“Also, imagine the look on your professor’s face when you submit an analysis using yeet() and squad_up().”

In my opinion @liyuan6.bsky.social is the most insightful writer on contemporary China today. In this essay, she reflects on Silicon Valley's misconceptions (it doesn't help that tech bros mostly stay in 5-star hotels in Shanghai as their idea of "China"):

And another thing while I’m on my soapbox. Those of us in the #datajournalism community have really dropped the ball not involving the remote sensing world more in our training programs. Satellite data is an indispensable source around the world but we seem to treat it like some “other.”

For #RemoteSensing and #datajournalism universe, here's a lesson I learned reporting on our @reuters team's discovery of a secret mass grave in the Syrian desert --- and the two-year conspiracy to fill it with tens of thousands of bodies. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The Syria team from @reuters.com provides sourcing and background on their devastating investigation into efforts by the Assad regime to conceal evidence of mass murder by moving the corpses of victims. www.reuters.com/investigates...

New story out: Witnesses, a drone and colored soil: How Reuters confirmed an Assad plot to move a mass grave www.reuters.com/investigates...

Incredible Capital J journalism: “Reuters has discovered a mass grave near Damascus that was created in a clandestine campaign to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.” www.reuters.com/investigates...

💥 NEW TODAY: On Tuesday, Reuters revealed our discovery of an enormous mass grave in Syria, part of 2-year conspiracy to hide atrocities. Reuters can now expose, in forensic detail, how those responsible carried out the conspiracy and kept it a secret. - www.reuters.com/investigates...

💥 NEW TODAY: On Tuesday, Reuters revealed our discovery of an enormous mass grave in Syria, part of 2-year conspiracy to hide atrocities. Reuters can now expose, in forensic detail, how those responsible carried out the conspiracy and kept it a secret. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Lovely bit of trivia: Westminster Bridge is green and Lambeth Bridge is red to match the upholstery in the Commons and Lords. From Matt Brown's excellent Londonist: Time Machine newsletter open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

🔊 Today on Reuters World News: - Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds - Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow - French PM to suspend Macron's flagship pension reform reut.rs/3KOzutG

Reuters World News podcast on our team’s discovery of an enormous mass grave in the Syrian desert. open.spotify.com/episode/6Wlk...

ICYMI.

Exclusive: Thousands of bodies vanished from a Syrian mass grave in a two-year coverup of Assad-era atrocities, Reuters found. The people were buried at a secret site in the desert reut.rs/42Iiuv7

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds reut.rs/4nYthdq

🚨🚨🚨 Reuters journalists have discovered an enormous, secret mass grave in Syria — likely with tens of thousands of bodies. The graves are part of 2-year conspiracy by Assad’s forces to excavate one of Syria’s largest known mass graves and hide bodies in the desert. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

@pmonies.bsky.social seems like a good retirement goal www.instagram.com/reel/DM-00zz...

We are watching Escape to the Country and this couple looking for a place in Cumbria asked to be near two pubs…in case one is closed.

God I wonder how much of my day is spent trying to sort out some sort of Git dumbassery? No doubt it is often user error … but still.

Pour one out for the civ-mil experts today

If only someone had warned them…

Today I donated to @rcfp.org

We’re not mad. Just disappointed…

The Salt Lake Tribune had a photographer at the Charlie Kirk rally, who has sent back photos of the immediate aftermath -- www.sltrib.com/news/2025/09...

The follow-up to these types of responses should always be "Name them".

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

That post-walk vibe…

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

The thing about basset hounds is they always look like you’ve disappointed them.

Texas legislature passing a law saying the 1-yard line is the end zone

Map projections in the news! “The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday. apnews.com/article/domi...

So about those crumbs on the ground…We had just sat down on a crowded train to York when I heard a kid behind us: “mom! Mom! He’s eating our food!” I looked down and Frank had snatched a whole ass bread roll from their bags under the seat. He looked at me like a puffer fish. Mortified.

Pritzker said he showed his son a book of all the Illinois governors. He turned to the back and said, "There's a 40% chance I wind up in prison after all this. But if you accept my collect calls we can talk all the time."

Our hounds are such messy drinkers that the restaurant had to put up the warning sign.

BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG

"UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

@pmonies.bsky.social good news for your vibes

Check out this historical map I just snagged from the Blackheath vintage bookstore showing SE London poverty at the turn of the century. GIS before GIS.

However, there was no air conditioning. That part was ridiculous.

Some Okies came through…

IMO Definitely nailed my attire for tonight’s Turnpike Troubadours show in London

I tried to get them to look at the camera but the scent of foxes in the air was too much to ignore.

Twins.

I have to wonder what goes through your head when you decide to FAFO with wildlife that can obviously crush or consume you.

This is a very thorough analysis — including using repeat satellite images to look for “patterns of life”. In this case monitoring the overfull parking lot of a high-explosive factory. More on how to use satellite imagery in data journalism: nightingaledvs.com/from-space-t...

Sadly, this RDX production site and this scale of investment don't leave us hope that peace is Russia's long-term plan. We reported this story with @reporter-polina.bsky.social @mcneill.bsky.social @christianlowe.bsky.social @zverevlive.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Russia is expanding its military-industrial complex and building new facilities. An important investigation by @reuters.com with @mashatsvetkova.bsky.social, @reporter-polina.bsky.social, @mcneill.bsky.social, @christianlowe.bsky.social, @zverevlive.bsky.social. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive used in artillery shells and other munitions, a @Reuters review of publicly available documents and satellite imagery found reut.rs/42NMw0X

By reviewing state documents and satellite imagery, my colleagues found that Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive Moscow needs to wage war in Ukraine www.reuters.com/investigatio... @reporter-polina.bsky.social