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email me if you’d like to get in touch! nathan@drezner.xyz. currently working at Plotly Graphs, editing Wikipedia, and plenty of other fun activities.

https://nathandrezner.com


Maintaining @wiki-potd.bsky.social & @potd-context.bsky.social
Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia
September 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“And sometimes these features did briefly integrate into a higher-order unity, as letters integrate into words, words into sentences. But like words dissolving into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and plots, combining these elements into a face required forgetting them….” - Ben Lerner, 10:04
December 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
y'all may know I work at Plotly, who just joined Bluesky! Pretty awesome company -- give 'em a follow to watch some exciting work emerge from our community.
plotly.com Plotly @plotly.com · Nov 22
Your Friday is about to get extra-terrestrial 🛸

Every week we explore a unique data set to build beautiful Plotly visualizations or #Dash apps.

This week, the #PlotlyCommunity we'll investigate UFO sightings. Join us by posting your figure with the hashtags #FigureFriday and #plotly by Thursday.
Figure Friday 2024 - week 47
There have been thousands of UFO sightings in north America since the 20th century. So this week we will be exploring a data set by the National UFO Reporting Center (Kaggle) on UFO sightings from 199...
community.plotly.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
plainfield, vermont 2023
November 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
welcome to bsky for the newcomers! make sure to check out @wiki-potd.bsky.social if you haven’t yet…
November 14, 2024 at 12:04 AM
@wiki-potd.bsky.social oddly has seen follow growth pretty much flatline in the last month or two… kinda odd
October 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM
and I think it's beautiful!
February 9, 2024 at 9:47 PM
celebrated new years by going to sleep at 10p last night. highly recommend!
January 1, 2024 at 9:07 PM
hah okay so this bot is gettin popular and now it's time to start keeping track of how it's going......... new 🐛s to squash.

I hope that @bsky.app soon adds support for videos... it'd be great to get the videos of they day post reliably...

maybe it's time to bring back the twitter version...
December 8, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by nathan
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) is a species of seabird in the auk family and is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean.
November 30, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by nathan
boardwalk a.m., wildwood, new jersey, 1978
November 30, 2023 at 2:36 AM
so, I haven't checked bluesky in a WHILE, and I just looked at my @wiki-potd.bsky.social account, which has 5k followers all of a sudden! That's wayyyy more popular than the Twitter one ever was.

Thanks for the support! Hopefully people enjoy having better access to the photos. I love them.
November 9, 2023 at 9:18 PM
pleased to announce that after ignoring this account for several days it continues to post.

good bot
The atmosphere of Mars is a layer of gases surrounding Mars, which is composed primarily of carbon dioxide (95%), along with molecular nitrogen (2.8%), and argon (2%) and trace levels of other compounds.
July 13, 2023 at 2:47 AM
every new twitter scandal extends everyone else’s eternal september
July 2, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Photos from around Montréal early this summer
June 27, 2023 at 4:01 PM
Good news!!!! Wiki Picture of the Day is coming back!! And better than ever. Go follow!
C/1881 K1 (also called the Great Comet of 1881) is a long-period comet discovered by Australian amateur astronomer John Tebbutt on 22 May 1881 at Windsor, New South Wales. It is called a great comet because of its brightness at its last apparition.
June 26, 2023 at 8:30 PM
June 25, 2023 at 8:17 PM
calling the service "AirBnB" is completely ludicrous. I have never once gotten breakfast at one and I doubt I ever will
May 10, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Dziadek, the neighbor's cat who likes the sun on our balcony.
May 6, 2023 at 5:10 PM
New blog post!! All about transit maps on Wikipedia!! Go give it a read https://nathandrezner.com/2023/04/24/wikipedia-transit.html
May 6, 2023 at 1:57 PM
May 3, 2023 at 2:47 AM
Bluesky as a platform still has a ton of obvious work to do as far a roll out goes but insofar as delivering a true "minimum viable product" it's a masterclass
May 1, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Bikes around the city. Some this past winter in Montreal.
May 1, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Some cows, Portugal, early 2023.
May 1, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Mile End, Montreal. Late February 2023.
May 1, 2023 at 8:19 PM