Had a fun little pattern going on with @puzzmo.com and ruined it

Big things to come at my kid’s preschool

brew crew

One of Kansas's county Register of Deeds has been in office since 1969!

A Kansas gubernatorial candidate launches an ad urging the state legislature to hold a special session to gerrymander congressional district lines.

It’s true and annoying!

Kansas is taking steps towards a redistricting special session.

I lived a few blocks from downtown Ithaca my junior year. The neighborhood was teeming with monks from the nearby Buddhist monastery out for walks, it was rough

Bourbon County, KS voted last year to expand their commission from 3 to 5 seats, and they're doing special elections for D4 and D5 this year. Always seems weird when states allow for half the reps to serve under the old map and half under the new with redistricting.

Isn't telling it what groceries to order the same as ordering the groceries yourself? Or is the idea that it would make the decisions for you? What a joyless existence

Retiring the backpack I’ve had since grad school and cleaning out the pockets. Anyone need a drink token for the Backyard?

I think this chart would be more informative as percent of each group who was long-term unemployed, unless the lesson is that the job prospects for high school dropouts continue to improve as time goes on

My daughter started day care a month ago. I'm reaching acceptance on the fact that I'm going to be at least a little sick constantly for the next few years

I got one and most of the US games off eBay in college when they were dirt cheap. My approach was to lay on the couch and have foam tape on contact points where it'd rest directly on my face. I've still got it in my basement, but I hold no nostalgia for it

Last October, Kansas ticked over 2 million registered voters for the first time in state history. Last month, we did it again! (List cleaning in the spring brought us below 2 million, but we're now back above 2 million!) ike-lab.com/vfile_202509...

Been a while since I've looked at Kansas county commission district lines, and I forgot how interesting some are

Finally

Yesterday's @puzzmo.com was probably the best I'm ever going to do

I guess kudos for someone in the anti-BlueSky discourse referencing actual BlueSky posts, but he's not beating the charge that critics don't like it here because people make fun of them

Was wondering when this would start

We're behind on getting 2024 results mapped and broken down by various district types, but we're making progress! We've finished rebuilding our precinct maps from scratch, attempting to have geography for every possible ballot type in the state - about 7,200 total!

I was having a better time than this guy

Skill challenge: what is the de facto district line between the red and yellow voters

How is this possible

I agree that DC statehood is a good idea and that it doesn't need an amendment, but it does mean thinking about the 23rd amendment. Reading it, though, can Congress can award those electors however they want like states can? Could they just say "the national popular vote winner gets 3 electors"?

Bill Nye was a professor-at-large for a semester at my university while I was an undergrad, and he sat in on one of my improv team’s practices. He monologued for like 10 minutes straight about how great Steve Martin is, the guy just loves him.

The cliche Hallmark movie is someone returning to their small hometown and falling in love with an old flame, but they just made one set in my small hometown, so I guess I don’t have to imagine what it’d be like anymore.

Good morning, it's primary day in (parts of) Kansas! Off-year elections here are nonpartisan, so primaries only happen when enough candidates file to need them. This year, out of the ~2000 races that are up in November, two dozen will narrow the field today. #ksleg #electionday

Ms. Rachel forever

“Wine Spectator” is such a funny name for a magazine. That verb I associate most with wine: spectating

Finding the crossover between my linguistics and poli sci degrees here - this sounds like the “put” vowel to me (IPA ʊ), not a schwa.

hey wait

Seeing the list of directions they give before beginning feels like they’re trying to outsmart a genie that loves ironic wish fulfillment.

That hotbed of linguistic innovation: Norton, Kansas.

A major reason I got into redistricting was assisting on the Florida 2010s litigation, and a big chunk of my dissertation was about it. (I've still got the map analyses I did for it up on my site: brianamos.com/flcongmaps/) Not much of a lasting effect, apparently!

I didn't realize Wichita doesn't fluoridate until our dentist told us we needed to use fluoride toothpaste with our 1-year-old. Different situation, though, since it wasn't a secret: we've rejected fluoridation at the ballot three times! (1964 was 57%-43%, 1978 was 54%-46%, and 2012 was 60%-40%.)

The Monitor - Titus Andronicus Hello Sadness - Los Campesinos You Can Do Better - Johnny Foreigner Illinois - Sufjan Worry - Jeff Rosenstock Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse Boys and Girls in America - Hold Steady American Weekend - Waxahatchee Emotion - CRJ Keep it Together - Guster

I made the switch from the United Kansas party to the No Labels Kansas party last year, glad to have made the map

Big update today: along with the July voter file snapshot, we've posted complete 2024 primary results, nearly complete 2024 general results (just missing township results for a handful of counties), and complete 2025 special election results. That's more than 27,000 races! #ksleg

[hot dogs on stage] he can’t eat us all, can he?

Hey, that’s our questionable sports team name, back off

If you want to see the exact opposite, this was the 2024 presidential primary in Kansas.

For all the talk about the bluesky bubble, we have mainstream dems who have shown themselves to exist in a social world that has either led them to falsely believe Mamdani has called for violence, or at the very least to believe there will be no consequences for lying about it.

Coming soon to the @ike-lab.com website

[blanking on the name] he did day n nite? kids see ghosts with kanye?

Scott was robbed

Calling a lot of county clerks in Kansas, it's funny how many have a menu before connecting you asking whether you really want the clerk of the district court instead. Must be a common mistake!

See ya later nerds I’m heading to the club