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Ben

@dataferrytales.bsky.social
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Using Bluesky as a place to be grumpy and shout into the beautiful void.

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Data Rocks @t.datarocks.co.nz · 23/09/2026
Sadly true. And this has driven many talented people out of the field too.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a generalisation, however, the data industry is an embarrassment. The willingness we have displayed to relinquish our knowledge, skills, and critical thinking is worrying at best, but closer to truly pathetic. I'm struggling to comprehend how bad it has become in such a short space of time.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intentionally bad comic strip with two stick people and the following text in four panels:

1: I’m going to start posting comic strips on linkedin.
2: They’ll be about day to day things in the industry in which I work!
3: great! So the final panel will have a funny punchline, too?
4: No.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not enough people are talking about the rise of shit cartoons posted on social media. People who overuse AI are seemingly deeply unfunny.
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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.
A graph of Noem and Kash
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fully grown adults not understanding the difference between Socialism and National Socialism is actually shocking, given that they could overcome their ignorance within five minutes through a search and some reading.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I managed to get in a midweek paddle on Wednesday and enjoyed a nice relaxing sunset in the kayak. #Berlin
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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 25/08/2026
The smoothed-brain bosses at newsrooms continue to make the dumbest calls by killing off some of the best talents they possess. Axios are the latest. Sad for all those in the team affected, hopefully they are snapped up by better employers very soon.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
People who end every report name with "report" call ATMs "ATM machines."
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Back to school drone and action cam, for all of their educational needs.
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Cathrine Wilhelmsen @cathrinew.net · 12/08/2026
I'm so sick and tired of seeing YouTube thumbnails with exaggerated facial expressions and hand gestures. You're talking about tech, I KNOW you're not literally jaw-dropping over a new toggle button or whatever. Yeah, algorithms and clicks, I know. I'm just too old for this shit 😑
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Kids playing with clay: 'Why is it so soft?' Me and my wife:
Michael Scott moments before he blurts out 'That's what she said' as Jan, his disapproving boss, looks at him with a 'don't you dare' glare.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Woah, it's going crazy on Bluesky! #TheVoid #BetterVoidThanSmeg
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Tim Bindas - MSFT @tbindasmsft.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@powerbiferrytales.bsky.social I'm the Engineering Manager for the team that builds the Metrics App. I'll do my best to reply to the comments and route feedback to the appropriate teams. We definitely don't hate you guys.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Did the person who built the Fabric Capacity Metrics report actively hate data visualisation, and was the result an intentional hate crime against people who care about user friendly report design?
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Choosing something to watch with your sigot is a hilarious experience. 'I want to watch a comedy.' No No No No Not that No No No *Hands the remote over* 2 minutes later we're watching the popular comedy 12 Monkeys.
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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43
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Data visualization handbook
The Data visualization handbook by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén is a practical guide for creating compelling graphics to explain and explore data. It is primarily aimed at designers, journalists, ...
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Enjoying some beach whilst cosplaying as the man from Del Monte.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1: Amazing punditry to state that you now believe a team in the quarter finals actually has a chance. 2: England will now get destroyed by Norway
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Driving home with a car full of sleeping people after a day spent in the outdoors is quite a wonderful feeling.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Streaming during a heatwave.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I don't like to speak on behalf of other people, but I really do feel that as close as possible to 100% of the population of this planet do not give a fuck about the Reflecting Pool.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Apparently you can now watch 'Banana ball' live on Disney+. I wont stay up for World Cup matches, but you can guarantee I'll be staying up to find out what the hell this is!
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm genuinely tempted to do this.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My brain just has to read this with a Kiwi accent.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Posting a ridiculously elaborate Fabric App is the new 'sharing your first Power BI report which consists of a bar chart, column chart a pie chart and a Treemap'.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Enjoying a gentle paddle in the Finowkanal. I had a great time taking a friend out for his first time kayaking. Slowest paddle of my life, but a great day chatting on the water.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you vote for me to be President of the world, I will make it illegal to send 'Your parcel has been shipped' notifications when all they have done is printed the label.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Microsoft fucking loves the word 'app'.
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Booniss Everdrunk @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...
techfixated.com
Young inventor who left engineering studies removes nearly 50 million kilograms of ocean plastic, aims to eliminate 90% of floating waste by 2040
'There was a time when the oceans were filled with plastic, and then we solved it':
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Is it just me or are people overlooking another negative aspect of the AI boom, and that is the number of excellent and highly knowledgeable people that leave the industry because they just can't be arsed with all the BS?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
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Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You know what's worse than overuse of the em dash? LinkedIn posts about overuse of the em dash.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
On the tube
Photo of a fake OpenAi ad on the overground. Text: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves.

But — it might also help them with their homework."

Chatgpt logo
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It's almost as if shoving your product down people's throats makes those people hate and reject your product.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We need to buy a new car, so obviously my IG is full of adverts for awesome cars I can't afford.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The E in Power BI stands for exhausting.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“Last month, 14 children died from severe acute malnutrition at Bay Regional, Doctors Without Borders wrote to us…The world’s richest man is preventing lifesaving aid from reaching the world’s poorest children, closing off their future as he fantasizes about another.”
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Watches an episode of Paradise. The next few hours...
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a woman is sitting in a chair with the word humming written on the bottom
ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair with the word humming written on the bottom
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Kayaking until sunset in Brandenburg.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I started creating a vega-lite builder to help me teach people how to create visuals in Deneb. I think there are some pretty nice features in it, so feel free to take a look and see if it could be useful to you, too. #PowerBI #Datavis #VegaLite #Deneb powerbiferrytales.github.io/vegalite.html
powerbiferrytales.github.io
Ferry Tales Studio — Vega-Lite Chart Editor
A browser-based Vega-Lite chart editor. Write JSON, preview live, no sign-in required.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Ancient Golden Helmet. New nickname for Trump.
Headline reading "Ancient golden helmet recovered more than a year after Dutch heist"
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Its kind of wild how accurate and prescient Silicon Valley was.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the Müller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. Müller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This article is a datavis hate crime. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There have been very few good days over the past month, but today was a good day. My wife was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of February, and since then I've been sitting at her bedside in the hospital.
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Ben @dataferrytales.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you want I can also write this in an even more romantic valentine's day style — shall I do this for you?
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 12/02/2026
It's frustrating that so many development tools and platform instructions now start with "Step 1: Run a python script to launch a web server."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
If people want to understand how we got here, the destruction of the press, by both changing technology and failures to adjust and deliberate destruction, is a major reason, possibly THE largest reason, why. Support media you value.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
can anyone relate?
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