J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈

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Pulitzer prize winning editor and news developer. Bluesky elder. Now: Data Editor at @statnews.bsky.social ✉️ emory.parker@statnews.com 📸 jemoryparker 🐘 @jaspar@mastodon.online | Signal: jaspar.01

Two photographs side-by-side showing mid-rise apartments in the foreground and the Minneapolis skyline in the background. On the right, extremely dense smoke partially obscures the apartment building and the skyline is fully hidden by brownish haze.
Chart showing pm2.5 particulate concentration skyrocketing to 321 µg/m^3 in a matter of hours before settling near 223.
Recommendation screen from YouTube it says movies and TVs for you. YouTube featured. The two options are Star Trek lower decks and the birth of a nation which is listed only as historical drama from 1915 and the artwork has been slightly darkened to minimize the fact that he’s wearing a white robe.
Chart showing the concentration of pm2.5 particulates jumping from near 0 to 72 in a few minutes.
* IMPACTS...Everyone is more likely to be affected by wildfire smoke in these concentrations. Minor trace amounts of ashfall are possible. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Dense smoke is being pulled by a quasi- stationary front across central Minnesota. Smoke will arrive along the I-94 corridor Wednesday evening. The smoke will have a rapid onset with visibility rapidly declining. There will be a sharp gradient of smoke, with some areas of the same counties experiencing Good/Green air quality while other experience Purple/Very Unhealthy for All conditions as the front slowly moves south. Conditions will gradually improve by Friday morning as the front retreats northward.
Photograph from Reddit of Duluth, Minnesota with an incredibly hazy sky. The caption says the AQI is 802.
Image of the Sports section of the Sunday Washington Post
Truth post from Trump: Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Average deductibles at small firms increased from $737 in 2006 to $2631 in 2025. For large firms, the increase was from $496 to $1,670 over the same period.
Deductibles at small firms increased from about $700 in 1999 to $2,631 in 2025. For large firms the increase was from about $500 to $1,670 over the same period.
Line chart that shows from 1999 to 2025 the percent of large firms with more than 200 workers offering insurance stayed about the same, near 100%. But the percent of smaller firms decreased from about 80% to 59%.
Image of a line chart it shows that from 1987 to 2024 the amount of money that employers and employees spent on employer sponsored health insurance premiums increased almost 1000%. This is compared to an increase of 176%, which would be the 2024 equivalent of the 1987 spending total.
An introduction to LaTeX LaTeX, which is pronounced «Lah-tech» or «Lay-tech» (to rhyme with «blech» or «Bertolt Brecht»), is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing. LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.
A polymarket chart showing the odds of Platner dropping out skyrocketing directly in response to news reports about his alleged sexual assault.
The Telegraph • @telegraph.co.uk The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who
abuse or violence. B. Respectful Discourse We create a safe space for discussion by prohibiting threats and content meant to scare or intimidate people. i. Do not threaten Chers with death, serious harm, or express that others should be hurt or killed. ii. Do not promote, glorify, or incite violence against individuals or groups. iii. Do not share graphic violent
Estimated Fatalities Red alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. Past red alerts have required a national or international response. Estimated Economic Losses Estimated economic losses are 2-20% GDP of Venezuela.
Meme of pikachu with a surprised face
Photo of a brown tabby with a toy mouse in his mouth. The toy mouse is grey with a pink string for a tail.
Screenshot from the Citizen app. It says a person was reported lying down outside then it says the report is resolved, and the person was found resting.
Screenshot of a Citizen app report of a gasoline spill at Speedway. The incident is marked resolved with the status spill evaporated.
Keeping Up With Inflation tracks a lot of prices relative to 2019, and here is a list of everything they're tracking that is up relative to 2019 with how much in parentheses: inflation (28%), CPI inflation rate (33%), eggs (84%), Netflix (54%), Disney + (172%), gas (24%), ground beef (77%), auto insurance (32%), used cars (30%), Spotify (30%), Apple Music (10%), electricity (48%), water (33%), restaurants (36%), wages (28%), rent (41%), home prices (56%). And here is a list of everything they are tracking that has become cheaper since 2019: chicken wings (-28%).
Screenshot of the wikipedia page for "sexual roleplay" where the featured image is a man in old-timey formal wear hold a woman wearing an old-timey dress who has been hog tied and gagged. It looks like the man is about to tie her to a train track.
Chart showing that of 45 people polled at a longevity conference, only 6 said they expect their lifespans to be in line with current life expectancy statistics. 14 people responded that they expect to live forever.
The prevalence of drinking while pregnant has increased from a low of 8.7% in 2014 to 12.5% in 2024. The peak of this measure was 14.8% in 2021. The prevalence of drinking among women who are not pregnant was 48.5% in 2024. The study of BRFSS data covered years 2011 through 2024 and looked at women in the U.S. aged 18-44.
Screenshot of a whiny Washington Post social media video complaining about banned ads in Amsterdam but the word prostitution is censored
Screenshot of a chart plotting economic approval since the 90s. The percent saying the economy is good was near 90% at the start under Clinton then declines under Bush and Obama. The only time since Clinton that more Americans were rating the economy as good was during the first Trump admin.
Acupuncture is used to treat conditions as varied as chronic pain, migraines, seasonal allergies and nausea caused by chemotherapy, but some of its actions have never been completely explained. The discovery of the interstitium may help us understand in modern biomedical terms how acupuncture works.
Elon musk tweets “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn't needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what's the money for? Inquiring minds want to know ...” A community note says “The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable non-profit, providing free access to Wikipedia. While a text & English-only copy of Wikipedia is about 51GB, adding all media + supported languages brings it to 428TB. In 2022 Wikimedia had $154M in revenue with $145M in expenses.”
Screenshot that says: Want to search for "(3100 Girard Ave S) Person Short of Breath Following Assault - reported on Citizen https://go.citizen.com/1Qu64rAfZ2b" on Amazon? Find products on Amazon
Citizen App alert: Person short of breath following assault
Report of Juveniles Locked in Storage Container
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Twitter is wild because the dumbest people are like "Mayhaps you have slandered me with that ad hominem" and the smartest people are like "my dog is a chonky boi"
Edit of Shinzo Abe “have sex” meme but with Tim Walz face. Tim Walz face is superimposed on a Japanese landscape in sunset. At the top of the image text reads “Have sex” and at the bottom it says “See you space cowboy…”
The cut off top of a plastic soda bottle in front of a black pepper mill on a wooden table
I wake up, there is another psyop meme
Chart showing the number of datasets available over time. Current total stands at 1,487
Bicycle with stick in spoke meme
“500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution' A Fox News Digital investigation finds the "No Kings" protests are backed by a network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue, including communist and socialist organizations calling for "revolution."
Choice between Killebrew Dr and Lindau Ln
"In the absence of clear evidence, the A.M.A. agrees with A.S.P.S. that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood," the statement said.
Signature that is NOT standard cursive!
Phoenix Wright saying “almost Christmas means it wasn’t Christmas”
Tim Robinson riding a zip line with a barrel of oil around the Strait of Hormuz.
bad photoshop of an oil tanker being launched by a giant catapult
A meme where Patrick Star says “what if we take all the oil tankers in the Persian gulf and push them into the Indian Ocean?”
A line chart that fluctuates wildly overtime from “we’re back” to “its over” to “we’re so back”, etc.
Triangle of options: it can be cheap, convenient, or simple to use. You can choose five eighths of these options.
KOSPI in Korea and Nikkei in Japan open down 6%
Screenshot of a headline in the Atlantic. It says "In Defense of Effeminate Gay Boys. If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel"
The "I feel bad for you" meme from Mad Men.
lauren @NotABigJerk i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion 9:33 AM • 9/14/22
Screenshot of tweet that says "Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck." The line about showing is highlighted with a caption that says "You are here".
Photo of a sleepy brown tabby cat holding up his paw so you can see his pads.
Screenshot of a post from the “Tennessee Holler” containing an AI deepfake of the us women’s hockey team captain.
The horny police taking you away