Geoffrey Hatchard
@imgoph.bsky.social
Cartographer. Fight for the oppressed. Punch Nazis. Fuck fascists. Protect kids from hate. Statehood for DC! ✊🏻 🏳️⚧️
It isn't just the app - the DC 311 website is trash and often fails to accept requests as well.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It isn't just the app - the DC 311 website is trash and often fails to accept requests as well.
The leadership and outreach from Casey Trees has just been abysmal lately. They sent an email asking me to donate $500 to plant a tree on NPS land, and when I asked if they had any comment about the White House tearing down heritage trees, they just replied "well, we have no influence over them."
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The leadership and outreach from Casey Trees has just been abysmal lately. They sent an email asking me to donate $500 to plant a tree on NPS land, and when I asked if they had any comment about the White House tearing down heritage trees, they just replied "well, we have no influence over them."
@wmata @metrobusinfo the tracking transponder/GPS in bus 7307 (on the D36 route currently) is either broken or not turned on. It was not visible in any tracking apps as I waited at the bus stop. Please check it and repair if necessary.
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@wmata @metrobusinfo the tracking transponder/GPS in bus 7307 (on the D36 route currently) is either broken or not turned on. It was not visible in any tracking apps as I waited at the bus stop. Please check it and repair if necessary.
I got to spend the morning and early afternoon at the offices of Akin Gump, serving as a moderator for an elementary and middle school geography competition (GeoPlunge). Amazing kids from all over the city there. And lord, they have a snazzy office with amazing views.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I got to spend the morning and early afternoon at the offices of Akin Gump, serving as a moderator for an elementary and middle school geography competition (GeoPlunge). Amazing kids from all over the city there. And lord, they have a snazzy office with amazing views.
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For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.
Stop and give thanks that you have a refrigerator and other daily niceties that you never have to stop and think about.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Stop and give thanks that you have a refrigerator and other daily niceties that you never have to stop and think about.
Compressor dead. Parts & labor covered under warranty, but the necessary parts ordered won’t be here for days. :(
One neighbor has already given us freezer space (and others have offered)—thank you!
We’re going to try to turn the fridge into an icebox for now. Turn-of-the-last-century solution.
One neighbor has already given us freezer space (and others have offered)—thank you!
We’re going to try to turn the fridge into an icebox for now. Turn-of-the-last-century solution.
Hey nothing like having your fridge die right after dinner! Especially when that fridge almost exactly 3.5 years old.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Compressor dead. Parts & labor covered under warranty, but the necessary parts ordered won’t be here for days. :(
One neighbor has already given us freezer space (and others have offered)—thank you!
We’re going to try to turn the fridge into an icebox for now. Turn-of-the-last-century solution.
One neighbor has already given us freezer space (and others have offered)—thank you!
We’re going to try to turn the fridge into an icebox for now. Turn-of-the-last-century solution.
Hey nothing like having your fridge die right after dinner! Especially when that fridge almost exactly 3.5 years old.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hey nothing like having your fridge die right after dinner! Especially when that fridge almost exactly 3.5 years old.
Spent the afternoon at DDOT for a meeting about crossing guards ("safety techs" in DDOT parlance).
It was good.
These people are HEROES.
It was good.
These people are HEROES.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Spent the afternoon at DDOT for a meeting about crossing guards ("safety techs" in DDOT parlance).
It was good.
These people are HEROES.
It was good.
These people are HEROES.
You can buy a hashtag build the wall Trump shirt at the Ivy City Goodwill. Then burn it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You can buy a hashtag build the wall Trump shirt at the Ivy City Goodwill. Then burn it.
We walked into Maketto, and @bogrosemary.bsky.social goes “look, that lady has my Oscar the Grouch bag.” Then that lady walked past us and it turned out to be @pqkate.bsky.social! ;)
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We walked into Maketto, and @bogrosemary.bsky.social goes “look, that lady has my Oscar the Grouch bag.” Then that lady walked past us and it turned out to be @pqkate.bsky.social! ;)
If you want a chocolate beer, get thee to Aldi. This Chocolate Lava Cale Stout is the most chocolaty (yet not sickly sweet) stout I have ever had.
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If you want a chocolate beer, get thee to Aldi. This Chocolate Lava Cale Stout is the most chocolaty (yet not sickly sweet) stout I have ever had.
