Pollution hotspots exposed in stunning new carbon maps: www.earth.com/news/america...

Road to Denali. June, 2025.

"Mirage" - yours truly at Cloud Gate, 2009

🧵 My old collection of >100 high resolution images taken by Pleiades satellites between 2013 and 2021. My processing skills weren't very good and Bsky can't show full res, but here they are. I'm planning to add more from time to time. 1. Beijing-Daxing Airport terminal in China ( 2021-10-26 ).

Happy Winter Solstice for all my northern hemisphere homies. The days get longer from here.

By protecting Trump and his major donors from being prosecuted for sex crimes against minors, the United States Department of Justice is complicit in child sex trafficking. Will NO ONE in power stand up to this shit?

Some semesters invigorate me and want me to continue my role as an educator. Other semesters make me think I should just do something else, like focus on landscape photography. This semester had loads of both.

"Choose America or choose Trump" - pretty much sums up what we are confronted with. As always, thanks @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social

This group of graduate students just completed their final course with me. It has been a joy and privilege to be a part of their educational journey.

Dear Illinois Legislature, Please redo the election maps so that republicans can hold ZERO seats. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Again, excellent reading. Please take time to like, follow & subscribe to @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social. He’s the real deal and can articulate things in meaningful, tangible ways.

The seat of Schuyler County, immediately south of where I live.

Everyone should read this. Excellent stuff.

Father-son activity. Today I taught #2 son my mashed potatoes recipe today.

The f$#king SECRETARY OF EDUCATION doesn’t know the difference between “less” and “fewer”. Only the best people, amiright?

The Original

Dream comes true. I was at Wrigley Field this morning and saw the World Series trophy.

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

It’s Geography Awareness Week. As part of celebrating, I give three cheers to the late Bill Griffin (Western Illinois University) and Andy Goetz (University of Denver), my Master’s thesis & PhD dissertation advisors.

It’s always a special treat when @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social speaks to my classes!

I can clearly see the homogeneity of the data in that cell.

New to me so sharing -- for those of you who didn't know, there's a font available that gives you tiny US state shapes that can be used as design elements. it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org propublica.github.io/stateface/ (thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !) #GISChat

As the weather turns cold in my neck of the woods, I picked up some required reading from @johnfugelsang.bsky.social. I’m looking forward to discussing bing in!

Nice!

If we’re going to go down the path of saying that recipients of federal programs are lazy people gaming the system, shall be not first talk about the rich folks who don’t pay taxes, got PPP loans fraudulently & had them forgiven, and all the other ways they rig the system?

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.

A lot of people are going to be hungry stating tomorrow and will be looking for assistance. Will you be part of the community that feeds the hungry or are you part of the Gold Toilet Posse who pushes the lie that SNAP benefits are being used by those who are gaming the system.

Hurricane #Melissa update: imagery from dawn until about 2:00 pm local time, when the eye was squarely over Jamaica. At landfall sustained winds were about 185 mph, making Melissa one of the strongest hurricanes ever.

✋🏻Hands in the air if you’ve had a PERFECT MRI!

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Hey, you Trump Christians, the Sermon on the Mount did not say "Blessed are the Oligarchs", "Blessed are the Tyrants", "Blessed are the Warmongers", and "Screw the Poor and Hungry, because you aren't my problem". www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Yeah #LongBeach is a bit busy at the moment.

Today was Day #1 of the Illinois GIS Association (ILGISA) conference. It warmed my heart to be around so many past and present WIU students.

We had over 500 folks show up for the #NoKings rally in Macomb, IL (population 15,000ish).

The first image from Macomb, Illinois’ #NoKings Rally #MacombIL

We're hiring! Our department has a tenure-track opening in support of our GIS programs. wiu.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

I think I figured it out. Trump is a modern-day Rube Waddell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Wa...

Remember Trump’s BS “Try to impeach this” map? Seeing how the buffoon doesn’t read, let’s give him a map. www.nokings.org#map

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Just another day in the United States. At least four people were killed and 20 injured early Sunday in a shooting at a bar in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. breaking.iavian.net/article/4098...

What we know: 1. Trump is a Russian asset 2. Putin has kompromat on Trump 3. Trump thinks that violence is acceptable to further his goals 4. The Republican party is actively trying to destroy democracy 5. Trump views himself as a mob boss whose rule is absolute

I hope that Trump & Co. are Golden Rule aficionados. They deserve to be treated the way they have treated all of us who aren't stupid enough to be MAGA.

Fuck Trump. Fuck Miller. Fuck Bannon. Fuck Joe Rogan. Fuck anyone who enabled this attack on our constitutional republic.

Today is Nigeria’s Independence Day and my student brought an agbádá for me to wear during my cartography course. It was a lively lecture!