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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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This is my favorite bookstore in NYC, McNally Jackson in Seaport. It’s a gorgeous space with comfy reading spots and an excellent cafe. Also, right now, one signed copy of Living in Data.

Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work: This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨 www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...

One good metric of a live show is wether the audience can successfully Shazam the songs

Gotta go with T, mostly because of the They Might Be Giants album "Miscellaneous T" because that was where their records usually got filed.

Let’s talk about the bins in my local record store that are labeled A -> Z To me, this is such a sweet spot in music because it holds the bands that made a record good enough to get into the store, but aren’t big enough to get a label . What letter are you picking, and why? From A to Z?

Watson and Cheney out, Mamdani in, going to take it.

PROJECT TRANSCEND NEEDS YOUR HELP In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP. If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.

Because all y’all have been so supportive of my weird obsessive work: This weekend you can use the code ALFHOG for 25% off anything in my store. 🪶📊🎨 www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...

This is not the baseball shirt I'm wearing in my profile pic, but it *could* be the baseball shirt you wear in your next profile pic. www.jerthorp.me/product-page... 400+ feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions of birds in the order Psittaciformes, which includes parrots, macaws, cockatoos...

By popular demand I've made a dark version of my Of A Feather visualization. It's got a pretty great stained glass / album cover vibe. 10,151 birds colored by Wikipedia descriptions. Prints and posters ship everywhere, plastic-free: www.jerthorp.me/product-page... 🪶📊🎨

I’ve a young friend who recently quit a job for a mental health AI project a fraction as evil as this. She just couldn’t do it. To keep working for this trash once you’ve seen what it is is worse than peddling fentanyl. Maybe some say they’re trying to make it better. Yeah, “better” fentanyl.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

This might be something you don’t know about me but I’ve gone to the bottom of the ocean in Alvin. Twice.

Take a deep dive into the history and legacy of the nation’s deepest-diving crewed submersible, #Alvin. 📲Hear from Alvin pilots and researchers past and present, and dive deep into discovery with Yankee Magazine: go.whoi.edu/yankee-sub #DeepSeaHistory #DeepSeaDiscovery

I'm sure this is just me querying the void but: Does anyone know folks who are putting together gift guides for the holidays that might like my Of A Feather project? www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...

It’s difficult to imagine a more damming indictment of capitalism than one man being paid 1 Trillion dollars.

The best part about the NYC election results is that they are equally satisfying to my hopeful and petty sides

There are freshly signed copies of You Look Like a Thing And I Love You at the Denver Airport Terminal B Tattered Cover!

delightful & curious watching students this morning write postcards, mostly to their parents, in which they declare their love for them, that they miss them, that they're writing these in class! and questions like "where do I put the stamp? how do I mail it? where is the post-office"? #othernetworks

bro are you fucking kidding me

Pygmy Nuthatch #Birdtober Nuthatches are known for their ability to climb on trees head down, so I thought it would be fun to depict that 😊 This species lives in the long-needled pine forests in North America. #birdart #wildlifeart #nuthatch 🪶

I'm sure this is just me querying the void but: Does anyone know folks who are putting together gift guides for the holidays that might like my Of A Feather project? www.jerthorp.me/category/of-...

One of my fave images I've made over the last few years, a collage of AI training images of yellow-billed and black-billed cuckoos.

I had the idea to make snowflakes from my Of A Feather project. It... didn't exactly work? But I like the results. They're maybe more wreath than snowflake??

Good news! Now you can wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with my Of A Feather wrapping paper. This paper features feathers representing 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. Ships everywhere, plastic-free! 🪶 www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

Being pro-trans and pro-immigrant is a winning strategy, like we've been saying all year These overpaid, Centrist pundits and consultants need to be ignored

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated. It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is. music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...

True colors

Good news! Now you can wrap your gifts in bird-y data-y style with my Of A Feather wrapping paper. This paper features feathers representing 511 birds whose names contain the words winter, christmas, snowy, snow, red, or green. Ships everywhere, plastic-free! 🪶 www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

I just added a very lovely hard-cover notebook with my Of A Feather visualization to my shop: www.jerthorp.me/product-page... Yes, this is mainly so I can have one for myself :) 🪶📊🎨

These zines are now listed in my shop! In both print and ebook versions. Print version: www.metrofieldguide.com/product/zine... ebook version: www.metrofieldguide.com/product/zine...

Would you?

How I’m feeling about my city this morning

10,151 birds. 1 visualization. Thousands of colours, extracted from Wikipedia descriptions. This piece is one of my all-time favourites. It took me three months of work and I've been thinking about how to do this for five years. Prints + posters: www.jerthorp.me/category/of-... 🪶📊🎨🌿

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.

As an amateur birder and a Wikipedia lover, I am so in awe by the intersection of this work. Incredible!

Picoformes! Woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, and other delights. www.jerthorp.me/product-page... 🪶

The magical @jerthorp.bsky.social created this visualization of the feathers of every bird (or at least about 10,000+ we have documented) and I can't wait to have some version of this in our home

Because these ship from different art printers from around the world, shipping is really reasonable from the UK and Europe in particular.

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

... & let's sonify that: xeno-canto.org/explore?quer...

New dream residency

12 years ago when I was shouting the wind about the evils of Palantir, I could have not imagined their victory would end up being so complete.

Had the chance to illustrate for Quanta again, and got to draw one of my favorite animals: sharks! This is for “Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects” by Joanna Thompson. It was really fun to focus on all sorts of species, from the large Whale Shark to the small Spiny Dogfish

LOOK AT THIS BIRD ebird.org/species/spac...