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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Dear Professor Bee,

Thank you for your email, and again for the time that you, the handling editor, and the reviewers have devoted to my manuscript, "Method: Using generalized additive models in the livestock animal sciences". I am very grateful for the constructive review of the paper and was pleased that it was accepted for publication in animal – open space.

I have considered the requested changes to remove first-person formulations such as “I show”, “I describe”, and similar expressions. I respectfully disagree with this stylistic requirement and am not willing to revise the manuscript throughout to adopt an impersonal style. The use of first-person, active prose is a deliberate authorial choice, and there is substantial contemporary guidance encouraging clearer, more direct scientific writing of this kind, including Brennan (2024, *PNAS*, doi:10.1073/pnas.2316966121) and guidance from Nature advocating active rather than passive scientific prose (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-writing-13815989/).

I would therefore be very happy for the manuscript to remain with animal – open space and proceed to publication, subject to normal copy-editing, provided that the requirement to convert first-person formulations throughout the manuscript to an impersonal style is withdrawn.

If the journal considers this stylistic change to be a condition of publication, please treat this email as my formal request that the manuscript not proceed to publication.

As I signed the publishing agreement following acceptance, I would be grateful if, in that event, you could confirm in writing that the manuscript will not be published by animal – open space and that, pursuant to the “Reversion of Rights” provision in the agreement, all rights granted under the exclusive publishing and distribution licence have reverted to me. I would also appreciate confirmation that I am free to submit the manuscript for consideration by another journal.

I regret that we have reach…

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/09/2026

TIL that for a period of six years, prostitution was accidentally legal in Rhode Island.

The story goes back at least to the late 1970s, when an organization called COYOTE (for Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) started trying to protect the rights of sex workers by challenging laws against prostitution. (The organizer of COYOTE, Margo St. James, proudly identified herself as a former prostitute.) COYOTE initiated a lawsuit in federal court charging that the Rhode Island law under which prostitution was prosecuted was too broad and vague to be constitutional. In fact, the law at that time reflected repugnance against any “indecent acts” of a sexual nature, whether or not any money changed hands, and indeed whether or not the participants were married to each other.42 As the federal lawsuit was in progress in 1980, the state legislature amended the law, largely out of concern that some neighborhoods suffered from very visible outdoor marketplaces of streetwalking prostitutes and curb-crawling customers. The new legislation inadvertently defined prostitution to involve outdoor solicitation. By all accounts, hardly anyone noticed this, with the notable exception of Judge Raymond Pettine, who was overseeing the COYOTE lawsuit. He noted that the change in the Rhode Island law made the federal lawsuit moot and remarked in his opinion, “It seems evident that the statute is now directed at suppressing specifically that type of sexual activity commonly regarded as ‘prostitution.’ More significant for present purposes, the amendments appear to have decriminalized the sexual act itself, even when undertaken for remuneration.”

However, from 1980 to 2003, police, prosecutors, and the courts essentially continued to combat indoor prostitution under the old rules (although sometimes the charge was “loitering with intent to commit an indecent act”). But in 2003, prosecutors brought charges involving four brothels in which women had made offers of sex for money to undercover policemen. The lawyer representing the brothels, Michael Kiselica, did not dispute the claim, but argued successfully that this was not illegal in Rhode Island. The judge concurred with this interpretation, citing the text of the law together with the COYOTE case. Kiselica subsequently had cases against other brothels dismissed. Indoor prostitution was henceforth acknowledged to be legal in Rhode Island, until 2009, when a new law was passed, succinctly defining that “a person is guilty of prostitution when such person engages, or agrees, or offers to engage in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.”44 In 2003, immediately after the ruling about the implications of the 1980 legislation as written, police and prosecutors attempted to prosecute brothels for other charges, such as offering massages without a license.45 (“Happy endings” might be legal, but relaxing beginnings couldn’t be offered legally by an unlicensed masseuse.) To be on the safe side, brothels changed the names of the services they offered, and soon “spas” offering “table showers” were legally providing sexual services.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

This came up often enough that I dedicated an overly long footnote to it (www.the100.ci/2024/04/13/i...)

