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Danny Dougherty
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Graphics reporter in DC (currently WSJ). Lots of data and coding work but often distracted by comics, St. Louis sports and interesting things I've read in the news of the day. I feed on groan responses to my puns.
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Neighborhoods are good, man (porchfest edition)
A street crowded with people facing the patio of a row house where folks are huddled setting up band equipment
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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OK, but this list of songs from 1989 remains very popular to this day
The tracklist from the back cover of Taylor Swift's album, 1989
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Me, sending out questionnaires to the nerds I make play music with me
A Google drive survey form with open ended questions stating "I have other thoughts about band business, which I have written below" then "I have other thoughts about Danny's survey design, which I have written below"
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I have not spent the last 30 years of my life looking up Excel formulae to process data to be greeted with these suggestions
August 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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View of a crowded pool under a blue sky with puffy clouds shot from the second row of deck chairs with the front row in the foreground, well used with towels and clothes hanging off of them. Schools, municipal buildings and trees fill the background.
August 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Sabrina Carpenter with some truly funny unintentional political commentary this new music Friday
Album art from Spotify of Sabrina Carpenter's new single, "Manchild"
June 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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In addition to a pretty steep decline in last month's federal government payrolls, revisions to earlier months revealed worse than previously realized government job cuts in February and April www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Bar chart showing monthly change in federal-government employment. Left side from 2023 through early 2024 shows gray upward bars of growth roughly around 10 thousand jobs a month. Middle part shows smaller grey bars and a few purple bars in 2024 as growth slowed to around 5 thousand a month with two negative months. The last four bars are larger, purple downward bars with early 2025 losing 10 thousand jobs a month and the last bar extending past 20 thousand jobs lost.
June 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I immediately turned to dust upon reading this.
An album blurb for "Let All That We Imagine Be The Light" by Garbage, released May 30 which say "The latest full-length release from Garbage was influenced in part by singer Shirley Manson's hip replacement surgery."
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Which I think is captured nicely in these two charts
Line chart of streaming subscriptions per U.S. household, running from around one from 2007 through 2013 or 2014, where it ticks up to just below two by 2018, then rapidly climbs to about 4.5 by 2022 and then hovers at just below 5 in 2023 and 2024. A set of bar charts that bend back on themselves showing U.S. subscriber adds and cancellations for premium streaming services where the top bar of added subscribers is then canceled out by the bottom bar that bends back on itself of cancellations. The overall height of the bars goes up from just above 30 million in the first two quarters of 2023 before peaking at around 50 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 with the most recent quarter dipping to above 40 million gross added subscribers first quarter of 2025. Meanwhile, most of those additions are canceled out by cancellations each quarter with net adds starting at 6.1 million in the beginning of 2023, rising to 8.4 million in the third quarter of that year, then dipping to around 4 million second and third quarter of 2024 with some surging in fourth quarter of that year.
May 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Actually we need to internalize an image that incorporates it is harder to motivate people toward action than for them to lose that motivation.
The backside of an old fashioned metal playground slide, featuring the ladder one would climb up before going down it.
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Hell yeah! Metro rewind includes better bus info this year! (but also nuts to my recommended new neighborhood to explore being R̶o̶c̶k̶v̶i̶l̶l̶e̶ "North Bethesda") metrorewind.com/rewind/
Screenshot from Metro rewind showing top 3% metro customer, top 13% rail customer and top 3% bus customer. 339 trips taken, traveling 944 miles and capturing 290.8 kg of CO2.
January 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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OK, the exemption stuff in this is actually interesting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Screen shot of the top of a NYTs' The Upshot article, headline reads: Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. Deck reads: The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation. A line chart showing share of kindergartners with vaccine exemptions with states that Harris won relatively flat around 2% and states that Trump won growing from around 3% to more than 4% A line chart showing share of kindergartners with no recorded vaccination and no exemption showing states Trump won and states Harris won moving relatively in tandem from around 3% to around 4%
January 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Good day for a scenic ruck in my backyard (the massive city park)
A selfie of me in cold weather gear wearing a lime green backpack on a snowy trail with bare trees in the background
January 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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As someone with wide feet it is always absolutely shocking to me that Nike are so popular.

I guess I am kinda curious if there is a carbon / Fly bump here by folks splurging for the big race. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...
Two treemaps showing popular running shoe brands by female and male marathon finishers with 27.5% of female finishers wearing Nike shoes and 34.6% of male finishers doing so.
December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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What a weird artifact to come about via checking all of the production boxes because that's how you do things
Screenshot from Spotify showing the album header for A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Timothée Chalamet featuring album art of him playing Bob Dylan
December 27, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Get out of here with your Die Hards and Batman Returnses
The title card from the movie The Apartment
December 25, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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It's fine both logos are wrong. The real R logo for any journalist is actually a hexagon
The logo for the tidyverse family of R packages
December 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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What photo would be a good metaphor for showing off about vacation while everyone back home is freezing?
Three peacocks lined up in front of beach towels and shirts on a clothes line
December 6, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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🥰
Screenshot showing mistake clear weather at 83° (feels like 90°)
December 6, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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I am a normal human person who is good at vacation
A photo at a pool with tropical foliage, a fruity drink and a Kindle displaying "Character Limit: How Elon Destroyed Twitter"
December 3, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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All of my state policy friends out here trying to collect 50 legislatures and I'm just hunting the shiny ones
Exterior photo of the US Virgin Islands legislature's St John annex
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Morning coffee views
Scenic shot from a hill looking down a heavily green hill with some sparse houses on the next hill and ocean past it
November 27, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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A screenshot from my threads account labeled "First thread" which reads "Remarkable the volume of data I've turned over to get this feed 🫥"
November 21, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Language is so beautiful 🥰
A screenshot of a text thread which means "not literally" on one side and "wait, zoomer 'literally' or X-er 'literally'" on the other
November 19, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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This chart outta the monthly retail sales report continues to fascinate me. I feel like it says a lot about demand resilience (and reflected an actual tapering after sustained inflation, though seems to indicate people are treating themselves a bit more, again)
Line chart showing spending at bars and restaurants vs food and beverage stores since the Great Recession. Through most of the 2010s restaurant sales are below store sales, though they briefly cross over before the pandemic, which craters eating out. Since 2022, bar and restaurant spending has been higher and generally grown at a faster rate with that speed picking up in recent months.
November 15, 2024 at 8:07 PM