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Kara Woo
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software engineer | #rstats | PDX | she/her
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Not to mention these same politicians are seeing constant images of actual war-ravaged places and it has not compelled many of them to do shit so what's the joke exactly
September 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Like yes we must clown this administration as it is one of the few languages they understand but let's not get too self-congratulatory when we have so many people with huge needs and a lot of leadership who still fundamentally rely on criminalization and real estate development as a solution
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm going to sound like the biggest hater & loser in the world and I know we must do our political performance but the "look at my war ravaged Portland" photos especially from politicians are getting a little 😬 when we have crisis levels of people without housing including unknown numbers of kids
September 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
update: they’re teaching it to other kids on the preschool playground now
mom sent a video of her singing solidarity forever, 3yo demanded to watch it on repeat and sing along. hell yeah, happy labor day ✊
September 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
yessssss, arm64 linux binaries in posit package manager!! #rstats packagemanager.posit.co/client/#/wha...
Posit Package Manager
packagemanager.posit.co
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I've given several talks at posit conf, but I've never gotten to give the "here's the super awesome new thing I worked on that I now get to share with you" kind...until this year! Come to the commercial products session to hear me talk about building container images with Connect, it is so coooool 😁
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse
mirai 2.5.0
mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem.
www.tidyverse.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
mom sent a video of her singing solidarity forever, 3yo demanded to watch it on repeat and sing along. hell yeah, happy labor day ✊
September 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats
Tidyverse developer day 2025
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!
www.tidyverse.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Another approach: Shortly after Wilson's news dropped today, Seattle announced it's suing Trump over his anti-DEI orders.
July 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
just paid our LAST month of daycare tuition for our three year old. fuck yeah preschool for all!!
July 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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We're happy to announce that there will be another #rstats Tidy Development Day after the 2025 posit::conf in Atlanta!

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...
Tidyverse developer day 2025
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!
www.tidyverse.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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For the past year, I've been talking to dancers fighting for better workplace protections for pregnancy and parenting. It's a fight experts say is "unprecedented" due to long-standing cultural and structural challenges within ballet. And it's being led by artists themselves.

Out now for ELLE:
How Ballet Is Fighting for Dancer Pregnancy Rights
“We’re told we should do it ‘for the love of the art form,’ but we still have bills to pay and families to raise.”
www.elle.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ok does anyone know where I can find the “yup i’m an antifa”/“enjoy your water at the starbucks” video?
July 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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hard not to weigh Kotek's absurd vendetta against pre-school for all with this "oopsies" approach about our entire transit system and its workers.
July 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
daycare has lice and i just walked face first into a spider web, happy monday
July 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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alternatively, we could show kids that we'll fight for them.

honestly, wtf!?

bsky.app/profile/andy...
Not having access to gender affirming care before puberty is not a death sentence BUT if we all uncritically repeat the fear that it is, the young people will take their cue from us on how freaked out to be, and they will believe that all they can do in response to Skrmetti is die.
June 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If this describes you—if you, an adult, have lost the ability to make a turkey melt or think of a song that reminds you of your spouse, in like ~2 years’ time because of AI—then sure maybe AI should replace you in every life function but I don’t think we are all willing to go down with you
June 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The Supreme Court just upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.

This is state violence, sanctioned from the highest court. Trans kids deserve care, safety, and autonomy—not cruelty codified into law. 🤬
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.

Robert, for the 6-3 court, holds that the law is not subject to heightened scrutiny under equal protection and passes rational basis review. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Trump administration pulls US out of agreement to help restore salmon in the Columbia River apnews.com/article/colu...
Trump administration pulls US out of agreement to help restore salmon in the Columbia River
President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the U.S. out of an agreement with Washington, Oregon and four American Indian tribes to work together to restore salmon populations and boost tribal energy de...
apnews.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Still the ggoat
Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats
June 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Lmfao hahahahaha
Controversial I-5 billboard has a new owner
The Chehalis Tribe purchased the signage for $2.5 million.
www.king5.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM