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".

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

Went for a walk on the very frozen canal in Brandenburg today.

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.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

the oracle

Copenhagen Danemark, thousands of people gathered in the capital to protest against Trump’s imperialistic ambitions in Greenland.

BBC surely knew what they were doing here?! 😄

donald trump has received the nobel peace prize in the way that michael scott declared bankruptcy

"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."

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...

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.

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.

And by Copilot I mean one of the 12 products Microsoft has called Copilot, all of which are different and disconnected from each other.

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!

Excel online just got the new dataflow UI and full editor capabilities. No announcement … 🤷🏻‍♂️. Soft open ?

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.

A very belated birthday present has arrived. It's about to get nerdy.

#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!

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...

Oh shit, git might actually be quite cool. Do I have to stop hating it now?!

Yknow what should be dead? Posting stupid ass "[insert feature / product / process here] is dead" posts...

Tomorrow is my last working day until the 5th of January. This pleases me greatly.

I spotted a slight error in my Google 2025 review.

No, I don't want my fucking corporate M365 Copilot sticking its fucking AI nose in my personal business, what in the dystopian hell is this shit!? 🤬

More fun recreating those random datavis posts on LinkedIn. #DataVis #PowerBI #Deneb

Is icon blindness a thing? I swear I see so many icons every day that they’ve lost all meaning to me. Like a word you repeat a hundred times, they just become noise.

Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(

This is horrifying - this leaves the door open for mass incarceration, within which would be the ever more disproportionate sanction of people (especially of colour) from working class communities

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My ms master 3 broke, which is sad, but the ms master 4 is even more awesome.

Stakeholders reply like a free text field when the response I wanted was Boolean.

As a Microsoft MVP specialized on Microsoft Fabric, yesterday was the first time I ever heard of Fabric IQ. From the Microsoft Ignite keynote. If you feel like you can't keep up, remember it's NOT YOU. None of us can. We barely have time to skim the surface before the next shiny thing is announced.

I do wish LinkedIn had a 'Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up' button.

Took Friday off so I could enjoy the beautiful weather with a paddle until sunset. #Kayaking

Is the Power BI Core Visual project dead? www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/co...

TIL there is a eating disorder called Pica which makes you chew.

If you are in Berlin tomorrow night (Tuesday, 4th of November) - join us at BrewDog Mitte for drinks and tech chats! Just an informal gathering of tech folks! Register here! luma.com/6y4024hv

SpongeBob is almost ready for Halloween.

I really enjoy how much this mask freaks out my wife.

MS: Should we implement auto column width on tables? Users: Yes, but what if there's vertical scrollbar MS: Fuck you, that's what.

I would like to formally invite Direct Query mode to go and fuck itself.

When you start work on Monday morning and Jira is down.

Things you find when you open your old Power BI files. Congratulations to the Dutch, for finding that sweet spot. #PowerBI #DataVis

Keeping the workload manageable.

If you ever feel bad about making a mistake or falling short of your expectations, just remember — even Apple, one of the richest companies in the world with access to top engineers, created the Windows Apple TV app.

Every country with English expat populations should retaliate.

I hate them, so very very much.