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Bryan Baird

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Data, cities, wordplay. Computers are magic / Computers were a mistake.

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J. Kenji LΓ³pez-Main Hi, I'm Kenji Lopez-Alt. This is my alt channel, JKenjiLopezMain If you are looking for my main channel with cooking and recipe-related videos, you can find all that on @JKenjiLopezAlt, here: https://...

Literally the name of his alt channel/handle! youtube.com/@jkenjilopez...

13.02.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding

Bring back PMI

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...

28.12.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s just β€œall of economics”. It’s fundamentally the study of scarcity.

26.11.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yeah NoMa urbanism!

16.06.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But we proud denizens of the neighborhood must never forget what was sacrificed* to get us here.

(*affordable housing Burger Kings)

16.05.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WMATA | Daily Ridership Dashboards (Bus and Rail) Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

You can see the ridership numbers in the screenshot in the original post! (And go to the source dashboard here to compare the figures for the other stations: www.wmata.com/initiatives/...).

16.05.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œOh hell yeah, superior quality pet hay!”

06.05.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Randomly assign by the last digit in the lat or long is even/odd?

28.03.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

04.03.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 690 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 6
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a man with a mustache is standing with his hands on his hips and a gif-finder.com watermark on the bottom left ALT: a man with a mustache is standing with his hands on his hips and a gif-finder.com watermark on the bottom left

β€œSurely you mean milligrams of caffeine, not grams?”

Jane:

26.02.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t that compatible with the β€œpretending to be a man” story?

Of course, no amount of that pretending requires having a *Gab* account; that seems plenty of problem in its own right.

19.02.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is absolutely an AI generated photo though, right? (Asymmetry in the ears)

18.02.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah definitely seeing that! I’m trying to get a sense of who else might have the profile or leverage to better force a change for the City at least.

14.02.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you count AOC? Or do you mean New York local?

14.02.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Save Foreign Aid
Save Foreign Aid YouTube video by friendsofUSAID

youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

10.02.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess so! bsky.app/profile/robi...

05.02.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So the #senate phone systems are just completely busted the last few days, or is it just me? Over call capacity or something?

04.02.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I could handle eldritch truths. I’d take them in stride. Wouldn’t be driven mad.

21.12.2024 00:48 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 4

Really think I’ve got to consciously try and make my feed more focused on tech/data and other interests, rather than just political news. Otherwise the natural extra volume of those types of posts and discussions really do seem like they’ll overwhelm everything else.

Quickly becomes The Old Place.

13.12.2024 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WMATA | Metro to begin Automatic Train Operation for the first time in 15 years Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

Going to love living in the overlap of three niche things: ATO (federal IT approval process, not fun), ATO (automatic train operation on the Red Line), and ambiguous acronyms!

www.wmata.com/about/news/M...

13.12.2024 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone already explored the niche of becoming the Menswear Guy, but for code?

Go around elegantly espousing the virtues of clean execution for ideas considered β€œold fashioned”, with devastatingly well-researched takedowns of GitHub history for anyone who crosses you…

I see an open opportunity!

05.12.2024 12:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The correct commit message etiquette is:

First commit in repo: β€œinit”
Second commit: β€œfix”
Every subsequent commit: β€œactually fix”

01.12.2024 00:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mild update: taking a Coursera course on #Snowflake, which seems like it pairs well with the starter credits that come with a free trial account on basic Snowflake. The fact that they have robust pre-built example data to play with is also a good sign. Cautiously optimistic….

30.11.2024 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A badly mangled line chart with axes rotated. Some stickers are added with the ugly font saying β€œgraphic design is my passion”

A badly mangled line chart with axes rotated. Some stickers are added with the ugly font saying β€œgraphic design is my passion”

When the d3 attributes are definitely applied correctly

29.11.2024 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Classic mistake in Rβ€”you need to remember to set

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=true

29.11.2024 12:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is just what happens when you’re getting older all the time.

…getting older all the time…

…but feeling younger in your miiiiiind 🎢

28.11.2024 13:56 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m worried that kids today are growing up without a video game series that teaches them 13 or 15 similar sounding skate punk songs

27.11.2024 18:56 πŸ‘ 16522 πŸ” 2375 πŸ’¬ 269 πŸ“Œ 156

Mongolian Hot Pot? Or is that too contested with other countries/regions.

26.11.2024 19:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oof, too real. I’ve gone through like 6 years in a row now of *using* Docker and *almost* understanding it, but never in any way I could pass a 101 test on it!

26.11.2024 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0