Kara Woo

was riding the bus with my 4yo in his jack skellington halloween costume and a teen gave him a jack skellington keychain 🥺

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

Portland School Board meeting is happening now. First student commentator talked about being in a class at Grant High school with FIFTY SEVEN students

Here it is, two scenarios closing either 11 or 14 Portland schools. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

we all love "Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable" but I must say I'm also quite partial to "Error: attempt to apply non-function"

yessss seattle next year #positconf

not at #positconf this year but @snystrom.com and I are heatedly discussing all the things we love and hate about #rstats over cocktails so in some ways i am at #positconf

check out this moon 🌕

i am going to have pulled out all of my hair by the time we reach december

feel like shit just want her back

Correction: the City Council moved toward approving a term sheet that commits nearly $400M in city funds, $120M of which is unfunded and $275M has no apparent justification. Had my amendment passed we could have at least found the $120M. Ah well, nevertheless.

cybertrucks shouldn’t be anywhere but especially not at a cemetery

rainbow sherbet season is upon us

anyone want to give me $1.7mil so i can buy a masonic temple for the polycule redf.in/zceACx

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

always a relief to find out that you can assemble ikea furniture harmoniously with a new partner

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

enchanted forest exceeded expectations, 10/10

4yo: “what is a kubernete??”

Punk rock is when you ask autocomplete-on-steroids to replicate patterns normalized across popular artists’ work, right? “It resists ideology” is one of the most hilarious things anyone has said about the Ideology Repetition Machine.

The thing about this is that we gotta know this woman's name & where she works. Then again releasing that info endangers this family & others in her orbit. Then again they are in continuous danger while this woman walks the earth let alone works in a school www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It’s called R

nanonext 1.8.0 is out - R now has a streaming HTTP/WebSocket server with bundled TLS. Runs alongside Shiny in the same process. We're already using it at Posit to explore new real-time capabilities. #Rstats #tidyverse tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/nanonext-1-8-0/

can’t not hear and see:

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

“I don’t know what TriMet will do. I don’t know what I’d recommend, except to say that a city with Portland’s pretensions to sustainability should not be in this position.”

Mood in minneapolis right now

In February, legislators will return to Salem. PCUN had a legislative strategy to press for higher wages for farmworkers and secure their collective bargaining rights. Then more than 2,000 of her fellow Woodburn residents disappeared — abducted by masked thugs carrying guns and badges.

This appears to be true of the Oregon family detained while seeking emergency medical care

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

Councilor Ryan says he has to be "a voice for those who are voiceless" on this city council, which is a wild rhetorical position given the Owendoff news that just came out and validated everything we already more or less knew about him

That city council president election was a shitshow and has given me even more respect for @councilorkanal.bsky.social. I’d hoped to see him as president but am glad to have him representing D2.

It's worth reflecting on why Dunphy is acceptable but Kanal is not. The answers might be uncomfortable.