we're off to a good start, play it cool youtu.be/Q_UjVpIdxWs?...

"we are going for all humanity" 🥲

Saw both "No ICE, No Kings, No Ranch On Wings" and "No ICE, No Kings, No Goal" on signs today because Buffalo is, above all else, extremely Buffalo.

New tutorial post on the blog: "Urban Relativity," discussing my method for comparing city populations with their surroundings, which I sometimes use to help decide which cities to show on a map, and which to leave off. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/u...

is it just me or is UCLA's logo not centered? is it supposed to be like that?

Billikens have a giant in swim goggles who moves like it's his first day in a human suit and somehow he is REALLY GOOD at basketball???

People wearing yellow cheering "Let's go blue!" for a team wearing white. I have much to learn.

I have a joke about geography...it's around here somewhere...

Genuinely one of the most compelling youtube videos I've seen in ages. youtu.be/6HgD3v1ASP4?...

HAYLEY SCAMURRA at the Sabres game

well which is it

I was checking in on TD Nuri and feel it is my duty to inform you that the Japan Meteorological Agency has a cute little guy who runs across the screen as the page loads. www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.ht...

great mail day (@alexandragallant.com)

what's your sign?

At a craft beer fest, discussing our favorite off brand antacids....I'm 40 all right.

Rian Johnson's The Westing Game

Can't believe the previous resident didn't update her address with Cranky Gut? magazine.

Taylor and I are definitely in the top 1% of people talking about The Adventures of Brisco County Jr (but by reading this skeet you are probably in the top 10%)

romance is alive

Someone on reddit noted that Franjo von Allmen's wiki photo is like a cryptid sighting and well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franjo_...

nbc just cut into an ice dance performance to air a commercial but not even a full commercial just like five seconds of one....what I didn't want to see the ad to be clear this was just like, they fucked up fucking up.

when you have to keep insisting it's the normal hill...what are you trying to hide

I've been following women's ski jumping/flying since 2019 so I feel qualified to say: I hope they all tie for gold.

Wrote a little thing about work my class is doing this semester in a historically Black cemetery in town. Yet major map providers don't even show the cemetery space on their maps. Our work is trying to fill that cartographic void. www.communitymappinglab.org/blog/the-abs...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

scene report: every dog in Barcelona is exactly the same size

time for the traditional post-flight dissection of the insane movie choices of the guy a row ahead of us

just want to make sure we all saw this

wanted to celebrate some third tier regional cuisine for Bills v Jags so we're making stuffed banana pepper Lubis

now this is how you do a headshot

I can't believe Simon Ammann is still competing!!! Matt Prater of ski jumping I love him.

Resetting my decade-dormant Letterboxd account and there are movies on here that I don't remember seeing or that they exist at all. Like what the hell was PAUL and why did I give it three and a half stars?

one thing I learned about myself in 2025: I really like barbecue sauce on a burger.

"You have to use AI." ...why?

Seahawks playing outside the chromatic scale tonight I guess?

Wow, what a great article from @matternews.bsky.social on the book. Thanks @andydowning33.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to me about it (and for coming up with that headline!)

Huge day in map land! Cincinnati in 50 Maps AND Columbus in 50 Maps are out today. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/col... @brentincolumbus.bsky.social @awoodruff.bsky.social @buffalomaps.bsky.social

it's tempting to say "hasn't everything already been mapped?" but real heads know it's actually anything that starts with that one episode of the west wing

Books that start with maps. End with maps. Have maps in the middle. A lot of maps. Upwards of 49 maps. I know a couple good ones coming out tomorrow! beltpublishing.com/products/col... beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

Badgers snap hits the guy in motion, Minnesota recovers. Snow football, baby

Sabres in-arena dj doing his level best to hype the crowd up with Unwritten this is not a serious team

The Mirage by Zay Smith & Pamela Zekman, a bunch of reporters operate a Chicago dive bar in order to uncover corruption in the '70s. It is WILD.

A late entry into today's #30daymapchallenge theme of OpenStreetMap, all 30-odd polygons on Spain's tiny Isla de Alborán, which I stumbled upon largely thanks to my ergonomic mouse's increasingly unreliable scroll wheel.

During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a marble statue of Louis Agassiz fell from 2nd floor of Stanford's Zoology building into main quad. Professor Frank Angell reportedly quipped: "Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete." The statue was unharmed, returned to its perch...

You're going to look at this and be like, really? All that grey is parking??? That can't be right. And then you're going to look at a google (or bing, I don't know your life) maps image of downtown Buffalo and be like, dang. ( #30daymapchallenge today is polygons)

Sean’s always been in Buffalo. Go Bills!!!

I haven't done the #30daymapchallenge for the past few years due to grad school, book deadlines, work travel, or some combination thereof. But I have none of that going on this year, sooooo.......

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!

I don't suppose anyone out there has a compilation of all the nfl field goal attempts for last season? I need it for normal reasons.