Walking out of an exam feeling uncomfortably confident in my score

How does Google Maps transit view still look so terrible after all this time. Apple Maps is exponentially better at displaying transit stops, routes, and arrivals/departures, it’s really incredible

Clocking in at the Phillies factory

the destination can’t be very final if they keep making movies about it

data visualization job listed “basic fluency of generative AI tools” as a minimum qualification. extremely gross.

WE ALL HAVE A HIDDEN UNCONTROLLABLE URGE TO PUNT!! THAT’S RIGHT SNOOPY!!

I wrote about corporal punishment in public schools for a project led by @efrankenberg.bsky.social and @maithgopalan.bsky.social While we see a steep decline in corporal punishment use in schools, there are still states that allow the practice. Read more: www.advancedequity.org/briefs/cp-hi...

You should be able to leave a 🔥 emoji on an Outlook email

Incredible comment from an eighth grader at Shepard Middle School here in support of his classmate. "Empathy. What a word. What has been empathetic in the way that we have shoved this girl and the entire community into the spotlight of national scrutiny?"

I can’t say I recommend getting sick at the busiest point in the semester, if I’m being honest

I do budget policy because I believe what I'm fighting for has real tangible effects on people and that the people I'm fighting against would do real harm to people I love and people I'll never know. But this is the stuff that keeps me up at night.

Idk maybe I haven’t taken “bad” medicine but like, usually if the medicine is taken correctly in the right circumstance you aren’t immediately then put on life support as a direct result of taking the medicine

30th Street station in Philly has a plaque commemorating a railroad executive, part of which reads “friend of labor”. Maybe it’s true but I’ve never heard of any old time railroad exec being anywhere near friendly to labor

This article proves how incredibly consequential the choice to resist instead of rolling over can be. These brave people are helping everyone, far beyond their own agency’s reach. Let’s all learn this lesson (Article also does a good job contextualizing Trump/Musk lies every time they’re relevant)

Just remembered the New York mayor unironically said “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success” and smiled

I did not get the difference in thinking between python and R before learning python and now, as an R Guy™️, I am losing my mind

This Sunday-only and late-night CATA bus route (State College, PA) is so unserious. It covers 4 different routes and only operates in one direction

It appears I’ve made a mistake

Baseball is almost so back

DID YOU KNOW: The state of Indiana is unable to be traversed using methods known to humans?

I listen to a little bit of music

kicking and screaming while coding in python in Visual Basic

they threw the history channel on in the dining hall and they’re drawing shapes and patterns and showing aerials of the Egyptian pyramids, so I’m sure whatever’s going on is pretty normal

Watching Phillies baseball feels so long ago and yet it was only 2 months ago

I think my Spotify wrapped this year is going to be the most genre diverse one yet

The Monday after Thanksgiving break is going to be below freezing. I’m gonna be in my element.

there is snow on the ground

looking forward to my favorite activity this weekend: riding the train

Got an email about the class of 2025 campus gift and it wasn’t a robust streetcar network around Penn state. What gives?