Bill Morris
@vtcraghead.bsky.social
Bringer of Entropy, Full-Stack Dilettante @Mapbox, Band Interleaved by Line, He/him.
https://billmorris.io/shoals/
https://billmorris.io/shoals/
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Bill Morris
@vtcraghead.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Intro:
My name is Bill; I'm a maker of various maps, most built of pixels. 🛰️
I dwell in Vermont's Big City (Burlington, pop. ~42k), and dearly love this place, though Montréal comes in a close second for my affection. ❄️
My politics are of Community and Equality. ✊
Pleased to meet you.
My name is Bill; I'm a maker of various maps, most built of pixels. 🛰️
I dwell in Vermont's Big City (Burlington, pop. ~42k), and dearly love this place, though Montréal comes in a close second for my affection. ❄️
My politics are of Community and Equality. ✊
Pleased to meet you.
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So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM
So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Vermont Green FC will host professional club Portland Hearts of Pine of USL1 in the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup First Round. The match will be played on Tuesday, March 17 at 7pm on Virtue Field in Burlington.
Ticket information will be shared in the coming weeks.
New England.
Ticket information will be shared in the coming weeks.
New England.
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Vermont Green FC will host professional club Portland Hearts of Pine of USL1 in the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup First Round. The match will be played on Tuesday, March 17 at 7pm on Virtue Field in Burlington.
Ticket information will be shared in the coming weeks.
New England.
Ticket information will be shared in the coming weeks.
New England.
@theweeowl.bsky.social Hey just a note of thanks: this little guy still brightens up our mornings even when our local plague of Gray Squirrels has hidden away for the winter.
January 24, 2026 at 2:37 PM
@theweeowl.bsky.social Hey just a note of thanks: this little guy still brightens up our mornings even when our local plague of Gray Squirrels has hidden away for the winter.
My note of gratitude to Ryan Coogler for a particular musical inclusion in #Sinners: billmorris.io/shoals/2025/...
Minstrel echoes
I haven't been able to get the song out of my head for months.
billmorris.io
January 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
My note of gratitude to Ryan Coogler for a particular musical inclusion in #Sinners: billmorris.io/shoals/2025/...
Heartening. www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
The state AGs are as mad as you are
“We have to fight.”
www.theverge.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Heartening. www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
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ICE out of Maine.
VT ♥️ ME
VT ♥️ ME
January 22, 2026 at 5:04 PM
ICE out of Maine.
VT ♥️ ME
VT ♥️ ME
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IhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethis
Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
IhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethis
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Sometimes, when the stars are aligned, good AI can undo bad AI.
January 21, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Sometimes, when the stars are aligned, good AI can undo bad AI.
Oh nothing, what are you up to?
January 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Oh nothing, what are you up to?
Pour one out for all the analysts in this story who probably spent hours convinced this was a sudden loss of longitude coordinate precision in their ship tracking data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers (Gift Article)
China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Pour one out for all the analysts in this story who probably spent hours convinced this was a sudden loss of longitude coordinate precision in their ship tracking data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
A beautiful thing that I don't really understand.
This week’s astro-forecast in light and sound form, made using astronomical data and astrological symbology.
January 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
A beautiful thing that I don't really understand.
The only thing I'll be extracting from Greenland is this really lovely color palette:
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The only thing I'll be extracting from Greenland is this really lovely color palette:
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Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter.
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
January 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter.
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
Well this seems quaint now. www.aclu.org/documents/co...
The Constitution in the 100-Mile Border Zone | American Civil Liberties Union
The Problem The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches. According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principle...
www.aclu.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Well this seems quaint now. www.aclu.org/documents/co...
"Almost anyone can prompt an LLM to generate a thousand-line patch and submit it for code review. That’s no longer valuable. What’s valuable is contributing code that is proven to work."
--Gospel from @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
--Gospel from @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
January 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
"Almost anyone can prompt an LLM to generate a thousand-line patch and submit it for code review. That’s no longer valuable. What’s valuable is contributing code that is proven to work."
--Gospel from @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
--Gospel from @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
"I fear this year will start to see the sector risk losing some people who built it, not to competitors, but to disillusionment"
--Aravind @ Terrawatch, re: the EO industry in 2026: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/earth-observ...
--Aravind @ Terrawatch, re: the EO industry in 2026: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/earth-observ...
Earth Observation Outlook: Predictions for 2026
What to Expect in Earth Observation in 2026
newsletter.terrawatchspace.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"I fear this year will start to see the sector risk losing some people who built it, not to competitors, but to disillusionment"
--Aravind @ Terrawatch, re: the EO industry in 2026: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/earth-observ...
--Aravind @ Terrawatch, re: the EO industry in 2026: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/earth-observ...
This remains my catnip. Chuckling at the little castoff jokes of clever people was such a great part of the golden age of social media, now long past.
all that you once thought solid has melted into air, playboy
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This remains my catnip. Chuckling at the little castoff jokes of clever people was such a great part of the golden age of social media, now long past.
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all that you once thought solid has melted into air, playboy
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
all that you once thought solid has melted into air, playboy
Early mornings at Christianshavn.
January 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Early mornings at Christianshavn.
Wait, so . . . is the Earth Observation budget restored? Are people going to be rehired? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all
There's very little to not like in this."
arstechnica.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Wait, so . . . is the Earth Observation budget restored? Are people going to be rehired? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
Ben's tutorials are the gold standard.
🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Ben's tutorials are the gold standard.
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A 15 km long steep triangle of sunlight slices through the persistent winter shadows across the distorted surface of Logan Glacier, #Alaska, seen by #Sentinel-2 on Christmas Day 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A 15 km long steep triangle of sunlight slices through the persistent winter shadows across the distorted surface of Logan Glacier, #Alaska, seen by #Sentinel-2 on Christmas Day 2025.