Examples of creative data visualizations, mostly ggplot: #ggplot
I've been at my little "link blog" for my website long enough now it was time to figure out how to make it paginate: #Jekyll, there didn't seem to be a default way to create paginated lists that are based on `_data` files. So I did the minimum viable edits to the jekyll-paginate gem to make it work – which it does reasonably okay.
Now I wonder if it's worth to actually still make a gem out of it?
https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/pages-source/commit/5702ceb7ae339520813c6f3bed9ca31cb57c49e0
"The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover"
Yup, I am also disgusted with the D-party. The "leadership" is so out-of-touch, so cowardly, and so into tunnel-vision vote-losing "identity" issues that unless there is a root-to-branch change, the D-party will never again win a national election, and will lose more state elections.
(I would add that those identity-politics issues are quite important, but until the D-party wins some elections little to …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Whispers:
🎵 And the Beat Goes On
#TheWhispers
https://davidkust.bandcamp.com/album/the-whispers-and-the-beat-goes-on-david-kust-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/42MAEkamRaomzO3UWqGdh3
National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash (Stephanie Ramirez/WTTG-TV)
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/national-guard-members-activated-dc-federal-takeover-seen-picking-up-trash
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p137#a250826p137
Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…
The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-doj-se
Trump's D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/black-parents-washington-dc-crackdown-federal-law-enforcement.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p139#a250827p139
The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/418002/democratic-tea-party-zohran-mamdani-new-york-primary-incumbent
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p41#a250628p41