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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a few weeks of unemployment have given me plenty of time to quilt, look at birds, and contemplate the terrifying expanse of "transferable skills." anyway, if anyone needs someone who's good at data viz, visual storytelling, and leading creative teams, hello! 👋

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What do data professionals from the New York Times, Washington Post, Spiegel and Bloomberg have in common? They've taken my course on birding and data visualization!

"As a Data Scientist at Der Spiegel, I'm always looking for unique ways to tell stories through data. This course was exactly what I was looking for - a perfect mix of getting outdoors with creative data viz." #binocularstobinomials

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ah, I figured they'd just learned by now that "learn to code" isn't as future-proof as they insisted a few years ago. But yeah, that checks out.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Last time I was laid off from journalism, I was barraged with "learn to code" trolls (I was literally a Web developer at the time). Oh how times have changed.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

haha yes, we very much know each other!

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Bec Falconer @becfalconer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@daniellealberti.bsky.social is so talented and so lovely. She and the #DataViz team she’s led for years have produced the most amazing work 💚

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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 25/08/2026

Some sad news: Axios has eliminated their #dataviz team, which means I have a few former colleagues who are going to be looking for work. @daniellealberti.bsky.social was one of the best managers I’ve ever had and her eye for hiring the right people to round out a team is second to none.

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Yesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I’ve built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I’m looking for what's next. I’m so proud...

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Second place at the Arlington County Fair! So amazing getting to see people stop and gush over my hard work. 🥰

A quilt showing a heron in a stained glass style with a pink fair ribbon

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's hard to pick favorites with my quilts, but I'm afraid this one might take first place. It was very much a skill-building project, from working with the gradient fabric to my first time hand-quilting and hand-binding. And obvi jackalopes are badass. (Original pattern via Amelia at Summer Sleet)

A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is how I find out that I don't follow you, however.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

But I already follow you!!!! I didn't know you were into textile arts, though! What do you do?

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you exist at the intersection of birding, data viz, and fiber arts, please hit me up. There are dozens of us and i want to follow every one.

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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 27/07/2026

New story from @pudding.cool is out, featuring some unique #dataviz forms I immediately added to my inspo bookmarks. The sankey + vocab list combo was especially good

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My dad was so pissed, and I'm sure he'd be really annoyed to hear that my most memorable fourth of July was the one time we failed to see fireworks. But I'm nearly 40 now and it just cracks me up that i remember him trying so hard and being foiled by Bay Area fog.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I was just telling my husband about how my most memorable fourth of July as a kid was the time when my dad told us we were going to see the most amazing fireworks over the Pacific and drove us out to the 101 (it felt like hours at that age) and then we only heard them and saw flashes behind the fog.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 11/06/2026

SAD STATE OF A FAIR

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

(Yes I'm biased cuz' she kinda looks like me)

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This 1757 Jean Baptiste Greuze painting looks like it should be the cover of a really phenomenal weird girl lit novel.

Young woman in a simple kitchen sits slumped on a chair, looking tired and pensive. She wears a loose white dress slipping off one shoulder. Nearby are a small cabinet, bowls, and kitchen utensils, with muted tones.

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026

relatedly, the best editors are the ones who both make your prose better and who challenge your worldview and how you express it

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026

i think one of the biggest flaws a lot of writers have, especially opinion writers, is this innate belief that their experience is *the* universal experience and when it manifests itself in a piece it annoys me to no end

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This visual, posted to Reddit by Stephen Nass in 2015 and adapted by @cingraham.bsky.social is forever the gold standard, and i just used it to explain this month's Virginia election to my 8-year-old (est. 2017).

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

When I was getting bombarded with OKCupid messages, my husband was the only one with good grammar and spelling, which caught my attention. For some reason he doesn't think that's a romantic origin story.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

(Side note: I saw three condors in Pinnacles National Park this last December, and it was magical.)

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I guess, go ahead and chase those condors, but stop and appreciate the vultures sometimes.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've been birding for a while now and I still get unreasonably excited about a bird I've seen a hundred times. The common ones don't get any less good. There's probably a thought-leader-y data viz lesson in there somewhere but I'm not going to make it into a metaphor right now.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Google's constantly giving me pop-ups telling me I've used 89% of my storage space, so I need to buy more immediately. I've had this account for over 20 years and it took me that long to get to 89%, so I just don't feel like I'm going to use that last 11% imminently.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Cuts at the Washington Post: • Shuttering the Sports desk. • Books section ended. • Metro cut from 40 reporters to 12. Bezos bought the Post for $250 million. He paid $500 million for his yacht.

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Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'

The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Alyssa is both a serious data journalist with immense technical chops and a super-talented visualization guru, figuring out all sorts of solutions to create the best storytelling approach. Plus she's a great collaborative partner :) Someone needs to hire her ASAP.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Lord help us I love it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

A screenshot from NYT cooking of "Mortadella cookies." The cookies are round, pink, and studded with pistachios and macadamia nuts, looking exactly like mortadella.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Google Photos is convinced that Seymour is a red panda.

Screenshot shows Google Photos' tagging of people and pets in an image. First is Mercator, a black and white cat. Second tag is an unnamed red panda's butt and tail.

A precious orange prince naps on a green chair, sprawled in a goofy position with his belly exposed.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.

Google maps screenshot showing top review keywords, including drunken noodles, catfish, and object-relational mapping. A review shows a mention of the Lao stew "orm."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...

Sepia-toned cover of Beings by Ilana showing a forest canopy over a small road and a car by the side of the road, with a flying saucer hovering overhead. With author text is dull gold over the saucer and the title in the middle of the cover in all caps in white and "A NOVEL" at bottom also in gold.

Below the cover is a quote from the New York Times Book Review:

"Engaging, elegant... A restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of 'truth' versus memory."

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing?

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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

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Were They Abducted by Aliens, or Is Their Memory Just Spotty?

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).

photo of me, a white queer with glasses and long hair wearing a white tank top, holding my second novel, BEINGS, which is out today.

photo of BEINGS's dedication, which reads:To Mike, who kicked this whole thing off, and to Micha, who unknowingly helped finish it

Photo of BEINGS's epigraphs which read:
Safe journey, space fans, wherever you are. - Stephen Hill, host and producer of Hearts of Space
"It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now." - Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. - Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

The start of BEINGS's acknowledgements (which are five pages long) which reads: Before I get to the thank-yous, I want to acknowledge that any misrepresentations of or factual errors regarding real places, time periods, or people--and any mistakes in general--are entirely my own. There are many, many people to thank (some of whom don't know I exist but whom I feel compelled to acknowledge anyway), so let's get started. Thank you to Mike Cahill, to whom this book is dedicated, for always listening to podcasts while making dinner, for letting me interrupt you...

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"Are you likely to recommend Earth to family and friends?"

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.

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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

That's incredible. I love how the heron looks like it's eyeing its next snack. It's actually set into the window frame? I haven't been brave enough to try that yet with any of my stained glass.

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