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pls stop putting this cursèd image on my tl

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...

This is really useful, thanks!

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

Ah my bad!

YouTube video by NLX78 Fires of Kuwait (1992) HD

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...

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).

I quite like going by starting frequency:

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)
}

delete this before the italians wake up

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!

Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches

The 12 year olds are on it already: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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.

I literally did this last week lol

why does it say flaqship

I really like this!

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

???

hell yeah

fired for having a girlfriend smh

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

Interesting, thanks!

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) )

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

Great stuff, I love this package!

So good!

@tomwalker.bsky.social

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

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...

Apart from the typos, oops! Thanks!

A replication of the FT chart using ggplot in R.

Not quite the right data, and I didn't change the fonts but this is pretty close.

gist.github.com/simply-rayte...

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.