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Charlotte Hadley (she/her)

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Data visualisation consultant @ www.gpcds.com All tech is political. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · Nov 6

Rules for myself on starting again with Bluesky.

All tech is political. From energy, to silicon and software. You can’t escape it.

But. This is going to be a positive space for me and not a doomscroll replacement.

I’m very pessimistic about GenAI. Too much so… and so I’m going to not engage.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 20h

A themed chart for #TidyTuesday this week using data from the FAO on food security!

🌳 Voronoi treemap data wrangling with {WeightedTreemap}
🎨 Colours from {rcartocolor}
📊 Plotted with #ggplot2

#RStats #DataViz

Infographic showing a Voronoi treemap stylised to look like a dinner plate with images of cutlery beside it. Areas show the total protein supply for different countries, coloured by continent. Annotations highlight specific values i.e. China is largest, and Iceland largest per capita.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 19h

Four tines? In this economy?!

(Also this is beautiful)

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 2d

Fine. Let’s leave the typo and agree I should sleep more and better.

Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 2d

There could not possible be an AI bubble…

Screenshot when visiting petsai.com that shows a GoDaddy holding page. The page explains the domain can be purchased for $499,999.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5d

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 5d

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 5d

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

Alt text: A tweet from Allie K. Miller reads: “This is absolutely insane and proof that voice is about to transform the workplace. At Wispr, employees use voice hundreds of times a day to multitask across their entire workflow. Here’s one dev using Cursor and Gmail simultaneously, all through WHISPERING, on a $10 mic.” Below the text is a photo of a man seated at a desk in a modern open-plan office, speaking softly into a small desktop microphone while looking at a wide computer monitor that displays code and an open Gmail inbox. The workspace has large windows, high ceilings, and exposed ventilation ducts.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12d

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve just received permission to make a PR against a repo I’ve been dreaming of making for EIGHT YEARS.

I couldn’t be happier. And it’s all thanks to @niccrane.bsky.social

More details at Shiny in Production 😄

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19d

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 20d

Waaait, #rstats is actually alive here now? 😦

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

So unifying

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 23d

Always the same tropes: "The West has fallen," "owning lots of books makes you immediately smarter," spurious correlations treated as evidence, and discomfort with the world of one's youth changing. If this is your magnum opus, James, it's not exactly original.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 24d

Many such cases

A tweet by Andrea Bosoni (@theandreboso) reads: “A guy sent me a message telling me that he’s building an AI marketing cofounder. He says it works incredibly well and that he can see it replacing marketers. Then he asked me if he could pick my mind on how to promote it.”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24d

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24d

He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 26d

Laser eye surgery is the clearest indication to me that Zuck’s “you’ll die, get fired and won’t get invited to parties if you don’t wear smart glasses” is stupid.