The people pumping Matt yglesias into my feed make me realize that he should run for mayor or council because his weird obsession with insisting people triangulate would actually go over really well with the same voters who give us Mendo, Bowser, and Bonds repeatedly.
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The people pumping Matt yglesias into my feed make me realize that he should run for mayor or council because his weird obsession with insisting people triangulate would actually go over really well with the same voters who give us Mendo, Bowser, and Bonds repeatedly.
Imagining a world where more of us take this advice, fewer leaves end up piled in the street, and DPW ends up spending less time and money on clean-up crews, thus actually keeping on the clean-up schedule they publish but are never able to keep up with each fall.
Leaf collection has begun, but you don't have to rake. Put the leaves to work in your yard and garden instead.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Imagining a world where more of us take this advice, fewer leaves end up piled in the street, and DPW ends up spending less time and money on clean-up crews, thus actually keeping on the clean-up schedule they publish but are never able to keep up with each fall.
@imagineterrain.bsky.social have you seen this? (h/t @mapesgeog.bsky.social)
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 2: Lines – The Secret Life of Streams 💧
UV light reveals piped streams.
Early Wellington was shaped by streams flowing to the harbour. As the city grew, many were piped underground, hidden from sight but still running beneath our feet.
#Wellington #Flooding #cartography
Day 2: Lines – The Secret Life of Streams 💧
UV light reveals piped streams.
Early Wellington was shaped by streams flowing to the harbour. As the city grew, many were piped underground, hidden from sight but still running beneath our feet.
#Wellington #Flooding #cartography
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@imagineterrain.bsky.social have you seen this? (h/t @mapesgeog.bsky.social)
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Our end-of-year campaign starts today! Washington City Paper was built for moments like these: keeping our community informed when it matters most.
Help us reach our $36,260 goal and power the reporting D.C. depends on:
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A post for the @ggwash.org crowd to say “see?” and for everyone else to read and note “this should be us too.”
Opinion: The Albemarle Street closure brought neighbors together. Let’s recreate the sense of safety and community on more streets.
www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/opinion...
www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/opinion...
Opinion: The Albemarle Street closure brought neighbors together. Let’s recreate the sense of safety and community on more streets. | Forest Hills Connection | News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
www.foresthillsconnection.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A post for the @ggwash.org crowd to say “see?” and for everyone else to read and note “this should be us too.”
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BTW fun fact, the term "bulldozing" predates the machine called a "bulldozer" by at least 50 years.
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
BTW fun fact, the term "bulldozing" predates the machine called a "bulldozer" by at least 50 years.
@bikeshare.bsky.social we found a piece off one of your bikes in our treebox this morning. Not sure if this is of any value to you, logistically or otherwise, but thought I would share anyway.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
@bikeshare.bsky.social we found a piece off one of your bikes in our treebox this morning. Not sure if this is of any value to you, logistically or otherwise, but thought I would share anyway.
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A.I. has ruined my favorite online pastime: baby and animal videos. Because now I doubt whether any I see are real.
Thanks, A.I.
Thanks, A.I.
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A.I. has ruined my favorite online pastime: baby and animal videos. Because now I doubt whether any I see are real.
Thanks, A.I.
Thanks, A.I.
I am buying tickets for the Capital City Symphony at Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street, and there is a service fee on each ticket (no surprise), but also a historic preservation fee on each ticket (what???!?)
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I am buying tickets for the Capital City Symphony at Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street, and there is a service fee on each ticket (no surprise), but also a historic preservation fee on each ticket (what???!?)
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Outstanding spotted lanternfly costume
November 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Outstanding spotted lanternfly costume
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"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan
It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets
www.torontotoday.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
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Amazon is helping to fund Trump's $300 million ballroom. Small businesses like this one are raising money to feed hungry families. So today's Low Quality Ad is for this high quality guillotine bag.
Also, did you know the guillotine was invented by a French baker to slice bread?
collabs.shop/b51zsm
Also, did you know the guillotine was invented by a French baker to slice bread?
collabs.shop/b51zsm
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Amazon is helping to fund Trump's $300 million ballroom. Small businesses like this one are raising money to feed hungry families. So today's Low Quality Ad is for this high quality guillotine bag.
Also, did you know the guillotine was invented by a French baker to slice bread?
collabs.shop/b51zsm
Also, did you know the guillotine was invented by a French baker to slice bread?
collabs.shop/b51zsm
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.