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Good turnout for the Alex Pretti memorial ride in Baltimore today.

Baltimore cyclists showed out today to ride for Alex Pretti in opposition of ICE

Young Professionals in Transportation, Baltimore: January Happy Hour tonight 1/29/26! 6-8 pm at Wet City Brewing Complimentary appetizers will be available for all attendees, and YPT members receive one free drink ticket.

The actions of a pitiful, cowardly government

If you use #positron #rstats and #duckdb I'd love to know what you think of this: `duckdb-r-editor` a Positron extension for duckdb SQL code highlighting and completion within R files. github.com/belian-earth...

Tune in Jan 31 at 2pm EST to georeference maps with @oldinsurancemaps.net, historic photographs with @maprva.org , and then translate those to @openhistoricalmap.org!

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Oh, wow -- someone transcribed all of John Snyder's 1987 USGS manual on different map projections and how to calculate them! Awesome resource; it was getting tough to page through slow-loading images

🚦 We’re hiring a Chief of Traffic 🚦 We’re looking for a strong leader to guide our Traffic Division and help shape how people move safely across Baltimore.

OKAY APPARENTLY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS SO HERE YOU GO explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/720

Check out the map of Lime trips utilizing the 28th Street separated bike lane. A slightly different reality than opponents' contention it only serves Remington.

Beautiful exhibit at The Peale with works by Baltimore City students sharing their experiences with public transit. Heartbreaking/inspiring to hear how children deal with a system that doesn’t prioritize their needs or safety. Baltimore’s history of racist segregation looms large.

Excited to see another extendr-powered spatial package in the #rstats ecosystem! <3 Want to dip your toes in Rust for R devs? Check out our "Rust for R Developers" and @me with any questions 🐇 extendr.rs/intro-rust/

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

It seems that Curbed has now been disappeared, too. It's of course great that the Wayback Machine exists — but we shouldn't have a media ecosystem in which we depend on a nonprofit to preserve "content" monetized by commercial outlets with zero obligation to preservation and access

Introducing gdalcli by Andrew Brown -- an R frontend to GDAL’s unified CLI (≥3.11) 🌐 Compose and execute GDAL workflows with pipe-friendly functions. Learn more: github.com/brownag/gdal... #RStats #GDAL #Geospatial #OpenSource #RSpatial

Baltimore people, good condition full size box spring, breaks down to move. Free, you haul, please repost. I'm not on FB Marketplace. Thanks!

HEY BALTIMORE PULLING OUT OF THE PLANCKINSULA CAN WE GO BACK TO CALLING IT PORT COVINGTON NOW www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...

I really appreciate @thebaltimorebanner.com for their local coverage... But the headline here is that the cost of this highway/bridge expansion doubled, up to $17 billion - with little/no public acknowledgement leading up to today's vote, AFAICT Not that a possible bike/ped path would add maybe 6%

LA City Bureau of Street Services stopped doing actual full street resurfacing, shifting to only “large asphalt repair”. The city is trying to avoid adding wheelchair access required during resurfacing. It’s ridiculous, counterproductive, and expensive!

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

A friend & colleague of my father sent me this. When he started managing a box office 40+ years ago, he felt like he didn’t understand the entertainment business, so my dad made him this drawing, which he kept for his entire career, which eventually led to managing concert halls.

This is a good article that goes into some of the larger issues with Kanopy: filmquarterly.org/2019/05/03/k...

Free public registration is now open for the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice, 1/15/26 at the MLK Library in DC. Registration is free. We've got three sessions across four tracks. Confirmed speakers include Robert Bullard, Anna Zivarts, Naomi Doerner, and Gretchen Goldman.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

#r5rgui has been on CRAN for a few days now! Your handy helper to quickly visually explore routes built by #rstats #r5r (@urbandemog.bsky.social), powered by #mapgl (@kylewalker.bsky.social). Learn more at www.ekotov.pro/r5rgui/

I’m teaching #rstats and #rspatial to a mix of geographers and data science folks at UMBC this spring. I’ve used RStudio in class for the last three years but I’ve switched over to #Positron for all of my own programming. Do folks consider Positron a “pro tool” only? Or is it good to learn on?

"SERIES 78, AERO SPACE DEFENSE COMMAND BOX 1 OF 2 V-0092," slide 16 of 38 [gallery]

My slow boys (gender neutral) feel me

Looking for critical/STS/media studies work on the "data lake." Anyone? 😬

Really unfortunate building fire on the 3100 block of Barclay Street this morning. No one got hurt, thankfully, but the building looks rough. #Baltimore

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Baltimore parents and caregivers: PCAB is asking for feedback on your child's/children's transit experience. Bit.ly/PCABtransportation Cc @drberger.bsky.social @carolsott.bsky.social @onetjesse.bsky.social @elipousson.bsky.social @jogadsby.bsky.social @mskerrygraham.bsky.social

man, those later animorphs books got a little sidetracked

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

I gave a talk on #QA in #GitHub: ditch the spreadsheets, embed QA in your workflow, make it a habit. More details ⬇️ 🛝 slides: statsrhian.github.io/qa-in-github 📝 blog post: rhian.rbind.io/posts/2025-1... #rstats #rap #quality-assurance

{sqltargets} 0.3.0 just hit CRAN, now includes the ability to pass 'dbi' parameters into queries. Turns out using SQL with #rstats {targets} is pretty fun! github.com/daranzolin/s...

like many folks I did not know that parking in bike lanes technically wasn’t illegal in Montgomery County, at least until this week. now we just need MCPD to enforce it— www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

I threw together a hacky first blush at creating package for the Allmaps MapLibre plugin (allmaps.org/docs/package...), now I can peruse georeferenced maps in #Rstats! github.com/mhpob/allmaps I'm a complete JS novice and using this as a foil to learn, so I will greedily accept any suggestions.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3 - Polygons Land use distribution of Mong Kok, Hong Kong Classified into 6 major categories: built structure, open space, carriageway, footway, alleyway, others

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...

REMINDER: Free Early Bird registration for Cranksgiving ends on November 4th. After that, you will have to pay a late registration fee to participate. So register now! Can't ride? We also need a ton of volunteers. Join us! www.bikemore.net/cranksgiving...

I can't believe I've never seen this photo before

Interested in teaching spatial data skills for urbanism? 🗺️ The Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism (TU Delft / thecarpentries) seeks beta pilot workshops. Details 👉 https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/10/geospatial-data-carpentry-for-urbanism/ #rstats #gis #carpentries #rspatial

Creating large and complex projects in #Rstats can get messy really quick. Once I've learned the advantages of using the {targets} package to orchastrate my code I never looked back. #tipoftheday Use targets! books.ropensci.org/targets/ Kudos to @ropensci.org team behind this !

I've started working on an R package that makes it easy to write Typst markup dynamically! #rstats It's still in its early stages, but it implements: - ✅ all Typst functions - ✅ set rules - ✅ conversion from R to Typst (`NULL` becomes `none`, etc) - ✅ no dependencies github.com/y-sunflower/r2typ