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This viral image (not AI) shows a whale spy-hopping while a group of whale watching tourists are otherwise engaged. This was one of the most popular posts from the year I created the conversation. datamongerbonny.substack.com/p/the-only-t...

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Lots of thoughts about @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social I will wait until after they distribute their compendium for additional thoughts but wow. bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/distorted-...

I was recently asked a bunch of questions during an online talk...this little video crosses a bunch of them off the list. youtu.be/Cat4alXJGus?... #gischat

Bonny the younger discovered Tableau back in the hey day of Christian Chabot’s leadership, Hans Rosling’s dynamic talks and a strong sense of community over anything else. I loved every minute of it — until I didn’t. #dataviz bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/drawing-th...

Museum of the Fallen Art Students: A Tribute to Dreams Cut Short www.nippon.com/en/features/...

The only voices you hear on the train to Tokyo are loud Americans. Just an observation.

The beauty of Japan ❤️

The root of impactful storytelling — art and community

How do our lived experiences shape what we see when we look at art? Let's explore the many ways meaning is made—through perception, memory, bias, and the stories we carry. @highpointsult.bsky.social #gischat #dataviz www.eventbrite.com/e/artobjects...

data is the new oil or is oil the new data? Is it true we begin anew with every fresh canvas or new page whether digital or captured on paper? Why does this song visit me with melancholy? Is it a particular chord? The costumes? open.substack.com/pub/bonnypmc... #GISchat

Early morning book club…quietly leaning into a busy day. 📚✍🏽🏃🏽‍♀️🎙️

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This is a smart little explainer on the questionnaire design process: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/p...

When the federal government took Climate.gov offline, an independent nonprofit stepped up to save the science. Climate.us has officially resurrected the Global Climate Dashboard, the 5th National Climate Assessment, and vital toolkits. 🌍 bit.ly/activist360C... #ClimateScience #ClimateHope

Montauk ❤️

I might need a tattoo lol...

“I can recollect better my father’s diction than I can my father.” —Gordon Lish

Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. Through geologic fire and brimstone, much about its earliest eon has been lost to history, but the basics are agreed upon: It began as a ball of mostly molten rock. It became a blue marble. How?

...follow the thread to LLMs and think of Claude as an unreliable narrator, not unlike the heroics of Homer. In a similar way of the map — planning what we are writing we are presented with a blank canvas. Or are we? #gischat bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/tell-me-ab...

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

It was my grandfather’s birthday last week -- June 6th. Mom has advanced dementia and conjures her parents into the present. She thinks he is coming to my house to bring her to summer camp. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times...adapted from Charles Dickens

Rousseau was the original politics journalist: “Let us begin by discarding all facts, for they are irrelevant to the question.”

Now we are in modern vibe coding, AI assisted realities. Foundationally speaking, if I could convince everyone to learn at least one coding language before embarking on shortcuts I would. bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/python-in-...

Thank you…

no scourge or perhaps solitary tear, sorrow whispers to lost moments, a new modern, a sepia image, time – a dandelion cast far and wide, your journey flashes hallucinations before there was a me, today medicates memories that confuse, all we have is now let’s figure out how to get there...

Done is better than perfect ✌🏼

The morning I took a train from Chamonix to Lyon…

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

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We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

NEW RELEASE! Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas The Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of the Sierra Nevada that has ever been made. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

"The US Supreme Court..has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160...cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." A British King just rightly checked the entire Republican Party on the Floor of the House.

@amiiillustrates.bsky.social

Anyone else caring for a parent with advanced #dementia? We moved my mom in last week. Oh boy…

The beauty of Kosovo ❤️

The most unique data graphics from the "Portraits of Population" series are indeed these. Read the full article here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/rediscover... written by my friend from India, Aman Bhargava @aman.bh

Wait for it to focus... Sound up... Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby. The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar. A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more

NYC vibes…

Excited to be in conversation with you!

A brief early morning hello…

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Focusing on only one section of the puzzle reminds me of only looking at global shifts in temperature or forest fires. Any one of us can assemble the puzzle pieces in any manner but be cautioned — these points of departure often lead to false information. .. open.substack.com/pub/datamong...

I know I needed this today…❤️

Thorstein Veblen to better understand "shareholder corporations as an apparatus for colonizing time” -- the scale of encumbering the future including not only fiscal pledges far into future but also finite planetary resources not tallied in anyone’s balance sheet. open.substack.com/pub/bonnypmc...