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Map-o-phile / GIS wrangler / M.S. GIS / GISP / mischief / 🗺️ / solvitur ambulando
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This account is mostly Map and GIS celebration (some gripes)+ elevation of others' mappy work. It will detour into carnivorous plants, nudibranchs, birds, corny puns, stands against fascism and authoritarianism, sharing natural wonder, rowboat and bike adventures, childcare and adult dementia care.
So glad that the shut down is...paused. [roll eyes]
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.

By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:

www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Our #SimplyEverything sale means 50% off every title from Island Press, but only for a limited time. Use code HALF at checkout! Islandpress.org/half
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Day 6: Dimensions #30DayMapChallenge

Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Blocked. Let me guess "pedestrian got almost killed on a sidewalk by a parked bike" or "avid cyclist preaching the high-vis clothes and eye contact as alternative to protected bike lines"
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ugh, we need to keep Steve Pearce out of that BLM position.
He'll treat our national resources like a $100 bill he found on a Friday night in downtown Las Vegas.
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Copper has my #OreCup art vote not just because of all the lovely colours it makes but also the copper tlakwa made by peoples of the northwest coast of North America, storied objects exchanged and ritualistically damaged/destroyed for political and cermonial reasons. easteast.world/posts/117
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Selkirks from the east looking up the Purcell Trench and from the west looking across Priest Lake. They got a good dusting of snow on the peaks yesterday
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The tamaracks are turning here on the Moyie River
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The 2026 Women in GIS Member Map Contest is now open — it’s your chance to showcase your work, celebrate creativity, and be recognized by the WiGIS community.

Get the details at
womeningis.org/Map-Contest

#WomenInGIS #MapContest #Cartography #GIS #MapDesign #WiGIS #GISChat
November 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Some interesting Kei class adventure van plus new concept vans
youtu.be/rkQWKxP2R2Q?...
Japan Mobility Show 2025 KAYOIBAKO-K コンセプトムービー ダイハツ公式
YouTube video by DaihatsuOfficial
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
TIL about the thick billed raven.
OMG what an absolute unit of a corvid
Native to Afica in the Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia in the mountains of the Horn of Africa
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
✂️ My dad likes scissors handy. When I moved him to a senior apartment in 2019, I gathered up every pair & filled a 25 gallon bin. He has asked me to bring a pair every visit to memory care. 3 pair this month. Today we learned he is in a facility that doesn't allow scissors. Taken, not lost. Whoops🫠
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Nut Tree was a roadside fruit & nut stand on Highway 80, roughly halfway between Sacramento & Berkeley near the "cow town" of Vacaville. Famous for pineapple & its small airport. Many budding geologist kids loved the rockshop and small train. Long closed, now outlet malls & fastfood #mapsinthewild
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If what they are selling is the technology for a vision of escaping into space, then it is logical that essential to their unstated business plan is to sink the ship so you must buy their lifeboat. Ecological catastrophe and environmental injustice is a goal to force a monopoly position.
October 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Landskein before the storm
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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A beautifully fascinating river course map from 1834 #MapoftheWeek mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/remarkable...
Remarkable River "Map"
This “map” should absolutely not be used for navigation.
mapoftheweek.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The sidewalk in front of my house, I’ve lined with rocks from all over the world, from two billion years ago to the present, from all types of geologic environments. I wonder how many people pass by and never know they are walking back in time. LOL
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The results were incredible. Beautiful colors and pots throughout.
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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What a lovely diagram / chromolithograph
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM