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...

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

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...

Today I overheard one student explaining to another: "So the sample is like a window and the statistic is like what you see out a window, and you are trying to guess what's outside in the population." Y'all I have never seen a better Day 2 Intro Stat grok!!! 🥹

I submitted a #dataviz for the #CloseRead prize. #CloseRead is an excellent tool for #scrollytelling in #Quarto. My visualization illustrates the benefits of using #fractal analysis to explore the role of scale in #geographical knowledge. fsemecurbe.github.io/fractal-for-...

So excited! I submitted a quarto site for the closeread competition. It's a Quarto website that uses closeread (scrollytelling) and parallax effects to tell a story about bigfoot sightings data. note - it doesn't work well on mobile:( edenian-prince.github.io/bigfoot-clos... #quartopub #rstats