Charlie has figured out how to make the printer print test pages and now it’s all he wants to do.

There is a sense in which Kyle MacLachlan was type cast after Twin Peaks, but rather than stagnate, he took it and made being a weird guy on a suit into high art.

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

I know this isn't where everyone's headspace is right now, but I want to highlight some survey stories we published over the holiday period, since I think they're a good reflection of the breadth of public opinion reporting.

Colin Farrell as Penguin is amazing and also I still don’t quite believe it’s Colin Farrell.

again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore

The only correct answer.

Pour one out for Jim Moylan

Who is setting off fireworks at midnight on Christmas Eve? Are Christmas Eve fireworks a thing a I just never noticed?

In case you need some Christmas dinner conversation starters/enders

I would play a game based on this thread.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Oof.

Ball x Pit has no right to be as good as it is. Like, it’s peggle, but also a shmup and a roguelite and a base builder and yet somehow it all just works unbelievably well.

The UI changes in iOS 26 are “pretty” but incredibly annoying! Fortunately I found this very helpful article on how to undo the worst of it.

The G’mork. Still scarred to this day.

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

This is great and not just relevant to teaching.

The annual @pewresearch.org list of striking research findings from the past year is out. #1 on the list: After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the immigrant population in the United States is now in decline. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Are young adults experiencing a religious revival? Our data says no. 🧵👇 Full analysis here:

And apparently this isn’t streaming anywhere, even to rent, so I just ordered it on DVD.

Just going to reiterate my semi-regular plug for Counterpart. I have never met anyone who watched it and didn’t love it.

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Working on creating a new polling journalism feed (which I will set to public). Please reply if you're a journalist who will be doing and/or covering US public opinion research in 2026

Charlie is glad that vacation is finally over and we can get back to work.

Ever since we started making documents in Quarto and Typst, I've wanted to make EVERYTHING in Quarto and Typst. Curious to learn how make documents like these? Boy, do I have the blog post for you! #rstats rfortherestofus.com/2025/11/quar...

Important question: a) do you call it “putt putt” or “miniature golf” and b) where did you grow up?

No joke, I unsubscribed from something and a few hours later I got an email from the same company saying they missed me and asking me to come back.

Some salesperson talked my 78 year old, iPhone using mother into getting an Android and well you can probably guess how that’s going…

Just going to tap the sign and reiterate that you should question flashy survey results that confirm your priors but are entirely lacking any kind of methodological details. That’s doubly true when it comes from a company selling a related product. Just saying…

I feel so… chaste?

Ok, @profanity.accountant I’m curious.

interesting paper on application of total survey error framework to biomedical data doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Janelle Monae opening for Of Montreal

The real reason people are Bayesians.

Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.

Expedia website sent me to the Expedia app sent me to the Alaska airlines website which sent me to the Alaska airlines app and can we just please not?

Your daily Charlie

YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE LICENSED BY A GRUE arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

I’m just going to keep posting some version of this photo over and over again as long as Charlie keeps hanging out on my desk.

I need a new wallet, but when I google for wallet reviews it's all about crypto 🤮 Anyone have a wallet they like?

Somehow, instead of winding down, I’m having a Chase and Status dance party at midnight on a Tuesday. Oh well…

they protec but they also attac 🔪 #art

Great new data from KFF/NYT looking at the lives and experiences of immigrants in the US: www.kff.org/kff-nytimes-...

In honor of Cloudflare www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQp...

This is the sort of thing that would get me to buy season tickets.

Re: #2, do yourself a favor and go watch all the Thin Man movies.

Charlie slept through caturday but better late than never.

That Bradley Cooper episode from the Righteous Gemstones needs its own spinoff. I would watch the hell out of that.