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Joel Riphagen
@joelrip.bsky.social
data analysis and visualization | affordable housing and homelessness | regionalism | open data | fiscal transparency
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Sunrise from Mount Tam. Acceptable.

Mount Diablo before sunrise from Mount Tam
Sun rising over Mount Diablo
Hiking companions on a rock at the top of the mountain
Sun, clouds, and hills from the mountaintop
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Don’t let the pigeon lead the negotiations

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This feels appropriate to the season. voetica.com/poem/3738

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The county records of Sioux County, IA (where I grew up) were stolen by 55 Dutch settlers in sleighs in January 1872. They cut a hole in the log courthouse and moved the records safe from Calliope to Orange City. I had no idea this was so common! hawardenhistoricalsociety.com/history/siou...

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And based on other people’s posts, there were fewer than 100K users just 4 months before I joined!

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Not quite in the first 10%. Pretty amazing how much this app has grown in the year that I’ve been here.

Screenshot showing I was Bluesky user #1,146,514
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my new comic, inspired by the lady who shows up at local planning meetings with a megaphone to shout down new housing developments in neighbourhoods she does not live in

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What is common knowledge in your field* but shocks outsiders? Community homelessness is a rich city problem, positively correlated with high housing prices. Poverty rates and substance abuse rates do not predict community homelessness. ** * Field I’m currently working in ** Colburn & Aldern 2022

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Indian pizza is the best, and it’s all over Sacramento. These are just the ones in my neighborhood.

Google listings of 3 Indian pizza places in Sacramento
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Joel Riphagen
@joelrip.bsky.social
data analysis and visualization | affordable housing and homelessness | regionalism | open data | fiscal transparency
26 followers61 following50 posts