I am that guy who is proselytizing Wolfenoot to the grocery store checker. www.wolfenoot.com

One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)

I was excited when I first read this as bar charts.

Every new exciting development in cancer vaccine research depresses me anew. Not because my wife didn’t survive long enough to benefit from it, but because the administration is dismantling the systems of caring for each other as a society (which includes boomed research)

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

This thread is incredible.

I miss #Hipmunk every time I book air travel. Their time bars display and UX was the absolute best flight search experience. ITA Matrix still has time bars, but goog has left the UX rough, rather than upgrading it or incorporating time bars into flights.google.com. #visualization

On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...

Today would be a good day to support the nonprofit platforms you rely on. I have recurring monthly donations set up for @wikipedia.org and @signal.org Please join me in supporting these vital resources.

A late acquaintance of mine who worked in public health policy (Deborah Roseman) always said policy should be based on evidence and empathy. I have never forgotten that. It’s an unassailable standard.

just gonna leave this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...

Here's a fun data & visualization project idea: survey several top 100 albums lists. Represent the assorted rankings of the same albums across lists. (Maybe a bump chart?) For extra credit note outlier inclusions and exclusions of particular lists.

Harrell is crashing and burning. Wheels coming off the bus.

I've more than once seen people who know this stuff saying that we don't actually know what the diagnostic criteria for "autistic person without cPTSD" would be, because as far as can be determined we don't know of any.

"This is not the time for hope," is a hell of a slogan. A+

I know who I’m voting for. And it’s not the aggressive mansplainer.

Not taking a stand absolutely, definitionally, puts you on the side of the abuser. Always. Silence is complicity.

If you want to hear me rant about smart defaults, bar graphs, and bicycles, start at 38:50.

My partner @taephoenix.bsky.social is a huge baseball fan. I'm a data vis nerd. Our powers combined bring you this graphic. Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.

Had a great time talking with @jed.co about one of my favorite books, China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh. This book was inspiring for me early in my design career. Thank you for having me on the show! www.linkedin.com/posts/iliins...

once again I must tap my own sign

The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.

As I noted last week: bsky.app/profile/qeth...

The hype machine has convinced people that genAI can do a lot of things it cannot. And it is going as well as you would expect:

If you’re eligible, I highly recommend renewing your passport online. Mine took 6 days from application to receiving it. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

The New York Times "accepts" millions of dollars a year from fossil fuel interests drilled.media/news/drilled...

Finally saw Sinners today, really enjoyed it. Worth seeing for the music alone, unless you don’t like mild horror. Really wish the @unaffiliatedcritic.com would write about it.

Yesterday I was discussing ternary plots with @danyelf.bsky.social and some other folks. The one we were looking at wasn't entirely clear. Explanations in wikipedia and this example are quite good. vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary...

This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock... It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰

Really lovely interactive flowchart from the book "I Want a Better Catastrophe". Highly recommended. flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

Evergreen thread.

Thanks to @noupside.bsky.social for talking to me about her book, Invisible Rulers. I can't recommend it enough to anyone trying to understand the business, design, policy & regulatory choices that created the internet - especially people who work in PR & adland, who paved the way for this world.

Job for a Lead/Principal level UX designer in security analytics. Key is experience with highly technical domains (security, analytics, CI/CD, etc.), and very strong information design skills. I'm happy to introduce qualified people that I already know. www.crogl.com/careers #hiring #uxjobs

I’ve been playing the Queen‘s puzzle game, where the queens must be placed so they are not close to each other, nor sharing a row or column or region. And I think it’s actually about cats on the bed.

BREAKING: Trump and Republican leadership in Congress admit they are incapable of passing their own budget for NINE FREAKING MONTHS because they take a fuck-ton number of days off so they can perform angertainment spectacles, Trump can play golf, and because they hate each other.

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

Well I like that idea #resist #dumpoligarchs #dumptrump

This is a lovely interactive overview of dishonest chart manipulation, by @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

I needed this thread today.

Worth reading. It’s not long.

I know everyone wants to compare the current guy to Mustache Fascist, but given the graft and corruption and cruelty it’s better to compare him to Mobutu, or Saddam, or Batista.

OH: one of the impacts of the rise of el0n mush is it’s caused me to really examine the word douche. The tl;dr - it’s a nongendered and appropriate insult 👍🏻

Here's the issue. People think that taking these warnings seriously is what makes them come to pass. Like it's our attention that summons these outcomes. When really it's the other way. It's precisely because we deny these possibilities that they became possible.

This is tonight! It’s not too late to join us. Doors at 6:30, showtime is 7:30, or watch the livestream at igniteseattle.com

Good piece. Misses that the senate will do away with the filibuster or force all Musk funding into reconciliation. Which is fine. The job for Democrats is not to do nothing because each individual tactic won’t win the game. The job is to show Americans whose side the GOP is on.