Nick Evershed!?
Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus
dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc
work: nick.evershed@theguardian.com
tip-offs: nick.evershed@protonmail.com
latest: theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed
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- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
- ad trackers think i have the aesthetic of a 17 yo etsy witch
- this is anti-australian content 😡
- and yet there are still so many prominent Australians, from politicians to journalists to comedians still maintaining accounts on X dot com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- trying to get my bond back on a nuclear sub, only a little cosmetic damage, normal wear and tear etc
- for some reason the idea that Australia might end up 'leasing' nuclear submarines is very funny to me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- for some reason the idea that Australia might end up 'leasing' nuclear submarines is very funny to me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
- it's pretty fucked trying to figure out who random people in donations data are now without the detailed PDFs the AEC used to publish. like "Firstname Lastname" is now all you get for some of them
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- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?Real estate agents in Australia using apps that leave millions of lease documents at risk, digital researcher says www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- remember TRUMPET OF PATRIOTS? that feels like an eon ago now
- I have a shiny dollarydoo for the first person to make a custom bsky feed that excludes all US content and users
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
- Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
- one nation has literally never won a lower house seat in a federal election and Demos is saying they could win 36 seats
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- Littleproud earlier this month: The government needs to take action and deport radical hate preachers!!!! Littleproud after the government actually passes the law to do it: no actually this is bad
- I think ON polling so strongly is important in that whichever party forms government next will have to deal with them in the senate. but I also still think that the risk of the party imploding, as they have done on every other occasion they've done well, is the same as it has ever been
- there is a ~ 10% spread on the Coalition's primary vote which is wild
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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- people are rightly dunking on this because not algorithmically amplifying ragebait posts is a feature, not a bug lol. that's not to say ragebait won't go viral here, because it will, but it feels like it happens less here
- 🚨 this is the biggest Sydney poo story since the Coogee Bay Hotel - Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?"As a wildlife ecologist and conservation expert, these fires bring an unwelcome but familiar mixture of deep sadness and intense frustration. As the climate gets hotter, such events will only become more likely and more severe." My article about Victoria's fires theconversation.com/in-the-most-...
- See how Victoria’s bushfires spread: a visual guide to the scale of devastation
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?Electric vehicles with off-grid solar are competitive with or cheaper than old style petrol/gaslone vehicles in many African countries before 2030; and cheaper in all countries by 2040 - often by a wide margin. That's even allowing for (high) financing costs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Satellite imagery (SWIR) of the Longwood fire on 9 Jan from Copernicus Sentinel. Pretty intense
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
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- Jeez this Trump bloke is a bit of a loose unit hey
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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- this is a very good deal to get a lot of @aptshadow.bsky.social's books! unfortunately only a fraction of the approximately 3 billion books he has written, but a good deal nonetheless www.humblebundle.com/books/adrian...
- omg
- not surprising, but also kinda insulting titling it "The Architects of AI" when there are only two (?) legit AI/ML scientists here.
- Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
- this chart shows the % change year-on-year in each month, but the difference is also quite clear (and not an easter artifact!) when looking at the totals
- quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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- kids will be roasting parents for spending too much time on their phones and they are right to do so. albo please ban me from social media it is for my own good
- groups of teens hanging outside the bottle-o asking passing adults to age-verify their snapchat account
- unfortunately the user known as 'nickevershed' was actually three children in a trenchcoat and so we have been banned from all social media, it was nice knowing you all
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- this seems like a huge waste of time, money and resources which means I'm sure someone is going to fund it www.smh.com.au/technology/t...
- Reposted by Nick Evershed!?Oh shit waddup
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- very important item on the Trello list this morning
