Moriarty Maps
@moriartymaps.com
Cartography and graphics for the Washington Post @postgraphics.bsky.social | Big ol' fan of @wfmu.bsky.social
https://moriartymaps.com/
https://moriartymaps.com/
As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further.
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further.
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social
wapo.st/49zDc43
December 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
While in college, during a long weekend hang, myself and buds had the bright idea to improvise a recipe for 'beer pancakes' using Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss.
Every time Bari pops in the news I get flashbacks to those, the worst pancakes I've ever eaten.
Every time Bari pops in the news I get flashbacks to those, the worst pancakes I've ever eaten.
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
While in college, during a long weekend hang, myself and buds had the bright idea to improvise a recipe for 'beer pancakes' using Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss.
Every time Bari pops in the news I get flashbacks to those, the worst pancakes I've ever eaten.
Every time Bari pops in the news I get flashbacks to those, the worst pancakes I've ever eaten.
Well it's not correct but it is a good visual for my feelings towards Blender atm
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Well it's not correct but it is a good visual for my feelings towards Blender atm
Current workflow is simplified svg -> import to Blender as curves -> convert to mesh -> weep at what Blender's doing to my boys
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Current workflow is simplified svg -> import to Blender as curves -> convert to mesh -> weep at what Blender's doing to my boys
Folks who've gone from detailed GIS files to Blender... how on earth do you prep an svg so it can actually become a usable polygon and not a mesh of pain
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Folks who've gone from detailed GIS files to Blender... how on earth do you prep an svg so it can actually become a usable polygon and not a mesh of pain
For my own part, proudly sported an old Isle Royale shirt all today. Granted it's only tangentially related from it's shared home in the great lake.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For my own part, proudly sported an old Isle Royale shirt all today. Granted it's only tangentially related from it's shared home in the great lake.
Was just in Louisville and loved seeing all the painted signage downtown. The personality! How well each fits each of the surfaces!
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Was just in Louisville and loved seeing all the painted signage downtown. The personality! How well each fits each of the surfaces!
Highs and lows. Iggy Pop should have had a secondary career as a character actor, Jafar Panahi is a powerhouse director, horror movies should take more risks.
#letterboxdfriday
#letterboxdfriday
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Highs and lows. Iggy Pop should have had a secondary career as a character actor, Jafar Panahi is a powerhouse director, horror movies should take more risks.
#letterboxdfriday
#letterboxdfriday
Strong kinship with the commercially-minded but shotgun approach these artists are taking. OWL FRAME! Hot date with a pumpkin man! An army of pumpkin children will march towards your daughters in space!
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Strong kinship with the commercially-minded but shotgun approach these artists are taking. OWL FRAME! Hot date with a pumpkin man! An army of pumpkin children will march towards your daughters in space!
Been mildly surprised how few books there are collecting the best of em'. Found this one awhile ago and it's full of all sorts of incredible 1900 versions of the selfie setup and whimsy. Maybe I'm just googling wrong.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Been mildly surprised how few books there are collecting the best of em'. Found this one awhile ago and it's full of all sorts of incredible 1900 versions of the selfie setup and whimsy. Maybe I'm just googling wrong.
Just gotta be extra sensitive to hue, saturation, and tone. Work backwards from saturation/darkness = more. Color Oracle is a blessing here, giving a b/w view that better reveals how close the values actually are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Just gotta be extra sensitive to hue, saturation, and tone. Work backwards from saturation/darkness = more. Color Oracle is a blessing here, giving a b/w view that better reveals how close the values actually are.
Feel like I picked this up from Laris Karklis (one of his maps shown here), but I get a sense data viz overcorrected on avoiding rainbow gradients. Particularly for one-offs, you can use a surprising # of colors! Here the extremes pop way better than if it was just light blue -> dark blue.
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Feel like I picked this up from Laris Karklis (one of his maps shown here), but I get a sense data viz overcorrected on avoiding rainbow gradients. Particularly for one-offs, you can use a surprising # of colors! Here the extremes pop way better than if it was just light blue -> dark blue.
Spent this morning making a gradient for a map showing Hurricane Melissa's forecast rainfall, pretty chuffed with how it turned out.
Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Spent this morning making a gradient for a map showing Hurricane Melissa's forecast rainfall, pretty chuffed with how it turned out.
Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
no... that's not right.
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
no... that's not right.
Favorite automated-content-derived-from-Linkedin is still this re-pub of my hiring announcement at the Post. Just yoinked my profile picture which at the time was rotated in an act of rebellion and ran it as is uncropped.
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Favorite automated-content-derived-from-Linkedin is still this re-pub of my hiring announcement at the Post. Just yoinked my profile picture which at the time was rotated in an act of rebellion and ran it as is uncropped.
Found a site that's eaten a bunch of public Linkedin's and spat out ai-generated bios, complete with FAQ's that also spin yarns based on that profile.
Makes me thankful I stopped putting detailed info on that site, as it really reveals how vapid this stuff can be when there isn't data for it.
Makes me thankful I stopped putting detailed info on that site, as it really reveals how vapid this stuff can be when there isn't data for it.
September 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Found a site that's eaten a bunch of public Linkedin's and spat out ai-generated bios, complete with FAQ's that also spin yarns based on that profile.
Makes me thankful I stopped putting detailed info on that site, as it really reveals how vapid this stuff can be when there isn't data for it.
Makes me thankful I stopped putting detailed info on that site, as it really reveals how vapid this stuff can be when there isn't data for it.
Reminded of the fella from my hometown that got arrested because he accosted a couple of guys for speaking Spanish when they were actually speaking Hebrew.
Racial profiling is dumb! It's a dumb way to make decisions that hurts a whole lot of people just trying to live their lives.
Racial profiling is dumb! It's a dumb way to make decisions that hurts a whole lot of people just trying to live their lives.
September 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reminded of the fella from my hometown that got arrested because he accosted a couple of guys for speaking Spanish when they were actually speaking Hebrew.
Racial profiling is dumb! It's a dumb way to make decisions that hurts a whole lot of people just trying to live their lives.
Racial profiling is dumb! It's a dumb way to make decisions that hurts a whole lot of people just trying to live their lives.
Documentary artists making a home in the forgotten depths of the mall (it's phenomenal), quirky Man vs. Mayor flick (also fantastic), some misses, and a delightful amateur fantasy adventure that dreams bigger than it's capacity but manages to rule anyway (shot near DC in VA too!).
#LetterboxdFriday
#LetterboxdFriday
September 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Documentary artists making a home in the forgotten depths of the mall (it's phenomenal), quirky Man vs. Mayor flick (also fantastic), some misses, and a delightful amateur fantasy adventure that dreams bigger than it's capacity but manages to rule anyway (shot near DC in VA too!).
#LetterboxdFriday
#LetterboxdFriday
None of them ended with the subjects flying off into the sunset, ala' Pigeon Man, sadly, but it's a wild niche to dig into for a minute.
September 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
None of them ended with the subjects flying off into the sunset, ala' Pigeon Man, sadly, but it's a wild niche to dig into for a minute.
Samurai, Irish, barbarians, cars, and Icelandic Lynch. #LetterboxdFriday
August 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Samurai, Irish, barbarians, cars, and Icelandic Lynch. #LetterboxdFriday
Could be doing anything, or could be shoving infinite cookie ice cream sandwiches into a sack.
August 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Could be doing anything, or could be shoving infinite cookie ice cream sandwiches into a sack.