Chuck Hubbard, who defeated Virginia Fox in a Trump +18 congressional district in North Carolina, says he got into politics and ran to protect his LGBTQ daughter. I'm in tears watching this. It's so incredible to hear an ally talk like this about protecting us.

Doctors & scientists won in the 'the blue tsunami' midterm elections. Several pediatricians won seats & arrive as the U.S. faces a devastating measles outbreak. A microbiologist won in Georgia. Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed is an MD, DPhil. The 2nd doctorate is in epidemiology👇

Meet the Doctors and Scientists Who Won in the Midterms

These midterm winners know the health-care system from the inside—and want to help fix it.

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Wordle 1,965 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh my god! Keri Ingle won her state senate seat in Missouri last night. For those who don't know, she was one of the fiercest opponents to trans bans. She unseats the former House Speaker in a senate seat R's have held for decades. She was partly responsible for the MO Ban's sunset clause!

Democrat Keri Ingle defeats House Speaker Jon Patterson, flips Missouri Senate seat • Missouri Independent

Republican Jon Patterson and Democrat Keri Ingle face off in Missouri Senate District 8, a closely watched race for a suburban Jackson County seat.

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How people think coding with AI agents work.

Jonathan Slater@jonathanslater.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beautifully done

There’s a reckoning due within journalism. They have to stop pandering to white conservatism as some sort of national default. It just isn’t.

Rest in peace Sir Patrick Stewart. This music from the Inner Light hits hard this week…. youtu.be/Z9sUyvFNbhM?...

Theme from "The Inner Light" [Star Trek TNG] Steinway Piano Cover | HD

YouTube video by Chupp's Piano Service, Inc.

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📦 Shiny for Python 1.9 is out! 🏎️ Async outputs run at the same time, so one slow await won't block other users ⌨️ Sidebars can be ARIA landmarks ⬇️ Express download buttons take an icon 📊 Faster data frames opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10-29_shiny-python-1-9/ #Python #Shiny #pyshiny

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

I recently write a dashboard to read data from the serial port on my lovely Lelit MaraX V1 espresso machine. I've had this machine for 5 1/2 years now... I reused an ancient Dell laptop - running Linux for this. My LinkedIn article is here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/anothe... #espresso #marax

Ok, so, Sara Altman & Simon Couch gave a keynote announcing commons at posit::conf, and I've been seeing folks buzzing about it since! HERE BE MORE INFO re: ~provable~ AI analysis! Register for a workflow demo with Commons Wed, Oct 28, 11am ET: pos.it/workflow-demos Blog post: pos.it/commons-blog

Prove it, with Posit

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Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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A lot of very unhappy parents of trans and nonbinary kids, too, not enjoying seeing a mob whipped up toward children

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.

Some old dog is unsure about her new raincoat.

A hummingbird moth visited my flowers today. #hummingbirdmoth #moth

posit::conf(2026) is outta here! 👋 From Wes McKinney's AI keynote to Quarto slides, Shiny apps, & termite colonies, Day 2 was radical. Share your photos and reflections with the hashtag #PositConf2026 ❤️ See you in Seattle Sept 13-15 for posit::conf(2027). Until then, keep it real!

"We have a lot of R fans on my team" NY Times graphics editor @christinezhang.bsky.social tells #PositConf2026 🎉 She also said she often sketches out graphics using #RStats ggplot2 and is a frequent user of the Positron IDE.

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas." -- Johnny Cash, who died #OTD 2003

I find this, 1806 letter from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Jenner, so moving 🥺

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

I have been damned with faint praise by the Wordle Bot this morning.

If the plot is “no price is too high to pay to bring Matt Damon home”, I am fully sat for the movie.

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

“… the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora was downsized from 11 people to just 3”

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 5mo ago

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql

querychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar...

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Goutweed vs hastas…. A fight we can watch over stop action.