Andrew Mercer
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Principal methodologist at Pew Research Center. He/him
Colin Farrell as Penguin is amazing and also I still donāt quite believe itās Colin Farrell.
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Natalie Weiner
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again if you live in dc and environs you gotta follow steve - nobody's doing these kinds of listings anymore
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The only correct answer.
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journeyman folklorist
6 days ago
Pour one out for Jim Moylan
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RIP The Guy Who Put The Little Arrow On Your Fuel Gauge Though I Think There Was An Earlier One - The Autopian
If thereās one car fact or Easter Egg or detail (or whatever you want to call it) that seems to delight non-car-obsessed people more than any other one, I think it has to be this one: fuel gauges tend...
https://www.theautopian.com/rip-the-guy-who-put-the-little-arrow-on-your-fuel-gauge-though-i-think-there-was-an-earlier-one/
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Who is setting off fireworks at midnight on Christmas Eve? Are Christmas Eve fireworks a thing a I just never noticed?
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Doug Mack
8 days ago
In case you need some Christmas dinner conversation starters/enders
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum
9 days ago
I would play a game based on this thread.
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The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Oof.
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13 days ago
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Ball x Pit has no right to be as good as it is. Like, itās peggle, but also a shmup and a roguelite and a base builder and yet somehow it all just works unbelievably well.
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The UI changes in iOS 26 are āprettyā but incredibly annoying! Fortunately I found this very helpful article on how to undo the worst of it.
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How to Undo Your iPhone's New Look After iOS 26
You don't have to accept Liquid Glass.
https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/undo-iphones-look-ios-26-163000222.html
19 days ago
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The Gāmork. Still scarred to this day.
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20 days ago
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CƩdric Scherer
20 days ago
I ignored the strip.clip argument in
#ggplot2
for way too long š² 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. šµ no manual coordinates šµ inherits theme styling šµ scales nicely when resizing
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This is great and not just relevant to teaching.
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21 days ago
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John Gramlich
22 days ago
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/...
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Pew Research Center
23 days ago
Are young adults experiencing a religious revival? Our data says no. š§µš Full analysis here:
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Religion Holds Steady in America
Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/08/religion-holds-steady-in-america/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Main
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And apparently this isnāt streaming anywhere, even to rent, so I just ordered it on DVD.
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Just going to reiterate my semi-regular plug for Counterpart. I have never met anyone who watched it and didnāt love it.
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25 days ago
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Jennifer N. Victor
26 days ago
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?
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Matt
26 days ago
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Kevin Collins
27 days ago
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
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Charlie is glad that vacation is finally over and we can get back to work.
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about 1 month ago
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David Keyes
about 1 month ago
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...
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Important question: a) do you call it āputt puttā or āminiature golfā and b) where did you grow up?
about 1 month ago
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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.
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Some salesperson talked my 78 year old, iPhone using mother into getting an Android and well you can probably guess how thatās goingā¦
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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. Thatās doubly true when it comes from a company selling a related product. Just sayingā¦
about 1 month ago
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I feel so⦠chaste?
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about 1 month ago
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Ok,
@profanity.accountant
Iām curious.
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Klaus Pforr
about 1 month ago
interesting paper on application of total survey error framework to biomedical data
doi.org/10.21203/rs....
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Total Survey Error in Biomeasure Data Collection
BackgroundThe integration of biomeasures into social surveys has grown rapidly, enabling new insights into biosocial processes by combining probability-based survey data with biological indicators. Ho...
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7711723/v1
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Janelle Monae opening for Of Montreal
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about 1 month ago
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The real reason people are Bayesians.
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Dara Lind
about 1 month ago
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and Iām so glad I get to live here.
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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?
about 1 month ago
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Your daily Charlie
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about 1 month ago
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Doc Revan
about 1 month ago
YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE LICENSED BY A GRUE
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
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Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoftās Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/
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Iām just going to keep posting some version of this photo over and over again as long as Charlie keeps hanging out on my desk.
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I need a new wallet, but when I google for wallet reviews it's all about crypto 𤮠Anyone have a wallet they like?
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Somehow, instead of winding down, Iām having a Chase and Status dance party at midnight on a Tuesday. Oh wellā¦
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Chase & Status and Stormzy - BACKBONE (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Chase & Status
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtogm_mo1AQ
about 1 month ago
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Norin š¦ šKatsucon
about 1 month ago
they protec but they also attac šŖ
#art
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
about 1 month ago
Great new data from KFF/NYT looking at the lives and experiences of immigrants in the US:
www.kff.org/kff-nytimes-...
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KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants | KFF
KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants The 2025 Survey of Immigrants, a partnership between KFF andĀ The New York Times, takes an in-depth look at the experiences of immigrants during the first y...
https://www.kff.org/kff-nytimes-2025-survey-of-immigrants/
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Andy Famiglietti
about 1 month ago
In honor of Cloudflare
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The Songs: The System is Down
YouTube video by ebyam93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQpThwWQtQ
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This is the sort of thing that would get me to buy season tickets.
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about 2 months ago
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Re: #2, do yourself a favor and go watch all the Thin Man movies.
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about 2 months ago
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Charlie slept through caturday but better late than never.
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That Bradley Cooper episode from the Righteous Gemstones needs its own spinoff. I would watch the hell out of that.
about 2 months ago
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1000% this
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about 2 months ago
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Remember Labubus? Feels like that was 10 years ago.
about 2 months ago
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Iām on chapter 3 of The Everlasting by Alix Harrow and I have no idea where this is headed but I love it.
about 2 months ago
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John Gramlich
about 2 months ago
Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump.
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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I have never met another cat that is this much of a back-sleeper. Such a weirdo. Also look at that tail!
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