Me: I'm gonna be productive today because I have to write this book, I have to do it My brain: lol, lmao, also,

Got to spend the past 1.5 days at a really neat workshop w/40+ scholars and civil society leaders hosted by the @carnegieendowment.org and @bridgingthegap.bsky.social on closing civic space and NGO restrictions

Snuck in a Covid booster before flying home bc DC makes it waaay easier than GA

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

ahhhhhh boarded and doors closed, but now we have to sit on the runway for 90 minutes

This is a good one!

this is just statistical error and is because Adipose Georg, who lives in cave & loses 100 billion pounds, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

omg

Finally boarding Got to witness a new brand of bonkers passenger behavior: a bunch of people who hate checked their carryons at the same time as me boarded with the first zone (yay bonus perk) and just… brought their bags on with them?

flying to dc and oh no

woohoo looking forward to maybe(????) flying from DCA to ATL on friday

It took long enough but we finally have the first ever WordArt president

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

My election night R code worked last night! 🎉! Inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd & @gosterhout.bsky.social 's #PositConf2025 talk re Idaho's website built with R, Quarto & the {targets} #RStats 📦 My results page: www.district2framingham.com/posts/2025-1... Their repo: github.com/andrewheiss/... 1/2

KELSEA WON!

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

The Mayor is here at hand.

LOL! LMAO! LOOOOOOOOLLLL!

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are good things really happening?!!

yesss voted for both of them

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

They called it! Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia gubernatorial race!

did the nyt drag out the needle or no?

4 of 5 stars to If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Direct File is survived by its code, lovingly preserved on GitHub for potential revival whenever the leaders of the executive branch are no longer bent on looting the country.

The {sf} package continues to blow my mind with how easy it is to make maps with #rstats and ggplot (code for that map here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Voted!

The president says he will defy court orders and illegally withhold SNAP benefits despite there being money in the SNAP contingency fund that the Trump is required to use.

This is an incredible and very specific hater energy substack.com/home/post/p-...

Forgot that punchbowl was some kinda news site so for a few seconds I thought wow that must have been a pretty crazy accident

The {sf} package continues to blow my mind with how easy it is to make maps with #rstats and ggplot (code for that map here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)

*Also* she discovered a loophole for the no-drinking-water-before-bed rule

The 3-yo can’t finish a lollipop in one sitting so we tell her to save it in a bowl. Just found this. She’s been adding it and taking licks from it throughout the day, like a lollipop buffet.

Initial BSG thoughts: • Phew, "33" was intense! • Neat that the series starts in medias res with a "previously on…" intro (yes there's an earlier mini-series; don't have time to track it down rn) • Feels *super* immediately-post-9/11 • Space vfx feels proto-*The Expanse* • Bo-Katan!

Helpful tiny Positron extenion I just found today: Open in New Window open-vsx.org/extension/zo... It, um, opens things from the Explorer pane in a new window. Super helpful if you have a project with other projects inside.

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

NATO just posted this on Instagram If you know anything about me, you know this is the 2nd greatest day of my life

This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/

Helpful tiny Positron extenion I just found today: Open in New Window open-vsx.org/extension/zo... It, um, opens things from the Explorer pane in a new window. Super helpful if you have a project with other projects inside.

Inconceivably, that's Grand Nagus Zek!

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

me vicariously following game 7 through everyone’s posts here, thinking both teams are neat

This is an incredible ad

Just finished the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks (nightly stationary bike viewing), rewatching the whole thing for the first time since it ended last year and it continues to be *so much fun*: 10/10, absolutely adore this show

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn