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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Northern Ireland uses a lot of Home Heating Oil. Prices have doubled since the start of the war with Iran. Data is from the Consumer Council for Northern Ireland #rstats #ggplot2

Graph showing the jump in Home Heating Oil cost in Northern Ireland

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

2. In the USA, which has similar access to capital everywhere, we see marketly different homelessness outcomes based on population growth and house building. I recommend this excellent book on the issue homelessnesshousingproblem.com

Population growth versus housing supply elasticity Dots indicate U.S. cities; parentheses indicate 2010-2019 rental vacancy rates

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some graphs from centre for cities excellent report

Figure 4: Post-war Britain's increase in homes per person was low compared to other European countries

Figure 1: The English and Welsh housebuilding rate decreased after 1947 and before 1980

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Doctors are considered about as trustworthy as you get, even among Reform voters. yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Chart of trust in various groups by British voters

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I really like how this graph of Energy Capacity from Folha De São Paulo managed to label everything. Does anyone know how to label under the axis like in #rstats #ggplot ? www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2025...

Two stacked bar charts of energy capacity in Brazil: now and by 2029.

The annotation translates to "49% is the projected expansion of this source, much higher than the total average, which is 10%"

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I think a good chunk of the milk prohibitions are due to Italian relative lactose intolerance. Having milk after a meal is going to be a bigger problem for the average Italian than the average Brit

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Americans are aware that the rest of the first democracies make fun of them for counting votes so slowly

Remember how quickly that "election"was tabulated?? Especially in those swing states?

RECORD setting, in fact. Usually takes days. A week sometimes. Statistically impossible outcomes, too, right??

Remember that?

I SURE AF DO.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Complete victory for the Brazilian family, reversing the ridiculous decision to send an 11 year old of two skilled visa holders back to Brazil alone www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

But after media coverage of the case in the UK and Brazil, intervention by the local MP, Steve Race, and communication with Brazilian diplomats, the Home Office sent another letter agreeing to “exceptionally reconsider” the case and not only allow the initial application, which was rejected, to be varied but also to refund the money for the original application, a fee of approximately £6,000.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Supply trutherism. It's only a 0.8% drop in prices because it's predicted to create only 0.5% of additional housing. The OBR draws a direct casual link between supply and housing prices. obr.uk/efo/economic...

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Many people have been saying that percentage change scales should be logorithmic. I think it's an excellent opportunity to use #ggplot2 dual axis capabilities to add a clarifying "times/fractional axis" to make the relationship clearer #rstats gist.github.com/boundlesstor...

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Here's the same chart using an Financial Times theme

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sorry to reopen a thread from 3 months ago, but I've been using this in work and I think adding a dual axis showing "times" and the fraction of the original helps make it clearer to people why the log scale is suitable. I've added the code I used to this github. gist.github.com/boundlesstor...

$A chart using both percentage change and how many times/fraction the cost is for the y axis$

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

'Cachorro quente' - topped with tomato sauce, shoestring potato sticks and cheese

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Great thread. The suddenness can be explained. When a queue is under stress, waiting time rises slowly and then quickly with this kind of hockey stick effect. That's because it goes from sometimes having capacity for new customers and sometimes not to never having capacity.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I loved this Dreaming Spanish update. Language learning opens doors.

1,366 hours, 2,000,000 words read, 170 hours speaking.

I'm on day 3 of a 17-day trip to Spain. I have a conference in Madrid in a few days (in English), but I'm a union lawyer by profession, so I thought it would be fun to meet up with some Spanish trade unionists for May Day. I arrived that morning having been in touch with one person and expecting to march and maybe make some friends. Showed up at the protest running on three hours of in-flight-sleep and wearing a t-shirt.

It turns out that they took my visit super seriously-I was asked to give two press interviews in Spanish, introduced to several government ministers (including the Second Vice-President), and generally given the red carpet treatment. An Argentinian attendee also let me try mate for the first time, which was just as much of a highlight.

