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Eli Holder

@elibryan.bsky.social
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Raleigh. How might we visualize people, fairly and equitably? Data / dataviz / design / psychology / research geek. He / him. Chaotic good. Follows Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane. Design / research / writing at 3iap.com.

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Caitlin 🫧 @cvh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
thinking about them again
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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Dawn Whiteside Rubin @dd-rubin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 06/07/2026
In late June, Springer Nature sold Scientific American to LabX Media. I have since decided to step out of my role as a senior graphics editor for the magazine :: #sciart 📊 🧪 :: 🧵 [1/7]
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
There was only a decade between Dred Scott and the ratification of the 14th Amendment, which completely changed the country's entire institutional structure. People radicalize when they're threatened, and today's rise in White Supremacy is no exception. 10/x
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Absolutely devastating article on one little, beautiful, remarkable piece of what we lost to DOGE
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767 #EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 26/03/2026
A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“Why can’t we have nice things?” A few highlights from my talk for Dartmouth’s “Data in Action” symposium, exploring civic dataviz and democracy. What makes collective action so difficult in the United States? How could that possibly depend on charts 📊?! What can we do?
title slide asks “Why can’t we have nice things?” It shows a grumpy George Washington standing in front of Library building and a bunch of population / social outcome chartsTalk outline. We can’t have nice things because of misbeliefs, complacency, stereotypes, and threat, each of which seem to interact with how we make sense of charts and graphs visualizing populations and social outcomes.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Shocked, I tell you
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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our government keeps telling us America can't afford universal health care or expanding Medicare for ALL. There's a reason for that.🗽
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Valentine Barker @valentinebarker.com · 16/02/2026
I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.
A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I hate every row and every column and every cell in every spreadsheet in the whole world.
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"'Anti-woke' is a convenient label because it obscures what the movement is actually against: accountability."
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/02/2026
Update on the government taking down the temperature
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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Imagine being a kid, making this, going with your parents to a family event, and then getting fucking tear gassed for it. You do not hate the modern Gestapo enough because they sure as fuck hate every decent person in this country.
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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy Black History Month, North Carolina! Let’s celebrate the past and continuing contributions Black men and women make across our state and our country.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are part of the autocratic war to control the narrative. The more lawless governments become, the more they seek to silence inconvenient facts and people and invent the reality they need.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
From reddit, 144° difference in perceived temperature. 🥵🥶
Weather map of US with arrows point between Minnesota and Florida. It says "144° in feels like temp"
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/01/2026
Some nice news especially in light of changes in federal policy regarding:medical debt and credit reports: In North Carolina, the state worked out a deal forgiving medical debt for 2.5m people, with more to come.
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How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people
The state partnered with a nonprofit to wipe out the debts. It also has a plan in place to prevent medical debt for people in specific income brackets.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15/01/2026
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
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If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me.
I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community.

If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him.

But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son.

If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them.

This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built.

As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love.

I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/01/2026
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]
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Bread Infographic
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/01/2026
Anyway, I hope this post brings you some
Figure 18 vague intellectual pleasure! 
From Thought-Forms 
Yellow and orange blob with cloudy edges against a dark background
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/01/2026
no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🎉 We’ve received 310 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
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Siembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you are in Raleigh or other parts of the state, and you see something you suspect to be an immigration enforcement action, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353 Contact Carolina Migrant Network to report sightings and to get connected with legal support in Charlotte.
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wisevis @wisevis.eu · 04/11/2025
Every time a bar chart is replaced by a dot plot an angel gets their wings. #datavis
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Excellent article by @hofrench.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/slav...
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The Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s Wealth
It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
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Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
A trip to the doctor after an accident shouldn’t cost so much that you can’t pay your rent. We expanded Medicaid so working people can have peace of mind, knowing an illness or injury won’t put them in debt. DC Republicans including my opponent clearly disagree.
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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜 But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.
The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2025
Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 26/09/2025
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📊 The new book Dashboards That Deliver releases today. For authors Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler, this is the culmination of countless hard work. @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social sat down with the authors to hear about their process. nightingaledvs.com/behind-the-s...
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Behind the Scenes: Dashboards That Deliver, Nightingale
Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler have a new book coming out on September 23, 2025—Dashboards That Deliver: How to...
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Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Last year I wrote about the NCGOP leaderships multi-decade obsession with erasing LGBT people from UNC’s campus life for @triangleblogblog.bsky.social. Might need to update soon unfortunately. triangleblogblog.com/2024/05/05/t...
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The long and eventful history of Tim Moore and Peter Hans’ animosity towards marginalized people - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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