Danyel Fisher
@danyelf.bsky.social
Data visualization; user experience with data analysis; general joyful data nerdery
How you feel about elder abuse doesn’t change the fact that there is a check with your name on it signed by a little old lady, and all you have to do is claim it.
How you feel about extortion doesn’t change the fact that we used your name to get someone to pay to get his daughter back.
How you feel about extortion doesn’t change the fact that we used your name to get someone to pay to get his daughter back.
January 23, 2026 at 1:47 AM
How you feel about elder abuse doesn’t change the fact that there is a check with your name on it signed by a little old lady, and all you have to do is claim it.
How you feel about extortion doesn’t change the fact that we used your name to get someone to pay to get his daughter back.
How you feel about extortion doesn’t change the fact that we used your name to get someone to pay to get his daughter back.
I’m glad that LLM Bullshit and Crypto Bullshit are finding bullshit nexuses. (Disclaimer: I use beads! I might use gastown someday! My point remains!)
January 23, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I’m glad that LLM Bullshit and Crypto Bullshit are finding bullshit nexuses. (Disclaimer: I use beads! I might use gastown someday! My point remains!)
Fair. I think those who are concerned are saying that there are a LOT of things going on that are pretty far outside our well-established democratic traditions.
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Fair. I think those who are concerned are saying that there are a LOT of things going on that are pretty far outside our well-established democratic traditions.
I’m genuinely not trying to doomcast here. We’ve just had a lot of “Trump is doing an obviously illegal and unconstitutional thing that he doesn’t have the power to do”, and some largish number of them seem to have happened anyway.
January 16, 2026 at 4:41 AM
I’m genuinely not trying to doomcast here. We’ve just had a lot of “Trump is doing an obviously illegal and unconstitutional thing that he doesn’t have the power to do”, and some largish number of them seem to have happened anyway.
Because they had an “invalid election”, could Trump call out the national guard to keep that supermajority from being seated? Or have the DOJ investigate the fraudulent elections between November and their seating?
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Because they had an “invalid election”, could Trump call out the national guard to keep that supermajority from being seated? Or have the DOJ investigate the fraudulent elections between November and their seating?
The same way that speaking ill of the dead is a firing offense — it has entirely to do with who is doing the disrespecting and ill speaking.
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The same way that speaking ill of the dead is a firing offense — it has entirely to do with who is doing the disrespecting and ill speaking.
“Use this dataset to help argue whether the draft was a bad idea and had negative consequences for the game and the players.”
January 9, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“Use this dataset to help argue whether the draft was a bad idea and had negative consequences for the game and the players.”
Yes. And if MPD made it clear they wanted to know where ICE was acting, any one of those people could have called MPDs ICE tip line and let them know.
January 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Yes. And if MPD made it clear they wanted to know where ICE was acting, any one of those people could have called MPDs ICE tip line and let them know.
Somehow a crowd of observers was able to be there. If MPD made it clear they wanted to be present, I bet someone could have let them know.
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Somehow a crowd of observers was able to be there. If MPD made it clear they wanted to be present, I bet someone could have let them know.
This is precisely the logic that leads people to revenge killings and vigilante justice. “Sure, I’m not in favor of the death penalty, but that was MY brother he killed!”
One price of living in an ordered society is that we lose our ability to act that selfishly.
One price of living in an ordered society is that we lose our ability to act that selfishly.
December 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is precisely the logic that leads people to revenge killings and vigilante justice. “Sure, I’m not in favor of the death penalty, but that was MY brother he killed!”
One price of living in an ordered society is that we lose our ability to act that selfishly.
One price of living in an ordered society is that we lose our ability to act that selfishly.
Rereading this conversation, I think that is consistently the distance between us.
December 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Rereading this conversation, I think that is consistently the distance between us.
I think the difference between us is that you read that as a personal piece with a frisson of politics, and I read it as an explicitly political piece in which he uses a very limited telling of his experience to back up his political beliefs.
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I think the difference between us is that you read that as a personal piece with a frisson of politics, and I read it as an explicitly political piece in which he uses a very limited telling of his experience to back up his political beliefs.
I do apologize for that, then — I see how it came across. Please understand that I meant a different meaning: that he is holding a grudge on behalf of a survivor.
December 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I do apologize for that, then — I see how it came across. Please understand that I meant a different meaning: that he is holding a grudge on behalf of a survivor.
My response isn’t callous: it’s to say that there are many people who have strong feelings about COVIDs effects.
Why is it selfless to hold a grudge on behalf of your son, and not on behalf of thousands of friends and strangers?
Why is it selfless to hold a grudge on behalf of your son, and not on behalf of thousands of friends and strangers?
December 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
My response isn’t callous: it’s to say that there are many people who have strong feelings about COVIDs effects.
Why is it selfless to hold a grudge on behalf of your son, and not on behalf of thousands of friends and strangers?
Why is it selfless to hold a grudge on behalf of your son, and not on behalf of thousands of friends and strangers?
I have no belief that the mask mandates were perfect. No policy is, even the ones i most agree with.
But I am unwilling to damn the entire government structure for its attempt to manage a public health crisis because it has ill effects on me personally.
But I am unwilling to damn the entire government structure for its attempt to manage a public health crisis because it has ill effects on me personally.
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I have no belief that the mask mandates were perfect. No policy is, even the ones i most agree with.
But I am unwilling to damn the entire government structure for its attempt to manage a public health crisis because it has ill effects on me personally.
But I am unwilling to damn the entire government structure for its attempt to manage a public health crisis because it has ill effects on me personally.
How often did his son come home with a mask tied on his face? According to the article, it was once.
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 AM
How often did his son come home with a mask tied on his face? According to the article, it was once.
Yes. When one ICE officer acts poorly and ICE condemns that behavior , we can safely blame the officer.
When we discover thst the same thing happens many times across many officers in many situations, and when their behavior is explicitly cheered on by their leadership, then we look more broadly.
When we discover thst the same thing happens many times across many officers in many situations, and when their behavior is explicitly cheered on by their leadership, then we look more broadly.
December 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Yes. When one ICE officer acts poorly and ICE condemns that behavior , we can safely blame the officer.
When we discover thst the same thing happens many times across many officers in many situations, and when their behavior is explicitly cheered on by their leadership, then we look more broadly.
When we discover thst the same thing happens many times across many officers in many situations, and when their behavior is explicitly cheered on by their leadership, then we look more broadly.
His son survived the experience, and perhaps will one day be able to express his feelings about the experience.
Unlike the millions who died of Covid.
Unlike the millions who died of Covid.
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
His son survived the experience, and perhaps will one day be able to express his feelings about the experience.
Unlike the millions who died of Covid.
Unlike the millions who died of Covid.
Did the governor tie the mask themselves, or was it the mayor? I’m confused.
Ordinarily, when a teacher misunderstands the law and acts inappropriately, we don’t immediately assume that the entire establishment is at fault, do we?
Ordinarily, when a teacher misunderstands the law and acts inappropriately, we don’t immediately assume that the entire establishment is at fault, do we?
December 31, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Did the governor tie the mask themselves, or was it the mayor? I’m confused.
Ordinarily, when a teacher misunderstands the law and acts inappropriately, we don’t immediately assume that the entire establishment is at fault, do we?
Ordinarily, when a teacher misunderstands the law and acts inappropriately, we don’t immediately assume that the entire establishment is at fault, do we?
But instead, he chose the villain who he already had in mind: the evil democrats who closed the parks specifically to torture his child.
December 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
But instead, he chose the villain who he already had in mind: the evil democrats who closed the parks specifically to torture his child.
There were many paths he could have taken. The single simplest is that he could have worked with the school to figure out how to help his child.
December 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
There were many paths he could have taken. The single simplest is that he could have worked with the school to figure out how to help his child.
I think we have different observations of who is self centered in this conversation. In my mind, it’s the guy whose personal experience outweighs the reality of millions of dying people.
December 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I think we have different observations of who is self centered in this conversation. In my mind, it’s the guy whose personal experience outweighs the reality of millions of dying people.
Help me out here? The article really does seem to boil down to “my son having to wear a mask has made me irrationally angry at every member of my cities leadership and I will recite their names like Arya Stark”.
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Help me out here? The article really does seem to boil down to “my son having to wear a mask has made me irrationally angry at every member of my cities leadership and I will recite their names like Arya Stark”.
And, well, “I am ok with others being immiserated if it makes my life slightly more convenient” is, in fact, a pretty good proto-fascist stance.
December 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
And, well, “I am ok with others being immiserated if it makes my life slightly more convenient” is, in fact, a pretty good proto-fascist stance.
But if some politicians genuinely did have reason to think that mask mandates might save some lives during a plague that would kill a million or so American, than his argument reduces to “I wanted everyone else to be in more danger so that my son could go to public school the way I wanted him to.”
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
But if some politicians genuinely did have reason to think that mask mandates might save some lives during a plague that would kill a million or so American, than his argument reduces to “I wanted everyone else to be in more danger so that my son could go to public school the way I wanted him to.”