Patriot, and it's sister show Perpetual Grace, LTD are among the best TV shows made in the past decade. It's criminal that Steven Conrad's troupe couldn't catch a break for more seasons of either show. Glad it's still in some folks consciousness!

Californians Approve Measure To Redraw ‘Garfield’ https://theonion.com/californians-approve-measure-to-redraw-garfield/

Has been fascinating on Instagram seeing obvious scam ads along the lines of "Our jewelry business was doing ok but now we've both got cancer so we're closing up shop... 75% off everything!"... and quickly finding a dozen sites in the same format, same merch, same story pitch. Gross, gross stuff.

Sign painting (or at least that aesthetic) rules because it implies a human hand was involved in it. Seeps intention, clever visual hierarchy, and charm.

It's been a long journey (>1 year since I began), but there's finallt a public release of the oblique hachures method. With many thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, who significantly refined the methodology from what I began with. Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

Gaah illustrated turn of the century postcards are so wonderful. publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

Merry spooky day 🦇 🌙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1f...

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

To any Boston-area map people who might still be with me on this site: head down to our southern neighbor Thursday evening for Maptime! I guarantee this is the closest thing to Maptime Boston you’re going see in the foreseeable future. www.mapcenter.com/maptimeri

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...

no... that's not right.

Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it. So I checked. They're not using it. 🎁 wapo.st/4qokjaC

You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same wapo.st/43ijIxq

Irish bands taking over the world within 5 years www.businessinsider.com/ireland-basi...

New piece: How the treetop canopy of D.C. is changing due to climate change. Story by @marissajae.bsky.social , tree illos by Tucker Harris, data by @jdharden.bsky.social , and maps by yours truly. wapo.st/48ymmCI

The lead story on The Washington Post today is about the No Kings rallies, and it’s already drawn 5,000-plus comments. I was browsing the top replies, which come from all over the country but hit similar notes: the rallies were peaceful, unifying and focused on protecting democracy and rule of law.

A cahoot of cartographers

Louise Haupert presenting a map of the Mississippi River carved into black cherry: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1938... I love seeing #cartography made tangible. #NACIS2025

This years #nacis subgenre, woodworking?

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users. Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social wapo.st/4obueib

Hello friends! No, Maptime HQ is not "back", we are still on indefinite hiatus. But! There are still many decentralized #maptime chapters that are active around the world, so we wanted to create a centralized MaptimeHQ account to *occasionally* repost that mappy goodness. We miss you all! ❤️🌈

exactly! Data corralling takes time, data processing takes time, design takes time... I like the ambitious dream of the challenge, but the ask on the tin is a bit misleading unless people start working on it well ahead of time.

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow. I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography. #gigeconomy #opentowork

It's a fun challenge, but will continue to advocate that a 'map a day' is an unrealistic lift. A blast to brainstorm on, enjoyable to attempt if you work on them in advance, but more a vehicle to discover a few great projects you wouldn't otherwise than a 30-day-map-sprint.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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.

New by me: OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues. Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

Pandora is "fine", but damn does it rob you what it's like to lock in with a stranger over music. These radio show archives are ships-in-a-bottle -- vibrant, living, incredible testaments by beautiful people and you can spend your time listening to them instead.

R.I.P Mom Whig -- the Fierce and Fabulous Matriarch of the WFMU Rock 'n Soul Stream. Her last Drop In Show here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Thanks Mom. We love you always. #WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

The Moon's been on point this past week.

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.

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

Earlier this year I found multiple documentaries on racing pigeons – really fascinating subculture that hoo boy got grotesque with the money.

Talked at length to an anti-vaxxer during the pandemic and among the biggest headaches was the articles quoting CDC data but ignoring the caveats, descriptions, or footnotes like these. Being honest about a datasets limitations and margin-of-error is important and nontrivial!

Great analysis of how Grok's political bias has changed. NYT tested Grok on a political bias survey, using different versions of its system prompt. Shows much tweaking these system prompts affects model outputs. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html

Samurai, Irish, barbarians, cars, and Icelandic Lynch. #LetterboxdFriday

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

DC folks, they're doing a screening of 'The Msot Beautiful Deaths in the World' at Latin American Film Festival up in Silver Spring! Can't recommend highly enough. silver.afi.com/movies/detai...

Washington Post story about the Katrina Declaration [Gift link] wapo.st/4mu7HfL 1/4

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Quite the satellite view of Erin at 11:20a. A large hurricane w/ tropical-storm-force winds up to 265 miles from center. Strong Cat 2, forecast to reach Cat 3 later today. While it will bring dangerous rip currents, tides, waves & erosion to beaches, core will remain several hundred miles offshore.

Over the last weekend, hit up a small Virginia coastal town that had a lovely museum. Lots of family histories, photos, artifacts, beaming with pride for their community. Among the histories was one about how in the 1910's the town's entire black population of 120 were run out.

A night or so before they did this the DC Bike Party ended up at this park. A couple hundred people, enjoying each other's company after a nice ride over some local beers and food. Even had a Ben & Jerry's catering truck to everyone's delight. "Taking America back baby" give me a break.

The president’s manipulation of government data has "invited comparisons to information control in autocratic countries. 'It’s basically a page from the authoritarian playbook'" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Welp, folks. We did it. We settled the debate about Uptown's borders. www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...