@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).

and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you

I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.

I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.

Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government

The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.

Digital collage #dataviz to highlight the rise of forest loss by wildfires 🌳📈📊

The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information. A bot will never be good at that.

When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.

Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt.

FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

Really really great peek into touring theatre and how they're managing DC. Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit

I don't know that it's especially difficult to conceptualize the use case for surveys that gather data on a) alcohol consumption or b) internet usage among the American public

Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents. See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇

This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?” About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.

Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com

26% of D.C.-area households with a government worker or contractor has experienced a layoff, firing or leave from that job. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

He's gonna be out there turning water into malort

This is also the first time I've made an Instagram-specific version of one of my #dataviz projects. There wasn't going to be a good way to get a vertical timeline with 100+ items to fit, so the only option was to rotate it and go horizontal. We went with a curved line to better fill the space.

There’s a lot here, but it is far from comprehensive. We narrowed down more than 3,000 stories to just over 100. It’s a testament to just how overwhelming the last couple of months have been. So if you’re feeling like you can’t keep up - you’re not alone.

My latest for @axios.com is a bit of a meta piece - a timeline of our coverage of Trump’s expansion of executive power in his (second) first 100 days.

Adore this illustration from Sarah Grillo @axios.com. So smart. www.axios.com/2025/04/24/a...

"18F worked just how Musk and his team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it." — @waldo.net

wow the shade

My colleague Maura made this infographic version explaining how it all works (along with more words & details in the article itself). No School House Rock jingle, but it is beautifully illustrated and informative!

If someone stuck this skeet under a box propped up with a stick, I wouldn't stand a chance.

To be continued... www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence? I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

if someone decided to make a tablet with even halfway decent parental controls, they'd make an absolute killing on the market. Imagine the ROI if any of these companies hired just one parent.

Did not expect the curse of the ancient mariner to be part of our timeline, but this seems very on brand for 2025.

@daniellealberti.bsky.social Every time I travel to a place with a Din Tai Fung, I think about where it might fall on the Soup Dumpling Index.

Husband's asking for a snack that's "like mapo tofu but crunchy and in a bag." Any recommendations?

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I'm the guy who actually made that chart. There's only one way to read it and it's the obvious one! archive.is/y543P

Reupping this request especially for folks at universities like Columbia and Hopkins where we’re seeing additional widespread funding cuts to research — we want to hear from as many folks as possible!

There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports. There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state. Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/main...

It's frustrating how many "AI-powered" features online should be (and used to be) a simple text search. There are enough downsides to AI that it feels reckless to use it for tasks that we've been able to do for decades.

A USAID official told employees to clear safes holding classified documents and personnel files by shredding the papers or putting them into bags for burning, according to an email sent to the staff.

I know I'm a total tool for saying this, but Bluesky's interface isn't the best for seeing new followers, so I don't check them much. If we actually know each other or knew each other on other platforms and I don't follow you, 1) it's not personal, and 2) let me know so I can fix.

What a cool use of data.

Reading "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing and just got to the part where the Shackleton Expedition convinced one dude they were going to a costume party at the South Georgia home of the whaling factory manager and he was the only one in a costume.

"Longtime Post opinion editor and columnist Ruth Marcus resigned from the Post Monday after CEO Will Lewis killed her column expressing concerns about Bezos' opinion section changes."

I'm really gonna need Pinterest to deal with their AI issue because I'm gonna lose it if these craft groups don't stop posting slop and asking for patterns.