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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 19h

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 5h

Not exactly scary, but I was somehow allowed to watch the Elephant Man by myself at night when I was about 5 or 6. Profoundly sad and I've probably never cried that hard, before or since. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ele...

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The Elephant Man (1980 film) - Wikipedia

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 4h

I believe I was watching at least part of it with my parents at the same age. I didn't understand it, or, I didn't see much and only got an explanation from them

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5h

Students continue to protest in France as hundreds of schools close aje.news/x8iuu4

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Awesome! ncview-rs is meant to be a quick way to view and explore. I feel like the geospatial tools are proliferating quickly! I’ll have to check out rangefinder too!

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm experimenting too hypertidy.github.io/rangefinder/ Interesting to see your work! I'll check it out

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Einar Hjörleifsson @einarhj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like #rstats #dplyr and #dbplyr were lying in waiting for a decade+ for #parquet and #duckdb to materialize

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#RStats won a million bucks www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 03/10/2026

TokyoR enjoyed the world premiere of mizu today, and Mizu-chan stole the show: lock-free shared-memory parallelism for R, plus a Python binding on the same C core. Repos are open but pre-release, and the API will change. Feedback welcome on GitHub. github.com/shikokuchuo/... #RStats #Tidyverse

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They Better Be........!

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Three hour movie?? For goodness sake calm your farm that's ridiculous

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Gretchen @wokkax3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saturday night googling Mike Patton

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. . . of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. 286][2871 One of Patton's friends is actor Danny DeVito, who continually goes to concerts by Patton. They met after DeVito and his son attended a Fantômas show at the 2005 Coachella Festival.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being a NASA astronaut was a dream come true for me, so I’m honored to be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame today alongside Katherine Johnson, Dee O’Hara, Michel Mayor, and the Mercury 13. Oh, and my brother @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 22/07/2026

A resource from Jérôme Guélat for anyone working with spatial data in R. *Spatial Data Processing with R* combines GIS fundamentals with practical, reusable workflows for analysis and map making. 🗺️ jguelat.github.io/spatial-r/ #rspatial #rstats #SpatialAnalysis #OpenSource

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

rangefinder hypertidy.github.io/rangefinder/ Try out stac stores in an interactive page, input a cog or server url, XYZ or WMTS, Zarr

Zarr on rangefinder https://hypertidy.github.io/rangefinder/, a slice of ghrsst around New Zealand, time select, zoom etc

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i am working on a list of spooky movie recs! i have been busy the past 3 days but am going to try to get it posted soon. curation is nearly done.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Incredible temperature crash in SOUTHERN AFRICA After the harshest September heat wave with hundreds of records allover the region, some areas lost nearly 20C in 2 days MAX Temperatures only 12C/24C in Zimbabwe,for many the lowest Oct max on record Max 14.4 Lephalale ZA:Record

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

{xrdbi} DBI Backend for xarray via reticulate github.com/mdsumner/xrdbi There's no SQL involved because theres no database, only DBI and verbs (which can generate SQL if your robot demands it) #RStats

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Yutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

FOSS4G Hiroshima 2026 is only a few days away! I'll talk about SedonaDB. 📅 Sep 1st, 14:00–14:30 🚪 Room4 talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026/...

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what could a modern web map view for R spatial look like: www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-0... #RStats

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did everyone else wake up with It's a Sin in their head?

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Barret Schloerke @schloerke.com · 30/09/2026

📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#rstats Q: Tips from anyone who's made a #cheatsheet for an R package? Posit has PPTX/Keynote templates, but I'd rather build it reproducibly: Quarto → PDF (Typst?). I can generate all thumbnails from data in a script, but they need to be highly schematic. Examples / repos welcome!

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026

A grim little montage of where American politics has landed.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026

…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.

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'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' star says he is homeless: 'We have no money'

'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' voice actor Carey Means said that he is homeless as he asked for financial help with a GoFundMe campaign: 'We have no money.'

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Polar Observer @polarobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A new draft management plan for the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve is open for public comment #AAD. consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-manage...

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

firelab.github.io/gdalraster/a... This is what I should have shared firelab.github.io/gdalraster/a...

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026

how would you decide between when to use a haversine or geodesic measure? I got some learning to do in this space for sure

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 26/09/2026

Going to try this tomorrow!

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

arcgizviz ? can't say I don't approve

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 24/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how excited I am about {geoarrowwidget} and {deckglgeoarrow}. 3.2 **million** points in 4 seconds. #rspatial #rstats

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

or sf::read_sf("/vsicurl/https://viewparquet.com/data/flights-200k.parquet", query = "SELECT * FROM \"flights-200k\" LIMIT 1") # A tibble: 1 × 3 delay distance time <int> <int> <dbl> 1 14 405 0.016667 or same with terra::vect ...

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026

Is there a way to perform range requests and reading of parquet files over http in R? I can only find support for s3 and file systems... #rstats

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026

i also don't accept 'use duckdb with httpfs extension" as a viable answer 🤣

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

with gdalraster of course v <- new(gdalraster::GDALVector, "/vsicurl/https://github.com/mdsumner/geoboundaries/releases/download/latest/geoBoundariesCGAZ_ADM0.parquet") f <- v$fetch(1L) str(f) set spatial filter, ignored/selected fields, geometry output type, execute sql ...

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sourceforge.net/p/geographic... lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/po... rspatial.org/raster/spher... 🙏

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GeographicLib / Help / Help: Confusion about Great Ellipse, Great Circle and Geodesic

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haversine is spherical, geodesic is robust and complete since Karney 2013. Use spherical if it's faster and you don't need ellipsoid. The post is about software with confusing ux, not the variety of choices and enabled user can take (a much broader topic).

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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shameful countries that stayed during Hitler-Netanyahu's UN address #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #GenocideinPalestine #auspol

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026

UN General Assembly live: Leaders from Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan to speak aje.news/spd4lx

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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026

IKEA names its sofas after Swedish places, and most of its armchairs follow the same rule. IKEA Sweden sells 64 of them right now, and I put every one on a map. Pick a sofa or armchair and see where it comes from! karaman.is/ikea-place-n... #dataviz #maps

A web page titled "The IKEA place-name map". On the left, a dropdown has MALMKÖPING selected. Below it is a photo of a beige 3-seat sofa priced from 7 295 kr, and it is placed in Flens kommun, Södermanlands län. On the right is a map of Sweden with dots for sofas, armchairs and places that have both. Most dots are in the south, and Älmhult, IKEA's home town, is marked with a red cross.

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Measurement in two #RStats spatial 📦 packages www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-0... (Details matter, measurements are not absolutel and assertions of "correctness" are specious at best)

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Distance, perimeter and area in sf and terra: which number do you get? – hypertidy

Geospatial data, GDAL, and R — Michael Sumner

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.

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