Michael Allen
@mjallen176.bsky.social
B: 343ppm - @CALUWX 2x @KentState Alumnus - @TowsonU GEOG Climate - 412 Homer - 2023 Serbia @FulbrightPrgrm- Heat kills - #ActOnClimate 🚴♀️🍻🐝 📚
Pinned
Michael Allen
@mjallen176.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Having lived in Serbia during Fulbright, I am excited to announce opportunity. Interested in learning about the Balkans, drink rakiya, visit Sarajevo, Tito's Bunker or a 16th-century Ottoman-era bridge? Share with networks that may be interested such topics. #professionaldevelopment #geography
Baltimore. This is shitty
State environmental officials estimate 1.7 million gallons of raw sewage drained into Baltimore's Jones Falls this week, the latest in the city's long struggle to get a handle on wastewater overflows. www.thebanner.com/community/cl...
Overflow of raw sewage into Jones Falls upped to 1.7 million gallons
The volume of raw sewage that flowed into the Jones Falls, the stream that cuts through the heart of Baltimore before emptying into the harbor, was bigger than first reported, Maryland environmental r...
www.thebanner.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Baltimore. This is shitty
Precedent exists (Urgenda 2019, etc.), so I am genuinely curious to see if this climate case holds water… any examples in U.S.?
South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
apnews.com/article/sout...
South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
apnews.com/article/sout...
South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
Rice farmer Hwang Seong-yeol and four other South Korean growers have sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corp. and its power-generating subsidiaries, alleging their reliance on coal and other...
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Precedent exists (Urgenda 2019, etc.), so I am genuinely curious to see if this climate case holds water… any examples in U.S.?
South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
apnews.com/article/sout...
South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage
apnews.com/article/sout...
Reposted by Michael Allen
Literally gagging at this.
Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.
Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Literally gagging at this.
Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.
Whether 15, 8, or 5, they are all CHILDREN. A 15-year-old is not "barely legal" - she is a CHILD. Not legal. Not OK. Pre-pubescent or post-pubescent, they are all children. Do not normalize this.
Magically struck.
A human hit and killed a pedestrian.
There, I fixed it…
A human hit and killed a pedestrian.
There, I fixed it…
Pedestrian fatally struck by vehicle in Baltimore County
Pedestrian fatally struck by vehicle in Baltimore County
A pedestrian was hit and killed by a vehicle near Rossville Boulevard and Rolling View Avenue just north of Overlea on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Magically struck.
A human hit and killed a pedestrian.
There, I fixed it…
A human hit and killed a pedestrian.
There, I fixed it…
Last year on this day, a student wished me a happy 50th birthday…. 🥴
Today, I’m crossing 7,000 cycling miles for the year.
Most since 12,604 of 2021.
Today, I’m crossing 7,000 cycling miles for the year.
Most since 12,604 of 2021.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Last year on this day, a student wished me a happy 50th birthday…. 🥴
Today, I’m crossing 7,000 cycling miles for the year.
Most since 12,604 of 2021.
Today, I’m crossing 7,000 cycling miles for the year.
Most since 12,604 of 2021.
Reposted by Michael Allen
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge asked us to think about accessibility. @gsagostini.bsky.social considers two metrics of access simultaneously: distance to a Subway and distance to the subway.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge asked us to think about accessibility. @gsagostini.bsky.social considers two metrics of access simultaneously: distance to a Subway and distance to the subway.
Reposted by Michael Allen
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
If you need me, I’ll be on my bike… after teaching, of course.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you need me, I’ll be on my bike… after teaching, of course.
But his emails….
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
But his emails….
Leave the leaves, Hon
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Leave the leaves, Hon
Every major news agency needs to air the Epstein vote.
Live.
Hold elected officials to account.
Live.
Hold elected officials to account.
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Every major news agency needs to air the Epstein vote.
Live.
Hold elected officials to account.
Live.
Hold elected officials to account.
“Release the Files” was the drumbeat of 2024 election.
So, release the files.
So, release the files.
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Release the Files” was the drumbeat of 2024 election.
So, release the files.
So, release the files.
One of my fondest memories is being called a ‘nutty professor’ on Twitter for my February 16, 2016 Virginian Pilot article entitled “Congressman should lead on climate”.
Then watching voters elect Elaine Luria to Congress in 2018. #VA02
(Article is no longer available, but I have receipts).
Then watching voters elect Elaine Luria to Congress in 2018. #VA02
(Article is no longer available, but I have receipts).
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One of my fondest memories is being called a ‘nutty professor’ on Twitter for my February 16, 2016 Virginian Pilot article entitled “Congressman should lead on climate”.
Then watching voters elect Elaine Luria to Congress in 2018. #VA02
(Article is no longer available, but I have receipts).
Then watching voters elect Elaine Luria to Congress in 2018. #VA02
(Article is no longer available, but I have receipts).
U.S., today:
a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn
ALT: a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
U.S., today:
Maps tell stories. What do you see?
A thread re: SNP benefit recipients (2023).
Source: thehill.com/homenews/557...
A thread re: SNP benefit recipients (2023).
Source: thehill.com/homenews/557...
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Maps tell stories. What do you see?
A thread re: SNP benefit recipients (2023).
Source: thehill.com/homenews/557...
A thread re: SNP benefit recipients (2023).
Source: thehill.com/homenews/557...
Discussed today in class.
Timely… or not
Timely… or not
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Discussed today in class.
Timely… or not
Timely… or not
Look up data and realize it's for the wrong date :-/
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Look up data and realize it's for the wrong date :-/
Rules for thee but not for me (or my rich friends).
The "he" is in quotation marks because as Trump admitted in re: the Binance founder, he doesn't know anything about some of them. Is Ed Whelan, the DOJ pardon attorney, freelancing? For example, how did this fellow get to the President's desk?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
Trump Pardons Runner Who Took Prohibited Shortcut on Grand Teton
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Rules for thee but not for me (or my rich friends).
Downtown: 33F
Towson: 30F
Let’s ride
Towson: 30F
Let’s ride
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Downtown: 33F
Towson: 30F
Let’s ride
Towson: 30F
Let’s ride
“These young girls died because a for-profit camp put profit over safety”
Camp Mystic lawsuit filed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Camp Mystic lawsuit filed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Suits Accuse Camp Mystic of Gross Negligence in Children’s Deaths
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“These young girls died because a for-profit camp put profit over safety”
Camp Mystic lawsuit filed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Camp Mystic lawsuit filed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Did you know you can view and download old historic weather maps?
Here’s one from 10 November 1975, as we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Source: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dwm/dwm.shtml
Here’s one from 10 November 1975, as we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Source: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dwm/dwm.shtml
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Did you know you can view and download old historic weather maps?
Here’s one from 10 November 1975, as we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Source: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dwm/dwm.shtml
Here’s one from 10 November 1975, as we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Source: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dwm/dwm.shtml
Winter is coming.
Salt Box season is here, Baltimore…
Salt Box season is here, Baltimore…
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Winter is coming.
Salt Box season is here, Baltimore…
Salt Box season is here, Baltimore…
Here’s to you, Edmund Fitzgerald…. 🫡
Few ships in Great Lakes history are as legendary as the Edmund Fitzgerald, especially across Northern Ohio, which was home to nearly half the 29 seamen who went down with the lake freighter in a fierce storm 50 years ago today – Nov. 10, 1975.
Fifty years later, the legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald lives on
The crew of the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald included seven men from Northeast Ohio who went down with the ship in a wicked storm on Lake Superior.
www.cleveland.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here’s to you, Edmund Fitzgerald…. 🫡
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Hello Old Woman Winter
An arctic blast dumping snow on the Midwest is expected to eventually cover two-thirds of the nation and bring record cold to the South.
Arctic blast to bring frigid temperatures to most of the U.S.
More than 105 million are under winter weather bulletins with several states expected to see lows 10 to 25 degrees below normal.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hello Old Woman Winter