David Peetz

Researcher, FASSA. Work; economics; pol sci; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Brisbane & Auckland. "Emeritus" is Latin for "old and deaf".

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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?

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@ALeighMP An excellent idea.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@kevinbonham carping on about this?

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@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".

[Centre for Future Work @CntrFutureWork]

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: https://t.co/fbKVb6Jb1y

[Wol-san Liem @wolsanlim]

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

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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.

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Breaking: @SkyNews just deleted this video by their Amsterdam correspondent @AlicePorterTV posted to Twitter, without public explanation. I saved a copy.

The video explains the truth about the Israeli football hooligans who went on a racist rampage in the city this week. Watch:

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

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…”

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

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.

[MichaelMaleyfish @maleyfish18458]

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.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@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...

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@Waugh1963 Sorry. Can't.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

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

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

@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.

[David Peetz @PeetzDavid]

NY Times

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

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: https://t.co/LpQMxaI1JM

[Centre for Future Work @CntrFutureWork]

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: https://t.co/T8njkvGBAT /2