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Alton B.H. Worthington
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Social Science Shop Teacher in the vocational training division of a sports entertainment and medical services conglomerate. Views expressed represent nobody, even myself. ∃ RPs ∉ {Endorse} ∧ ∀ Posts ⊂ {Nonsense}. PV=NRT. "Car weirdo."
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Shoutout as always to the folks at USDA Economic Research Service:

www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
A grouped bar chart showing electricity costs as share of total farm expenses across 8 categories and 3 farm sizes, where small poultry farms and large peanut farms had the highest share (12.5% and 8.25%) of total cost as electricity expenses.
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I could have done worse:
a skull bowl with three visible bosch k-jetronic warm up regulators below a paper sign saying "only ONE bosch k-jetronic fuel injection warm-up regulator per child"
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I've been Conversed.
A line of 16 numbered squares - 5 are red, 11 are green, indicating 11 of 16 correct guesses.
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Soup season is here and I am for it.
A bowl of corn chowder, mild yellow, is splotched with paprika and allepo pepper oil, making a bright red pattern atop the soup. A mug of coffee and square of focaccia sit alongside.
October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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h/t: @offline.mountainherder.xyz (bsky.app/profile/offl...)
President Macron told me The National Assembly keep eating his Prime Ministers so l asked how many Prime Ministers he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new Prime Minister afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding Prime Ministers to The National Assembly and then his daughter started crying.
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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its the only way to be sure
an image of the bsky account settings page with "delete account" highlighted
October 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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UNCTAD Trade and Development Report, 1984 cover. An orange sphere is inside a translucent gridded cube inside a u-shaped, gridded, light gray trough vanishing to a point in the background, all atop a dark blue cover background. It's groovy and high tech, trust me.
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
American Politics Research The Elevator Effect: Advertising, Priming, and the Rise of Cherie Berry Jacob F. H. Smith and Neil Weinberg Abstract: This article examines the extent to which advertising outside of an explicit campaign environment has the potential to benefit the electoral fortunes of incumbent politicians. We make use of a novel case of non-campaign advertising, that of North Carolina Secretary of Labor Cherie Berry (R-NC), who has initiated the practice of having her picture and name displayed prominently on official inspection placards inside all North Carolina elevators. We extend Mayhew’s theory of advertising to a non-campaign environment and then theorize that Berry serves as a novel case of non-campaign-specific advertising via a priming mechanism. We then test our theory using spatial regression methods and find that Berry outperformed other statewide Republican candidates in the 2012 North Carolina elections. Our findings suggest that candidates can use this form of advertising to indirectly improve their electoral fortunes.
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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This is good dataviz:
a still from the linked video in the quoted post. three mass distributions are compared, showing that nba team scores are center massed, mlb scores roughly follow a long tail poisson, but nfl scores are a multimodal mess
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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mvic.sos.state.mi.us/votehistory/...
Vote totals for Harris and Trump in MI in 2024, showing Harris with 2.74 million votes, Trump with 2.82 million. Vote totals for Slokin v Rogers, showing Slotkin w 2.71 million, Rogers with 2.69 million. (Total downballot melt of about 90,000 votes, Slotkin with fewer votes than Harris.)
September 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Honestly, a summer of views like this wasn't too bad.
A picture of the grid and paddock at Grattan Raceway, taken from corner station 3 between sessions. Fluffy white clouds hang in a blue sky above green grass, deep green trees, and the pavement of a downhill sweeping curve on a racetrack
August 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Dear friends teaching micro, enjoy a practical example from a car weirdo friend. Yes, technically multiple variables, but assume delivery is a homogeneous service.
A screenshot of a RockAuto cart with two delivery options. One delivers on a day by end of day for 10.99, the other by 8am for 109.99
August 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Swap "letter" for "post" and the date for today.
The infamous "some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters" letter
August 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Hinge? Yeah, I know about Hinge. It can bit messy, a bit fiddly to line everything up, not everything is a perfect fit the first time around. But, everything worked out in the end and things aren't not as broken as they used to be. (I just repaired one on the Ranger.)
A picture of a worn door hinge on a Red Ford Ranger
August 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I hope my former colleague is having a good evening.
The Onion headline "DeBlasio: Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?"
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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but first, one more pair from the laptop at the shop, painfully ignoring temporal trends and acting like each quarter's observations are independent. Womp Womp.
a scatterplot comparing "good job" minus "poor job" assessment of government handling of the macroeconomy (Q34 of the UM Survey of consumer sentiment) against a "misery index" (U3 unemployment plus CPI change), showing a negative relationship, but with only weak model fit. (r-squared of 0.08) a scatterplot comparing percent of respondents rating as a "poor job" the government's handling of the macroeconomy (Q34 of the UM Survey of consumer sentiment) against a "misery index" (U3 unemployment plus CPI change), showing a positive relationship, but with only weak model fit. (r-squared of 0.02)
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Ugly, but a reminder that assessments of the macroeconomy and public opinion of government handling thereof are not always tightly linked. (Done quickly in Excel, maybe I'll do a better set for the office door later.)
Same UM Survey of Consumers question (Q34) as Wolfers, this is U3 + CPI (y/y, SA).
a connected scatterplot showing a "Misery index" (unemployment plus inflation) against percent of respondents rating government policy on macroeconomic issues (Question 34) in the Michigan Survey of Consumers, where "Poor Job" percent is subtracted from "Good Job" percent. there is no strong pattern, but few observations in the upper right, so at least consumers don't reward governments during times of high "misery" a connected scatterplot showing a "Misery index" (unemployment plus inflation) against percent of respondents rating government policy on macroeconomic issues (Question 34) in the Michigan Survey of Consumers as "Poor Job". there is no strong pattern
August 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Long hot day, nice cold beer. Imo, a top-tier label on this, and a very drinkable big IPA.
A hand holds a can of Saugatuck Rainbow Rodeo IPA, with a lady having hooked and simultaneously riding a rainbow trout... It's a kinda arty can, the colors are really pretty, lots of pink and yellow in the sky
August 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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So many people rn
The red vs blue "wait. That's illegal." Meme.
August 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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You may not like it, but this is what median performance looks like.
A red and white 1993 Honda Civic sits in a race paddock
July 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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D.W from Arthur looks at a sign and says "That Sign Can't Stop Me Because I Can't Read"
June 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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too late to do the image manip, but imagine this with nixos in place of "internet"
business man pumps his fist and smiles at a monitor, with the caption "internet. serious business." it's a meme. I swear.
June 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Anyway, hello from another racetrack (on a short break, IMSA at MidOhio, woo).
A smiling man in a white hat and shirt is in front of a chain link fence at a racetrack.
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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RenCen looks pretty good from here, though.
The Detroit Renaissance Center is in the background, with a parking deck to right, a concrete block wall and FIA catch fencing in foreground, and fire extinguishers against the wall.
June 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I'm at the downtown.
I'm at the race track.
I'm at the combination downtown and racetrack. (Hooray street courses.)
An extremely mid man in a white shirt, khaki bucket hat, glasses with flip up shades and ear defenders makes a "hmm" face in front of a chain link fence near a parking lot.
June 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM