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Explaining the world through data and design • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian. 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.

Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

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It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
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Y’ALL SEAMUS IS GONNA QUIT IF YOU DON’T GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY HE DOESN’T EVEN PAY HIMSELF
Our thanks to the 50 folks who became paid subscribers since we put out the call on Monday. We are still short of our goal of 250 paid subscribers for our annual appeal.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Read and subscribe to Amanda's newsletter—and find so many others from independent creators on the Bluesky NEWSLETTERS feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...
This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.

Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Loving this new newsletter from the stellar @ashendruk.com, (and I don't only say this because she featured the first long-form feature we published on anxiety.eco ... Not-Ship is a really fresh read)
Also in this week's newsletter — my favourite things from elsewhere, featuring:

📉 Precarious UK data from @jamesrball.com
👠 AI slop in the fashion industry by @jdshadel.com
🎸 And a funky new music find: @cosmosheldrake.music-social.com

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There's something irregular about regular prices
Don't let this ubiquitous tactic dupe you into dodgy discounts.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🫠 The number of times I've gotten "it should work perfectly now!" ...
God grant me the confidence of an LLM that has just completed a bug-fixing task. (The bug is not fixed.)
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it:
ourworldindata.org/introducing-...

Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?
Introducing our new, more powerful search
Finding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier.
ourworldindata.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@joshuajfriedman.com How do I get added to your newsletter feed? I've got a custom Ghost domain!

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Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
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November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I think we could all use a little bit more data in our lives. So, I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter that uses data to understand our messy world.

If you agree, help me keep this going for as long as we can. 💙

First step: Sign up to get it in your inbox each week #dataviz

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Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
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November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Where do all the dataviz people hang out on Bluesky?

There used to be a pretty lively community on Twitter. But now that we've all had some time over on this app .... has it just not grown back? Or have I not found it? #dataviz
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
“They’re trying to turn 4” is critical here.

Paid subscribers keep a publication going.

Complaining about paid subscriptions is how all media becomes owned by Bezos, Andreessen, the Murdochs and the Ellisons
Court Watch is a totally indispensable source of important, interesting, bizarre court cases every week. I definitely feel as a paid subscriber I am supporting something that serves the public good. They're trying to turn 4; subscribe if you can www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
Help Us Turn Four
Our scrappy punch above-its-weight news site only survives with support from folks like you.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Gearing up to drop a lot of dough this Black Friday?

I looked into the data behind the "crossed-out" price. That's the little number that lets you know whether or not you're getting a good deal.

But it all comes down to how it's defined — or not.

www.not-ship.com/theres-somet...
There's something irregular about regular prices
Don't let this ubiquitous tactic dupe you into dodgy discounts.
www.not-ship.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Are you just about to press 'purchase' on a hot online sale?

🚨 WAIT!!! 🚨

You're likely not getting a great deal — especially at places like Amazon.

Get my data-backed low-down on dodgy deals in your inbox Wednesday: Subscribe! (and click link in ur email to complete sign up)

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Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
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November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Got here safe. Weather is crap.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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There are only three constants in life: death, taxes, and large media organizations not citing our reporting.
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter using data to understand this age of uncertainty. Why? I love data and I think we could all use a bit more of it.

If you agree, please help me keep this thing going for as long as we can. 💙

First step: Sign up to get it in your inbox each week

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Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
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November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Banking with carbon-intensive institutions may mean 20-30% of your deposits go toward dirty industries. Choice of bank can be more impactful than air travel habits. 🤯

My latest: Banks behaving badly, and this striking finding from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social

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Banks are funding climate chaos. You don't have to.
Switching banks could be one of the most climate-friendly decisions you make.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Do you bank at one of these banks? You could be contributing to the climate crisis a lot more than you think.

But you can do something about it!

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November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯

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November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Where you bank might have a greater impact on your carbon footprint than your air travel 🤯

www.not-ship.com/banks-are-fu...
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
True: Our world is messy and uncertain.

Also true: Trying to understand it can be fun!

Sign up to Not-Ship: A data-friendly (and human-friendly) dive into the chaos. Once a week, right to your inbox.

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A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
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November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
This is all the data that Elon and the DOGE criminals stole from us in January/February.

Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.

Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM