I'm learning today -- from our greatest minds -- that there are "80 different vaccine blends". Choosing the blend that's right for you is no laughing matter. Remember to check if you need a Winter blend, and if synthetic vaccines are right for you.

stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579 Opportunity to plug one of the great StackOverflow answers

Afternoon naps #Caturday

This is a solid joke (truly, A+, my man), but the SW prequels are like Contemporary Christian Music -- your message can be good or bad or whatever, but nobody will care if it's absolutely dreadful.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Patty Maholmes throwing at everyone's knees -- or 6 feet over their heads -- so on average he's perfect today.

Lol. Lololol Oh, Chicago. I would tell you to never change, but that's like telling Mt Everest to "keep being tall and stuff". I know you've got it covered.

QT with your weekend plans github.com/alejandrohag...

Qt with your weekend plans

sometimes people think, "but wait, their hands are too small." but everybody's hands are too small for the bass, everybody's shifting, the bass is truly the instrument for the masses.

Forgot `tidyr::unite`exists and spent a lot of time writing some very, very silly case_when()'s. Don't be me. #rstats

I left a folding chair out after using it to stack boxes and now one of my cats waits on it when he hears me going down to the basement (home office!) It's like walking into an intervention (I imagine)

The rest of the world brags about not having drug companies advertising, but you don't get absolute cinema like this while you watch sports.

Name a TV show you're positive nobody remembers but you. (I'm also just learning that they never even finished the story. Considering how sporadically i was able to watch it, that's very on brand)

Highlights from the first few minutes of the NFL regular season: * Guy carted off for an injury * Guy ejected for spitting * Chris Collinsworth has already brought up the Chiefs for no reason I can tell it's going to be a wild year

Happy Silk Song Day to all who celebrate.

*Finally* listened to this episode on that MIT preprint thing about LLMs melting people’s brains and it’s *so good*

Totally normal behavior... #Caturday

No new pictures, where are you mentally? (It was a tough day but I muddled through with hard work and a *lot* of cursing)

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT

Yay or nay: Unit tests for analysis code

Something you don't see everyday. Went from eating for a good 20 min to laying down.

New blog post #Python needs its CRAN brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

People are saying this!

This should have #rstats Good info and examples!

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

I think Queen is a touch overrated, but I'll be damned if A Night at the Opera isn't a wonderful listening experience. I sure do miss album-driven rock.

Sometimes I find myself asking "why are these chatbots like this?" but then I remember that most of the text on the Internet is generated by people who are deeply mentally ill and it all makes sense.

I dont know if this is true (pocket of Bluesky I engage with is maybe not representative), but let's assume that it is. I do not think it's healthy that "I don't know anyone who has served in the military" is a common thing. Maybe that was bound to happen moving all-voluntary, but seems bad.

And if you're not particularly enthusiastic about writing your own SQL, there's this:

What's missed in all of this talk is that _nothing_ goes to trial these days. >90% of cases result in some sort of plea deal, so the grand jury charging phase *is* critical. In a bizarre way, Smith and MY are drawing the right conclusion (assuming the study is correct), but only by accident!

Lots of "zomg, corporations aren't people, they don't have rights!" folks sure see the light (read: remove head from ass) when it comes to "depriv[ing] of [...] property without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." This is outrageous.

Accidentally terrorized a baby bunny that was hiding by my kids' playset while mowing (air quality has been awful so I let the grass in the back go way longer than normal). After a gentle nudge it hopped happily into the woods. That makes 6 bunnies who love my yard now (it's our fence, surely).

YouTube app's playback speed setting is broken today, making the app pretty much unusable for actually watching videos. I've never seen a company with such good products go to greater lengths to ruin all of them and alienate their users. It's incredible.

1. All of you like my tweets way less than they deserve.

it took me a minute but I remembered the suite of R packages developed across companies to replace other tools with R: pharmaverse.org

How to tell Android to treat daytime as slow charging and nighttime as fast charging

Went ahead and played through Hollow Knight again and it's better than I said it was. It's amazing. My complaints are as follows: * One boss runback in the endgame has some tricky platforming * A "delivery quest" that requires taking zero DMG has 3 tricky jumps at the end That's it! 1/n

"Be the duckdb you want to see in the world"

It's not going to accept it, but in a good world, it would. #dplyr #RStats

Sitting in silent judgement (I'm hiding from my kids to eat some candy)

*Beep boop* *Updating predictions* *Update complete* Don't worry, self driving cars are now...*checks notes*... 10 years away.

www.usatoday.com/story/money/... P&G changed the scents in a bunch of their products, ruining them. Sorry I don't want my dishes to smell like laundry and/or rancid fruit. The lesson here: It sucks to suck

I am interested in why plagiarism is seen so comprehensively bad in science. It's bad; but unlike poor statistics, qustnble research practices, data fraud, or ignoring past findings, plagiarism doesn't inherently invalidate one's findings. But more than these other things it gets guaranteed outrage.

Hmm / Agh... `x |> group_by(col_1, col_1) |> summarize(...)` ...will throw an error. Same group col twice = no go. `x |> summarize(.by = c(col_1, col_1), ...)` ...will deduplicate `.by` and work as you expect. Surely a side-effect of tidy-select, but this could be more clear. #rstats

Ooh I haven't had the occasion to think about "Himmicanes" (as Gelman put them to give the topic the "seriousness it deserves" lol) in a while. Those are some of his classic posts imo

There's a special kind of person who sees a problem but then proposes the literal worst solution in the universe.

Kurt Russell is always good, but sometimes he's perfect, too.