Amanda Shendruk

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This is a table showing how large numbers convert to time. 1 million seconds is 11.6 days, about as long as a vacation. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. About the length of a career. 1 trillion seconds is 31,700 years, which is longer than human civilization.

This chart shows the decline of academic freedom in the US. The decline is very sharp and starts around the beginning of 2025.

This line chart shows the percent of US adults who say they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the US today. It starts in 1990 and goes until 2026. Around 2000, the portion of those dissatisfied became greater than the portion of those who are satisfied. It has been that way ever since.

This is a chart showing the Annual heat wave index for the US. The spike in the 1930s is so extreme that it dwarfs all other data by at least three times. During the 1930s, the US experience extreme heatwaves as part of the Dust Bowl.

This is a quadrant chart. The vertical axis is Libertarian to Authoritarian. The horizontal axis is extreme left economic policy to extreme right. All the far-right parties cluster together at the top of the chart. United on the Authoritarian axis, but spread across the economic axis.

This scatterplot shows the quality of each company's climate targets compared with the prevalence of future-focused language in their annual reports. The vast majority of companies have either no targets or poor targets. Yet they still have lots to say about the future.

This is a gif from the article that is linked in the post. It shows a chatbot profiling a person based on the questions they ask it.

This chart shows the number of democratizing and autocratizing countries since 1900. During that time, there have been three waves of democratization with following reversals.

This is a screen capture of the Anthropic job chart that has been going viral online. I've annotated it to say: "Theoretical AI coverage: A series of assumptions, judgments and guesses." and "Observed AI coverage: Actually just the use of Claude for work-related tasks, not the wider AI ecosystem."

This is a map of Sydney showing the average shade across different regions. Gentrified and trendy, Surry Hills and Strawberry Hills have relatively more shade.

This chart shows that between 1964 and 2018, only five Olympics have had a surplus.

This is a chart showing the mean joy rating for various birds. The Long-tailed Tit is at the top with a ranking of just over 9. The Woodpigeon ranks at the bottom. But with a rating over five, it still brings joy!

This is a chart that compares the US's ethnic diversity with other countries. Of 156 nations, the US is 68th in terms of most ethnic diversity. Liberia is at the top, with the most diversity, while Japan is at the bottom.

This is a screenshot of a graphic from the shared piece. It shows the most-read Wikipedia page for the first two weeks in January, 2025.

A chart showing the previous price of a pair of headphones from Amazon.

Chart showing how often a PlayStation controller on Amazon sold for the RRP.

This is a chart, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, showing that keeping $8,000 in a carbon-intensive bank can produce more emissions than the average individual annual air travel.

This is a chart that shows all forty-five Category 5 hurricanes that have hit the Atlantic since 1851.

This is a cheeky quote picture that says: "Praise for Amanda's other work. "This is a total load of crap." —Kevin O'Leary, Fox News"

This is a diagram that shows how the net-zero energy transition is connected to the polycrisis.

This chart shows the global uncertainty index from January 2008 to August 2025. there is a huge spike in August.

Screen capture of a Bluesky note from ISS Piss Tracker: "If anyone's wondering (since this outage will likely take a while), no, the bot isn't dead.

The telemetry just dies once in a while and usually it comes back up in a few days when somebody at NASA restarts it. I'll hazard a guess and say they're a bit too occupied right now to do that."

Photo of mail in ballot materials for Canadians abroad.

This is a chart that shows the United States' drop in Freedom House score from 94 in 2011 to 84 in 2025. Data are from Freedom House.

This is a chart showing the percentages of democrats, republicans and independents that believe the statistics cited by Donald Trump are, or are not, reliable and accurate.

This chart is titled: U.S. businesses rely heavily on government data. It shows the portion of respondents from a 2018 National Association for Business Economics Survey that said they used certain government data in their businesses. Nearly 100% said they use data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This chart shows that the number of economic statistical indicators made available by China's National Bureau of Statistics has dropped significantly since Xi became president in 2013.

This is a graphic showing a screenshot of an NIH funding report on Jan. 30 and again on Jan. 31. The Jan. 30 report has a line item titled "Workforce Diversity and Outreach." On Jan. 31 that line item is gone.

The poster for Canadian Bacon, featuring John Candy holding an American flag by Niagara Falls.

A screenshot of a website that shows the current wind speeds of storm Eowyn