Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Politician trying to involve himself with micro-level decision making at a public university. This does not bode well for the future competitiveness of American academia. 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Irony is dead. It's a plastic version of Charlie Brown's flimsy Christmas tree. The symbol of the rejection of consumerism. He would rather have the flimsiest, tiny, real tree than to buy something shiny made from aluminum. And now you can buy that, too. 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 26/10/2025The European mind cannot handle the sheer length of American ingredient lists. (This is just some latin American stuffed potatoes, not a three course meal). 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Just noticed that using unicode characters as the shape for ```geom_point``` is pretty stable now. Game changer, now I can finally make parrot plots 🦜🦜🦜 I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in? 010
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 10/08/2025When every move is just your style of climbing 🥰 Also since I have some words left: it would be a really good idea to stop all oil and gas exploration right now, you know bc of climate change and all that. 020
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025My daughter's textbook does distances in inches, volumes in litre, and temperatures in both °c and °f 🤔 000
Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025My daughter's textbook does distances in inches, volumes in litre, and temperatures in both °c and °f 🤔 000
