Joel

@jijoel.bsky.social

Van-life vagabond, exploring all over with the world's best dog. He/Him | Programmer | Acro-Yogi | 💙 💙 💙 | 🐕🐾🌎🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

aiddata.org

Reminds me of a very old ditty. I hate this dammed computer. I wish that they would sell it. It never does what I want. Only what I tell it. Old enough that it was up on the wall in the card punch room of a building housing a main frame computer

Sox and I visited the Reflecting Pool in 2024, before the multimillion dollar renovations to make it green. I think it looked much nicer, then!

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"It’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats. We always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and everyone lives happily ever after." RIP, Giles 😢

Pretty views from Antigua, Guatemala 🙈 If you can’t tell, I was spooked. That hand was *not* stable Still need to take some cool pics in my new city/country: Cuenca, Ecuador. I love it here! I’ve lived in 5 different countries in the last year and a half, Ecuador might just be my favorite :)

"The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgiven, and walk out with zero consequences." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vat...

Vatican City is Overrun with Crime Thanks to Its Woke Pope

“The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgi...

mcsweeneys.net