In psychology, I sometimes encounter the misconception that when effects are heterogeneous, the average effect is wrong in some meaningful way. It is true that the average effect may not apply to any single individual; just like no single individual in a sample with an average of M = 100 may actually precisely score 100, even if the distribution is perfectly normal. But the average effect is still the average of the effects; nobody (I hope) says that the mean is wrong just because it does not always reflect anybody’s actual value. Maybe people are confused because in psychology, the implicit assumption is that the coefficient we estimate is indeed the effect for every single person; when they see evidence that this is not the case, their brain short-circuits. Maybe this has to do with statistical training focusing on factorial experiments, in which researchers can control the distribution of the factors. In case of interactions, the average effect of one factor will be a feature of the distribution of the other factor, which is a feature of the design and can be arbitrarily chosen by the experimenter. In the causal inference literature, the default assumption is that effects vary between individuals.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

Did you know that there’s only a single letter separating an “idionomic clinical workflow” from an “idiotnomic clinical workflow”? I haven’t managed to write my screed about cluster analysis yet, here’s another blog post in the meantime: www.the100.ci/2024/10/28/i...

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Idiographic Approaches in Psychology: Hold your horses

There have been persistent calls spurring psychologists to do more “idiographic” research, starting even before Peter Molenaar’s “Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science”, which is already 20 y...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

Okay before I do write my screed about cluster analysis, please send me your favorite *positive* examples that illustrate the utility of the method!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when a Dem says they agree with any of this, they are taking a position that is against what trans people ALREADY HAD just 5 years ago. That's why trans people won't accept it. It's not about progress, it's about preventing a managed decline in civil rights agreed to by Democrats.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

So when libs say, you need to do incremental progress like gay marriage, it completely ignores the rollbacks that have happened in 5 years. It is every aspect of trans life from where we use the bathroom, how we are addressed, what our IDs say, to even censorship on discussions about our existence.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

5 years ago, there were over 100 multidisciplinary gender clinics for trans youth. Today, there are less than 31 (as of July 2026). bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Again, 5 years ago, none of these policies existed. 15 states require the forced outing of trans students 16 states ban medicaid coverage of gender affirming care 14 states have "Don't say trans" laws banning discussion of trans people's identities. 29 states have banned participation in sports.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Loki Cassandra Harlequin Maelorin @maelorin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The parents of this child seem to be struggling with this ancient wisdom.

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Loki Cassandra Harlequin Maelorin @maelorin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As if FOX Entertainment is going to lead with “catholic family in custody dispute with DCF, after child rescued from regular beatings”

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P&R Industries @prindustries.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The [school staff member] socially transitioned [the child]," is not a thing that happens. The student already socially transitioned. We just did our jobs affirming and respecting our students.

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pelicanjoe.bsky.social @pelicanjoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a social worker who currently works for a foster/adoption agency, let me dispel the myth that CYS takes kids just for fun or whatever. It’s a very hard process and you need a lot of evidence. Also, at least in my state, they make sure everything is done so the kid can have visits with family.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

And of course the actual child at the center of all of it is deprived of a voice of what they want. They're treated as property of the parents and not a human being who has volition and can articulate that they have been abused by their parents.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

This is where the right thrives. They love situations where the other party cannot respond publicly. It's why they target schools and make wild accusations against teachers and administrators. Privacy laws prevent them from adequately responding or setting the record straight.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.

Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, say researchers.' Just make sure it's not reading English (instead of science) at university, say ministers.

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Reading for pleasure has benefits at all ages – from improving health and wellbeing to staving off dementia – say scientists

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, ...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/09/2026

I wrote back to an author-scam AI slop e-mail to tell them to go away and the bot replied that it would never contact me again and then a few days later the person replied at a completely different literacy level, offended I accused them of using AI and saying I should be nicer & give them a chance.

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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ordered two from my local indie, one for me and another for my woefully underfunded public library.

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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🌍 @chiefoldmist.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Got my copy in the post this morning, from @bookshop.org here in the UK. Looking forward to it.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Even if you think you won’t have time to read it right away, the first week (days!) of sales determine if we make the bestseller lists, which sadly determines a whole lot else about the fate of any book. Grab your copy now. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa... @astra.bsky.social

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End Times Fascism – Naomi Klein

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 15/09/2026

Whenever democracy is undermined, rights inevitably are too. On this International Day of Democracy, we remind people around the world that voting is important for electing representatives, but promoting and protecting democracy is an everyday endeavor.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026

Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”

A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”

Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you want to understand what's what re generative AI, follow @doctorow.pluralistic.net and read his book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, along with Enshitification. No one is doing a better job of analysis and critical thinking on the subject.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I reckon the dollar might be keeping its status as global currency for a while longer. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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How Poland lost $230mn trying to buy Venezuelan oil with crypto

An attempt to use digital currencies for a bold oil trade became one of Poland’s biggest scandals

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amidst all the well-deserved commendation of Mamdani’s public interest tech crews, I hope we’ll also acknwldg the folks who’ve been advocating for + doing this work (eg, @beta.nyc, the municipal service design teams, the build-your-own-tools advocates, etc) for decades + were ahead of their time.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Though of course if we meet France in the final it will blow open the issue of who owns Calais.

