If you think anything happened to your ballot, print a replacement! Don't worry about voting "twice", if they receive two ballots for your name they will reject the first one and only tally your votes from the second one. So when in doubt: do a replacement ballot!

#bellinghamwa #washingtonstate […]

The #macarthurfoundation videos for Tonika Lewis Johnson and Margaret Wickens Pearce are excellent summaries of their work:

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/tonika-lewis-johnson

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/margaret-wickens-pearce

#cartography #mapping […]

Ok, but speaking of that: if you find our little local instance useful (whether or not you are one of our 10 power users, maybe you just like supporting this service for others) please consider supporting our server costs with an (ideally recurring) donation at https://ko-fi.com/subduedsocial […]

(Perhaps last update for a while?)

After setting "remote content retention period" to 365 days, our database usage is at 11.27 GB out of 20 GB. That's not enough to let us downgrade from the $39/month plan to $19/month, but that's ok: at least now we have […]

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Ok, that content retention change reduced our database storage from 20GB to 17.93GB.

Since we are already now needing to suffer the consequences of some old remote messages going away, I'm going to switch our content retention period from 730 days to 365 days […]

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I have now set the "Remote content retention period" to 730 days (two years), and we will see if that has a substantial impact on our database storage. If our database doesn't decrease significantly, I will change this to 365 days.

#subduedsocial

@alan @stamen Google Trends shows what people are searching for (on Google only), but in terms of usage on webpages, Google search reports 1,520,000 results for "dataviz" and only 430,000 for "data viz" (although both of those numbers are lower than what I'd expect)

Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:

"Why are we changing maps?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI

#petersprojection #gallpetersprojection #gallpeters #mercator #mercatorprojection #mapprojections #maps […]

More about the #correctthemap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #equalearthprojection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html

#maps #cartography #mapprojections