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Garrett Dash Nelson
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a polity is a place
Gen Z does not have the drive to run away and join Van Amberg’s Mammoth Circus & Menagerie in order to prep for a future career as a financial buccaneer
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Telling my children this is Danny Go’s full name
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For #30DayMapChallenge 3: Polygons, I'm re-sharing an old favorite: the 200 roundest waterbodies in Massachusetts. (Because technically a circle isn't a polygon ... except in GIS.)

glitch.leventhal.center/birds-eye-ca...
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
For #30DayMapChallenge 2: Lines, I've visualized the @mbta.com @mbta-cr.bsky.social Commuter Rail lines as they traverse geographies of very different home values outside of Boston.

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cc @masshousing.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A pointy-headed, pointless exercise for #30DayMapChallenge 1: Points.

All of the official “Point” names in Massachusetts, with ortho imagery from @massgis.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The most impressive part of all this:
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ghosts of unwritten books / in the land of undone things / unsung songs [W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. 1900] credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Now *this* is Abundance
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My daughter's reverse-side embellishment of this "digital citizens" handout makes me think she was working on commission for a magazine looking to illustrate a "dark side of the internet" longform essay this week
September 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Will be talking every day in my office, located in a Charles F. McKim-designed building, about how the people who wrote this are big dumb babies
August 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
August 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Most of us are familiar with the visual metaphor from "Leviathan" of a giant body politic made up of a mass of people. But Hobbes also offers another vivid organic reference: political sub-units like towns and corporations are akin to roundworms in poop.
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The world as seen from The Hub: equidistant radii around Boston.

Thunder Bay, St. John's, and Jacksonville are all about 1,000 miles away.

Accra, Ankara, Magadan, and Florianópolis are 5,000 miles away.

Newcastle and Surabaya are 10,000 miles away.
July 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
On my niche nemesis list: the person who decided this was a useful way to filter a historical collections search by date of publication
July 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Therefore"
July 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
@bencosgrove.bsky.social knows the secret passphrase that gets you access to the cans
June 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Epic Systems, which took in $4.6bn of revenue in 2022, has software that lists every single county in the US in a single dropdown menu.
March 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
March 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Whoops on accidentally Venmoing 80% of global annual GDP
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The only legitimate royal authority in the US
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I originally posted this in semi-jest, but in retrospect I think it really explains a lot about what went wrong over the past 5 years.
February 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Maybe this time they’ll finally nail Marlowe and Euripides
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
en_dash on twitter, May 8, 2007–January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM