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Alan Rutter
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Founder of Fire Plus Algebra. Writer, trainer, data nerd and dog owner. alanrutter.com
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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Liz Truss’ roast potato recipe is a great explainer for British politics 2016-2024. Aggressively contrarian, determinedly simplistic, objectively wrong. A masterpiece.
December 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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what’s whitney houston’s favourite type of coordination?

HAAAAND EYEEEE
November 20, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Hi everyone.

The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.

We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.

We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.

I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Happy new year! Our Data Vis Dispatch is still on holiday break, so here are all the "Best #dataviz of 2023" lists 🧵:

From Newsrooms:
🔷 Axios: www.axios.com/2023-axios-v...
🔷 The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🔷 The Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 2, 2024 at 1:33 PM