Echoing this. There's joy in doing new things for the first time, even later in life. Even in school. In work. I'm rooting for you, for finding the joy.

I guess I knew that it would come to this from national. The question is what to do locally with families here going forward. Our charter, a Presbyterian church, will continue to be welcoming to all.

Never gets old, man

this is gold

Inspired by #TidyTuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @kenglish.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people 📊 Share your #DataViz and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ Here's one we made in today's @rainbowr.org workshop 🐝

I don't know why the federal government has declared war on my state, but this is clearly because their attempt to conduct an invasion was thwarted. So they're now retaliating economically.

This month's tabular playground #rstats #databs #tidytuesday www.kaggle.com/code/jimgrum...

want to compare two numbers? Bar chart. Add more numbers? Bar chart. Want to add another category of numbers to sit alongside the first? Believe it or not: bar chart.

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Shown here as "R Programming Tidyverse" #databs #rstats Community cluster

AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"

Epic

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/m... Educational Attainment in America, via Kyle Walker Updated with 2024 data

It was never about the price of eggs. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Unidos somos América.

Today on the #DSHangout, we got an anonymous Q about what being a working adult in '08-09 might have taught us about navigating today's gross job market. I thought it was a fantastic question to pose to the fellow olds in the #databs community here. My biggest lesson: ask for AND ACCEPT help.

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Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

Contrast this draconian statewide IA bike law proposal to Wisconsin and other places that allow townships to permit golf carts and ATVs on certain roads.

Same rules in Scouting

+1

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Music 101 Vehicle Dynamics 520 History 304 - Western Culture ... I worked quite a few crap jobs, coming in poor from a small Iowa town as an undergrad. These humbled me.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

To paraphrase Dave Barry, someone who is nice to you, but cruel to most of America, is not a nice person. Narcissists tend to like superficially charming but awful people because the superficial charm satisfies their need for admiration.

Blocks tear gas from BOTH Federal and Local law enforcement

People are organizing We Ride in Unity rides on Saturday, January 31, in memory of Alex Pretti. Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.

Watched it live, in Algebra II class. The subsequent investigation was a live case study for a whole generation of engineers and product managers

my vision of the US is I wake up in my neighborhood and all my neighbors are still in it, and all the kids feel safe to go to school, and I go to work and and no one’s waiting at the door to see if I’m someone coming to take them away, and I go to bed knowing the next day will be the same

A short @ragbrai.bsky.social this year.

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Its warming up

@walterrhein.bsky.social substack.com/@jimgruman/n...

h/t Marco Te Brömmelstroet

The whole thing needs to be shut down immediately.

I've been using a map by Mercator. Huh. I thought Greenland was greater! It's really quite small. I don't want it at all. Let's take some stuff on the equator.

The @landeranalytics.com blog is back. We'll be writing about what happens when AI meets real systems: legacy stacks, production constraints and practical tradeoffs that don’t show up in demos. landeranalytics.com/post/welcome-back-to-the-lander-analytics-blog #DataScience #AI #Analytics #databs

YES, WE ARE HUMBLE. WE ARE VERY HUMBLE. AND PIOUS. @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social substack.com/@jimgruman/n...

Gnight all. #caturday

Check the January 2026 issue of The PFLAG Banner, a bi-annual newsletter that shares all of the news from PFLAG National! Read on at pflag.org/pflagbanner 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Note the dude on the bike in Minneapolis in January