David Barry
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David Barry
@pappubahry.com
· Jul 27
Senate preference explorer 🥳🥳🥳 version 2!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
This introduces a custom query language to allow many more ways to filter and slice the data.
Downloads: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfO...
Conversational documentation: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
This introduces a custom query language to allow many more ways to filter and slice the data.
Downloads: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
Video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfO...
Conversational documentation: pappubahry.com/pseph/senate...
Reading Emily Dickinson: pappubahry.substack.com/p/reading-em...
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Reading Emily Dickinson: pappubahry.substack.com/p/reading-em...
"The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out", late 17th century, CUL MS Add. 8460 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... via vamoul.substack.com/p/with-hope-...
February 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
"The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out", late 17th century, CUL MS Add. 8460 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... via vamoul.substack.com/p/with-hope-...
Opened Bluesky to quote the "legendary League of Legends player Sam Bankman-Fried" line in the New Yorker, only to see it already in my timeline. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
February 12, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Opened Bluesky to quote the "legendary League of Legends player Sam Bankman-Fried" line in the New Yorker, only to see it already in my timeline. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Higgledy piggledy
Saturn's moon Helene
Shares with Dione an
Orbital state.
Though it's not square on the
L4 Lagrange point, this
Disequilibrium
Isn't too great.
Saturn's moon Helene
Shares with Dione an
Orbital state.
Though it's not square on the
L4 Lagrange point, this
Disequilibrium
Isn't too great.
February 9, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Higgledy piggledy
Saturn's moon Helene
Shares with Dione an
Orbital state.
Though it's not square on the
L4 Lagrange point, this
Disequilibrium
Isn't too great.
Saturn's moon Helene
Shares with Dione an
Orbital state.
Though it's not square on the
L4 Lagrange point, this
Disequilibrium
Isn't too great.
Reposted by David Barry
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
I'm amused that Liam Bright is one of the users blocked by the LLM agent described in this post: hailey.at/posts/3mear2...
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 AM
I'm amused that Liam Bright is one of the users blocked by the LLM agent described in this post: hailey.at/posts/3mear2...
Being told I'm a rationalist is like when Vote Compass tells Labor partisans that they're Greens. yuwakisaweb.pages.dev/attitude_sur...
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Being told I'm a rationalist is like when Vote Compass tells Labor partisans that they're Greens. yuwakisaweb.pages.dev/attitude_sur...
Statistical oddities in the Billboard Hot 100: pappubahry.substack.com/p/statistica...
After doing my analysis, I got Claude Code to analyse (one-shot) the same dataset and present its findings; I am slower but better than Claude, which made some errors, but it did some interesting things too.
After doing my analysis, I got Claude Code to analyse (one-shot) the same dataset and present its findings; I am slower but better than Claude, which made some errors, but it did some interesting things too.
February 1, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Statistical oddities in the Billboard Hot 100: pappubahry.substack.com/p/statistica...
After doing my analysis, I got Claude Code to analyse (one-shot) the same dataset and present its findings; I am slower but better than Claude, which made some errors, but it did some interesting things too.
After doing my analysis, I got Claude Code to analyse (one-shot) the same dataset and present its findings; I am slower but better than Claude, which made some errors, but it did some interesting things too.
The Secret Agent (2025)
January 31, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The Secret Agent (2025)
"Welcome back" but I only just installed it for the first time. :(
January 31, 2026 at 1:21 AM
"Welcome back" but I only just installed it for the first time. :(
I received an LLM spam comment on my post about measuring pitch, which was my motivation for my post about reacting to LLM writing (I blocked the spammer). Ironically, one of the other comments on the pitch post was also LLM spam, and I didn't twig at all and indeed I replied to it.
January 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I received an LLM spam comment on my post about measuring pitch, which was my motivation for my post about reacting to LLM writing (I blocked the spammer). Ironically, one of the other comments on the pitch post was also LLM spam, and I didn't twig at all and indeed I replied to it.
Playing with a dataset of Billboard Hot 100 charts, and I've found that using (artist, title) as an identifying key does not work, because two versions of the Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody charted simultaneously in 1990.
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Playing with a dataset of Billboard Hot 100 charts, and I've found that using (artist, title) as an identifying key does not work, because two versions of the Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody charted simultaneously in 1990.
Feeling lots of solidarity with Amanda Askell today, who I've never met but with whom I have more than a dozen mutuals on Facebook.
January 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Feeling lots of solidarity with Amanda Askell today, who I've never met but with whom I have more than a dozen mutuals on Facebook.
Time to read a bunch of reviews and try to figure out why people like Marty Supreme.
January 25, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Time to read a bunch of reviews and try to figure out why people like Marty Supreme.
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
50. Take a Bus (1979)
Brisbane City Council
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/l_QBGXy9SI0
50. Take a Bus (1979)
Brisbane City Council
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/l_QBGXy9SI0
50 COLDEST 100 | Brisbane City Council | Take a Bus (1979)
YouTube video by Oz Kitsch
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Reposted by David Barry
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
58. Click Go the Shears (1990s)
Gan Ping and Chen Hong
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/3EYzT3Ys2fw
58. Click Go the Shears (1990s)
Gan Ping and Chen Hong
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/3EYzT3Ys2fw
58 COLDEST 100 | Gan Ping and Chen Hong | Click Go the Shears (c.1990s)
YouTube video by Oz Kitsch
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
58. Click Go the Shears (1990s)
Gan Ping and Chen Hong
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/3EYzT3Ys2fw
58. Click Go the Shears (1990s)
Gan Ping and Chen Hong
#coldest100 #hottest100
youtu.be/3EYzT3Ys2fw
Reposted by David Barry
at risk of a bunch of people saying “well actually you should have done it this way”, here’s a lil write up on adding trending topics to bluesky
hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...
hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...
Topics on Bluesky
Building usable trending topics on Bluesky
hailey.at
January 22, 2026 at 2:45 AM
at risk of a bunch of people saying “well actually you should have done it this way”, here’s a lil write up on adding trending topics to bluesky
hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...
hailey.at/posts/3mcy5b...
Films that aren't Star Wars 16: pappubahry.substack.com/p/films-that...
5.0 The Waves of Madness
8.0 Nuremberg
9.0 Nouvelle Vague
7.5 A Bout de Souffle
3.5 La Chinoise
8.0 La La Land
8.5 Parasite
6.5 Hamnet
6.5 No Other Choice
5.0 The Waves of Madness
8.0 Nuremberg
9.0 Nouvelle Vague
7.5 A Bout de Souffle
3.5 La Chinoise
8.0 La La Land
8.5 Parasite
6.5 Hamnet
6.5 No Other Choice
January 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Films that aren't Star Wars 16: pappubahry.substack.com/p/films-that...
5.0 The Waves of Madness
8.0 Nuremberg
9.0 Nouvelle Vague
7.5 A Bout de Souffle
3.5 La Chinoise
8.0 La La Land
8.5 Parasite
6.5 Hamnet
6.5 No Other Choice
5.0 The Waves of Madness
8.0 Nuremberg
9.0 Nouvelle Vague
7.5 A Bout de Souffle
3.5 La Chinoise
8.0 La La Land
8.5 Parasite
6.5 Hamnet
6.5 No Other Choice
I am once again questioning the supposed efficiency of land value taxation after the WA government emailed me a notice of assessment for a property that I don't own.
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am once again questioning the supposed efficiency of land value taxation after the WA government emailed me a notice of assessment for a property that I don't own.
I don't know about you
January 19, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I don't know about you
Strange artefact: a Madame Figaro interview with Zoey Deutch in English is tagged as being in French, and YouTube defaulted me to an awful auto-dubbed English audio track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0c...
January 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Strange artefact: a Madame Figaro interview with Zoey Deutch in English is tagged as being in French, and YouTube defaulted me to an awful auto-dubbed English audio track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0c...
"This video is an attack on mathematicians" says a commenter on Angela Collier's latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJz5...
January 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"This video is an attack on mathematicians" says a commenter on Angela Collier's latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJz5...
Google Street View stitching off by a letter on the street sign, making it look like 2024-era AI image text. www.google.com/maps/@-31.93...
January 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Google Street View stitching off by a letter on the street sign, making it look like 2024-era AI image text. www.google.com/maps/@-31.93...