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"Numbers and, by extension, charts, can seem like concrete facts. They are not. From the data collection process, to analysis, through published graphics, opinions are expressed through the choices on the way to your eyeballs." Great essay from @flowingdata.com

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It is indeed

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Really happy with how this waxwing capture turned out 😊 Bohemian waxwings are usually a quite rare sight here in the winter, but seems like more than usual have chosen to spend the winter in the area this year. Fortunately it has been a quite warm winter so far. #bohemianwaxwing #birds #waxwing

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Hookland otters (Lutra Lutra Hooklandii) love to feast on white water lilies and enjoy the psychotropic properties of the plants. If you are lucky you may spot an otter chewing on the white flowers, dreaming and floating in the Field of Prophecy, in the waters of the Restal Wastesn 🤍🐾🌀

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Visualising all books in ISBN-space. I could spend hours here... phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/vi...

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Veganuary may be over, but the future of humanity still needs us to reduce the carbon impact of our diets by cutting down the amount of food we eat derived from animals. This is the graph that made me cut out meat: ourworldindata.org/explorers/fo...

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And prickle pig (Dutch). 🦔💚

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My latest design - the Three Hares Tam, based on a window in Paderborn cathedral. Pattern is on Ravelry if anyone fancies it.🧶 #knitting #dreihasenfenster #threehares #hares #shareyourknits #knittersofbluesky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This will get almost no attention. It fucking should though. The combustion of coal, oil and gas is killing one of the most remarkable and important places on the planet before our eyes, and most people are looking away instead.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

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Carbon emissions lead to climate breakdown, which leads to wildfires, which emit more carbon. We need to cut emissions hard, fast.

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Giving my pencils a workout. Positions of songs at the top of Dutch Radio 2's Top 2000 over time. 📊 Colours are related to release date: purples 60s, black/blues 70s, oranges/reds newer. Also the bright orange one just happens to be the only Dutch language song here.

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It is worth spending 7 minutes of your time really absorbing the stories given voice in this video.

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Took a walk around a nature reserve near my mum's a couple of days ago, and took some pictures.

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Very useful chart design thread - with link to a part 2 down the thread.

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Heartening to read about conservation successes and citizen actions in RSPB's overview of wins for nature in 2024. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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Happy solstice everyone.

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Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

submitted 70 days ago • 60 comments

Great analysis as always from @electoralreform.bsky.social , with some tasty visualisations, showing how the 2024 UK General Election was the most disproportional in the country's history. www.electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-news-...

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It's vital that we don't bullshit ourselves and others. The average global atmospheric concentration of CO2 continues to increase. Ergo, we are not at the peak of emissions or anywhere near. We are still on a trajectory toward +2°C global average temperature, then +3°C. keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

The Dancer! #heron #UKwildlife #birds #wildlife #nocturnalphotography

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

UK peeps - it's Big Garden Birdwatch next month. A brilliant excuse to spend an hour just staring out the window while contributing to understanding how our bird species are doing. Sign up here; www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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Powerful data article about US book bans, by Florina Sutanto for Citizen Codex. Book bans hitting schools and public libraries have risen sharply. Over 16,000 incidents have been tracked over 2021-2024. bookbans.citizencodex.com

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This will (hopefully) never cease to be staggering to everyone else in the world.

submitted 85 days ago • 107 comments

Ohhh, so beautifous.

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Recently finished reading this beauty, and it will no doubt be a regular point of reference. Full of ideas and inspiration - for visualisations themselves but also for that data vis style guide I still need to write. I like that it covers qualitative data too.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Not a regular development either. In the last two years of primary school, early 90s, we went on project week 40k away - and cycled there and back.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

This I can get on board with.

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With Black Friday around the corner, let these 2 charts serve as a reminder that buying less stuff is the #1 way you can contribute to tackling the climate crisis.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Beauteous butter beans, boiled then fried, on a stew of aromatic veg, tomatoes, seasoning and more beans, with garlicky mash and steamed sprouting broccoli. Wonderfully comforting and proper tasty. #WhatVegansEat

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Fun!

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The largest piece of embroidery fabric in my stash (feet for scale). The job in hand is to work out how to fit a visualisation of over 200 birds species on it. The design I have in mind is very different from anything I've done before; struggling to work out how to approach it.

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#sunset #puffins from last year in #Shetland #UKwildlife

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