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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 05/10/2026

My latest: Explore a room of thousands of people who are wrestling with what comes after it all. pudding.cool/2026/10/life...

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Life after death?

Thousands of humans around the world wrestling with what comes after it all

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a 3-month online part-time programme limited to 4-6 designers... A chance to be mentored through all of the stages of researching and developing your own visual by the Visualizing Palestine team... Plus a stipend on $4,500 visualizingpalestine.org/contact-us/?...

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Contact us Have comments for our team, have an idea for a visual resource, or want to partner with us? The best way to contact us is by email via this form. drop us a line our address United States (f...

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A great opportunity for budding designers looking to harness their skills for social justice... Find out more and apply for the #VisualizingPalestine Design Fellowship here: visualizingpalestine.org/contact-us/?...

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UK Meteorological Office bringing 3d data visualisation #datavis to the next level #datascience well done :D

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So excited to have finally seen the Guggenheim!

Photo of a car park with a spiral ramp in Worcester UK

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I guess it's hard for columnists like JF when reality just refuses to fit their prejudices. All solidarity to Shaul!

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yup. The whole world needs to shut up and stop having an opinion because ~it's complicated~ but everything will be fine because "campaigners and activists, such as Shaul [...] are all that stands between this moment and the abyss"

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Ash Gravestoneman 🎃 @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Time to burn my Ed Sheeran cd

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If any company could come up with a worthwhile use for cameras on earphones (?!?) it would be Apple, but the timing of this product is just such an obvious PR fail

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's a particularly self-defeating move when privacy has always been part of Apple's brand. Not like Google or Meta where their core business model is based around collecting users' personal data to target ads

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 05/08/2026

“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying. “AI” written in large wonky font against a black background

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It might be some consolation after losing the Falklands in the semis at least!

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is there a market on Kalshi where I can bet on the British Museum refusing to return the #BayeuxTapestry?

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 15/07/2026

The report demonstrates how 2025 was the warmest year in the UK series from 1884, with the last four years in the top five warmest. The number of days over 30C has quadrupled for Greater London for the most recent decade compared to 1961-1990. 🧵2/

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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

A ceefax page in black with yellow and white font. It says One man, one bin, one chance to save clacton.

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

London Data Week #LDW starts today with an interesting and packed programme of free events (but book in advance): londondataweek.org/ldw26-events/ I will be giving a talk on Friday about revealing voting biases with 📊 following the recent local elections. londondataweek.org/ldw26-events...

BallotMap for London showing name-ordering bias in ranked votes

A grid of 32 squares arranged in an approximate diamond shape representing the 32 boroughs of London.

Each square is a London borough. Within each, the candidates for the main parties are shown as coloured lines (Greens: green, Labour: red, LibDems: orange, Conservatives: blue, Reform: cyan, Aspire: pink). They are ordered in rows where the top row is the alphabetically first candidate within their party and ward, the second row alphabetically second, and the bottom row alphabetically last. Darkest lines are those where the candidate received most votes within their party; medium lines where they received the middle number of votes within their party and lightest lines where they received the fewest.

Only those in ballots where they were one of three party candidates shown.

This allows us to see where people have split their vote between parties, choosing just one or two from the slate of three in a given party.

A darker lines in the top row compared to the bottom row of each square indicates voting perference for candidates with names closer to start of alphabet.

We see darker lines in the top row for every borough in London. Some boroughs with particularly strong name bias (strong contrast between top and bottom rows) include Enfield (Enf), Havering (Hvg), Bromley (Brm) and Merton (Mrt). Slightly weaker effects can be seen in Richmond (Rch) and Tower Hamlets (Tow) where party preference exerts a strong influence.

Voting data: Democracy Club, 21st May, 2026.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Exhibit 2. I've been seeing a few of these kinds of #ThreeLions #England flags popping up, which I don't think I've seen for previous #WorldCup or #Euros tournaments...

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I feel like I've been seeing a lot less #England flags around my neighbourhood for #WorldCup2026 than during previous major football tournaments... Which got me thinking whether it might have anything to do with culture wars and most people generally being decent human beings?! #VennDiagram

Infographic venn diagram titled "Why aren’t there moreEngland flags for the World Cup?". Small circle for people who hang flags because "England is for the English". Larger overlapping circle for people who usually hang flags to support the England team. Most of the larger circle shaded to suggest that people who think foreigners should feel welcome are less likely to hang flags in 2026 than in previous years.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What if we made data tables where the numbers were sized according to the size of the number! No?!? #BadDataViz

Illegible data table showing the populations of local authorities in the North East of England where the numbers are scaled based on how big the number is

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Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

such a cool chart. The UK just has no highly-productive mid-sized cities... look at the gap in the middle of the orange bubbles

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Danny Dorling also argues that it was middle class rather than working class voters that came out in numbers to vote for Brexit youtu.be/eOMiUONDLno?...

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Middle classes (not working class) voted for Brexit, argues Danny Dorling - BBC Newsnight

YouTube video by BBC Politics

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'd say coverage is a much more important metric than speed. On the SWR trains I take to London, the coverage is patchy at best (works maybe 30-40% of the route), which makes it pretty much unusable for even the most basic online tasks that actually require very little data (eg. emails)

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Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk · 21/05/2026

Today we published an explainer looking at ONS numbers on British migrants; what we know and what we don't know. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Emigration of British nationals has been broadly stable recently - but remains lower than in September 2021

Estimated migration levels to and from the UK are higher after applying improved methods

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Isaac Arroyo @isaacarroyov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story. @fadahjassem.bsky.social and I analysed figures from @acleddata.bsky.social, UNHCR, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbers🧵 #datajournalism #datavisualization #dataviz

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you'd like to visualise this data yourself or get involved in other #TidyTuesday #DataViz challenges, be sure to follow @jonthegeek.com (thanks also to @nrennie.bsky.social for inspiring me to submit the dataset!) bsky.app/profile/jont... 11/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A visualisation of how twinned cities echo historical colonial ties by @kindsoul3.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/kind... 10/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A visualisation of the 10 most twinned cities around the world and their shared connections by @manishdatt.com bsky.app/profile/mani... 9/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A swarm visualisation of connections between 5,470 twinned cities by @fiserkarel.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fise... 8/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A live-coded visualisation of twin cities by continent by @nrennie.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/nren... 7/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Mapping distances between twin cities around the world by @cborstell.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/cbor... 6/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A map of #SouthAfrica's twin cities in BRICS and non-BRICS countries by @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/afri... 5/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A cartographic visualisation of all of the connections between twin cities across the world by @mothsailor.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/moth... 4/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A dynamic visualisation of twin cities in #India by @deepalikank.in bsky.app/profile/deep... 3/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

An interactive scrollytelling article visualising the twin cities of #RioDeJaneiro by @karaman.is bsky.app/profile/kara... 2/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I shared the data from this recent interactive #TwinCities visualisation for this week's #TidyTuesday #DataViz challenge. So cool to see what people came up with. A few examples in this 🧵... bsky.app/profile/both... 1/n

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Ooh. Stats explained using the art of witchcraft...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

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The Cost of No Friction

Adolescence happens once.

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