my parents hate windows and mac.. gonna try to install linux for them but not sure which distro. is fedora kde a good choice? it's a touch screen all in one machine. im thinking fedora would be plug n play, but haven't used it myself. they cant use a terminal, not tech savy

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I made a Typst + Quarto template for academic posters. It lets you embed/render code output inside your poster, so that if you ever make a code update you don't need to spiral into screenshot-copy-paste hell. I'm really loving Typst! repo codeberg.org/edenian-prin... #quartopub #typst #rstats

If porn bans prevail, it is decidedly more likely for our very existence to be criminalised at the stroke of a politician's pen. And the same method could be used to eradicate anyone the state decides is undesirable. It is a gun hanging over all our heads. 11/13

But porn bans also create a very dangerous situation for #LGBTQ folk and marginalised subcultures. Increasingly, #LGBT content is being wrongfully treated as obscene making it more difficult for us to express ourselves and our experiences. 10/13

me hizo pensar.. algunos creen que los ricos traen dinero pa los pobres (tienen miedo si se mudan fuera de NYC por ej.). PR tiene la respuesta- les estan robando la tierra, NO traen dinero pa los nativos.. los ricos necesitan esclavos. #badbunny #pr #superbowl youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4?...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Can everyone go see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple please. I have some thoughts, mainly positive, so if the proposed part three gets cancelled I'm going to be upset. #filmsky #horrorsky #blutoid

chatgpt has bricked my void linux setup so many times now, why do i not learn from this. AI slop

github.com/junghoon-son... re ICE murdering people, here are FOIA templates you can send to gov: "Templates to ready-to-send: 1. ICE (fill your name --> send) 2. DOJ (fill your name --> send) 3. FBI (requires portal), CBP (portal), DHS (portal) are ready as well 4. Congressmen/women"

love that The Bone Temple shows us where the world is headed with toxic masculinity and fascism, but offers a cure. Healthy male role models, art, love, empathy, and a little science.

"but we're giving them a job! $1 is better than $0!" The US is like the Capital in the Hunger Games and the districts are "third world" countries. It blows my mind that people watched that movie + defend billionaires. They're admitting we need slave labor in order to have billionaires.

Just got SearXNG working. It's a search engine that aggregates results from other engines but drops ads and tracking. And you can self host it (mines on my Tailnet) to have complete control, customization, and privacy. it feels so good to have a clean search for once #fuckgoogle #searxng #selfhost

windows fucking sucks. why do we keep buying their bullshit?? a program i wrote for linux works fine, but now i have to spend a lot of extra time getting it to work with windows and it is insane what i have to do to convince it to work

AP Livestream - CDC coming out in force to support our ousted leaders.

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

"All-in-one animation engine. A fast and versatile JavaScript library to animate anything." animejs.com A very impressive demo. Would love to have access to this in #rstats

im so late to the game, but Docker is fucking amazing 😭

renv is garbage, im sorry devs:( it advertises that everything will default to PPM automatically, but it never does. and you cannot change the config to do so. and there are always bugs, especially when projects that have collaborators using various systems. this is such a headache #rstats

When are you and the other living former Presidents (Biden, Bush, Clinton) going to join forces and publicly condemn what this current Administration is doing to our country? Signed: Millions of concerned, worried and panicking citizens. Much of the the free world is worried too.

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

highly recommend #quartodoc for creating python docs. It treats your doctrings like they are quarto snippets, so you can do quarto things in docstring, like execute code, make cross refs, make diagrams, etc.+you can fully customize a website around it #quarto nw-page.github.io/wadoh_raccoo...

Microsoft Windows is going to give me a heart attack

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

These kind of votes are born out of trans representation in government. Rep. Howell & I have built solid relationships with Republicans and those relationships change hearts, minds, and (eventually) votes. It is painful, grueling work. But it makes a difference.

To everyone who expressed interest in running for office, I'm working on setting up a form for a 15-minute 1-on-1 call with me. I had my first meeting today. If you've responded to that post (or this one), I'll send you a link to the form sometime this week.

Email list for all DOGE employees Please ReSkeet!

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

Reality vs. 'Don't Look Up'

This is terrifying.

Do you want to animate a @vega-vis.bsky.social vega-lite or @observablehq.com Plot chart? Here is a quick experiment that might help you that animates between two SVGs. Let me know what you think! #dataviz. 👉🏼 observablehq.com/@john-guerra...

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Thought we were attempting to reduce the federal deficit? Instead, Trump’s proposed budget plan is projected to significantly increase it.

All of the winners are good, I'm always impressed by what people build with Quarto. But let me highlight how cleanly mschnetzer.github.io/scrollytell_... combines scrolly-telling and regular layouts. I didn't think "scrolly-telling is underused"; this submission moved my opinion in that direction.

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆 Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere... Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

Hi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.

As the extreme right (yes I know, it’s no longer extreme but mainstream) takes over country after country, expect to see more of this - enticing job applicants based on values as well as expertise

Neat Quarto trick: remlapmot.github.io/post/2025/mu... #quarto #rstats #python #stata #julia

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social

for WSL/linux users, if installing odbc for R via install.packages('odbc') throws an error, try installing unixodbc in a bash terminal, 'sudo apt install unixodbc'. renv always had issues when working between windows and wsl users cus this in addition to needing other linux reqs. #renv #rstats #wsl

Note that words like "biases" are also just regular statistical terms and will be on WAY more than just the kinds of proposals they claim to target. To this administration, grinding science to a halt isn't just an unfortunate side effect of targeting minoritized populations; it's part of the goal.

I'm a bit late to the party, but this article by @allisonhorst.bsky.social and @eagereyes.org about animation in #dataViz is getting the praise it deserves: observablehq.com/blog/effecti...

please read this. we need to organize open.substack.com/pub/shatterz...

Not exactly a report, but in this shiny app I created quarto based revealjs slide decks: umair.shinyapps.io/storytimegcp/ Source code: github.com/durraniu/sto...

I made a dynamic #observable #D3.js plot with #quarto and #closeread. The plot changes when a user scrolls - d3 forces are added when the scroll triggers it. I wish I put this into my closeread submission! #rstats here's the post and a guide on how to do it edenian-prince.github.io/blog/posts/2...