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/07/2026

Leaving aside the urge not to give Elon Musk any of my money whenever possible, it really does feel like at this moment in time consumer satellite internet is a solution in search of a problem for 98% of people. Even I in the rural Ohio boonies now have reasonably fast 5G home internet.

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History Hub at UCD @historyhub.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

‘Me and My Research’ is a new podcast series from History Hub which sees @ucddublin.bsky.social MA in Public History student Josh Clarke sit down with researchers from UCD School of History to explore their work, and the ideas that inspire them historyhub.ie/me-and-my-re...

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

What mood will your TV detective be in? by Alasdair Beckett-King x.com/MisterABK/st...

Humorous map of Europe titled "Will the Detective Investigating Your Murder Be Sad?" Countries are color-coded with a legend showing four types of detectives: "Sad & Cold" (dark red, Nordic countries), "Sad & Wet" (pink, UK), "Sad & Drunk" (light blue, central Europe), and "Sexy" (dark blue, Mediterranean countries).

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Art of Gerrymandering - visualized by Instagram user: @datastuffplus

This infographic titled "How to steal an election" shows three visual representations of gerrymandering using a grid-based example, with the first panel displaying 50 precincts arranged in a 10x5 grid where 30 squares are colored blue and 20 squares are colored red, representing a population that is 60% blue and 40% red, followed by a middle panel showing the same colored grid divided into 5 horizontal districts with thick black lines where each district contains a blue majority resulting in 5 blue wins and 0 red wins, and a final panel showing the identical colored grid but with districts drawn using irregular thick black boundary lines that create oddly shaped districts, resulting in 3 red district wins and 2 blue district wins despite the blue majority population, demonstrating how the manipulation of district boundaries can completely reverse electoral outcomes even when the underlying voter preferences remain constant across all three scenarios.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

WTF is a stone? by Reddit user u/rwired

A minimalist world map showing countries where people commonly use the unit “stone” to measure body weight. Most of the world is shaded grey, labeled humorously as places that do not use or recognize the unit. Only the United Kingdom and Ireland are highlighted in bright yellow, indicating they still commonly use stones for personal weight measurements. A legend at the bottom explains the color coding, with yellow representing countries using “stone” and grey representing everywhere else, accompanied by a tongue in cheek label questioning what a stone is.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

NOTE: Same % of country (12%), not size. Florida & the US Atlantic states (1.1 million sq km) are much larger than Russian-occupied Ukraine (120K sq km)

A political map showing the outline of Ukraine with a portion of its eastern and southern territory highlighted in red, accompanied by text stating "THIS IS THE SIZE OF THE TERRITORY STOLEN BY RUSSIA, THAT UKRAINE IS EXPECTED TO GIVE UP IN EXCHANGE FOR PEACE". Below this, a map of the United States shows an equivalent area on its eastern coast, also highlighted in red, with text reading "THIS TERRITORY IS OF THE SAME SIZE THAT THE ONE UKRAINE IS EXPECTED TO SURRENDER TO THE ENEMY". Both maps serve to visually compare the scale of territorial loss.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What American's die from vs What US Media reports on... by @OurWorldInData

This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 with media coverage of those causes by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. On the left, a stacked bar chart shows heart disease (29%) and cancer (27%) as the top causes of death, followed by accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and others including homicide (<1%) and terrorism (<0.001%). Three adjacent charts show media coverage percentages for selected causes: The New York Times covered homicide (42%) and terrorism (18%) most, despite their low mortality; The Washington Post similarly focused on homicide (46%) and terrorism (12%); Fox News gave the highest coverage to homicide (52%) and drug overdose (9.8%). All outlets underreported leading causes like heart disease and cancer relative to their actual impact. The note clarifies data is normalized to 100% across 12 common causes plus drug overdose, homicide, and terrorism, which together account for over 75% of US deaths. Sources include Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Countries that impose permanent, lifelong taxation on all their citizens, no matter where they live in the world. That's Eritrea. by Reddit user: u/FunForm1981

This world map displays global data using a color-coded system where the United States and Alaska are highlighted in orange indicating a specific category or measurement, while a small country in what appears to be the Horn of Africa region (likely Djibouti or Eritrea) is marked in green representing a different category, and the vast majority of countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania are shown in various shades of gray suggesting either no data, a neutral category, or countries that fall outside the main categories being measured, with some regions appearing in white which may indicate missing data or a separate classification, though without a visible legend or title it's unclear what specific metric or phenomenon this map is illustrating, but the stark contrast between the few colored countries and the predominantly gray global landscape suggests this map is tracking a relatively rare or specific characteristic that applies to only a small number of nations worldwide.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Why not? (by reddit user: @GetDownAndBoogieNow)

