Ben
@powerbiferrytales.bsky.social
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Talks about Power BI and data visualisation even when you ask him to please stop.
Apparently you can now watch 'Banana ball' live on Disney+. I wont stay up for World Cup matches, but you can guarantee I'll be staying up to find out what the hell this is!
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I'm genuinely tempted to do this.
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6 days ago
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My brain just has to read this with a Kiwi accent.
7 days ago
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Posting a ridiculously elaborate Fabric App is the new 'sharing your first Power BI report which consists of a bar chart, column chart a pie chart and a Treemap'.
7 days ago
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Enjoying a gentle paddle in the Finowkanal. I had a great time taking a friend out for his first time kayaking. Slowest paddle of my life, but a great day chatting on the water.
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11 days ago
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If you vote for me to be President of the world, I will make it illegal to send 'Your parcel has been shipped' notifications when all they have done is printed the label.
11 days ago
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Microsoft fucking loves the word 'app'.
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Booniss Everdrunk
17 days ago
Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea.
techfixated.com/young-invent...
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Young inventor who left engineering studies removes nearly 50 million kilograms of ocean plastic, aims to eliminate 90% of floating waste by 2040
'There was a time when the oceans were filled with plastic, and then we solved it':
https://techfixated.com/young-inventor-who-left-engineering-studies-removes-nearly-50-million-kilograms-of-ocean-plastic-aims-to-eliminate-90-of-floating-waste-by-2040/
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Is it just me or are people overlooking another negative aspect of the AI boom, and that is the number of excellent and highly knowledgeable people that leave the industry because they just can't be arsed with all the BS?
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Musa Okwonga
19 days ago
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint:
rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
https://rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_source=embsshare-fifa1&
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You know what's worse than overuse of the em dash? LinkedIn posts about overuse of the em dash.
20 days ago
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
about 1 month ago
On the tube
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It's almost as if shoving your product down people's throats makes those people hate and reject your product.
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about 1 month ago
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We need to buy a new car, so obviously my IG is full of adverts for awesome cars I can't afford.
about 2 months ago
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The E in Power BI stands for exhausting.
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about 2 months ago
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Musa Okwonga
2 months ago
“Last month, 14 children died from severe acute malnutrition at Bay Regional, Doctors Without Borders wrote to us…The world’s richest man is preventing lifesaving aid from reaching the world’s poorest children, closing off their future as he fantasizes about another.”
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Watches an episode of Paradise. The next few hours...
2 months ago
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Kayaking until sunset in Brandenburg.
2 months ago
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I started creating a vega-lite builder to help me teach people how to create visuals in Deneb. I think there are some pretty nice features in it, so feel free to take a look and see if it could be useful to you, too.
#PowerBI
#Datavis
#VegaLite
#Deneb
powerbiferrytales.github.io/vegalite.html
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Ferry Tales Studio — Vega-Lite Chart Editor
A browser-based Vega-Lite chart editor. Write JSON, preview live, no sign-in required.
https://powerbiferrytales.github.io/vegalite.html
3 months ago
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Ancient Golden Helmet. New nickname for Trump.
3 months ago
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852dude
4 months ago
Its kind of wild how accurate and prescient Silicon Valley was.
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Musa Okwonga
4 months ago
A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the Müller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. Müller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.
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This article is a datavis hate crime.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
4 months ago
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There have been very few good days over the past month, but today was a good day. My wife was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of February, and since then I've been sitting at her bedside in the hospital.
4 months ago
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you want I can also write this in an even more romantic valentine's day style — shall I do this for you?
4 months ago
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Steve Haroz
4 months ago
It's frustrating that so many development tools and platform instructions now start with "Step 1: Run a python script to launch a web server."
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Clara Jeffery
4 months ago
If people want to understand how we got here, the destruction of the press, by both changing technology and failures to adjust and deliberate destruction, is a major reason, possibly THE largest reason, why. Support media you value.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com
5 months ago
can anyone relate?
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Musa Okwonga
5 months ago
I think a useful response to the political plans of well-funded fascists is not "how ridiculous, they could never achieve those laughably cruel aims" but instead "they mean what they say, they are going to kill a lot of people before they are stopped, how about we make sure they don't get to try".
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Aimee Cozza Illustration
5 months ago
I think it's kind of funny people are realizing if they use LLMs to do stuff for them then they lose the ability to do it themselves bud if I stop writing CSS for a week I forget everything, this is 0 surprise to me
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Went for a walk on the very frozen canal in Brandenburg today.
5 months ago
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Stella Sacco
5 months ago
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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Eleanor Morton
10 months ago
We Have AI Now
www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
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We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJX3npiQ
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Emma™
5 months ago
the oracle
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Luca Migo ❌👑
5 months ago
Copenhagen Danemark, thousands of people gathered in the capital to protest against Trump’s imperialistic ambitions in Greenland.
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BBC surely knew what they were doing here?! 😄
5 months ago
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Marisa Kabas
5 months ago
donald trump has received the nobel peace prize in the way that michael scott declared bankruptcy
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Tim Kaiser
5 months ago
"Big Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta increased their meetings with far-right groups in the European Parliament ahead of the Commission's push last year, revealed a new analysis by non-profit organisations Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and LobbyControl."
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US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules
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Andy Cutler
6 months ago
This is where the money is going, not in making the service stable or completing half-finished features, but AI companies
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01...
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Microsoft announces acquisition of Osmos to accelerate autonomous data engineering in Fabric - The Official Microsoft Blog
Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform designed to help simplify complex and time-consuming data workflows. Microsoft + Osmos: Extending Micro...
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/05/microsoft-announces-acquisition-of-osmos-to-accelerate-autonomous-data-engineering-in-fabric/
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If anyone's new year's resolution was to lose their shit at the worst customer support ever, I can highly recommend Vodafone DE. They are next level incompetent, guaranteed fury. 5 Stars.
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There have been some genuinely great series this year, but here’s my 2025 viewer-opinion hill I’m willing to die on: Episode 3 of Chad Powers is a top-three episode of any show in 2025.
6 months ago
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Kevin Beaumont
6 months ago
And by Copilot I mean one of the 12 products Microsoft has called Copilot, all of which are different and disconnected from each other.
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Anyone have any tips of where in Norway one can see the northern lights/enjoy lots of snow in early February? Preferably cheaper than Tromsø!
6 months ago
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Wyn - Power BI & Excel
6 months ago
Excel online just got the new dataflow UI and full editor capabilities. No announcement … 🤷🏻♂️. Soft open ?
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Steve Wexler
6 months ago
HOW COOL IS THIS TABLE?! The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars. I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left. Great way to augment a table.
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A very belated birthday present has arrived. It's about to get nerdy.
6 months ago
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T. from Data Rocks
6 months ago
#dataviz
folks, Let's bring Steve to Bluesky permanently to have fun with us here! Shoot with your best tips to make the best of Bluesky! My first one:
@chezvoila.com
starter pack!
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Steve Wexler
6 months ago
Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn. Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
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I'm exasperated with LinkedIn. How about you?
https://mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843/im-exasperated-with-linkedin-how-about-you?e=092ee37d45
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Oh shit, git might actually be quite cool. Do I have to stop hating it now?!
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