GO BIRDS

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

go birds

i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site

go birds

turns out you can indict a ham sandwich but not the man who threw it

just want to note that the way you’re supposed to dispose of an american flag is by burning it.

the presidents war on higher education in this country affects a lot more than those who attend the most prestigious institutions. so i set out to figure out who attends college in America by combing through as much data as i could. here’s what i found.

please stop asking a.i. to do basic math

i cannot recommend The Murderbot Diaries highly enough. i read all seven books in the past two weeks and found them terribly difficult to put down.

"please provide the data in a machine-readable data format such as csv" gets 17,000 page pdf anyways

NOVA

i've tried zoom but my ears don't work that way

my 2003 toyota tacoma has a tape player and crank windows and that is about all the technology i want in my vehicle tyvm

the only time i don't feel tired is when i lie down to try to sleep because of course

being able to effectively turn off the fireworks is one of the very few benefits of having lost most of my hearing

this is not an original thought but i'd really love it if when i bought a book that i'd get the e-book for free as well. i just love to read analog books but for traveling they suck.

finally a team in Philly!

cut my life into pieces

today is not my day. booked it to the office. forgot my badge. no worries, i'll show my id and they'll let me in. forgot my wallet. excellent. all that sweat for nothing.

looking for book recos. gimme non-fiction on interesting topics or fiction in the magical realism realm pls and thx

a thing keeping me sane this year has been weekly asl classes, which both have the benefit of being interesting but also have allowed my partner and i to talk shit in front of people without them knowing

my version of chekhov's gun for news stories is when a story puts in parenthesis an acronym for something they just spelled out but that acronym is neither commonly known nor used again in the story

i do not recall posting this at 1 in the morning but i stand by it

my version of minimalism is that i don’t like the idea of one device that does all the things actually what i want is a dozen devices that each do one thing

*comes out of woodshop* *looks at phone* *goes back to woodshop*

i’m bored let’s make something from this hunk of wood

some of my favorite data stories are mythical numbers stories. journalists should ask for the underlying data on statistics way more often.

i fell so far down the blue prince rabbit hole and i think i reached an end but i still have so many questions!

tfw you make your error flag on your ai prompt script "uh oh spaghettios" and the script fails every time

i was so tired last night i forgot to charge my hearing aids so i’m walking around the office with one in that’s lightly charged while the other one charges a little and then switching them. it’s,,,,,, not fun.

to take my mind off things i have been playing blue prince of late. i had a blast. highly recommend.

i’m good, thanks

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Lyme disease robbed me of most of my hearing but sure

Inspired by the work of @datab.ae, I analyzed which US art schools have the most international students, where they come from, and which institutions saw the most growth: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

this is a cactus appreciation post

i know most of our readership is online but it’s hard not to get excited to see your byline on an A1. today was my first time with a NYT A1 byline and it was both a lead byline and above the fold. i still love print. now where can i get a copy in LA?

The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

i suddenly and randomly miss trapper keepers

it me

i have been busy

my data is front and center on the @nytimes.com site. neato.

uh oh here i go again

go birds

JOB ALERT: My team is hiring a data reporter focused on politics/DC! Come work with me!

Republican lawmakers wanted to target the endowments of elite schools. Their proposed tax increases will hit a lot more than that. Another aspect of the so-called "big, beautiful bill." My latest:

has anyone considered that comey accidentally just posted his pin number

this wikipedia page has seen more than 70 edits today, most in the last couple hours, in case you wonder how it's going

making a spreadsheet with no actual values in it, just colors that mean something to me that i'm not gonna write down