yael
@yael
seattle. trans. jewish. ocd. academic. musician or musician wannabe depending on who you ask. Cohost of Midnights with the Lizard Wizard, a King Gizzard listen-along podcast. she/her discord: seayaelttle
no cheating, post your lock screen (it updates once hour to the latest weather satellite image from NOAA)
Happy 6th tranniversary to my beloved bitchwife @noellemidnight.com Your approach to gender (getting really gremliny with it) like your approach to everything else in life (getting *really* gremliny with it) inspires me every day
if you’ll allow me one more moment of self indulgence… I love this city. I love this park. I love having a place that feels happy
you can be other kinds of girls, too. unless this is the same kind of girl. i dunno. just be any kind of girl.
This is the best I’ve started any season in the online trivia competition I’ve been doing for 5 years. 1 week in and I’ve missed only 3 questions (average for me would be 11). So now I’m terrified I’ll be accused of cheating. 🙃 It must be nice to be the kind of person who can enjoy things
found an accordion at the local music pawn shop. i don’t recommend living near a music pawn shop.
4. Housing price index (solid) vs average hourly earnings of all employees (dashed), 2007Q4=100. Since 2012, and especially since 2021, average home prices have grown much faster than average wages.
3. Personal Saving Rate. People are saving a lower percentage of their income than ever before. Overall saving has been declining for a few years after a massive Covid spike, counter to the long-run trend of increasing saving. People may be spending a lot, but they don't have security
2. Private investment as a share of GDP. More than ever before, national output is driven by business investment rather than consumption. This is great for growth on paper, but you can't eat investment
Charts from an economist and why they don't show everything being fine and dandy 1. Labor share of GDP. Workers are retaining smaller and smaller shares of national income over the last 25 years
These guys are banned by the administration from returning to the US, where they were already scheduled to play, because they’re from Niger But the “Trump” Kennedy Center still promotes them. Farce.