CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Racist say what now?

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I’ve just realised Bethesda is obsessed with putting toilets into every game it makes but doesn’t include any menstrual waste bins.

The funniest most just retort to this would be a Democratic winning 2028 and placing these plaques in lieu of Trump’s portraits. Nothing direct. Nothing mean. Just showing the rat of a man that Trump was. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I appreciate the choice to dunk on a way to talk about my love of creative dataviz folks in our community Colour mappings come from my {ggplot2wrapped} pkg I quickly re-utilised those for this post as I’m a busy self-employed woman Accuracy of bars was less important than space filling 🍩 + fun 🎉

damn

White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

R: the language that sets the gold standard for dataviz! Anonymous user K. Midas says: "I love it!" (from a cheeky #rayshader figure in an upcoming blog post about rendering 3D plots with "golden hour" lighting by generating synthetic sunsets, entirely in #RStats with #rayrender)

Can you guess the #tidytuesday creator based only on which geoms they use most? Shout out to @ansgarw.bsky.social, @rodrigo404.bsky.social, @cararthompson.bsky.social + @nrennie.bsky.social for their amazing + beautiful #dataviz with R Try gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapped-2025 to analyse your own geom use

Amazing headline. h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social

Merry December folks! Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?! I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats Build your own report by following the docs: gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter. I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.

lol sign worked

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Apple is fucking back baby! www.apple.com/uk/xc/produc...

The conversation about the NYC election is not actually about the NYC election. It’s about the vile and hated useless old guard Dem establishment finally being shown the door and the possibility of something new and better. A thing many, many people have been DESPERATE for.

This SNAP issue in the USA is insane. 40 million Americans rely on these payments to afford FOOD! 12% of the population. That's 1 in 8 people. In food poverty. In by far the largest economy on Earth. And Reform wants all of this for the UK, coupled with the expressed aim to privatise our NHS.

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

Never fuck your dead kid’s childhood best friend. Anyway. Apple TV makes fucking great sci-fi drama.

Slop watch

Imagine a thriller where the antagonist incriminates themselves by their ORCID. Wouldn’t you just lose your shit?! Folks everything yelling “what the fuck is an ORCID”.

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A themed chart for #TidyTuesday this week using data from the FAO on food security! 🌳 Voronoi treemap data wrangling with {WeightedTreemap} 🎨 Colours from {rcartocolor} 📊 Plotted with #ggplot2 #RStats #DataViz

Amazing

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

There could not possible be an AI bubble…

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

"After a few moments of laughter..." The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

LaTeX

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I’ve just received permission to make a PR against a repo I’ve been dreaming of making for EIGHT YEARS. I couldn’t be happier. And it’s all thanks to @niccrane.bsky.social More details at Shiny in Production 😄

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?