Jerad Walker

Jerad Walker

@jeradwalker.bsky.social

Podcast Editor: North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC). Contributor: NPR. Alum: OPB, WAMU. Cheerwine enthusiast. Go Dawgs!

11,255 Followers 885 Following 8,019 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Michael Jordan saying “and I took that personally”

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2027 Academy Award winner for Best Actor.

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My dad can never remember Timothée Chalamet’s name and calls him “that little French boy” like he’s a drummer in Napoleon's army or a haunted marionette.

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The funniest hit-by-pitch you'll ever see

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A pink Victorian home in Waycross, Georgia with broken windows and a big homemade sign on the side of it that reads:

•It's NEVER TOO EARLY to
START TALKING to CHILDREN ABOUT SEXUAL MATTERS • UNESCO, SEX - ED REPORT 2018

More creepy homemade billboards should cite their sources.

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TL;DR: These aren't the most popular names overall. They are the names that appear in a specific state significantly more often than the national average.
Data source: U.S. Social Security Administration
(2024)
Tools: Python / SQL / Hex
I wanted to explore state-specific naming quirks, but the most popular names in most states are the same as the top 10 most popular names nationwide. Instead, I calculated the z-score for every name in every state. That allowed me to identify which names were used significantly more than expected and how extreme the overuse actual is.
! Note on "Overuse": This is not meant to be a value judgment or a claim that there are "too many" of a given name. It's just stating that the name is statistically used at a much higher rate, which defines each state's unique naming
"thumbprint" relative to the national average.

FYI from the creator of the graphic

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Wyoming has “No Standout” listed for girls

Is that Scandinavian?

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A map of the most overused girls' and boys’ names by state (2024)

Meet my two beautiful children, Everleigh and Kashton.

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23 hours ago

This a million.

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The ACC American cafe at RDU airport in Raleigh, NC

🎶where everyboooooody knows your naaaaaame🎶

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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching YouTube video by owen reiser

Birder culture is *fascinating*. Not a birder myself, but every time I get a glimpse into their world it intrigues me. Case in point, this is one of my favorite films from the past year. Can’t recommend it enough. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

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I want to see some of your favourite final shots in film history.

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The ACC American cafe in RDU airport

*sigh*

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Hi, this is Breeze.
Flying from RDU
tomorrow? Arrive 2 hrs early since TSA lines can be long.

Just in case you’re wondering how TSA is holding up a month into the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

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“Something I’ve never seen before on a football field…” in ENGLAND.

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that record scratch lol

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the strait of hormuz is open for transit

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2 days ago
A Google search for “William Sha” and instead of William Shakespeare the first two autocomplete options are William Shatner related

look how they massacred my boy

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I saw it coming from a mile away and it still wrecked my ass.

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Watched Hamnet. Tear ducts still work.

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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

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This is incredible. @ngs.bsky.social

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So you know CHUCK E CHEESE, right? The gray animatronic pizza rat? With the little blue Aladdin vest? Fez hat? This is him except this animatronic instance has seen better days. He’s a mouse who might be filled with mice. It looks like he woke up in a septic tank after a days-long Canadian whiskey binge. His muzzle is stained with murky brown mess. His goggle eyes are pointed in different directions. He is for some reason clutching a giant lipstick tube. He’s not well. He’s out of his gourd on bad cheese. Seen at the American Treasure Tour

Charles Methamphetamine Cheese

(seen at the ABSOLUTELY CURSED American Treasure Tour here in PA)

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we used to be a proper country

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You: A kindly convenience store clerk who just asked me about my children.

Me: A childless man who just bought three pouches of Big League Chew.

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Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

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a man with glasses and a beard is saying this is how i win ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is saying this is how i win
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