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Kevin Finity
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He/him. Data nerd, plant lover, occasional linguist.
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maprva.org
Georeference tool has been renamed to **YESTERDAYS**, and we've been squashing bugs left and right.

Explore nearly 30k images, 2.8k of which we've placed on a map. Our collections span from the Civil War to COVID-19 and everything in between.

https://yesterdays.maprva.org
Yesterdays
yesterdays.maprva.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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koshersoul.bsky.social
lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/15187764 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
#Richmond #RVA

Please help me share to 100 folks! (It really helps.) Ill be on stage with a legend--Dr. Leni Sorenson formerly of Monticello!

October 28 2025
6-7:30 pm
Weinstein Author Series – Michael W. Twitty | Recipes From the American South
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT Join us for a conversation between culinary historian Leni Sorensen and award-winning author and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty on Twitty’s new...
lva-virginia.libcal.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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obrien.page
I'm starting a petition to return Forest Hill in RVA to its former glory.

By adding a roller coaster.
Roller coaster in Forest Hill Park, Richmond, VA. https://valentine.rediscoverysoftware.com/FullImages/%5C00028%5CCook_4821-jpg638943156870164845.jpg
October 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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doomdisco.bsky.social
LOL
A representative for GWAR told The Post, "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."
September 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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obrien.page
Help @maprva.org develop an historical street view of Richmond, VA by georeferencing old photographs! The catalog is actively growing and currently includes 1900 photos from the Library of Virginia and the @thevalentinerva.bsky.social

georeference.maprva.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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obrien.page
A project we're now working on over at @maprva.org -- an interactive map of old pictures of RVA from @thevalentinerva.bsky.social and the Library of Virginia!

overpass-ultra.us#map&query=ur...

Want to contribute? Right now it's run off a simple Google Sheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Screenshot of a digital map of Richmond, Virginia showing a picture from post-WW1 celebrations in 1918. Other dots and viewpoints are shown, with other neat pictures hiding behind them!
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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knightmawk.bsky.social
Richmond Virginia has vape shops that have been there longer than the Confederacy was. Build a statue of Francine the Lowes cat, or just any possum. They're more important to the identity of the city at this point. Lucy Dacus has spent more time in Richmond than Jefferson Davis.
August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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trailsta.sh
The city released a dataset of cell phone telemetry they purchased joined to road data. Here's a visualization I made of how much over the speed limit each road is traveled on, on avg.

Green - below speed limit
Yellow - 0-5 over
Orange - 5-10 over
Red - 10+ over

#rva #speedkills
August 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
kfinity.bsky.social
👀
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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obrien.page
Next Thurs, 7/24, is "The Future of Bike and Pedestrian Mapping in RVA"

Join @maprva.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy at PlanRVA's beautiful office in Manchester to hear @trailsta.sh and others talk about their efforts mapping how to move about the city sans-car.

open.trailsta.sh
maprva.org/projects/sid...
July 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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subletteweather.com
While the total rainfall might not change over the course of a year, the *intensity* of rain in individual storms is rising.

The data is already showing that in RVA.
July 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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mrjeffknox.bsky.social
#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory
Today in UFO History - Richmond Officer Chases Elliptical UFO
June 24, 1966 — Richmond, VA
1/3:30 a.m. Officer William L. Stevens Jr. of the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department, is patrolling the northeastern section of the city in Car 625,
June 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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tt40art.bsky.social
We're descending into a fascist hellscape BUT!!!!! I saw a beautiful toad. It's a beautiful day to be a toad in #RVA.
A beautiful toad
June 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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subletteweather.com
Astronomical summer begins w/ the summer solstice at 10:42pm ET today.

Stripes below illustrate the average temperature each calendar year in Richmond since daily weather records began in 1897.

Summer afternoons in RVA average 2.6°F hotter than 100 years ago.

Graphic design from @edhawkins.org ‬
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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montroseva.bsky.social
“while local agencies can state they will not use Flock for immigration enforcement, they apparently can’t control others using shared footage.”

@404media.co documented searches involving LPR data from RVA, Chesterfield, Hanover, and others in VA

How local police are using LPR - @cardinalnews.org
How local police are using LPR surveillance cameras
Nearly 25% of LPR searches from one police department's audit used "Other" as the reason to access data from over 10,000 cameras.
cardinalnews.org
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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dinfontay.com
wait this rva bike month graphic goes hard as hell
graphic showing richmond's skyline and a bridge with a cyclist almost falling off the edge where the bike lane suddenly ends. the copy reads "Where the Bike Lane Ends"
May 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
i can't believe this is real but it is
April 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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raccoonrespecter.bsky.social
Check this out! I made an interactive dashboard for every tree in Vancouver!

You can filter by neighbourhood, species, and height. I also added an "Interesting Trees" filter where one of the options is "🌸 Cherry & Plum Trees." (Now is definitely the for that!)

databyderek.com/vancouvertrees
A screenshot of my interactive Vancouver Trees Dashboard
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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giswqs.bsky.social
🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 12: Wetland Mapping with Deep Learning and GeoAI! 🌍

🎥 Watch the full tutorial here: youtu.be/ed79i3DTWT0
📓 Explore the notebook: geoai.gishub.org/examples/wet...

#GeoAI #geospatial #AI #Python #DeepLearning
March 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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omalliecatt.news
they know what they did
a sign on a window with the words “all cars must pay”
March 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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cpsc.gov
It's time. #DaylightSavingsTime
A clock floating in outer space. An owl and three blowfish hold a smoke alarm within. The text reads: It's time to check and change your smoke/ carbon monoxide alarm batteries.
March 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
kfinity.bsky.social
I laughed and thought this was vandalism at first, but it looks like the weather is just a prankster. Camera down! 😂 @obrien.page
A street median with 2 Flock surveillance cameras on poles. One of the cameras has come out of its pole and is lying on the ground.
February 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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joepd.bsky.social
Friday, February 7, 1862
Richmond, VA

The diary of refugee Judith W. McGuire

"Walking all day, with no better success. 'No vacant room' is the universal answer. I returned at dinner-time, wearied in mind and body.
February 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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starryeyedgeek.bsky.social
Will have my #rva #pridepossums at the next #biggaymarket at Diversity Richmond 12-4 Feb 9

#smallbusiness #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsmallbusiness #lgbtqbusiness #womanownedbusiness #crochet #queer
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM