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@mattdm No no; what I meant was the "16.0%" etc, which are peculiar values to be specific about, and which are unevenly spaced. (Also, what the top-most & bottom-most numbers are, like is it 0%–16% or is it 12.7%–16%). And the color saturations/brightnesses don't seem to line up to the numbers....

Those are kinda red flags for me; they smack of charts generated by Excel with a bunch of settings left at defaults.

(doesn't mean the source is wrong, tbs; I just get antsy about viz misleadingness)

@mattdm I have questions about how that numeric range was split up into those really oddball percentage-bins....
#PTSDfromHavingToDoDatavizMyself

@3janeTA You might be using your faucet differently than I do....

Tech dudes will literally post a rant that all the local plumbers have Facebook pages and should "learn to make and own their website" but they won't consider learning to fix a leaky faucet themselves.

@wjt If you can't afford having an AI do all your creative work for you, then I GUESS hiring an artist is okay....

Funny how I saw a loooooooooooot of people in my feed post (or retweet) that "ICE agents" had gone to a school in Chicago, a 'the outrage!' headline, but so far I have not seen a single one of those same people post that it turns out that it wasn't ICE at all.

Why? Because you don't read actual journalism on social media, and if you don't make the effort to do so, then you're doing more harm than good when you amplify slop.

#DontDoMoreHarmThanGood
#HashtagsIShouldntHaveToNeed
#ButApparently

@garrett with light enough (tonally) pigeons, perhaps we could dispense with the paper? #hasthisbeentried

I'm annoyed that this mysteriously failed to post, three times (meaning that the android client popped up an error message to explicitly say that, in those words, without further detail), and then for whatever reason it started posting itself automatically more than once, just to make me look weird. This is why open source is a technological dead-end with no hope to offer humanity, btw, and we will all end up having to go back to AIM

#vivalarevolucion

https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/113879683079390054

#vivalarevolucion
https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/113879683079390054

@emmadavidson There were puns? I didn't use any consciously I promise!

Maybe it just happens.... #worrying

Audience member: "Hi, I have a three-part question..."

No, you don't. You have a rambling stream of consciousness and they handed you a microphone.

Great job, everybody!

Really; just top notch work from all angles & all players involved.

If any of you weirdos out there are subscribers to NPR's subscription service, NPR+, does it give you custom feed URLs that you can listen to through your podcast app of choice? Or is it bound to the NPR app?

@djrrb maxiscules, naturally.

It also doesn't know what Central America is. Which is myopia pretty much on par for people who think this sort of nonsense is important.

https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/113686996420527222

World map of paper sizes

(creator: unknown)

@joncruz Not enough teeth!

You know, I _want_ to like this, but the AI-generated images they use in all their mock-ups take me off the page completely. Makes me think the entire proposal was half-baked.

https://mastodon.social/@protectdemocracy@threads.net/113669970908640885

Check out the "coworking spaces" section for the worst of it, but it's all slop: https://wherewilltheyallsit.org/?shpath=%2Fthe-capitol-campus-of-tomorrow%2F#section-solution4-kWNaIiNqpx

Pro tip: boost the content of this but do it without the artificial "the news won't tell you this" BS, which is demonstrably untrue. It's not simply inaccurate, it's lizard-brain targeting telling you that you can't trust journalism. Which is no less-horseshit when folks on the left do it than when on the right wing.

Want proof? Three seconds of news feed searching attached, hot off the screenshot. There's more if you scroll.

https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/113670850403246099