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Danny Dougherty

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Graphics reporter in DC (currently WSJ). Lots of data and coding work but often distracted by comics, St. Louis sports and interesting things I've read in the news of the day. I feed on groan responses to my puns.

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To be fair, Bad Bunny is playing the Super Bowl

07.10.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A leading problem among typographers

07.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The top of this thread is getting a lot of reposts in my feed, but the entire thing is full of good polling and graphics

04.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Bad to the bone"

03.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My not technical, too simple explanation is, being a shop in a mall means they can promote and support you, but you have to follow their hours, rules and whims. Having a storefront means you can do your own thing and even if you move USPS will forward your mail for continuity.

02.10.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm. I could see doing this in pen and paper. Just everything at a sketch stage (but, yeah. Nuts to get one of these camera ready every day)

02.10.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so. good.

Saw him live at a smaller venue about a year ago and obviously it was great, but the way he made it a showcase for not just himself but everyone playing on stage with him just dripped passion and joy

01.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope bone clones only makes rhyming ones. Lemur femurs. Bull skulls. Bee knees.

29.09.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a new, clear race

28.09.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. There was a better "how did they take n" joke.

27.09.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean from where the sample is...

...taken

27.09.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like that this survey includes "balding (struggling)" and "balding (ok with it)"

27.09.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies are pouring hundreds of billions into data centers, taking on heavy debt, but current revenue is relatively tiny. Critics warn of a new dot-com bubble.

I think a lot about how the information economy around regional news was making money but not enough so it mostly went away
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

26.09.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now I am picturing Waffle House as indecisive EDM

25.09.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In the UK they just call this polarcetemol

25.09.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This seems like a measured take to me, a St. Louisan.

24.09.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I do my best to talk about any script like it is a mildly well trained puppy that will do what it thinks you told it to in a lovable but frustrating manner

23.09.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All Wolverines and all Batmen? Or Bruce and Logan?

22.09.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These are terrible margins.

Those chips clearly have 3 points.

21.09.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Months without one specific letter are better for your R-teries

19.09.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't expect it to be a literal "torment nexus"

18.09.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So this Robin is dick gracin'?

18.09.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Polling 🀝 Happy hour

Working to increase confidence

17.09.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wait. winter. are we doing _that_ again?

17.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just keep telling yourself this weather is a snapshot, not a forecast

17.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me, a graphics guy: What a tough break for writers!

17.09.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing an algorithm to identify cluster populations for desirability ratings. A k-pop demand hunter.

12.09.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This feels like a less fun version of the irony poisoning we saw a decade or so ago, maybe?

12.09.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did Nintendo just backdoor launch VR hardware for the Switch 2...

12.09.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if both FOMOs got together to form some sort of supergroup the District would probably be alone, tonight

10.09.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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