Broke: "May the Fourth be with you" Woke: "The Fourth May with you be" Excel: "5-April"

"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"

Streeting said he's abolishing the "biggest quango in the world"... perhaps, but definitions matter. And I'm not convinced that NHS England qualifies as the UK's biggest quango let alone the world's.

I wondered when I’d think Bluesky had “made it”… I can now doomscroll effectively and have had my first follows from female presenting OnlyFans-promoting scam-bots. So yeah I think that means Bluesky has made it.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" #rstats Yes is a bit brain melty at first, but it demonstrates how fundamentally flexible R actually is. I wonder in how many other languages it would be this easy to change array indexing.

Typically my little bot project just posts pictures of bridges, boats, wildlife and industrial heritage… sometimes it finds interesting insights into modern life.

Most humans wouldn’t use a dictionary to calculate the area of a square. Yet this pretty much what this example is doing.

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm firmly Team Clippy 📎📎📎

One of my favourite things about #rstats is the joyous things you get in R ecosystem documentation.

If they're combining Norfolk (i.e. north folk) with Suffolk (i.e. south folk)... shouldn't the new combined entity just be called Folk or maybe something like Allfolk, Twafolk (Twa being Old English for two), or Bathfolk/Batfolk/Bahfolk (baþe being Old English for both).

While I'm on a posting spree... Have you ever thought "My feed could do with more pictures of the canal network of England and Wales?"... Is that a "yes" I hear? Well then, I'm behind the @narrowbotr.bsky.social bot which does exactly that!

I can't promise I'll post that much here. But by way of #introduction, I do data/analysis things mainly in #rstats, largely on helping public organisations work better.

Hello my tiny bsky following! Tomorrow I'm speaking at Data Bites #52 hosted by @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social about the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024 from @blavatnikschool.bsky.social