iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ray @rayt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I really enjoyed this episode!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ghent is pretty easy on the train.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Soccer isn't really a thing in a lot of ex-British colonies. Maybe something to do with the upper class administrators taking their boarding school sports of cricket and rugby. Those 2 (or sports descended from rugby e.g. AFL) are still dominant in India/Australia/NZ, and South Africa to some extent

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Classic toupee fallacy.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Doubly funny error given that the last time the Tories had been "in opposition" was 2010.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Tomato can as in, give it a few good whacks and it'll start leaking red?

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I made the switch on my home machine (mainly gaming and web browsing, occasional light admin) about 6 months ago and it's been great. Much better experience than when I tried 10+ years ago. Plus there's much more incentive to get away from Windows now. Hope it's all smooth for you!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I really liked that book too. I went to Canada a couple of years ago and really felt a sense of loss imagining what North American peoples would have been like if not destroyed by disease. How different the settlement might have looked!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Average white 28 year old in Peckham circa 2021

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I feel like there may be some selection effect here...

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The stupid thing is, there probably is some sort of repayment rate vs income vs pension/investment growth sweet point where it does actually make sense to pay it off early - but trying to calculate what this would be would probably suffice for a master's thesis in economics. Utterly deranged system.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

pls stop putting this cursèd image on my tl

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I think the guy on the left is Alek Yerbury, who is an active fascist agitator. hopenothate.org.uk?s=yerbury hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/14/c...

hopenothate.org.uk

You searched for yerbury – HOPE not hate

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is really useful, thanks!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Interesting article, thanks. FYI, the outbound links are broken for me.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Pretty sure this footage is from Fires of Kuwait (1992), which is on youtube and is a great documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUz...

youtube.com

Fires of Kuwait (1992) HD

YouTube video by NLX78

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I can recommend @aptshadow.bsky.social's Tyrant Philosophers series. I've been racing through them and thoroughly enjoying myself, and they're somewhat discworldy (although serious rather than satirical).

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I quite like going by starting frequency:

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

You could also write wrapper functions for the DBI functions which open and close the connection, along the lines of this. read_duckdb <- function(q) { con <-dbConnect(...) on.exit(dbDisconnect(con)) dbGetQuery(q) }

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

delete this before the italians wake up

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

readcsvs: A single function #Rstats package that reads and combines multiple CSV files into a single data frame using #DuckDB for efficient parallel processing. github.com/RayTellis/re... This is my first attempt hosting a package on GitHub - constructive criticism welcome!

github.com

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Left is a table, right is a figure. Left has headers, information is primarily text/numeric. Right's information is primarily visual - I view it as 2 faceted plots with the headers as titles and the text as captions.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I literally did this last week lol

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

why does it say flaqship

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I think "The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game" may be possible in that timeframe, though I've not played it myself.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

fired for having a girlfriend smh

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Yeah, I couldn't find a nice explanation for how {systemfonts} works with Google Fonts. I will probably stick with {showtext} for now.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Interesting, thanks!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I like {showtext}. Here's the section from my person cheatsheet (code in alt text).

library(showtext)

showtext_auto() # this is required to force the ggplot renderer to use the fonts
font_add_google("Urbanist", "sans-serif")
font_add_google("Courier Prime", "monospace")
font_add_google("Indie Flower", "handwriting")

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl))) +
geom_bar() +
labs(
title = "Urbanist sans serif",
subtitle = "Courier Prime monospace",
caption = "Indie flower handwriting"
) +
theme(
plot.title = element_text(family = "sans-serif"),
plot.subtitle = element_text(family = "monospace"),
plot.caption = element_text(family = "handwriting"),
axis.title = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
text = element_text(size = 40)
)

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great stuff, I love this package!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Figured out a nicer way of doing it, using the existing clip = "off" in coord_cartesian() and multiple new lines before the title, you can use the defaults labs() for title and subtitle without resorting to annotation or label layers. gist.github.com/simply-rayte...

Another version of an FT chart made using ggplot in R.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Apart from the typos, oops! Thanks!

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Not quite the right data, and I didn't change the fonts but this is pretty close. gist.github.com/simply-rayte...

A replication of the FT chart using ggplot in R.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I found the focus on safeguarding in the police station in the first episode oddly touching, and quite true to life. It made me feel a little proud in a strange way - the way a society treats young people is quite revealing of its values.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Love Discworld for comfort listening. Such humanistic story telling.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Master and Commander series (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian narrated by Ric Jerrom are excellent listens. It's historical fiction set in the age of sail with all the nautical jargon. Doesn't really fit your genres but it strikes a fantasy/history note for me; it's such a different world.

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ray @rayt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Also, their beliefs aren't "traditional", they were invented in like the 80s. But it's a useful fiction for them to pretend they're the real Americans or whatever.

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