court

brb re-downloading dating apps to see if i can’t convince a boy to go lambaste the city council on my behalf

you’re tellin me i gotta take off work to go to a city council meeting just to explain to everyone why 4pm on a weekday is a terrible time for city council meetings???

bottom section of google AI search results, reads, with the last sentence circled in yellow: “Would you like to know about the microscopic mites that actually do live on your face right now?” full screenshot text reads: Not Adapted for Heat: Interestingly, even in their "indestructible" state, they are vulnerable to high temperatures in wet environments-like the warm, acidic interior of a human body. Essentially, they are like an elite astronaut in a high-tech suit: they can survive the vacuum outside the ship, but if you drop them directly into a vat of acid, the suit (and the astronaut) will still dissolve Would you like to know about the microscopic mites that actually do live on your face right now?

i asked no such question, google

whoever writes the visual descriptions/alt text for NASA’s instagram is accessibility royalty

wrote a short story, told ChatGPT my girlfriend wrote it and that I think it’s bad, was fed compliments to give, so said: actually jk Claude wrote it, then got told by ChatGPT that Claude’s story (actually my story) is a classic LLM failure and a perfect example of why humans still matter in fiction

yo the thing about having the type of adversity background that makes “a perfect college essay” is that you probably don’t have anyone in your life telling you to write it

confirming what "everybody knows" through actual research and reporting is important. Cynicism is easy; proof is what distinguishes information from gossip.

I (from Kentucky) never understood what “good barbecue” was because I didn’t know it could be bad. Living in NJ, now I do. So much food up here but southern food* & good tex mex is SEVERELY lacking :(

* except for soul food!

yes. police brutality is a huge issue among hard-of-hearing & deaf individuals.

Super excited for Jan 31st! The day is soon approaching...

highlight reel of some of the visual stuff i made in 2025!

hey, I’m a poorly run hospital system, and I don’t give doctors time to listen to patients. I say hey, tell them it’s anxiety and move on; they’ll figure out on their own that it’s a deadly infection when it starts to become deadly, despite having been told this is how anxiety feels 👍

GitHub - ORB-HD/deface: Video anonymization by face detection Video anonymization by face detection. Contribute to ORB-HD/deface development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/ORB-HD/deface If you are OK with a CLI tool this works pretty well, runs locally and has been around for a while.

Interpolation with #turfjs willymaps.github.io/experiments/...

To reduce the cognitive load in data visualizations, directly label your data rather than using legends. This helps colorblind or visually impaired users. It also decreases the work of scanning back and forth trying to match the legend with the data.

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great.

Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

Love these little @aliciaparlap.bsky.social graphics that illustrate the absurdist ways DOGE claimed it saved money, at the end of a year of trying to chase their accounting.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Sending prayers to her family. She was an extraordinary young woman.

If you haven’t, read her superb essay in @newyorker.com about her journey since her cancer diagnosis. A remarkable person. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

sunset painting with firey red at the horizon line

“finger painted” my airplane view in procreate pocket

cincinnati to chicago

2025: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics (Gift Article) Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year.

This year, our collection of visual stories is grouped by coverage themes. Besides lifestyle, I collaborated on all the other areas tinyurl.com/e4vh7nm7 | @nytimes.com 2025 in Graphics

If confusion is the commodity, certainty is the premium product

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/if-c...

If you’re sharing large bodies of text as a photo:

In iPhone you can open that photo and copy the text and paste it as your alt (maybe android too, Im sleepy)

Mentioning this because lots of folks are sharing the Bill Clinton statement and just hoping to help.

Back to bed for me, night night

The U.S. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee settled on five options for coins marking America’s 250th anniversary, including Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges.

But the Treasury Department instead will include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. https://wapo.st/49c6WCU

added a lil animation to the host city marker each time you change the year filter, and it makes me happy ✨ should I map ALL host cities on the 1896-2026 setting or leave them all off? hm

I am almost certain I can’t afford official API endpoints, so I am brain storming how I’m gonna keep this updated daily come February/winter Olympics. Where there’s a will there’s a way, but hopefully the way is one that allows a little time to sleep here and there.

screaming into the void: if anybody would like to pay me to maintain this and build it out further, I AM SO OPEN TO THAT.

also legend gradient has had a bug for awhile now. will fix eventually.😅 at least halfway fixed my switzerland bug tonight!

screenshot of olympics map showing russian medal counts, with russia outlined in bright glowy pink

the jagged hover effect is a little extra, but I was having fun figuring out how to make it behave like that. will probably tone it down at some point tho🙈

still trying to figure out wtf to do about the legend on mobile

mercator projection is killin’ me, but there are 10 historic basemaps on this thing, so I think tiling might slow performance too much. could rewrite from maplibre to d3, and perhaps eventually I will, but omg so much work so little free time

Every Olympic Medal Since 1896 — An Interactive Map Filter by year, sport and event to uncover over a century of competition and change.

olympics map: made some huge UI improvements tonight AND bought a domain!

olympicsmap.com

tap the link to see the improvements bc I’ve still gotta update that preview image :))