Infographic titled "SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE: a visual guide" comparing the current US healthcare system to a single-payer system and its paycheck impact; the current system involves businesses and people paying premiums and taxes to insurance companies and the government, with insurance companies handling administration, billing, and negotiating care, while people pay deductibles and copays for services from doctors and hospitals reimbursed by insurers and direct payments, and the government funds Medicaid, Medicare, and uncompensated care via taxes; a single-payer system shows businesses and people paying taxes to the government, which then pays doctors and hospitals; paycheck comparisons show deductions for federal taxes, state taxes, and FICA income tax, plus premiums/deductibles/copays in the current system, resulting in a "TAKE HOME PAY", while the single-payer scenario shows federal taxes, state taxes, and a potentially larger FICA income tax, leading to a different "TAKE HOME PAY", suggesting the elimination of premiums and out-of-pocket costs might offset increased taxes.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

France, Malta and Luxembourg have joined the 157 nations who recognise a Palestinian state (81% of all UN member states) source: New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

World map showing countries that recognise a Palestinian state in green: most of Africa, Latin America (including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina), much of Asia (including China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan), and parts of Europe (including Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Greece, Sweden, Norway, and others). Countries marked as pending in yellow include Canada, the UK, France, and Brazil. The U.S., Australia, Germany, and several Baltic and Western European nations are shown in grey, indicating they do not recognise Palestinian statehood.

Map of Europe showing countries that recognise a Palestinian state in green: Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania. Countries shown in yellow as pending recognition include the UK, Ireland, France, and Spain. Countries in grey, like Germany and Italy, do not currently recognise Palestinian statehood.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Participatory tax return from Australia shows exactly where one's tax money goes... (from Reddit user: u/heapsgoods)

This graphic shows Australian government spending breakdown based on where personal tax was allocated during 2018-19 budget estimates, displaying gross debt levels of $533 billion this year compared to $501 billion last year with $16.3 billion in interest payments on gross debt this year, followed by a horizontal bar chart showing spending categories with welfare receiving the largest allocation at $846 billion including aged care at $346 billion, disability at $200 billion, families at $196 billion, unemployed at $60 billion and other welfare at $44 billion, while health received $420 billion, defence $203 billion, education $183 billion, general public services $105 billion, interest on government debt $92 billion, transport and communication $50 billion, fuel and energy $41 billion, industry assistance $32 billion, foreign affairs and economic aid $30 billion, housing and community $29 billion, public order and safety $28 billion, immigration $21 billion, recreation and culture $21 billion, and other purposes $89 billion, with the total tax assessed shown as $2190 at the bottom right, along with a note that figures include transfers to state and local governments except for GST and other economic affairs, with estimates and categories based on information from the Department of Treasury, and a reference to visit www.ato.gov.au/taxreceipt for more information.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Exaggerated elevation map of Australia by @cstats1 www.instagram.com/p/DPKHesIDpxE/

A 3D shaded relief map of Australia rendered in a color gradient representing elevation and terrain: deep blues indicate low-lying coastal areas and basins, greens and yellows show mid-elevation plains and plateaus, while oranges and reds highlight higher elevations such as the Great Dividing Range along the east coast and parts of the Flinders Ranges in the south. Tasmania appears as a smaller inset island with similar topographic shading. The map has no labels, borders, or scale, emphasizing physical geography through texture and color. Created in RayShade using NOAA ETOPO1 bathymetric and topographic data, with credit to @cstats1 in the lower-left corner.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just the measles vaccine doing its thing... ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc... by @OurWorldInData

A dense heatmap titled “Vaccines reduced measles cases across US states” showing reported measles cases per 100,000 people in all 50 US states from 1929 to 2022 with color-coded cells on a log scale from dark blue (high incidence, over 1,000 cases per 100,000) through green to pale yellow (low incidence, near zero), with white cells indicating missing data, with three key vertical lines marking major interventions: 1963 for the development of the first measles vaccine by John Enders, 1971 for the development of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine by Maurice Hilleman, and 1980 when vaccination became mandatory for kindergarten entry, showing a clear decline in measles incidence after these milestones with dark blue and green densities fading to mostly pale yellow after the 1980s, indicating near elimination of cases across states.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Uppers, downers, trips & tranqs 💊 All the world's major drugs, in one easy-to-swallow infographic

Venn diagram shows intersections between four types of drugs: Stimulants, anti-psychotics, depressants and hallucinogens. At the centre between all four is Cannabis.

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