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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

Looking into bookstore from
The street at night

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

LOCAL CYCLIST TRANSIT-MOGS GAS GUZZLING CAGE DWELLERS. MOTORISTS IN SHAMBLES CRYING AT THE PUMP

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

DEFINITIVE Mage/Wizard/Witch Tiers

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Now: 📕 The Overstory 🎮 Slay the Spire II 📺 Frieren Life is VERY good.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause...They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom..." -Francis Fukuyama on #rstats in 2026

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Local politics comes into focus when you see it less as liberal vs. conservative, but property owners vs. property seekers. Renters might be the least represented constituency in history.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It probably would've been {rextendr} vs. {Rcpp} but LLMs, advances in interoperability, and Posit have flattened the discourse. The critical mass of opinionated users has moved on. The fire is out; the #rstats flame wars are over.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...

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The Poison Always Drips Through

On Renee Good and George Floyd

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

|> mutate(across(2:last_col(), \(x) ...)) the 🐐 #rstats

gotta be one of my favorite genders meme with tidyselect helpers listed

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Seems odd (to me) that Posit is promoting dbt over {targets}, the time-honored, pure #rstats solution to this very problem.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The most undefeated thing ever is retail sales going up once you kick cars out of the way. It has happened everywhere

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What could be more undignified than looking at your phone at the urinal?

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

{sqltargets} 0.3.0 just hit CRAN, now includes the ability to pass 'dbi' parameters into queries. Turns out using SQL with #rstats {targets} is pretty fun! github.com/daranzolin/s...

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Getting faux-outraged or flabbergasted at every thing the cat does around the house is peak living.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Gonna be a data.table person after seeing this. (slice_head/slice_max should’ve been peak())

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There was a house in my neighborhood with three signs: No on A No on 50 Rishi Kumar for Assessor Knowing nothing about Kumar, I knew immediately not to vote for him.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Found a right_join() in some of my old #rstats code and legit gasped out loud

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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"Which brings us to the real reason why Trump is an enemy of urban America. If cities like D.C. and Los Angeles truly were crime-ridden hellholes, they would pose little threat to the MAGA movement. It is because these are prosperous and dynamic places that they must be occupied."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/07/2025

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Finally checked the Use Native Pipe Operator RStudio #rstats option. For those constantly piping into [Vv]iew(), a small advantage to the native pipe is that the 'title' argument gets automatically supplied as the function call instead of the cryptic '.' from magrittr.

Screenshot from RStudio showing the difference in view pane titles.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Unironically yes--to quote the scientists at the IPCC in a report on the MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE: '...cities will achieve the largest GHG emissions savings by replacing, repurposing, or retrofitting the building stock, targeted infilling and densifying...'

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Chapter 8: Urban systems and other settlements

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Now: 📕 Say Nothing 🎮 Expedition 33 I am MOVED. Life is good.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Inside the NBA was neither informative nor entertaining. The emperor’s new clothes of sports shows. If I wanted to listen to a bunch of petty republican bullies spew nonsense I’d turn on Fox News.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This is the least sexy data and programming post of all time, but sqlfluff is great software. Useful, intuitive, and versatile, it's helped me write better code.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is 100x worse than any pie chart.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/05/2025

Sephiroth is our next Surgeon General. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force," she wrote the next month. "And human bodies are now exhibiting signs of blocking the flow of energy through them. This is insulin resistance. We are the Earth."

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

📺 Watching Andor. 📕 Reading Clytemnestra. 🎮 Playing Disco Elysium. Hitting the elite storytelling trifecta across all media.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is the education plank of the plot to enslave America: secular private academies for the rich, religious instruction for the middle class, and a prison-like rump of public schools for the poor. With our Constitution in tatters, they're racing to implement it

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Thinking about Disco Elysium. Harry is somehow both a singular individual and “Everyman” like from a morality play. A work of true genius, on par with Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy, Twain, etc.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

{targets} is so good it's imo the only remaining reason to learn and use #rstats

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You read this on a cover letter: "I love working with people, code, and even other people's code." You think this person is: A. Funny B. Extremely skilled C. A liar

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m not totally sure why but pak::pkg_install() >>>>>>>>>>> install.packages() Especially on Windows. #rstats

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Tax positivity now seeping into video games, @jdcmedlock.bsky.social is coming for the gamers

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I think we did a tremendous disservice downplaying Wikipedia as a source for the last 20 years. Paved the way for people treating LLMs as encyclopedias.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I would be curious to learn more about LLM code biases. A coworker handed me an #rstats script by Claude and it was littered with {reshape2} and require(), like a time capsule from 2013.

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A portion of my work is now preparing data to be consumed by AI for adhoc analyses, analyses which would've come to me... #nooticing

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David Ranzolin @daranzolin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Working exclusively within {targets} #rstats projects has made internal packages kind of irrelevant and even cumbersome. They're annoying to track w/{renv}, and if a function gets updated you have to reinstall a separate package before rerunning. Easier to just throw custom fns into R/utils.R.

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