Pamela Duncan
@porcelinad.bsky.social
Data editor with the Guardian + data trainer + external examiner at Cardiff. "I ❤️ spreadsheets" mug-owner. Python for the big stuff. Happiest when in/on/by the sea. Reserve the right to show off my latest Amigurumi.
Now we're cooking on gas (quite literally)
October 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Now we're cooking on gas (quite literally)
October 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
There are so many things to love about the Isle of Scilly's autorresponse to our recent FOI that I'm considering moving there...
no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...
no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...
March 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There are so many things to love about the Isle of Scilly's autorresponse to our recent FOI that I'm considering moving there...
no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...
no casinos, no high rise buildings, no car parks or parking spaces from which we collect fees or charges...no parking inspectors"...
Christmas begins...
December 22, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Christmas begins...
"The tide of reversals is indicative of an ideological shift happening in Silicon Valley. Big tech long eschewed Washington but has become increasingly involved in politics as it has coalesced around crypto and AI."
December 7, 2024 at 12:36 PM
"The tide of reversals is indicative of an ideological shift happening in Silicon Valley. Big tech long eschewed Washington but has become increasingly involved in politics as it has coalesced around crypto and AI."
The Harris/Biden campaigns were attracting more tech money earlier in the campaign...but those donations were overtaken in June and were eclipsed closer to the election.
December 7, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The Harris/Biden campaigns were attracting more tech money earlier in the campaign...but those donations were overtaken in June and were eclipsed closer to the election.
Sure, completed crocheted amigurumi are cute...
...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions
...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions
November 29, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Sure, completed crocheted amigurumi are cute...
...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions
...but I have to live with the grisly headless versions
Close up of his sheepness
November 22, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Close up of his sheepness
It felt like it took as much time to get a pic of all of these facing forward as it did to crochet the thing (although the sheep was having none of it...)
November 22, 2024 at 1:10 PM
It felt like it took as much time to get a pic of all of these facing forward as it did to crochet the thing (although the sheep was having none of it...)
What just happened? Here's the piece you need to make sense of "the blue shift" that never was.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
November 6, 2024 at 4:20 PM
What just happened? Here's the piece you need to make sense of "the blue shift" that never was.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...