Ana Lucía González

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

Horribly necessary and terribly accomplished reporting by @anlugonz.bsky.social and my other colleagues

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Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

Olga Cherevko: “If you look at Gaza now…people have been deprived of everything that sustains life: shelter materials, fuel, cooking gas, hygiene materials, everything that one needs to feel dignified, to have some sort of semblance of normality."
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An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Maybe it's just me, but the standfirst is also a thing of beauty: "Scientists are using telescopes around the world..."

A City's Grief in One Street - this Guardian story map takes a close look at the destruction caused to just one street in Gaza.
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a bunch of labels in a circle around chicago

google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity

A street in Gaza, a map of dreams, and the people desperate to live Gaza City’s main high street has been destroyed but Palestinian memories of life before the ongoing Israeli assault survive. As those in Gaza face bombing, starvation and miserable living conditions, ...

The Guardian published a deeply reported feature about what life was like for Gazans before Israel bombed out their schools, hospitals, and homes. It will break your heart. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A collage showing a streetmap of Gaza City in the background, with snapshots of a medical student, university graduates and a damaged shopping centre.

Meanwhile, in Gaza. A map following Gaza City’s main high street, exploring how people hold both the past and present in their minds www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... w/ @kaamilahmed.bsky.social @prinashah.bsky.social and more

Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art The advent of A.I. has shocked me into questioning my relationship with art. Will humans still be able to draw for a living?

Brilliant line from @christophniemann.bsky.social in this lovely piece about the intersection of #AI and #art.

"I can’t make art when I’m excluded from the most crucial moments."

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Solar halo and seagull during solstice on June 21, 2025 (imaged by me in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka, using the camera of my Samsung Galaxy A10 smartphone).
@astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social
#StormHour #PhotoHour
#summersolstice #summer #solstice #Sun #sky #clouds #halo #bird #21June2025

Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from US

New, from me and José Olivares, ICE is detaining more and more people without criminal histories. The number of people in immigration detention with no criminal convictions rose 800% since January
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World map, from Ortelius 1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Map of Europe, from Ortelius 1570

Portrait of Abraham Ortelius, with his hand on a globe

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
📅May 20, 1570 Abraham Ortelius published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the Lands of the World), the first modern atlas.
See it on Internet archive: bit.ly/4k5bzmz

@erindataviz.bsky.social absolutely nailed the smart brevity #dataviz thing with this unconventional bar chart. Sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.

A chart displaying Vesuvius seismic activity from 2011 to 2024. The main panel shows seismic events plotted by year and depth, with a brown silhouette of Vesuvius in the background for scale. Points indicate individual seismic events, colored by density. Annotations highlight that 2018–2021 and 2024 were the most active recent years, the deepest event was recorded at 9.35 km on 14 April 2024, and Vesuvius' maximum height is 1 281 m. Two insets are present: a map of Italy pinpointing Vesuvius, and a contour map showing the geographic spread of the seismic events around the volcano.

Vesuvius seismic activity for this week's #TidyTuesday

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation More than 30 jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. They house a quarter of the prison population. Here we explore how 19th century design is contributing to a 21st century crisis

Great to spot @camunicampop.bsky.social ‘s data used in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisis England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of prisoners and to the repression of crime … It resolves itself into a greater uniformity of plan and purpose than has yet been exhibited in prison architecture. The Illustrated London News in its coverage of the new facility on August 13, 1842. The piers or partitions between them are 18 inches thick, and are worked with close joints, so as to preclude as much as possible the transmission of sound. A description of HMP Pentonville in the Illustrated London News, 1843 Continue reading...

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation More than 30 jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. They house a quarter of the prison population. Here we explore how 19th century design is contributing to a 21st century crisis

A visual investigation of Victorian prisons and how their design still shapes the lives of incarcerated people www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

A rather cloud free day! The colorful North Atlantic waters visible around the archipelago in April 2025 are likely due to a mix of phytoplankton and suspended sediment 🧪

US effective tariff rate

Brent crude price

Canadian election poll tracker

Google Trends chart of search interest in the Heard & McDonald Islands

Charts That Basically Go Vertical, an occasional series

English local elections 2025: is your council up for election and what’s at stake? County councils across England are being elected on 1 May, along with four regional mayors. Find out which areas are voting and search for your own

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‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts

The Trump admin continues to send immigrant students to remote detention centers in Louisiana. So I spent a day in court inside the ICE center holding Mahmoud Khalil.

It has faced consistent allegations of medical neglect & due process issues.

Here’s what I saw:
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Two fantastic data visualizations from my colleagues Andrew Witherspoon and @aliyaute.bsky.social. The Guardian US data and visuals team is firing on all cylinders 🧮 💻

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

From the colleagues at the US @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... 📊

‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome The inventive parasite Cymothoa exigua can survive for years by taking over a fish’s tongue and keeping its host alive

Nominations have flown in for Invertebrate of the Year competition and here is the wonderfully gruesome first on the 10-strong shortlist. We'll announce one each day this week and next. The polls open once all 10 are revealed!
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Hi Steven, hope all is good with you. My colleagues have, yes. Only a few examples of the coverage
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Bacon's large print road map of [England and Wales]
London : C. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [1907].
Issued in leather carrying case with handle on side.
Each #map bound in card covers.

1st day of (Northern Hemisphere) spring, so time to re-re-re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done. 365 images of the terminator taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. over the course of a year. Originally made for the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

‘I hate the night’: life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war - visual story Their hopes for peace fading and fearful of being forgotten, two Gazans share the trauma of living their days and nights surrounded by the noise of gunfire, missiles and drones

Happy to hear that our story depicting the sonic hellscape that people in Gaza have to endure, day and night, has been shortlisted for the #AmnestyMediaAwards (w/ @kaamilahmed.bsky.social @lydia-rachel.bsky.social Pip Lev and Ellen Wishhart) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...