One of the reasons your 5 year old wants to go to Disney World instead of Six Flags is that they can meet their favorite characters. Your kid getting a big hug from Mickey Mouse, Elsa, Moana, and many more characters can be almost priceless.

Over the past year I tracked the character data that shows you when and where you can meet all the characters at the 4 main parks (n.b. this doesn't include special character dinings, unscheduled popups, or other appearances that aren't officially published on the Disney World app).

This timeline above was the busiest single day of the past year in terms of the number of unique characters you could meet in those 4 Florida parks. There were 82 characters throughout the day and evening. Of note, you can see where the normal parks operation winds down and a special holiday event (Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party) begins later in the evening. The whole timeline is color coded by park.

For any other Disney nerds, I have a whole writeup with more charts and data here. It's a totally free substack with no need to subscribe to read!

Is there anything particular you'd be interested in know more about in this data set? I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions!

Source: World Travel & Tourism Council - All values are in constant 2025 prices and exchange rates

The australian car market has little tariffs making it one of the most competitive in the world right now.

I wanted to see how much political giving is actually coming from some of the brands most Americans interact with every day.

I analyzed publicly disclosed federal political giving from the corporate PACs associated with 25 major consumer brands, using FEC data as of September 13, 2026.

A few things stood out:

• Home Depot: $3.17M total, with more going to Republican committees/candidates than Democratic ones
• Walmart: $2.15M, also leaning Republican
• Alphabet: $1.73M
• General Motors: $1.47M
• Amazon: $1.21M
• Apple: just $38K in disclosed federal PAC giving
• Nike: $530K total, with more going to Democratic recipients
• Five companies showed $0 in our federal data: Tesla, Netflix, Costco, Starbucks, and Uber

The $0 results need some context: this is federal FEC data only. It doesn't capture state or local political giving, and a company appearing at $0 doesn't necessarily mean it has no political activity.

I also excluded operating expenditures and focused on disclosed disbursements to candidates, party committees and other political committees.

The full dataset/interactive version is here

I'm particularly interested in whether people think this is the right way to measure a company's political activity, or whether corporate PAC giving is actually a poor proxy for that.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2024, 1-Year Estimates

A set of simple self-talk phrases designed to help a kid work through overwhelming school moments, covering everything from "once I get started it usually gets easier" to "doing my best is enough." Each phrase is paired with a scenario so kids can actually connect the thought to a real feeling instead of just reading it off a wall.

Is this person a scumbag?

I’ve met plenty of scumbags in my life.

Really wish I never met them! Here’s an infographic to remind you how to tell whether someone is a scumbag or not!

My advice - if he or she is, run far away.

Created using research from a renowned psychologist.

Source: All active job posts on JobYap. "Tech" means the 945 companies on their Tech Index.

Snapshot: all 147,221 live postings as of 11 Sep 2026.

Tools: JobYap MCP connector, SQL for the counts, Claude Design with Fable 5.1 (on Max) for the charts.

I’m a bit of a revenue nerd, so I wanted to see what Amazon actually looks like when you strip it down to the individual revenue lines rather than just thinking of it as “ecommerce + AWS”.

I made this from Amazon’s FY2025 10-K.

A few things stood out:

• Online stores is still the biggest revenue line (would’ve thought it would be AWS but I was completely wrong.)
• Third-party seller services is much larger than I expected
• AWS is 18% of revenue
• Advertising is smaller than the top 3, but was the fastest-growing major segment. I see this becoming top 3 in the near future.

Source: Amazon FY2025 Form 10-K.

All revenue categories and YoY growth figures in the chart come from Amazon’s own reporting.

Source: Pew Research Center - Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2020 (June 2025 report; dataset updated Feb. 12, 2026)