courage💙💛🌳 #ceasefireNOW 🍉

CJ, she/her #E4L🌳🎾⚽
#CalliopeAndJuliet
#LabanFilipinas
#StandWithUkraine
#FreePengShuai
#BlackLivesMatter
#StopKaliwaDam
#JUNKTerrorLaw
🖼️:jingcastañeda

[courage💙💛🌳 #ceasefireNOW 🍉 @ItJustIsHaught]

Salamat sa lahat ng Earpers! Ang saya at ang gulo ulit ng TL! 😂🤣

Pagbati sa ating cast and crew, lahat ng naging daan para maibalik si #WynonnaEarp

The whole gamut of emotions in 90 minutes

pero kulang pa haha

Kailan ang susunod na kabanata? May misyon pa tayo!

#Vengeance

[🥢 @ultnicole]

Hi, everyone. If you’re planning to extend help to Mindanao after the 7.8 earthquake, please also pay attention to other severely affected areas.

GenSan already has enough media coverage. Please don’t forget Glan and other parts of Sarangani, which urgently need help as well.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

5 million fish are killed every minute by fishing industry Super trawlers are devouring the ocean of marine life
These ships can catch, process and store hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish
This is not sustainable
Make it stop
Ban super trawlers now

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I want my children and their children to inherit national parks and polar bears, not data centres and dry riverbeds.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[🪺 @dweintzr]

hindi kailanman magiging malinis sa mata ng taumbayan. marcos-duterte walang pinag-iba

[タンタンパパ @tintinpapa1]

フィリピンで大地震が起きたようですが
地震の時にエレベーターを使って
避難しようとすると
こうなりますからどんなに慌てていても
階段を使いなはれや😰

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

It is okay to be Jewish.

It is okay to attend your local synagogue.

It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.

It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

[auror ✞ @hoeror]

Dix-huit mille quatre cent cinquante-sept. Et on ne parle QUE des ENFANTS

[🏛 ᜀ ᜃᜓ ᜐᜒ ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔ 🏛 @iam_jniest]

Pwede naman palang gumawa ng marker nang walang pangalan ng pulitiko.

📸 Naga City Government

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

If you don't want people from all walks of life in your country, don't bid for the right to host the World Cup.

This is madness!

[GMO/Toxin Free USA @GMOFreeUSA]

The Unexpected Impact of Glyphosate on the Microbiome
https://t.co/smMTgf3yKC

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A freelance journalist who had never taken a statistics course wrote a 142-page book in 1954 that professional statisticians still hand to students before anything else, because nobody before him had bothered to explain the tricks in plain language.

His name was Darrell Huff. The book is called How to Lie with Statistics.

I read it in one sitting and spent the next three days noticing the tricks everywhere.

Over 1.5 million copies have sold in English alone. It became a standard college textbook in the 1960s and 70s. Seventy years later it is still in print, still assigned, still the first thing a working statistician reaches for when they want to teach someone to think clearly about numbers.

The man who wrote it was not a researcher. He was a freelancer who wrote how-to articles for magazines. He had no PhD, no academic post, no institutional affiliation. He just understood that numbers could lie without technically being wrong, and he thought someone should explain how.

His opening line sets the whole tone of the book.

"The crooks already know these tricks; honest men must learn them in self-defense."

That one sentence is the entire argument. The manipulation is not coming. It already happened. It happened this morning in the article you read and the chart someone showed you at work and the study your doctor quoted. The only question is whether you know what to look for.

Huff called the first trick the Well-Chosen Average.

When someone tells you the average salary at a company is $80,000, they have told you almost nothing. If the CEO earns $2 million and the 20 employees earn $30,000 each, the mean is $80,000. The median is $30,000. Both are technically correct. One is a lie. The person reporting the number chose which average to use, and they almost always chose the one that served their argument. Huff's rule: whenever you see an average with no description of which average it is, ask.

The second trick he named the Gee-Whiz Graph.

A line chart shows company profits rising. The line shoots nearly vertical, almost doubling in height across the chart. You feel impressed. Then you look at the y-axis and notice the chart does not start at zero. It starts at 94. The actual increase in profits was 3 percent. The dramatic visual was produced entirely by cropping the bottom of the chart. Nothing in the data changed. The picture changed everything.

Every news organization on earth still does this every day.

The third trick is the one that should change how you read every study you ever encounter. Huff called it Post Hoc Rides Again, which is short for the Latin phrase post hoc ergo propter hoc. After this, therefore because of this.

Cities with more churches have more violent crime. Therefore churches cause violence. The logic is airtight. The conclusion is absurd. Both church attendance and crime go up as population grows. The two numbers track each other because a third variable drives both. The correlation is real. The cause is invented.

Huff showed that this structure is not a rare mistake. It is the default pattern of almost every study reported in a newspaper, because causation is a boring word and because proves is a better headline than correlates with.

The fourth trick was the one that floored me. He called it the Semi-Attached Figure.

A headache pill company claims their product is twice as fast as the competition. The study behind the claim is real. The product was tested and the numbers are accurate. What the advertisement does not mention is that the study measured absorption rate into the bloodstream, not relief of headaches. The two things are related but not identical. The statistic is real. It is attached to the wrong conclusion.

Huff said this is the most dangerous trick of all because the number is never fabricated. You cannot fact-check a semi-attached figure by verifying the statistic. You have to ask whether the statistic actually measures what the claim requires it to measure.

Almost nobody asks.

There is one part of Huff's story that most people who recommend the book leave out.

Years after he wrote it, he was hired by the tobacco industry. He worked on a follow-up manuscript called How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, designed to cast doubt on the research connecting cigarettes to cancer. The book was never published. He testified before Congress in an attempt to undermine the statistical evidence against tobacco.

The man who wrote the clearest guide to spotting statistical deception spent the end of his career deploying those same tricks against evidence that was killing people.

That detail does not make the book wrong. The tricks he described are real and the defenses he taught are still the right ones. But it is a reminder that the tools in the book are neutral. Understanding how lies are built does not protect you from choosing to build one.

The crooks already know these tricks.

Some of them wrote the manual.

What is one statistic you have seen recently that you now think deserves a second look?

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Mark Zuckerberg, an outspoken critic of "man-made climate change", shows off his new $300 million, 287-foot mega yacht, powered by four gigantic diesel engines.

Yet another stark reminder that Net Zero is only for the peasants

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

HOLY SHIT 🇩🇪🚨

A woman in Germany says “Free Palestine.” Police swarm, cover her mouth, drag her down like a beast.

That slogan is now banned in Germany because it’s considered antisemitic.

If you say it, the state silences you by force.

[Tennis Weekly Podcast @tennisweeklypod]

Defending Champion Tatjana Maria was denied a wild card to Queen's despite defeating Rybakina, Keys and Muchova last year #HSBCChampionships

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Some songs are just perfect—‘Walk On By’ by Dionne Warwick is one of them, and once you hear it, it stays with you all day.

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

They’re not only shutting down the area around Madison Square Garden. They’re basically shutting down a 10 block radius around the stadium. Do you know how many things are within that radius of the stadium? How many bars, activities, restaurants stores? Crazy work for a pedo.

[Tennis Weekly Podcast @tennisweeklypod]

Tatjana Maria last year's 'Queen of Queen's' on being denied a wild card to defend her title: "to come back like a champion I really hoped or I thought I would get a wildcard....I was surprised of course when I got the message from Laura Robson saying that all the wildcards will go to the British players"

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

J Celestine Edwards, Posing for his portrait in London. Son of west african slaves, studied Theology and medicine and published anti racism books. 1894.