Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
And that is called paying the Dane-geld, etc. www.ft.com/content/0c25...
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
And that is called paying the Dane-geld, etc. www.ft.com/content/0c25...
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Freedom of speech and so on. Time for an open letter, etc. This is all the fault of the campus left sort of thing.
February 11, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Freedom of speech and so on. Time for an open letter, etc. This is all the fault of the campus left sort of thing.
What fool decided to put Idris and Hijack S2 on the Berlin metro instead of putting him in London and calling it The Taking of Peckham 123
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
What fool decided to put Idris and Hijack S2 on the Berlin metro instead of putting him in London and calling it The Taking of Peckham 123
Reposted by Kieran Healy
If I were reading a novel about an anti-filth crusade led by "Congressman Ogles" and "Congressman Randy Fine," I'd think it all a bit heavy-handed.
Congressman wants to round up and deport people who liked Bad Bunny’s show. This is the Republican Party.
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
If I were reading a novel about an anti-filth crusade led by "Congressman Ogles" and "Congressman Randy Fine," I'd think it all a bit heavy-handed.
cf M&E’s remark in the Manifesto about how, thanks to “the rapid improvement of all instruments of production” the bourgeoisie have “rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life”.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
cf M&E’s remark in the Manifesto about how, thanks to “the rapid improvement of all instruments of production” the bourgeoisie have “rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life”.
Post a banger that’s not in English.
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Post a banger that’s not in English.
Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
Catching up on the open sewer of gutter racism emitted last night from the President on down through White House apparatchiks like Loomer, Lake, etc, etc, and I have to say it gives off a strong reek of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win”.
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Catching up on the open sewer of gutter racism emitted last night from the President on down through White House apparatchiks like Loomer, Lake, etc, etc, and I have to say it gives off a strong reek of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win”.
I imagine he and his wife sat at his kitchen table wrestling with the tension between what they really wanted the house of their dreams to be like and whether it was just unrealistic to think there was any chance they’d be able to afford to hire Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk www.openculture.com/2026/02/fran...
Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk
Few professionals tend to live as long, or mature as slowly, as architects. Frank Gehry died late last year at the formidable age of 96, with several projects still under construction.
www.openculture.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I imagine he and his wife sat at his kitchen table wrestling with the tension between what they really wanted the house of their dreams to be like and whether it was just unrealistic to think there was any chance they’d be able to afford to hire Frank Gehry
what time is the super bowl
February 9, 2026 at 3:22 AM
what time is the super bowl
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
Revising the dataviz book is an opportunity to remind enthusiastic beginners of the bitter realities that lie ahead of them.
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Revising the dataviz book is an opportunity to remind enthusiastic beginners of the bitter realities that lie ahead of them.
February 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Statler and Waldorf have more of a comment than a question
Mamdani, obviously. Plot of episode deals with J.P. Grosse trying to strong-arm Kermit about the terms of the theater lease.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Mamdani, obviously. Plot of episode deals with J.P. Grosse trying to strong-arm Kermit about the terms of the theater lease.
This is like the “Deck of Cards” monologue, but for weirdos. Also, shout out to all my readers in their 80s.
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is like the “Deck of Cards” monologue, but for weirdos. Also, shout out to all my readers in their 80s.
Reposted by Kieran Healy
"Donald Trump--not having asked to be born, and who, in that sense, cannot be charged with the credits or demerits of the corporeal existence God has gifted or cursed him with--posted a racist video of Kamala Harris and Barack Obama as monkeys"
"it was far from clear if the mind truly commands the body, or if Trump was, in a distinctly non-cartesian sense, a passenger in the flow of reality and therefore not responsible for the wildly racist thing his physical manifestation posted"
"When he said those words, it is not clear whether his brain was aware of what he was doing or if his mind was far away in a starless lightless void of enlightenment"
February 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
"Donald Trump--not having asked to be born, and who, in that sense, cannot be charged with the credits or demerits of the corporeal existence God has gifted or cursed him with--posted a racist video of Kamala Harris and Barack Obama as monkeys"
I’m v. interested to see this revitalization of the idea of political socialization.
a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1!
we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.
we find that values structure political preferences among children.
we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.
we find that values structure political preferences among children.
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I’m v. interested to see this revitalization of the idea of political socialization.
This joke accidentally became funnier overnight.
Argonauts of the Western Passiac
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
This joke accidentally became funnier overnight.
Argonauts of the Western Passiac
February 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Argonauts of the Western Passiac
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Several very handy things in here.
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
tidyverse.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Several very handy things in here.
Backing in the day, in its weird way the CIA Factbook was right up there with the Statistical Abstract of the United States (also RIP).
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Backing in the day, in its weird way the CIA Factbook was right up there with the Statistical Abstract of the United States (also RIP).
Apparently it’s important not to forget Columbus in the District of [checks notes] Columbia
New @washingtonpost.com:
Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House
Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse
with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House
Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse
with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
Trump plans to install Christopher Columbus statue outside White House
The president has worked to recognize the explorer, saying Italian-Americans should “remember” Trump’s efforts when they go vote.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Apparently it’s important not to forget Columbus in the District of [checks notes] Columbia