Twinning! Something important is going on this week that will have world-wide implications! Like an egg splitting in half, a tropical wave gives birth twin tropical #cyclones in the Equatorial Pacific. Notice how one spins clockwise I the Northern Hemisphere, the other counterclockwise SH… 1/

Good morning team. I'm glad I posted this yesterday

Size of Iran vs Alaska (and the continental USA for scale). Hope that helps to make global news a tiny bit more relatable.

The severe environmental damage caused by decades of critical mineral extraction in China offers a stark lesson for countries now seeking to develop their own supplies. https://bit.ly/4cYGMH1

The “Flat Map” continues to make the rounds…this time the vaunted r/MapPorn subreddit… a lot of comments for an old thing. www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/...

The unsurprising irony that these three headlines occurred together…

It is hard to fathom that the State Department I spent 10 years at would ever conceive of, let alone build, such a thing.

Remember a few years ago when the Post had an all-star group of geographers and cartographers in the map / graphics shop? I do. This would have never happened.

Spectacular reporting by @wired.com

Can’t say it better than Morello does here…Minneapolis is an inspiration…and yeah, this song is a wholly appropriate anthem. www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckin...

🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔 @coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Please share. 💔

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

I’m proud of Minneapolis.

This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:

After the Trump admin started deleting video evidence of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from a DOJ server, a law firm secured a judge's order requiring the U.S. to restore the files. The firm has now partnered w/ @archive.org to permanently store them 👇 archive.org/details/@jan...

Five years ago.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Shameful.

I can’t stop watching it…just keeps getting funnier.

To the generation of people that grew up with a cell phone in their hand from day one, no, it is not acceptable to watch tv/listen to music/use speakerphone in a public place without headphones. How this element of social decorum has been eroded escapes me, it’s obvious you heathens.

Ooh, an earlier version of me would have loved this opportunity.

I’m confused by the “AI data center in space” conversations. If existing imaging & GPS satellites are vulnerable to attack because of their size, thus we must build constellations with more, smaller platforms, then how would we defend large in-orbit compute clusters? spacenews.com/beyond-the-h...

It’s a day to recognize the service of military veterans, but personally I also think of all the civilians who swore the same oath…”against all enemies, foreign and domestic”…whether it be NatSec, Intel, or regular Cabinet agencies, there are a lot of patriots the citizens should be proud of today.

Take 5 minutes and read this thread, you will learn something new.

…hope you do too.

Very strong group of nominations for @osgeo.bsky.social Charter Members this year. My votes are in, but I’d be excited for any and all to be voted in. Good luck to the nominees and look forward to seeing the bigger crew next week at @foss4gna.bsky.social in Reston. wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Mem...

The Reagan Foundation claims that Ontario misled viewers about what Reagan actually thought about tariffs and trade. I certainly hope people take a few minutes to watch the full speech and decide for themselves. m.youtube.com/watch?si=a9U...

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

#NoKings Miami!

Chaos has ensued in Tucson, Arizona... behold the mayhem! 39/

I mean, who needs ice breakers when you can fly, amirite?

Would make for fantastic street street art / agitprop in Downtown DC

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference By Andy Newman At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference. Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption

As a 3x alum of @universityofkansas.bsky.social…I will be watching this closely. History has a right and a wrong side, choose wisely.

#geospatial Bluesky friends, excited to present next month at #foss4gna on recent advances in the SpaceTimeID construct, applications beyond international borders for other spatial features & research and software gaps that need addressed. Real progress has been made. whova.com/embedded/ses...

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉 We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

This tells you everything you need to know about what is going on in the Caribbean. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

I'm old enough to remember this guy's predecessor as speaker calling into Fox News from a secure location on Jan. 6 to beg MAGA rioters to stop. "This is so un-American," he said, as the pro-Trump protesters attacked police.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship. Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.