Reposted by Matt SamsCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642333460
Reposted by Matt SamsU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026Happy Baby Safety Month. 853613920
Reposted by Matt SamsAndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally. 482880707
Reposted by Matt SamsKansas City Royals @royals.com · 18/07/2026The KC kid with his first walk-off hit! 18511
Reposted by Matt SamsGrant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... 48726
Reposted by Matt SamsU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/06/2026You've got to think about that famous scene from 'The Rock' (1996). Stanley Goodspeed is holding the "string of pearls" virus container that he's just removed from its housing. He looks Sean Connery dead in the eye and says, "The second you don't respect this, it kills you." That's the energy. 743148
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Messi's persistence pays off, 2-0 Argentina 736887
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Messi doesn't miss this one, 1-0 Argentina. He now has the most goals scored in World Cup play all time 15494104
Reposted by Matt SamsSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Later the drug dealer gets nostalgic about how in the 90s economy you could give out the first one free. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/deal PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 117428
Reposted by Matt SamsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK 918181093033
Reposted by Matt Samslefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026When the sea lion learns to quack: #DuckDB now swims into #MariaDB 🦭🦆 mariadb.org/duckdb-stora...mariadb.orgDuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack. - MariaDB.orgAn early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB — columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables. The problem MariaDB’s InnoDB is excellent at what it was buil... 293
Reposted by Matt SamsThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2026Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake theonion.comI Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try CakeHello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the... 9492092225
Reposted by Matt SamsCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 12/05/2026Async R gets a proper memory model. mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0 on CRAN: - byte-level dispatcher queue cap: `daemons(memory = ...)` - non-blocking submit on a full queue: `try_mirai()` - mori out of experimental – zero-copy shared memory across processes opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #rstatsopensource.posit.coA memory model for production async R: mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0Two CRAN releases extend R's foundations for production async: bounded queues and `try_mirai()` in mirai 2.7.0, plus mori 0.2.0 graduating from experimental status. 04010
Reposted by Matt SamsCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3opensource.posit.comori: Shared memory for R objectsmori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere. 917662
Reposted by Matt SamsNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972 121345257
Reposted by Matt SamsMiles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣pkg.yihui.orgIntroduction to ggliteA visualization in gglite is built by composing independent layers: 39821
Reposted by Matt SamsEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int 2228761040
Reposted by Matt SamsJames Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 12/02/2026#webRios 1.1 is live! The big additions: code completion, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and a Data Import Wizard. Plus a better iPad four-pane layout (still a work in progress, more coming). #RStats on your iPhone and iPad keeps getting better. Best experience on #iOS 26. 2298
Reposted by Matt SamsDavis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...tidyverse.orgdplyr 1.2.0dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re... 12463133
Reposted by Matt SamsMickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 29/01/2026What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier? There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/. Drop your ideas below. If there's enough interest, I might just build it. #Quarto #OpenSource 22710
Reposted by Matt SamsJames Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 27/01/2026webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri... 58329
Reposted by Matt SamsBob Wehadababyitsaboy @followers4algernon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025What none of you seem to comprehend is that while you’re all arguing about stupid shit online, I am running THOUSANDS of complex calculations in my head, and ALL of them are wrong as hell. 71575240
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Younghoe Koo completely missed the ball and kicked the turf, Jaxson Dart can't believe it 52758143
Reposted by Matt Samsmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/12/2025printer update: fuck you to both hewlett and to packard 3659533
Reposted by Matt SamsDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I think Claude Code has achieved AGI 381196193
Reposted by Matt Samssarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...apmreports.orgHow a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readersFor decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno... 34767092094
Reposted by Matt Samsmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/11/2025second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard 3974921708
Reposted by Matt SamsJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 11/11/2025welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place 2777345589
Reposted by Matt SamsScorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 09/11/2025🏈 JAX 29 - 36 HOU FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history. 291176410
Reposted by Matt SamsWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/11/2025mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed. 111079301
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Benches and bullpens clear after Wrobleski hit Gimenez 1746990
Reposted by Matt Samsmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/10/2025do you condemn | patreon.com/lubchansky 51248184
Reposted by Matt SamsAkaSci @akasci.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky. More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154... #Astronomy 13671178
Reposted by Matt SamsThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/10/2025Man’s Heart Stops As Speaker Asks Audience To Turn To Person Next To Them theonion.com/man-s-heart-stops-as-s… 141182111
Reposted by Matt SamsIan Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 20/10/2025"I was born ready. I was born ready. And I want it all for this city." 956084
Reposted by Matt Samsrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:... 6326881617
Reposted by Matt SamsScott Spratt @scottspratt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Joe Flacco zone read carry for a 1st down lol 3654
Reposted by Matt SamsAaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 15/10/2025Love historical stuff like this, the last time a team didn't pass all day. defector.com/the-day-the-...defector.comThe Day The Browns Crafted A Playbook Entirely Out Of Spite | DefectorNo pass attempts. Punting on third down. Cleveland had a point to prove. 78817
Reposted by Matt SamsSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 09/10/2025When the Yankees get eliminated 383971618
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 07/10/2025LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD Trevor Lawrence is something else 711441246
![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
