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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 1d

yeah, usually in April

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 6d

If a chat window, 1️⃣. If a form, 2️⃣.

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 9d

Not to mention these same politicians are seeing constant images of actual war-ravaged places and it has not compelled many of them to do shit so what's the joke exactly

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 9d

Like yes we must clown this administration as it is one of the few languages they understand but let's not get too self-congratulatory when we have so many people with huge needs and a lot of leadership who still fundamentally rely on criminalization and real estate development as a solution

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 9d

I'm going to sound like the biggest hater & loser in the world and I know we must do our political performance but the "look at my war ravaged Portland" photos especially from politicians are getting a little 😬 when we have crisis levels of people without housing including unknown numbers of kids

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 19d

update: they’re teaching it to other kids on the preschool playground now

Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Sep 2

mom sent a video of her singing solidarity forever, 3yo demanded to watch it on repeat and sing along. hell yeah, happy labor day ✊

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 23d

it’s not bad!

Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 25d

yessssss, arm64 linux binaries in posit package manager!! #rstats packagemanager.posit.co/client/#/wha...

Posit Package Manager

packagemanager.posit.co

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Sep 5

I've given several talks at posit conf, but I've never gotten to give the "here's the super awesome new thing I worked on that I now get to share with you" kind...until this year! Come to the commercial products session to hear me talk about building container images with Connect, it is so coooool 😁

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Sep 5

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse

mirai 2.5.0

mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem.

www.tidyverse.org

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Sep 2

mom sent a video of her singing solidarity forever, 3yo demanded to watch it on repeat and sing along. hell yeah, happy labor day ✊

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Aug 24

loved listening to this. greg was a family friend and I worked in the bagel shop as a teen, he was exactly as you described

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Aug 20

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

www.tidyverse.org

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Another approach: Shortly after Wilson's news dropped today, Seattle announced it's suing Trump over his anti-DEI orders.

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Jul 28

(unless the governor decides to kill it i guess)

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Jul 28

just paid our LAST month of daycare tuition for our three year old. fuck yeah preschool for all!!

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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · Jul 21

We're happy to announce that there will be another #rstats Tidy Development Day after the 2025 posit::conf in Atlanta!

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

www.tidyverse.org

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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · Jul 18

the people demand it

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · Jul 9

For the past year, I've been talking to dancers fighting for better workplace protections for pregnancy and parenting. It's a fight experts say is "unprecedented" due to long-standing cultural and structural challenges within ballet. And it's being led by artists themselves.

Out now for ELLE: