i will never not be bowled over by how evil it is that zionists have worked so hard to equate any attack on their ideology seem like an attack on judaism & jewish people as a whole. it is so sickening & i see how much it hurts my jewish friends every day.

Birth announcement: I clicked SEND to forward Vis-MLM to my editor. Couldn't resist the temptation to make a #rstats #stats #meme 👀https://friendly.github.io/Vis-MLM-book/

my ketchup on hotdogs take: fuck off about what people eat and how they eat it 👍🏻

Morning 🤣.

Wow what, is it not pronounced 'ell-apply'? What else are people saying? 'lap-lee'? 'la-ply'? Someone should do a poll on this

I'm at an #rstats conference today, and the main thing I am learning is the very large number of ways people pronounce "dplyr".

GeoLibre now supports rendering 3D Tiles! Try it out: viewer.geolibre.app?url=https://... GeoLibre is a lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing data across desktop, mobile, and web environments. GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... Website: geolibre.app

sign the petition, listen to 7am today, expose systemic failures underpinning violent deaths of women and girls: police, the courts and support services routinely fail victims before they are killed www.change.org/p/royal-comm... 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/do-...

I'm thrilled to announce that I will soon be an author! My book, The Twin Cities in 50 Maps, is a cartographic portrait of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The book includes 50 painstakingly designed maps and deeply researched essays that trace the Cities' urbanity, history, ecology, and culture.

do you worry that #RStats was left out of new cool python stuff for arrays? meet vrefs, an array chunk virtualizer leveraging #GDAL multidim #VRT and HDF5 github.com/mdsumner/vrefs

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Israel is repeating the same pattern in Lebanon as Gaza; seizing land, systematically demolishing homes, schools and hospitals, issuing mass ethnic cleansing 'evacuation' orders. The key difference is that the number of dead is much lower, because in Gaza there really was nowhere to run.

Look, I know the world is on fire and this is very small beans in the scheme of things, but I have just discovered that Twinnings have discontinued Russian Caravan tea, which is maybe the only thing which has stood between me and a complete psychotic break for years and WHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Mike Bostock on the Test Set!! posit.co/thetestset/e...

Today, in Melbourne's Supreme Court, Gunnai man Uncle Robbie Thorpe is taking on King Charles, as a representative of the Crown, for the crime of genocide against Australia's Indigenous people. "Enough of this kings and princes and fairytale shit," he said outside the court.

The genocide has not ended. The Israeli military continues dropping US-made bombs and murdering Palestinian children. We can't trust the word of unaccountable warmongers like Netanyahu and Trump. Congress must act. Let's pass my Block the Bombs Act.

I want to share sad news of the passing of my father David Lovelace last month. He was an amazing dad, an inspiration for me and others around him, and made a huge contribution to landscape history, mapping and nature conservation where I grew up.

Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of Antarctica’s dynamic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). Dr Alec Fraser from @antarctic.bsky.social says their findings provide a more realistic picture of how the system works. 🌊 More: utas.au/MIZ

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Absolute banger of an album. It lived in my car’s CD player in high school the year it came out. Hell, it made me upgrade my car’s entire sound system. Mr. Krinkle might be my favorite track but I was in orchestra so the string bass had me. Whole album is A++ though.

Washington DC! At the 9:30 Club, at Fort Reno (at least twice) and in a Columbia Heights community center basement, as God and nature intended.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. Rush 2. Bob Mould/Sugar 3. The Beths 4. Silversun Pickups 5. Metric 6. Fugazi 7. R.E.M. 8. The Who 9. Squarepusher 10. Morton Subotnick

Too much politics in my timeline; so, for a change, a map. Someone should write a book on the 3D geomorphology of river basins. It would possibly teach geology far better than memorizing eras and orogenies, because you can actually _see_ Earth history in the landscape.

I'm going to be "deeply concerned" if the Australian Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal's hidden "interests" involve investments (by her or her husband) in any company that profits from Israel's #GazaGenocide or its invasion of #Lebanon. #auspol

I wrote about Sonny Rollins - a huge influence on me as a saxophonist, and a man whose creative philosophies I'll forever be trying to understand and emulate.

The failure The National Anti-Corruption Commission to have integrity and be transparent tells you everything you need to know about Australia

Since this chart type is a little bit unusual, here's a little scrollytelling explainer of how to read this chart! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/scrollytelli... #DataViz #QuartoPub #RStats

Robert Gentleman, co-founder of #rstats, receives an honorary doctorate from #UBC 🎈🎈🎈

I'm getting a bit sick of "so-called journalists" referring to Australian women returning home from Al-Roj refugee camp in Syria as "so-called ISIS brides". #auspol #journalism

I for one love the idea that to get a man to eat you must bounce and dangle his chicken nuggets in front of him like he’s a cute widdle kitten

Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins are helping to release a shelved 1977 Cramps album produced by Alex Chilton

My name is Mud Not to be confused with Bill or Jack or Pete or Dennis My name is mud, it's always been. 'Cause I'm the most boring sons-a-bitch you've ever seen I dress in blue-yes navy blue From head to toe I'm rather drab except my patent shoes I make 'em shine, well most the time.

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

Today's #Books recommendation is "The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet". This amazing book is not about plot, it's about character, and it's all the better for it. It's an especially good breath of fresh air for those tired of male-dominated sci-fi. The relationships and interactions sell this one.

Sometimes I forget just how amazing this album is and when I hear it again I’m blown away.

The Missing Recipe Format: www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-0... #RStats, #GDAL, and the virtual-Zarr format that lets xarray describe 16,000 files in a tiny store

it works, the new renderer is bug free! to catch folks up on the experiment, this is a zero polygon renderer which uses a heightmap raycaster similar to comanche. it's a single pass with terrain + n bookended pairs of layered geometry, so you can do overlaps.

🧵 Just asked people for book recommendations so here’s a thread of 5 fiction books that altered my brain chemistry whose characters are forever etched into my heart. (Nobody asked for this but I’m doing it anyway.)

NEW SPECIES OF TINY “GOLF BALL SIZED” OCTOPUS JUST DROPPED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

>100x speed up over the built-in multivariate normal likelihood (on a dataset of 10,000 obs) and you get the same posterior on the other side

This is an extraordinary #book about the way we are born into the world with no reference points save what we’re told, and how we have to try and make sense of a potentially pointless existence. I’m going to be thinking about it for a while.

If you're a fan of punk rock, you're well aware of the brilliance of this song. It's a perfect song.

"Believe it or not, Israel killed all the children appearing in this video…!"(Global Intifada) #Israel #Gaza

I feel like they basically just achieved the highest accomplishment in music here and then could just victory lap around it for the next two albums . Truly , it’s at the highest level of craft

Private schools are sending Australians broke! Literally! Private schools file more bankruptcy proceedings than banks, insurance companies and local governments...COMBINED. My post over on @thepointau.bsky.social liveblog. live.thepoint.com.au/2026/05/the-...

The Australian mainstream news media is brazenly right-wing. It platforms and promotes Pauline Hanson as someone who cares about "hard-working Australians" (she doesn't) without ever holding her to account on her ignorance, her party's policies or even her own parliamentary voting record. #auspol

This is a death spiral if I’ve ever seen one. What the hell is Spotify thinking?

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." -- John Sheehan, S.J. (a Jesuit Priest) #trump #maga #Iranwar