Not sure if hyper quiet online at work because outages or because something even more sinister that I am not privy to 😶‍🌫️

Still haven't booked my travel to next week's conference 😬 $600 and the easiest most convenient flying experience ever on JSX? Or 8 hours on a bus for $45? 😬😬😬

Anyone else have amazon reviews just completely disabled in your app? You bet yer lil head that I'm only using amazon to see reviews bout products I buy elsewhere once I've decided. But if this is a dumb way to push me to use the AI bot instead of reading real humans' thoughts.... yeahno. BIG no.

Helloooo data pals and other friends, I am back (physically) from a long summer trip where I was very disconnected from all online things except required work. It was glorious. I am now also tentatively back (mentally) for data related shenanigans aaaand I will be speaking at Coalesce in October!

My anxiety towards calling the tire shop abated upon learning they don't take appointments over the phone (I hate calling... anyone) but it has emerged tenfold upon hearing it is walk-up (drive-up?) first come first served and now I must race 100 people to be the first customer before 8am. 🫠

Plz no Not even just "browser" anymore now we need "AI browsers"?? Whyyyy?

Life update: on the road! Spending the next three+ months traveling with my little family in this little school bus that we hand crafted into a dream home on wheels 🥰 4 days in and having a blast #skoolie #buslife #diy #skoolieconversion

Hiiii 👋 I've been having a marvelous time disconnected from this place and other social media for mental health and prioritizing connecting with humans IRL in my community and developing new community. Just popping on here to say I'm speaking tomorrow at MDSFest if you wanna give it a watch!

Hi #DataSky 👋 The Data Angels 2025 Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups for its 4th cohort which will run from June to December 2025! If you’re interested, sign up for Data Angels and join the #mentorship-community channel where you'll find the mentorship program details and interest form!

Dudebro: What are you doing chatting in the women in data slack channel so much? Me: last week we shamed a popular conference for their lack of female representation, this week we're crowdsourcing ways to get managers to respect our job expertise and not treat us like personal assistants Bro: 👁️👄👁️

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! If you’re a dev who’s ever done web stuff and used NPM, and especially if you enjoyed NPM catching up to Yarn ca. ~2018. If you’re a Rust dev who’s used miette, big-brain, cacache. If you like KDL. Then you’ve benefited from the work of a trans person.

Entered a giveaway for tickets to this hippy van camping jam fest and... actually won! Guess I really have to get my bus in shape in the next three weeks 😅

I just LOVE when I put a calendar block from 7-9am PT to protect my wake time adjustment window for the week after daylight savings and immediately my employer announces a merger with an east coast company and now I have 7am meetings four days this week 🥹🫠😵‍💫

Happy Women's Day! To celebrate, I did the most womanly things possible: teach my boyfriend how to change a car battery, sand and caulk an entire school bus, and relocate approximately ten spiders that were hanging out on my bus and also on my boyfriend's pants for some reason

My fave tire shop with the goods (aka the lift big enough for my phat bus) closed down in January 😭 of course right when I need a tire check. Ughghhh I hate having to hunt down new bus friendly service providers.

Welp I did sets of 15-12-10 knee pushups today so I guess next workout I have to try real pushups 😬 wish me luck

DuckDB is goated for having an 'ignore_errors' option. Saved my life FR when trying to query a badly formatted CSV when I only cared about a single row's value of a specific column and it was too many rows for Sheets or Excel to filter for it 😭😍 #dataBS

Hell yeah 🚜

I turned 30 today! Had some excellent Persian food and some Karak chai and a ras malai cake for dessert. All my favorite things ☺️ This sweatshirt was my gift from my SO. That's my dog's face 🥹 It matches the painting his sister got me 2 years ago!

It seems the democratic party is down to one single competent individual with a backbone. One won't be enough for the fight ahead, where are the rest?

Update... rejected 😩 Any sponsors able to help me attend? Small co problems -- no conference budget 😢 #dataBS

I am in DC. I am trying to fly home. The airport is in shambles and all flights are being delayed? Un-delayed. Delayed? I have rebooked my whole trip (with a layover I would have missed) once and now my new trip is in the exact same situation. Will I make it home tonight? Stay tuned to find out.

