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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 24m

Yes, every few weeks! I am sure there will be more opportunities..

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for organizing and hosting the event, CityLAB Berlin and @digitalservice.bund.de 🤗

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

I'll also share some latest developments using @protomaps.com and @maplibre.org to self-host vector maps with custom layers, beautiful rendering and seamless zoom, in case you are interested in that type of thing 🗺️

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

Projects covered will include the

COVID-19 vaccination dashboard
(impfdashboard.de)

and the visuals and tools for the

Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index
(climate-conflict.org/www).

Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index (CCVI)

The Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index (CCVI) maps current global risks by integrating climate and conflict hazards with local vulnerabilities.

climate-conflict.org

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

Meet me in Berlin on Tue, Oct 21:

I'll speak at the "Öffentliches Gestalten" meetup on my data design projects for the German government.

Hope to see some of you there 🤗

www.meetup.com/offentliches...

Meetup #11 — Visualising data, Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

The public sector has vast data. Data helps government and the administration drive decisions in policy-making, service development and procedural improvements. Making sens

www.meetup.com

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 2d

📊 #Dataviz PSA: When using areas to depict numbers, make sure you are indeed scaling the *area*, and not the width/length/diameter of the circles (or other shapes). Because software such as Illustrator don’t let you specify the area directly, you need do a small calculation to get it right. 1/2

A graphic with the following text: “The correct way to scale up or down dimensions when using areas to show values: use a scale factor to multiply the square root of the value.” Below the text is an equation that reads: width equals square root of value times scale factor. Further below are two circles of varying sizes. One is labeled: ”Value: 10, Area: 1” and below it a line segment, corresponding to the circle’s diameter is labeled ”3.16 times 3.16 equals 10 millimeters”. The other is labeled: ”Value: 50, Area: 5 times 1” and the line segment below it is labeled ”7.07 times 3.16 equals 22.34 millimeters”.

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 3d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Johann van de Bron @johann-v-d-bron.bsky.social · Jun 1

▪️Schaden durch Betrug beim Bürgergeld - 60 Mio. €
▪️Schaden durch Steuerhinterziehung - 100 Mrd. €

▪️Vor 60 Mio. Sekunden war es Juli 2023
▪️Vor 100 Mrd. Sekunden regierte Ramses III Ägypten

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 3d

just sayin‘

Schwarzer Kreis, oben ein kaum sichtbarer Strich, der 110 Millionen Schaden durch „sozialbetrug“ bedeutet. Der Rest steht für 100 Milliarden durch Steuerbetrug.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 3d

Swedish people in front of charts
Source: digitaltmuseum.org

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I keep hearing good things about Cloudflare!

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 3d

But you are right, end of the day I will probably just have to enforce lowercase ids, given the point with the different treatment by the various file systems.

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · 4d

Solange die Union „christlich“ im Namen tragen darf, wird man auch Veggie-Wurst überleben.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 4d

OR: they could also just not change the routing, as any other static hoster?

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 4d

My problem is that parts of the URL represent case sensitive IDs, and hence XyZ and xYz should correspond to different routes.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 4d

This is a very niche rant, but the fact that netlify converts all file paths to lower case makes it impossible to use for static sites where IDs with uppercase characters are part of the URL. (e.g. using static-adapter in sveltekit). It seems like such a shortsighted decision?

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 4d

After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 6d

digitaltmuseum.org/021018210152...

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly! This paradox is also addressed in the discussion.

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 6d

A vast majority of people globally is in favor of climate action:

"Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. [...] 69% [...] expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income [...] and 89% demand intensified political action."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action - Nature Climate Change

Global support and cooperation are necessary for successful climate action. Large-scale representative survey results show that most of the population around the world is willing to support climate action, while a perception gap exists regarding other citizens’ intention to act.

www.nature.com

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 6d

Things that don't get enough attention in the media:

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