After the march, I was invited to a barbecue at a now-friend's house-ended the day with almost 9 consecutive hours between input and output. Now that I've had a chance to catch up on some sleep, I'm thinking about how, had I not decided to try DS in April of last year, none of this would have been possible. Legitimately the best on-a-whim decision I have ever made

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Like when he is taken in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Jesus said to them, “I am He.” And Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with them. 6 Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

7 Then He asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?”

And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

8 Jesus answered, “I have told you that I am He. Therefore, if you seek Me, let these go their way,” 9 that the saying might be fulfilled which He spoke, “Of those whom You gave Me I have lost none.”

10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?”

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ggrepel ggrepel.slowkow.com/articles/exa...

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

They could do much with Duelling. The Irish upper class loved Duelling so much that they were specifically banned as seconds by English codes

The Duel, A History of Duelling by Robert Baldick

Even more important than the wording of the cartel was the choice of a friend to deliver the challenge and act as a second, especially if it was hoped to avoid useless bloodshed. "There is not one cause in fifty', wrote the peaceable Bosquett, 'where discreet seconds might not settle the difference and recon-cile the parties before they came into the field'; while a famous fencing master was often heard to declare that 'it is not the sword or the pistol that kills, but the seconds'. All authorities were agreed that seconds should be men of experience and moral courage, justice and urbanity; and two authorities specifically debarred infidels and Irishmen - the former because, according to Brantôme, 'it is not proper that an unbeliever should witness the shedding of Christian blood, which would delight him,' and the latter because 'nine out of ten Irishmen have such an innate love of fighting that they cannot bring an affair to an amicable adjustment'. While it is unlikely that many infidels were invited to act as seconds in European duels, English travellers in Ireland frequently had to deal with native seconds and were usually extremely critical of them. Thus one English witness of a duel in Ireland later recalled that 'the Irish second was so exacting in the terms of a required apology, that nothing but abject cowardice could account for the acquiescence of the challenged party; and when, upon its being shown to the challenger, the latter pointed out that the word "apology" was misspelt, having two ps, the Irishman insisted that he was right, high words ensued, and the principal had the greatest difficulty in appeasing his wrath, which well-nigh rendered a meeting necessary'. And another writer who seconded an English doctor in an encoun-ter outside Dublin has left us this account of the affair, which illustrates not only his opinion of the Irish character but also the difficulties facing any second in any duel:

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

My attempt, based on your original picture.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

You're best option is to use something like lightroom mobile in that case to adjust the geometry, manually squish the picture to follow the lines of the building

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

From Brazilian Instagram: "In the event that we were two months late with salary, would you mind? (Elimination question)"

Se por acaso atrasarmos 2 meses de salário, você se incomodaria? (Pergunta eliminatória)

Sim

Não

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

An excuse for sharing my favourite mango video: university students in Brazil put their details on a mango tree's flesh so they can reserve the mature fruit. It must taste fantastic. www.tiktok.com/@metropoleso...

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oh wow! I finally get it. By the way, ggplot2 accepts functions as an argument for labels. So you can use \(x) scales::label_percent(scale = 1)(x-100) to avoid working out the breaks and labels manually. That might be more convenient for you in future.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Amazon expecting me to buy next year's advent calendars today

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's probably more likely because I have a gym session with my trainer on a Monday. The gym is great for my mood and the recording reminder pops up as I'm in the changing room

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

So like Mondays show as my happiest day, but that's probably not because I love being back at work...

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My year in mood. Getting sick was very bad for mood and taking a long holiday in Brazil was very good for mood.

Coloured dots for every day of the year and my mood

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Really laughing at this telegraph graph that argues the economy is shrinking under Labour, with a scale that runs from 100 to 101.4 and even then only shows a wobble.

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Not one of the smartest AI responses I've received

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Got the pixel 9 and I'm pleasantly surprised that the picture model can handle text so well. I'll not be long finding a use for this guy.

A robin with a "that's nimby!" protest sign

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Brigadeiro made for the coffee morning at work

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Stephen Buggy @stephenbuggy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I watched Fury (1936) last night and thought it was great.

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