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mildthing99.bsky.social
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@mildthing99.bsky.social
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Great to be here! 🌎🌍🌏
Thinking geographically 🌐 GIS, trivia and other important things... #GeographyTeacher and author; RGS C Geog, BBC Weather Watcher; landscape art and photography; #EruditePedagogy; #EduSky; Music, poetry esp with links to place
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Moonset through #cirrus #WaxingCrescent 🌒 41.8% over @whitstablelive.bsky.social
@davidbflower.bsky.social @cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #getoutside #loveukweather
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
'Merry Christmas...and God bless all of you on the good Earth'

#Apollo8 Christmas Eve 1968 message, over SELENE (Kaguya) 'Earthrise' footage, similar to the view seen by Borman, Lovell + Anders
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@daveatcogs.bsky.social
Details + HQ video here: vimeo.com/187472403?re...
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
First time capturing this lunar transit
#WaxingCrescent 🌒 (20%) over N Kent @whitstablelive.bsky.social 🎅
@davidbflower.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@metoffice.gov.uk
@thephotohour.bsky.social
#StormHour #loveukweather
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
A beautiful sunset over The Bristol Channel seen from #BarryIsland with Foreland Point lighthouse guiding the shipping at dusk
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk @derekbrockway.bsky.social @barrybados.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
*The only way is up*
🌄 The earliest sunset of 2025 has been and gone #SurreyHills
The sun will set later every day now until around 25th June!
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
A magnificent early cloudscape c1900: #Cumulus prob over Yapton, W Sussex by Sidney Fletcher.
Possible Léonard Misonne influence?
🙏@FacesInTheLight #242
Restored+colourised using @GeminiApp
#Swipe @www_re_photos
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
Golden Gate Strait c1900
3 decades before the bridge!
Unmistakeable outline of Angel Island; Possibly Sausolito ferry; Helmet Rock + Lands End
@ggbridge.bsky.social @sfchronicle.com
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original 🙏@FacesInTheLight #258
#Swipe @www_re_photos
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
Place du Marché,
Saint-Valery-en-Caux c1900 Seine-Maritime, @Normandy, France #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Original from @FacesInTheLight
#Swipe created in @www_re_photos #rephotography
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
mildthing99.bsky.social
'Shetland Trader' at dusk with #Sheppey in the distance
low tide
@whitstablelive.bsky.social @stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
L'église du Sacré-Cœur (Church of the Sacred Heart) Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France @fneaura.bsky.social #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Vg for car + street details, but hallucinates with perspective!
Original: Unknown Photgrapher@FacesInTheLight
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🎶🔊🎄Step Into Christmas🎄🔊🎶
Y7 students used #GIS to map Christmas placenames
🙏 @natlibscot.bsky.social maps GB1900 Gazeteer > 'Christmas' > CSV > @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline
2D incl @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social #Firefly symbols+ pop-ups, then #3DScene > 3D trees stars+baubles #HowIUsedGISToday
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🎶🔊🎄Step Into Christmas🎄🔊🎶
Y7 students used #GIS to map Christmas placenames
🙏 @natlibscot.bsky.social maps GB1900 Gazeteer > 'Christmas' > CSV > @esriuk.bsky.social #ArcGISOnline
2D incl @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social #Firefly symbols+ pop-ups, then #3DScene > 3D trees stars+baubles #HowIUsedGISToday
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
L'église du Sacré-Cœur (Church of the Sacred Heart) Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France @fneaura.bsky.social #ChangingPlaces
AI Colourised w @GeminiApp Nano Banana
Vg for car + street details, but hallucinates with perspective!
Original: Unknown Photgrapher@FacesInTheLight
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
22° halo in #cirrostratus and #contrails caused by the almost full #ColdMoon #Supermoon #WaxingGibbous 🌕 97.4%
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
@stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social #StormHour #getoutside #loveukweather
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
⬇️ International Space Station ⬇️
@Space_Station #ISS threading a west to east path between the #WaxingGibbous Moon 76% and #Saturn at 16.39 over the #SurreyHills #Timelapse
@davidbflower.bsky.social
@metoffice.gov.uk
@stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
'It only stops for her' 20 Sep 1962: As part of the Beeching cuts, Great Longstone station, Derbyshire was closed for all except Alice Boardman to support her essential nursing work. #MonsalTrail @vpdd.bsky.social monsaltrail.org.uk/great-longston… Movietone � @apnews.comyoutu.be/7J9USbjHY4E?...fi
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊
A map shared on each day of Nov 2025:
25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'.
See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place
#GoGIS4GA #GIS
🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs
🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge
Day 30: Makeover
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
Spectacular uplit skies along the sharply defined trailing edge of a #ColdFront passing over the
@cloudappsoc.bsky.social
@stormhour.com
@thephotohour.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk #StormHour #loveukweather #getoutside
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶Meeting the challenge🎶🔊
A map shared on each day of Nov 2025:
25 brand new maps + 5 'classics'.
See my timeline or my @linkedin.com page @mildthing99 at the other place
#GoGIS4GA #GIS
🙏🎶Mix of 'Crosswalk' @TEEDinosaurs
🙏 @tjukanov.bsky.social who started #30DayMapChallenge
Day 30: Makeover
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
An excellent way to investigate spatial variations in placenames, incl parts of placenames:
'British Placename Mapper'
🙏 to Robin Wilson @sciremotesense
using @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social data incl 'Starts with' 'Ends with' etc
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black
placenames.rtwilson.com#W3sidGV4dCI6...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
mildthing99.bsky.social
An excellent way to investigate spatial variations in placenames, incl parts of placenames:
'British Placename Mapper'
🙏 to Robin Wilson @sciremotesense
using @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social data incl 'Starts with' 'Ends with' etc
#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black
placenames.rtwilson.com#W3sidGV4dCI6...
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🔊🎶Hexagons of Grammichele
Sicily, Italy: #PlannedSettlement 1693 after #earthquake at Occhiolà
👣5.34km/3.32mi via @_outdooractive_
@esriuk.bsky.social ArcGISOnline w #FireflyIcons by
@johnelson.bsky.social
✝️RIP Ornella Vanoni d 21 Nov 2025
arcg.is/e9OLL
#30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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mildthing99.bsky.social
🎹🔊 Isn't it iconic?🔊🎹
World piano manufacturers
*There are places I'll remember*
Iconic 'In My Life' original speed
Iconic solo by George Martin
Iconic Beatles album 'Rubber Soul'
#MusicTeacher #GeographyTeacher
#30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Icons
Map: arcg.is/1zK5Sj0
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM