Nick Ballou
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nballou.bsky.social
Nick Ballou
@nballou.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Oxford Internet Institute - video games, mental health, open research, theory generation.
tiny gripe of the day: why does apple's emoji recommendations think I want to add the literal translation of the word I just wrote? that's the exact opposite of how I use emojis, namely to *add* contextual sentiment.

No one ❌ writes ✍️ like 👍 this☝️
June 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I proposed to my girlfriend last weekend, and even managed to slip in a ggplot documenting the 220k+ km we've traveled together over the years!

hard to say if it was because of the figure or in spite of it, but she did say yes
June 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
well it may not have been at work, but at least I accomplished SOMETHING this year.

Thanks NYT for some ~100 hours of puzzling (plus however much I spent on spelling bee, connections, and wordle 😬)
December 16, 2024 at 5:45 PM