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Andrew Mercer
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Principal methodologist at Pew Research Center. He/him
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Your daily Charlie
Charlie the orange cat sleeping on the a white desk with his head on a notebook.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I’m just going to keep posting some version of this photo over and over again as long as Charlie keeps hanging out on my desk.
An orange cat curled on his back with a paw in the air. He is on a white desk between a keyboard and computer monitor.
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Charlie slept through caturday but better late than never.
An orange cat curled on his back on top of a brown couch.
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Here’s a bonus.
Another picture of Charlie the orange cat lying on his back on a brown couch.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I have never met another cat that is this much of a back-sleeper. Such a weirdo.

Also look at that tail!
Charlie the orange cat lying on his back on a couch. His tail is curled up between his hind legs.
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Charlie says happy Thursday everyone.
Charlie the orange cat is lying on his side in between a keyboard and a computer monitor.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Can you believe this degenerate?
Charlie the orange cat splayed out on a bed like a total degenerate.
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I have no idea what happened but lol.
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This boy deserves nothing less.
An orange cat lying on a desk
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Must be sports night on the TL.
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Although you *can* do this in one step with a word boundary:

str_split("A,B,C, D", ",\\b")
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Published online. It was originally published in 2000.
October 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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When can we say that sweater season has officially begun? Feels close but not quite there yet.
A screenshot of the iPhone weather app saying that it is 62 degrees in Washington DC.
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Karate Champ
September 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to Bluesky.
Ben Affleck holding a cigarette and looking exhausted.
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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We have another in this genre!
A scam text that reads: “Help me make an appointment for the dentist tomorrow morning”
August 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Exciting new scam text opener! Honestly, more tempting than threats about unpaid tolls.
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The ending is just… This is perfect. No notes.
That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.
August 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Idk
xor-archive.bsky... @xor-... • 7mo I'm sorry, but there is no way Conrad Hackett is real. ①
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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To think that this could have been me if I’d made a completely different set of life choices.
The marsupials' bums are made up of four plates fused together and urrounded by cartilage, fat, skin and fur. Alyce Swinbourne, an expert in wombat bottoms from the University of Adelaide, says wombats will use their backside to "plug' up their burrows, stopping predators entering and protecting softer areas of their anatomy.
June 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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It's big, it's better it's wood!
From the cartoon Ren and Stimpy. A cartoon picture of a log with a label that says "Log". Underneath is the slogan "It's better than bad It's good!".
June 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Definitely not plotting a murder. No sireee. What on earth have you that idea?
An orange cat sitting on the floor looking intently out through a glass door at a squirrel.
May 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It also appears to have cropped the full image so that it’s missing the source and footnotes. It looks like it only goes down to Rep/Lean Rep and cuts Dem/Lean Dem and everything below. Maybe that’s just a preview and they’re there if you click through? Seems kind of problematic though.
A bar graph from Pew Research Center showing that Though a majority hold neutral views, some Americans disagree on whether the declining share of White people in the U.S. is good or bad for society
May 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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It might not look like it but Charlie and I are having a little dancefloor dnb party while working on some particularly complicated survey weights.
An orange cat sitting on a white desk between a keyboard and a laptop.
May 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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In tonight’s episode of “Late Night Cartoons With Charlie,” we’re watching Blood of Zeus.

Don’t think he’s into this one but we’ll give it a few episodes.
An orange cat cuddled next to my legs on top of a quilt. In the background there is a tv showing a screen from Blood of Zeus.
May 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM