mdsumner
@mdsumner.bsky.social
maxing the pixels to glow
meshes, R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research
hypertidy.org
meshes, R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research
hypertidy.org
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@tomheap.bsky.social is a broadcaster, journalist, and author who is the current co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth. He previously hosted Countryfile on BBC, and the Climate Show on Sky News. He’s the author of two books: 39 Ways to Save the Planet and Land Smart.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@tomheap.bsky.social is a broadcaster, journalist, and author who is the current co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth. He previously hosted Countryfile on BBC, and the Climate Show on Sky News. He’s the author of two books: 39 Ways to Save the Planet and Land Smart.
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@nikibrazzola.bsky.social works at the interface between science and policy. Her work has focused on aviation decarbonization, carbon dioxide removal, and carbon certificates.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@nikibrazzola.bsky.social works at the interface between science and policy. Her work has focused on aviation decarbonization, carbon dioxide removal, and carbon certificates.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#rstats Dev Diary {lofifonts}
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#rstats Dev Diary {lofifonts}
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
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#rstats Dev Diary - {lofifonts}
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#rstats Dev Diary - {lofifonts}
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
Claude ai chat history is starting to replace my use of gists
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Claude ai chat history is starting to replace my use of gists
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“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
Hear more from Richard Denniss - pre-order 'A Time for Bravery' (code SAVE5 for $5 off) australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
Hear more from Richard Denniss - pre-order 'A Time for Bravery' (code SAVE5 for $5 off) australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
Hear more from Richard Denniss - pre-order 'A Time for Bravery' (code SAVE5 for $5 off) australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
Hear more from Richard Denniss - pre-order 'A Time for Bravery' (code SAVE5 for $5 off) australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
Jing Chi, Oysterhead, Fugazi, Meshuggah, Carcass, 3rd Secret, Fishbone, Medeski Martin and Wood,The Bird and the Bee
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Jing Chi, Oysterhead, Fugazi, Meshuggah, Carcass, 3rd Secret, Fishbone, Medeski Martin and Wood,The Bird and the Bee
🎶
🎶
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Clint Massie sexually assaulted children within his church for twenty years.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Clint Massie sexually assaulted children within his church for twenty years.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
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Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
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Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
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@corymccartan.com and I have been playing with @paleolimbot.bsky.social's #rstats `libgeos` package. It's pretty awesome.
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Open Source Geometry Engine (GEOS) C API
Provides the Open Source Geometry Engine (GEOS) as a
C API that can be used to write high-performance C and C++
geometry operations using R as an interface. Headers are provided
to make linking ...
paleolimbot.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@corymccartan.com and I have been playing with @paleolimbot.bsky.social's #rstats `libgeos` package. It's pretty awesome.
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
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“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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how did I get this old and not know about reverse assignment in R? #rstats
(arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)
(arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
how did I get this old and not know about reverse assignment in R? #rstats
(arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)
(arguably if I have lasted this long... maybe it isn't that useful!?)
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November 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Need an image browser, sat images of particular places at different times (dozens of places, hundreds each). I want choose a set, flick through in order o+ overall thumbnail index). Not spatial, no zoom or over plot required.
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/1
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Need an image browser, sat images of particular places at different times (dozens of places, hundreds each). I want choose a set, flick through in order o+ overall thumbnail index). Not spatial, no zoom or over plot required.
/1
/1
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Saying "Quiet piggy" to a female journalist on the eve of the Epstein files vote is a red lights flashing, sirens-blaring perp self-own.
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Saying "Quiet piggy" to a female journalist on the eve of the Epstein files vote is a red lights flashing, sirens-blaring perp self-own.
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Stop getting work done on your faces in your 20s and 30s Jesus Christ 😭
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Stop getting work done on your faces in your 20s and 30s Jesus Christ 😭
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 19: Projections
Not very inspired on this one, so a map of the world's roads (natural earth data).
Day 19: Projections
Not very inspired on this one, so a map of the world's roads (natural earth data).
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 19: Projections
Not very inspired on this one, so a map of the world's roads (natural earth data).
Day 19: Projections
Not very inspired on this one, so a map of the world's roads (natural earth data).
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"Suffice to say it takes a certain lack of empathy for your fellow human to design a language where whitespace bugs are a thing." 😆
Part 2 of my deep dive into Python as a language for data science.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Suffice to say it takes a certain lack of empathy for your fellow human to design a language where whitespace bugs are a thing." 😆
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BTW, about the scalar problem in R I did this experiment using it with C++23 calls: gist.github.com/jrosell/941b...
xymatch.R
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
BTW, about the scalar problem in R I did this experiment using it with C++23 calls: gist.github.com/jrosell/941b...
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Getting some alone time is crucial at conferences. They're tiring enough without a break to decompress.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Getting some alone time is crucial at conferences. They're tiring enough without a break to decompress.