Andrew Bartholomew
@abartholomew.com
Indie consultant to founders and their teams. Amateur photographer and printmaker.
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Dataviz of the day
there are 39 hours of scripted programming in this season's broadcast TV lineup, & 20 of them are explicitly pro-law enforcement programs. More than half of scripted TV is still not enough for them.
September 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Dataviz of the day
Geez. Via the Derek Thompson newsletter.
September 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Dataviz of the day
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Hear me out: Grocery shopping in bumper cars. Every shopper in a car, and every item in its own autonomous car.
i am allergic to bananas and i also don't want this at the grocery store
August 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hear me out: Grocery shopping in bumper cars. Every shopper in a car, and every item in its own autonomous car.
Reposted by Andrew Bartholomew
Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming.
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Stunning! A Timelapse of an Oxalis plant blooming.
Reposted by Andrew Bartholomew
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Reposted by Andrew Bartholomew
Out. Of. Control.
If Congress does not step in to curb the abuses of ICE, we're heading to a very bleak place. And time is growing short...
If Congress does not step in to curb the abuses of ICE, we're heading to a very bleak place. And time is growing short...
ICE sent a drone and convoy of military vehicles to arrest a young man who had....posted flyers.
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
June 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Out. Of. Control.
If Congress does not step in to curb the abuses of ICE, we're heading to a very bleak place. And time is growing short...
If Congress does not step in to curb the abuses of ICE, we're heading to a very bleak place. And time is growing short...
Imagine being in space right now and nervously refreshing twitter to find out if you’ll be marooned out there for years
June 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Imagine being in space right now and nervously refreshing twitter to find out if you’ll be marooned out there for years
Dataviz of the day
9/9 And another angle on the same dynamic:
Trump’s approval is holding up very well with Maga, but he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition who voted for him in November.
Or to put it another way, the view from inside the Maga echo chamber remains rosy. Outside, not so much...
Trump’s approval is holding up very well with Maga, but he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition who voted for him in November.
Or to put it another way, the view from inside the Maga echo chamber remains rosy. Outside, not so much...
April 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Dataviz of the day
American Republicans are ideologically much more like people in Russia or Turkey than they are like members of European right-wing parties, and this only happened in the last 25 years.
www.ft.com/content/3046...
www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Home city pride: In line for a bar with literally hundreds of Eagles fans all lustily booing a cyber truck stuck in traffic in front of the bar.
February 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Home city pride: In line for a bar with literally hundreds of Eagles fans all lustily booing a cyber truck stuck in traffic in front of the bar.
A new post with a little reflection on the stable equilibria between offering, price, and customer acquisition: independentvariables.substack.com/p/four-ways-...
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A new post with a little reflection on the stable equilibria between offering, price, and customer acquisition: independentvariables.substack.com/p/four-ways-...
Reading the quote tweets from @jamellebouie.net and others about the Fed payments system today feels eerily similar to early March 2020. Technical experts have upgraded odds of a specific kind of catastrophe from 0.1% to 20%, which is a much bigger leap than the remaining 20% to 100%.
February 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reading the quote tweets from @jamellebouie.net and others about the Fed payments system today feels eerily similar to early March 2020. Technical experts have upgraded odds of a specific kind of catastrophe from 0.1% to 20%, which is a much bigger leap than the remaining 20% to 100%.
This is how a product eventually gets disrupted:
- A paid ad for the thing I searched for
- A paid ad for a brand I didn’t search for
- Three paid pins for brands I didn’t search for
- Zero relevant on-map results
- A paid ad for the thing I searched for
- A paid ad for a brand I didn’t search for
- Three paid pins for brands I didn’t search for
- Zero relevant on-map results
January 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is how a product eventually gets disrupted:
- A paid ad for the thing I searched for
- A paid ad for a brand I didn’t search for
- Three paid pins for brands I didn’t search for
- Zero relevant on-map results
- A paid ad for the thing I searched for
- A paid ad for a brand I didn’t search for
- Three paid pins for brands I didn’t search for
- Zero relevant on-map results
Year 3 of self-employment: Everything's stable, so why not destabilize a bit? independentvariables.substack.com/p/year-3-as-...
Year 3 as an indie consultant: Asking some destabilizing questions
In the tradition established by others, my reflections on the past year and my intentions for the next one.
independentvariables.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Year 3 of self-employment: Everything's stable, so why not destabilize a bit? independentvariables.substack.com/p/year-3-as-...
100+ movies down this year (and few notable ones still to go), so I looked back at my year and put together some top fives:
December 22, 2024 at 12:43 PM
100+ movies down this year (and few notable ones still to go), so I looked back at my year and put together some top fives:
Few things make me appreciate self-employment like going to the movies at 1:15 on a weekday
December 13, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Few things make me appreciate self-employment like going to the movies at 1:15 on a weekday