I have to fly into the eye of the storm (Washington DC) tomorrow. Please wish me luck and manifest excellent air traffic control coverage for me.

My sympathetic nervous system has reached its threshold for the ability to react appropriately to the fresh new horrors each day.

There is no task that cannot be accomplished by putting 100 gecs on loop

I don’t know about you all, but it’s been very hard for me to be fully present in my daily life when the foundation of our democracy is cracking as we speak. Last week I was in the middle of writing 2 blogs but I find it absolutely ridiculous & irrelevant in the midst of what we’re living through.

I have been #deFAANG -ing my life over the past two weeks and I strongly encourage everyone to do the same.

If you are still posting on (X)itter just know you have lost my respect. You can no longer turn a blind eye to the harm that app's CEO is causing to our society and expect it to be OK.

Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I bake, cook, can, sew, crochet, repair cars, garden, do general construction, plumbing, electricity (solar), rain water harvesting and sanitation, and small livestock husbandry…all outside of my day job as a data professional. I’m not worried for me. I’m worried for everyone else.

Any thoughts: For coordinating saving vanishing data in #dataBS #openData and #rstats rescue actions, ideas are: -online form run by trusted party - bluesky thread or hastag being scrapped every few hours & results aggregated to GitHub repo Both ideas need a coordination tag like #dataRescue ...

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"

They're scrubbing climate change from federal websites, too. "By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark...”

Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can

#DataSky If you don't know what's going on today, govt data sets are under attack and entire sites are coming down, removing extremely important data from public access. This is it, data folks. This is our domain!! Let's get archiving! I'll be over at @catalyst.coop writing scrapers, hbu?

I don't get how some product people aren't embarrassed when they flat out refuse to do something technical or say it's "beyond them". All I suggested was writing some yaml. Like, try??? You can try, right?

Note to self: don’t fly into SFO

There should be a way to publicly report job postings for advertising severely underpaying salary ranges. Saw a PRINCIPAL level in NEW YORK advertising a top end at $20k below my current (Senior level, same role) salary. Absolutely unreal. The people need to know not to waste their time.

YESSS I have been waiting for this 🙌

Literal worst nightmare scenario for a data person happened at work today Product/eng team AND revenue team AND data team (me) all spent individual effort and weeks of work to produce the same exact view/reporting table. Of course they don't match. Even my skip-level was bamboozled. #DataBS

Absolutely inundated with books suddenly ready for checkout on Libby that were SUPPOSED to be spread out over the next 3-6 weeks. Aaaahhhhhh I will get nothing done for weeksssss

Everything is stressful, so let's FIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T MATTER! Here's something to get us started: There's actually no such thing as "the best" pizza. Pizza comes in all different forms, and it's all valid.

That doesn’t mean hiring people who can’t do the job. It does mean finding people who can do the job in places you hadn’t been looking.

So today the power went out in our area. It also took out the LTE/5G data somehow. We were completely cut off from the Internet and could only send SMS for a couple of hours. It was disturbing how quickly our minds went to nefarious intentions on the part of the government...

While they’re rounding up a list of DEI hires or canceling DEI programs, are they giving the same scrutiny to nepotism hires? Hiring of friends or college buddies? Hiring the kids of friends? How about the hires who were given a chance because “they’re a good culture fit”?

Humidity is at 4% right now. FOUR PERCENT. I have never experienced anything like this before. I went outside to walk my dog and it was painful to breathe the air.

What are y'all working on for fun and fulfillment? I'm distracting myself from *gestures wildly* the current state of this country with my next couple bus projects. Thinking of rewiring our lights with a 3-way dimmer switch and a second on/off control by the couch/bed area. #skoolie #busbuild

The internet has become such a minefield. It is so hard to know what is safe or who to trust anymore... until they do something atrocious. I have purged myself of several accounts this weekend. Thankful that this little corner is still a safe haven. Hopefully it lasts 😣

I have (whether it was a good idea or not) consumed media from sources across the political spectrum today. I am disgusted with how cruel and mindless the average person has become. While I alone cannot make world change, I will do my part to be kind to those of you I can. That's all I've got.