Didn’t know we needed this until I just saw leathery skin and blue jeans 😬

Paul Kahn on how visual communication has evolved over time and cultures. #dataviz

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

#BM100 #barkleymarathons

Something new is coming on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities. Thursday! attilabatorfy.substack.com

this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Just two runners, Damian Hall and Sébastien Raichon, remain as they do battle with rain, cold, low visibility, and mud on loop three. #bm100

Some reading material for the train journey home

Ready for extra time but should’v won this already #bcfc #facup

The first loop 2 finishers: Sébastien Raichon in 22:35:40; Mathieu Blanchard :42; Damian Hall :44. At the same time, another loop 2 runner has quit and is tapped out. #BM100

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Good ebening, Geordies. #NUFC #FACup

Will be an interesting year if it’s the real Kílian! #bm100

The Spreadsheet™ NOW with a 2026 tab. #bm100 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Can someone wake up @taka-does-stuff.bsky.social #BM100

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

*BREAKING NEWS* It’s not raining!

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Deadly fighting escalated in South Sudan in January as clashes between government and opposition forces spread across multiple states. The deadliest day came on 2 January, when at least 70 people were reportedly killed, including civilians. 🔎 acleddata.com/update/afric...

“We want to make a Copenhagen-on-Sea here in Worthing“ says guy who should probably looked at a map of Denmark

Immediately thought of @mrjamesob.bsky.social’s giant mug

Post trees you've photographed

An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

It's Winter Olympics time which means 16+ days packed with sports. And if you're into Curling and Ice-Hockey, you can even watch competitions daily. Quick #dataviz for #TidyTuesday week 6, made with python. Full code github.com/Lisa-Ho/smal...

Across Europe, Carnival still erupts in late winter, even as Lent fades from view. Rooted in a Christian “last hurrah” before 40 days of restraint, the season now survives mostly as spectacle:

right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

Just about all of my climate data visualizations should finally be updated to include the latest data through 2025/2026 🥹 For example... Global Climate Indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... Polar Climate Indicators [all links for the different pages are listed here]: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Another bit of Spain being colonised by Brits. Wonder what Sir Jim has to say about this?

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

This is a very helpful guide to the {dplyr} update #rstats

Looks like my full series on using color in #dataviz finally made the migration to the new NASA science website: science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-... If you’re new to visualization, or just want a refresher, it covers the basics of color theory, how to build a palette, plus some tips & tricks.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Sacked in the morning chants from the North stand during the game and boos at the final whistle after losing to Palace in the derby. Not sure if Hurzeler survives this. #bhafc

Finished the first round of updates to my justthebrowser.com project! The Firefox settings now use the registry on Windows and system profiles on Mac, instead of the JSON files that kept breaking. A bug with downloads failing on Mac is also fixed.

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

check out these detailed maps by Isabeaux Graham showing land-use and demographics along the Eglinton Line 5 corridor higher res here: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/maps-of-line... #toronto #transit #maps #gis

A few weeks ago, we published a data visualisation about the land footprint of food. In case you missed it: the bottom line was that beef and mutton were much more land-intensive than any other food.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

A nice article about how my Friesonesian namesake — and cousin, if you didn’t know yet — @trbrtc.bsky.social combines social media sleuthing and traditional reporting to piece together complex stories for the Times’s Visual Investigations team.

A little sunshine at last

Paris prosecutors raid French offices of Elon Musk's X

Seeing Lauryn Hill trending reminds me of the best gig I saw last year where she was a surprise guest at Wyclef’s London show. They did a short set of their greatest Fugees hits and it was brilliant.

A newly developed Chinese App “Are You Dead Yet?” (死了麼?), designed for solitary-living people to check in regularly and auto-notify their emergency contacts, unexpectedly topped China’s Apple App Store in January 2026. 

Oopsie!

Heard James talk about this on the radio so will be giving this a read later

are those freedoms in room with us right now

The powerful front page of the reformist newspaper Sazandegi features the names of 3,000 individuals who, according to government reports, were killed during the protests in Iran. #Iran #IranProtests2026

No Pakistan v India? Is there any point even watching the tournament?

This is what it looks like when you hit the wall hard in a marathon 🫠