now that's how you get me to open your email

always nice when spaghetti models actually look like spaghetti

NEW author and cartographer interview on Belt's site! Vicky and Brent talk mapping Columbus ahead of the winter publication of Columbus in 50 Maps. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

THE BUFFALO FUCKING BILLS LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND EVERYONE INBETWEEN

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours! Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

This is what the new Taylor Swift album is about right youtu.be/Pj4y9M7cPy0?...

Why inclusion is necessary in mapping/signage/wayfinding. #GeoSky #GISchat

in case anyone was wondering if Hurricane Erin is like, really big // www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/hurr...

🎉 NACIS 2025 Registration is Open! 🎉 Head over to nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting to register at the member or student rate. Not a member yet? You can join or register as a non-member too! 🕓Early-bird deadline: October 4 🏨Don’t forget to book your hotel too. Our room block fills up fast.

Watching Hard Knocks I should really tally up all the times I say out loud, to no one, "Go Bills."

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

map reader???

data/cartography wish list: @beltpublishing.bsky.social is eager to expand our 50 Maps series to KC, MIL, MNPLS. If you are local and/or a cartographer, we'd love to chat ([email protected]) (NB: we are also accepting queries from cities outside the Rust Belt/Midwest)

big day for pulling my own hair out

I'm sorry, I like Jeremy Allen White, but it's just not possible to improve on "Counting with Bruce Springsteen." Don't try to repaint the Mona Lisa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIJ3...

map pals (@mapcenter.com?) any recs here?

There's a map room in the new Mission Impossible that blows Dr Strangelove's out of the water but, like, my dudes, I know you made those sets more recently than 2011...

📣 Calling all map enthusiasts! NACIS 2025 regular abstract submissions are due May 15. We encourage everyone to submit by the deadline. Watch for an extension, but don’t wait — get yours in now! Visit nacis.org/annual-meeti... to submit

can't believe this cord is no longer reliably charging my phone

Looking through my old notes and found this idea for a NACIS talk from a few years ago....your guess is as good as mine

here he comes

I've listened to Tusk so many times today spotify is going to stage an intervention.

Hey everybody, I have some news to share – I wrote a book! It’s about Columbus and it has maps (lots of maps!) created by the very talented @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social. It will be out on December 3, 2025 but you can preorder it now: beltpublishing.com/products/col...

my brand remains strong

reactivated bluesky to show you all this absolute freak peet

I have poured all of my anxieties into this one bills game I'm sure it'll go fine

hello from the buffalo airport bar where everyone is shouting BIG DUBS to each other

I almost feel bad for this guy

funniest chyron of all time, easily

I am going to visit every metro station in 2025.

HELEN'S HERE her work is always a treat as is her enormous cat so follow if you like either of those I guess

a rollercoaster

He says he doesn't really care about sports but after 15 years some things have stuck

Just want to highlight the publicly available information from CalFire, which is LAT's main source, for anyone who needs this information www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...

@pilgrimdear.bsky.social and I paid our respects to President Carter today ❤️

My dad called himself "the weather goose" and loved hearing how dc lost its mind preparing for storms. He would be having a ball right now.

Dang it is not looking good for the Bills today, January 3, 1993.

on view at the Phillips Collection, William Gropper's richly detailed America, Its Folklore and...what it led to

I've been told you're interested in watching Aaron Rodgers get sacked in his own end zone.

Pentagon metro ads are wild. This is for management software.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Geographer: It was formed by a retreating glacier, which eroded the landscape leaving a valley with steep walls behind.

Bloomberg's Mark Byrnes looks at the career of Buffalo Afro-American architect Robert Traynham Coles and efforts to save his modernist home. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I was just reading today about the Box Manufacturing Olympics, which are real and legitimately fascinating www.aiccbox.org/page/PDC

it's Partridge

Satellites in a “sun-synchronous” orbit travel over a spot on Earth at the same time each overpass—neatly illustrated by this sequence of Sentinel-2 images showing a ferry approaching the Greek island of Santorini just before noon EEST over several weeks in the summer of ’24. 🛰️🖼️

one time I was hanging around outside after hours and saw a guy swinging a broom at a bat flying around inside which today feels kind of like a fever dream (no less of a fever dream than all these zubaz in there though) (go bills)

pan-continental 28-person Conclave watchalong honestly a fantastic way to spend the evening

okay but we can all agree that hot dogs benedict from s1 e3 of Detroiters sounds amazing right

New from me, in Cartographic Perspectives: Ten Things to Consider When Making a Locator Map! cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/jo...