Michael Škvrňák

@skvrnami.bsky.social

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east european data plumber // Czech Academy of Sciences & PAQ Research

Screenshot of a Czech-language petition addressed to legislators, calling for legislative measures to address taxation of families with children and declining birth rates. The letter proposes four specific policy demands directed at the Czech Government: appointing a government commissioner for demography; increasing child tax credits to at least 30% of minimum wage (6,240 CZK/month); adopting investment measures supporting homeownership including grants at birth and interest-free mortgages for families with three or more children; and providing investment support for car purchases for economically active families with three or more children. The letter cites a drop in births from 112,000 to an estimated 80,000 in 2024 and 15,000 induced terminations in 2023, attributing these trends to unjust taxation, unaffordable housing, and societal uncertainty.
Survey question asking "What are your ethnic origins or ancestry? Please select ALL the geographic areas from which your family's ancestors first originated." A checklist of 12 geographic regions is shown (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia/Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, East and Central Asia, Pacific/Oceania, North America, Central America and Caribbean, South America, and Prefer not to disclose), all unchecked. At the bottom, a "Self describe" option is checked, with "Central Europe" entered in the accompanying text field.
how government re-organizations are made Bike fall meme. Panel 1: man rides bicycle smoothly — label reads "government is unable to design and implement a policy." Panel 2: man sticks a stick into his own wheel — label reads "firing some bureaucrats will surely help." Panel 3: man has crashed — label reads "fucking bureaucrats."
Macinka's FB post: Our excellent opposition is becoming increasingly hysterical. In its desperation, it's enough for itself. 💩 Therefore, I cannot deny myself one comment on yesterday's debate, where it drew a bit of interest between me and my Polish colleague Radek Sikorski. Regarding the debate on the topic of the so-called democratic deficit of the EU, which was held in the past and according to my opinion should be held further, I must say that this was precisely the topic of my thesis, which I successfully defended many years ago. So I do know what I'm talking about... For your information, below I'm attaching an evaluation of my work from Prof. Novák - the first Czech professor of political science from Charles University and the most cited francophone political scientist in the world. The "excellent" grade was also proposed by the opponent of this work. There's no problem looking up even his assessment (it's on the internet). Funny thing is, my then opponent is one of today's opposition MPs for ODS. I'm not saying anything...😁 P.S.: Tomorrow I'm flying to a work visit to Poland, where I'll be meeting precisely with Radek Sikorski. In many important positions we undoubtedly agree with him, but there's also time now and then for continuing the debate on the democratic deficit of the EU. 🙂
screenshot that reads "Appendix F. Robustness checks"
Gender representation in Pirate party primaries in 2021.
Motoristé přichystali pro své voliče oříšek. V programu prosazují méně parkování u nových bytů
Chart of raw data
First two models are from the original study, the other two are the same models with homicides in a municipality standardized per 1000 voters
Mirek Toplánek having a normal one, saying: "lick your ass with similar studies".
scéna z druhé série seriálu Andor, ve které senátor říká senátorce: "We can all game the numbers, Mon"
Reinhard Heydrich's car - quite fucked
Excerpt from Null by Twardoch containing words “kurwa” 3x, “pojebany” 2x and “pojeb” once.
jsem frajer
Petr Ludwig říká věci.
A graph of incestuous relationships in one Norwegian household from 2018 EU-SILC data showing that either someone made a mistake when transcribing/checking data or someone should have called Barnevernet
Thiel and Palko in Bratislava.
Škoda with a registration place saying: "Professor"
Excerpt from Sapkowski’s most recent book in Polish saying that if men were pregnant, the abortions would be a sacred mystery
Jak předvolební koalice z roku 2021 proměnily komunální politiku? Strany ze Spolu a TSS vytvářely častěji koalice i do obecních voleb. PirSTAN ne.