The Alaska #Petrofuture map has been challenging. Getting all those little islands to align with modern elevation data has been a complete PITA. But worth it! #Alaska #climateChange #seaLevelRise #maps

You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...

Today is Friday the 13th, which I herby declare is Data Science Awareness Day! We love to repeat a story that reinforces our own nonsense; let's never stop. But as we do this, let's promote awareness of how data science methods help us counter cognitive biases and arrive at better conclusions.

TIL that "Area of Responsibility" is a military term for territories assigned to different combatant commanders. #ICE #ImmigrationEnforcement #AreasOfResponsibility #AOR #USMap #GeographicRegions #MilitaryTerminology #BorderPolicy #ImmigrationPolicy #SocialJustice

Who knew the rise of white nationalism in the United States would look so petty. The right melting down over Bad Bunny’s halftime show is the latest reminder that they don’t hate American “wokeness”—they just hate America.

A bowl for demons, that WOULD be super.

Rice University students create map exposing ICE raids across the country www.chron.com/news/houston...

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation currently implemented or passing in Canada

a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts

Dismissing Greenland as a projection illusion replaces one misleading narrative with another. Yes — Mercator preserves angles, not area, and dramatically enlarges places near the poles. It exaggerates the size of not just Greenland. But that’s not the real story 🧵 ⤵️

This has been making the BlueSky rounds again, so I'll give it my own little boost.

Lost lands: worlds under water Doggerland, Sondalandia, Sahul, Beringia and many other lands that rose above sea level during the last Ice Age. www.cartographerstale.com/p/lost-lands...

where do the snow plows go? little weekend project mapping density of ~21 million GPS locations of snow plows during 48-hour period of on/off snow fall in toronto #toronto #maps #gis #dataviz

The Dunning-Kruger effect, Claude Code edition (speaking as a massive Claude Code fan)

rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊 👉 rspatialdata.github.io

Good morning ☀️ dystopian GIS application 💥

Easily the best commercial I've ever seen in my life from The Gay Plant Store in Seattle.

Any freelance map makers out there know what rates to charge for an isometric map? Was thinking of opening up commissions for something like this.

Here's what it looks like if you put all the ICE shootings I know of from the last year on a map. For no particular reason other than that it was just handy, I used the 2024 Presidential election map.

Hotel Fire Exit Map

My adult life in one chart 😔

Space dance💃🏼 🪩 🕺

Academic vs. media representations of a new Antarctic under-ice dataset. The sequential (University of Grenoble-Alpes) palette emphasizes overall structure, divergent (BBC) emphasizes the extremes. From Science & the BBC/@erwanrivault.com www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ www.bbc.com/news/article... 📊

Scientists have just unveiled the most detailed data yet of the terrain hidden under Antarctica’s ice. We mapped it and compared it to the previously best available data for our story with @markpoynting.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is as succinct an explanation of what it means to be a cartographer as I have ever seen. #gischat

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s geopolitical strategery. I know, disparaging the whole thing as venal petty nonsense is more fun, but… Climate change means melting ice means access to the Northwest Passage, rare minerals. That’s why.

Tamagotchi but for health checks? Started the day reading about this app topping the download charts that emails your emergency contacts if you don’t tend to it.

Dang why didn’t the founders of this republic just say “the government can’t use deadly force on protesters and then say they had it coming?” Oh right they 100% did. More than say it, they structured the government around it.

This is my favorite plot from this post, showing life expectancy at three spatial scales: - Countries of the world (range: 51 to 85 yrs) - Counties of the US (66 to 90 yrs) - Census tracts in King County, WA (71 to 87 yrs) At each scale, averages hide dramatic spatial heterogeneity in health

Spatial Analysis with Claude Code I've been doing more (a lot more) with Claude Code lately. With its subagents and skills features, it's become more customizable and powerful. I can really dial it into doing things the way I want them done, which accelerates my development and quickly gets me to…

Watch how gerrymandering has changed the partisan skew of the U.S. House and state legislatures with the newest PlanScore update!

My #seattle peeps know #ridwell. Even if you aren’t a #climatech #urbanism nerd (unlikely) you’ve seen the distinctive metal boxes on people’s porches for years. My🙋🏼‍♀️ naive question: how does this work for renters? Landlords? Multi-unit buildings? How could it work better?

Dropped by Seattle City Hall to watch Katie Wilson get sworn in. A+ for #crowdsize #mayorkatiewilson

I made it to the public comment on the final updates to the Seattle One / General Plan yesterday afternoon. For those who did more than show up 👏🏼 😊 What an incredibly long hard journey. Urbanists agree it doesn’t go far enough, but at least we survived. Let’s all go hug a tree. 🌲

The stupid is just wearisome.

Hmm so this is interesting. I’m curious to track down the primary source to see what the African Union actually says, since @theguardian.com is a bit off in the reporting here…

That latest South Park. . . . Can you believe it’s been on the air for 27 years?

Of Montreal @ Neumos 7/22/25

Chat “geo folks” GPT helped me come up with algorithms for custom label placement. I guess asking how to draw radial lines outward from a center point called “brc_man” was a bit of a tell…

ChatGPT is “geo folks” apparently, and thus already knows all about Black Rock City (I did not mention that is what I’m mapping) … #burningman #rstats #cartography #gischat

The #bunnies are WILD #caphill this summer. What about the rest of #seattle?

This is a self-referential post. It contains its own record key (3luvbueq7vyhr) It links to itself: https://bsky.app/profile/sri.xyz/post/3luvbueq7vyhr #atprotoing

In memory of the wonderful bogwitch Janey Godley, #trumpisacunt. #janeygodley

Pulled some older footage captured in 2022 to compare to now. Never have been in the market with so many others. A million times better and no going back now.

DUMMYMANDER (n): A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring. AS IN, dear friends in Texas: there is not further the GOP can go to dice left-leaning voters out of existence, or they would.

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Finally! Got this uploaded to Bluesky! My favorite photo. I shot this in 2014 in Seattle: the Space Needle as seen from the Chihulu sculpture garden at the Seattle Center. Title: City of Tomorrow. Hope you like it.