think your argument is strong enough to stand on its own
February 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
also frankly if you can't make an argument that somebody sucks for shit they said and did publicly and recently and need to dig up pre-transition photos to spread around it kind of makes it look like you don't think your argument is strong enough to stand on its own
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It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened