goingonawalk
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let me introduce you to the armed cyclist
May 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
let me introduce you to the armed cyclist
Blocked but I will continue on
May 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Blocked but I will continue on
this seems like a pretty terrible billboard design to me. like if you’re driving by fast and glance at it you might only see a nice vista, the name of a park, and paid for by doge. i would bet a certain percentage of viewers have no idea that this is an anti-doge billboard.
May 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this seems like a pretty terrible billboard design to me. like if you’re driving by fast and glance at it you might only see a nice vista, the name of a park, and paid for by doge. i would bet a certain percentage of viewers have no idea that this is an anti-doge billboard.
fertility is sort of U-shaped with the highest incomes having the most kids. at the highest income levels having lots of kids becomes a status symbol.
April 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
fertility is sort of U-shaped with the highest incomes having the most kids. at the highest income levels having lots of kids becomes a status symbol.
can’t wait to move into my new home
March 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
can’t wait to move into my new home
many queens to celebrate tomorrow
March 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
many queens to celebrate tomorrow
Pew has some interesting descriptive data that might help us understand why/why not people voted for Harris. Only half of Harris' voters were voting for her while over 80% of Trump voters were voting for him.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Pew has some interesting descriptive data that might help us understand why/why not people voted for Harris. Only half of Harris' voters were voting for her while over 80% of Trump voters were voting for him.
However, if you look at that same question, limited to battleground states, that number drops to 20%. It’s the second highest rated issue, but pretty far behind the economy (33%).
January 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
However, if you look at that same question, limited to battleground states, that number drops to 20%. It’s the second highest rated issue, but pretty far behind the economy (33%).
This headline number from this poll was that 29% of people who voted for Biden in ’20 but didn't vote Harris in ’24 had Gaza as their top issue. This is a pretty high percentage and people have made a lot of assumptions based on it.
January 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This headline number from this poll was that 29% of people who voted for Biden in ’20 but didn't vote Harris in ’24 had Gaza as their top issue. This is a pretty high percentage and people have made a lot of assumptions based on it.
Another interesting paper is '280 characters to the White House: predicting 2020 U.S. presidential elections from twitter data.' This chart maps the major tweet nodes and retweets. Almost all of the major nodes were conservative and the few that weren't were liberal.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Another interesting paper is '280 characters to the White House: predicting 2020 U.S. presidential elections from twitter data.' This chart maps the major tweet nodes and retweets. Almost all of the major nodes were conservative and the few that weren't were liberal.
One interesting find is a cluster map of political tweets during the '20 election. The largest and most central cluster is a mishmash of topics related to town hall meetings including veterans, the climate, Trump and discrimination.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One interesting find is a cluster map of political tweets during the '20 election. The largest and most central cluster is a mishmash of topics related to town hall meetings including veterans, the climate, Trump and discrimination.
The only place of big online where left leaning news influencing is happening more than right is on TikTok. Diving into the tiktok numbers we can see that there are about twice as many news influencers on tiktok (9%) as on twitter (4%) who are pro-Palestine.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The only place of big online where left leaning news influencing is happening more than right is on TikTok. Diving into the tiktok numbers we can see that there are about twice as many news influencers on tiktok (9%) as on twitter (4%) who are pro-Palestine.
Pew recently released data on online news influencing and I think the takeaways are that 20% of people get news from influencers although it is double that for young people. News influencers are most likely to be on Twitter and they are more likely to be on the right.
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Pew recently released data on online news influencing and I think the takeaways are that 20% of people get news from influencers although it is double that for young people. News influencers are most likely to be on Twitter and they are more likely to be on the right.
The data do not bear this out. One of the best indicators of whether of someone will vote Dem is how far left they are. In the 2022 midterms 99% (!) of very liberal people voted Dem.
January 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The data do not bear this out. One of the best indicators of whether of someone will vote Dem is how far left they are. In the 2022 midterms 99% (!) of very liberal people voted Dem.
There isn’t a strong history of a formal left in the US so it can be hard to pin down its size. Probably the closest affiliation is Pew’s ‘progressive left’ category. If we go by that the left is about 6% of the population. ‘Establishment liberals’ are 2x that at 13% and ‘mainstay dems’ 2.5x at 16%.
January 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There isn’t a strong history of a formal left in the US so it can be hard to pin down its size. Probably the closest affiliation is Pew’s ‘progressive left’ category. If we go by that the left is about 6% of the population. ‘Establishment liberals’ are 2x that at 13% and ‘mainstay dems’ 2.5x at 16%.
Vilhelm Hammershoi, Woman in an Interior
November 22, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Vilhelm Hammershoi, Woman in an Interior