Thanks to @theorcacard.bsky.social, I get a nice snapshot of my transit use! Top 15% of Route Explorers?! I'll take it. And I fully recognize this is by choice whereas for many it is not. For them, and all of us, we desperately need more routes, more frequency, more drivers 🙏, and more investment.

“Within just six months of implementation, daily maximum PM2.5 in the CRZ declined by 22%, controlling for background concentrations, meteorology, and neighborhood demographics.” #congestionpricing www.nature.com/articles/s44...

As in-person working declines and AI takes off, data center spending is set to overtaken investment in office space (according to data from the US Census). via @financialtimes.com and @adamtooze.bsky.social

This was quite the river…

"US natural gas prices are soaring as the country ships record amounts of the fuel overseas, contributing to an affordability crisis that is causing political problems for Donald Trump"...who said rising cost concerns is a 'con job by the Democrats'. @financialtimes.com via @adamtooze.bsky.social

In 2025, wind and solar have accounted for over 78% of electricity generation in the UK33 during specific hours, and over 79% in Germany. via @adamtooze.bsky.social

@stuartelden.bsky.social Have you posted your ‘music of 2025’ list yet? 🙏

Recent analysis conducted for the Puget Sound Regional Transportation Plan shows higher income areas tend to have more concentration of electric vehicles. Still, just 6% of the vehicles in King County are EVs.

I agree! 🌎🌍🌏😆

“…designing networks that can move people quickly between different parts of the broader region in concert with well-routed, well-scheduled, and (hopefully) frequent buses has been shown time and again to provide success.”

I bought some polar coordinate post-it notes @presentcorrect.bsky.social together with a 1-31 calendar booklet. Here's a month-long daily thread to reacquaint my hand and head to handwriting...while curbing my Cartesian proclivity and questioning my Western centricity.

“…market allocations can never be assumed to achieve the “optimal” outcome, as they are always the product of unequal power relations.”

Next time you're following your phone through unfamiliar streets, notice: which city are you seeing — the one that exists, or the one the algorithm wants you to see? And which one are you helping to create? @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

30 years ago UCSB ( @spatialucsb.bsky.social ), we were democratizing cartography with GIS. The critical questions — about what maps might do *to* us not just *for* us — were less discussed. Now we're living those questions. @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

Watched locals navigate their Lisbon while tourists followed algorithmic recommendations to the next Instagrammable spot. Same streets, different maps. Platform algorithms don't just show the city. They actively produce it. @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

There's something dizzying about studying a system from within its grasp. Like trying to map a maze while still lost inside it. On critically existing inside the platforms we use and critique. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

Who decides what gets mapped? Whose reality does the map represent? What work does the map do in the world? These questions question my geography undergrad...especially as I follow blue dots through ancient streets. @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

75% of Republicans and Republican leaners also say this, up from 56% in early 2024 and 61% in 2019. 83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say such language should be avoided. That is unchanged since we first asked the question in 2019.

Got lost in Lisbon following Apple Maps while attending a digital geography conference. The irony? We were there to critique the very platforms reshaping the city beneath our feet. On complicity, maps, and the worlds we create. @geographers.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/an-economi...

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Western economic hegemony (pink and green) getting squeezed from the bottom (Asia) and top (rest of the world). The US came on strong but its post WWII US dominance appears to be fading. H/T @adamtooze.bsky.social

Systems reproduce through relationships that shape identities. New piece on how capitalism locks in—and how alternatives from land trusts to buffalo restoration interrupt the spirals. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

How does theft become structure? How does violence become normal? New essay traces feedback loops from enclosure to contemporary debt extraction. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

Path dependencies aren't neutral—they're maintained by those who benefit. New essay on how geographic hierarchies persist through active enforcement, not inertia. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

Capitalism spreads by destroying alternatives. What got displaced? English commons, indigenous economies, African land systems. New essay on geographies of dispossession. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

How did English commons destruction become global extraction? New piece on capitalism's geographic origins—violence as emergent property, not externality. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

New essay: capitalism emerged through centuries of accumulated violence creating self-reinforcing patterns. Traces enclosure → plantations → global lock-in using complexity geography. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...

62% of Americans say they don't closely follow professional or college sports. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

In 1570, Henry Billingsley made history by publishing the first English translation of Euclid’s Elements. He embedded pop-up three-dimensional models into the pages. Centuries ago one man used paper engineering to bring math to life. h/t Ali Kaya beyondeuclid.substack.com

As late as 2020, it was a two-horse race with the US still in play. Now, China cranks out more than twice the wind turbines of the US and Europe combined. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

#Population trends decouple from #emissions trends. It’s about policy and possibility. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

While Trump thought he could bring back ship building to America, his repulsion repels potential customers. “Japanese companies plowed a record $17 billion Down Under last year, and 2025 figures nearly match that.” Via @adamtooze.bsky.social

"...the real story here might be the EU, where investment jumped 63% from the second half of 2024 to ~$76 billion, double the paltry $37 billion in the US. In fact, the EU and the US swapped places as the world’s second-biggest destination for green capital after China." via @adamtooze.bsky.social

Wyoming, Connecticut, California, and Texas are the US states with the highest inequality. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social via @itif.org 👉 itif.org/publications...

Most African migration is within the continent, with less than 1% moving outside. Improved migration systems, bilateral labor agreements, and new skill development could lead to widespread prosperity. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Complexity will continue, with or without us. The wager is no longer whether to master the wave. It is whether we can learn to inhabit it without denying the unequal costs it exacts. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Nazaré’s canyon turns swells into monsters. Some ride them, others drown. So too with the Anthropocene: complexity persists, but justice demands asking whose lives are lifted, and whose are pulled under.@[email protected] @DialoguesHG @geopolitics @[email protected] interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Speculative realism reminds us the world is indifferent. Metamodernism asks us to oscillate—between cosmic order and human mess, between despair and tragic optimism. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

The Holocene’s “safe operating space” is behind us. Talk of looming risks obscures reality: destabilization is already here, and its costs are unevenly borne. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

Physics sketches elegant arcs across cosmic time. Geography drags us back to ground: uneven lives, fractured histories, and precarity. The wager is not abstract—it is lived. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

We live in the fleeting middle: a cosmos born simple, growing complex, destined to end simple again. The question is not whether complexity continues, but whether we can dwell meaningfully within it. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...

My Substack, interplace.io, has been indexed by the AI lords (Perplexity in this case). Circularity in the singularity. (I guess I was too lazy to look it up in my own work!) 🤭

Hurricane Erin moves northward near the East Coast in this satellite imagery over the last couple of days. As it pulls away to the east, Erin is undergoing extratropical transition.

The sun rises on massive and strengthening Hurricane Erin. The storm is expected to stay offshore, but some of its effects will be felt all along the East Coast.

A very swirly eye at the center of Hurricane Erin.

Most electricity in the Netherlands now comes from renewables. This is today's @ourworldindata.org Data Insight from my colleague @simonvanteutem.bsky.social. All our Data Insights are here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Ecology isn’t static; it’s a restless, adaptive flow. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Canada is experiencing their second worst wildfire season on record, and smoke from these fires can be carried many thousands of miles. On August 7, 2025, New England and Eastern Canada were enveloped in smoke that had traveled from Central Canada, impacting the air quality for millions. (1/5)

Migration is the rule, not the exception—in nature and in history. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...

Life moves because it can, not because it asks permission. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/native-or-...