It was pretty obvious to some of us at the time.
It was pretty obvious to some of us at the time.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
YAGGY
When was the last time a new map really sparked joy in your life? www.chartography.net/p/this-map-i...
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
My first visualization for @climate.us β one of the atmospheric rivers that slammed into California over Christmas & New Years.
are
you
listening
to
your
saints
?
I wrote about this last week: There is a physical weight to Trumpism that we carry each day. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
@toniasutherland.bsky.social literally wrote the book www.ucpress.edu/books/resurr...
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
Words to live by, 2026 edition: βAdjust your credulity.β
Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.
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Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? πͺ© Join us here!
At 12:01am ET, weβll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 β iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.
Learn more β‘οΈ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
The NACIS videos are up! Are you map-curious? Or map-obsessed (like me)? Scroll on through and see what you missed at our annual conference. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Mine is a how-to for making a lighted 3d neighborhood map www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rd...
ππππ GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN ππππ
If you needed an excuse to visit a lighthouse
@attilabatorfy.bsky.social interviews me about falling down the information-graphic history hole open.substack.com/pub/attilaba...
More of this, please:
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
My latest:βThrough gossamer tributes, Kirkβs cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated βlike a position on tax rates or health care policy.β
Collage and tattoo it?
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Beautiful profile on Prelinger Library and its founders by @eddiekimx.bsky.social in GazetteerSF: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...
Letβs fight back, California. Yes on 50!
I wrote about the lost world of alt-weeklies, papers that loved cities *as* cities, for my splendid local alt-daily, Daybreak. βThe first time I saw a strangerβs corpse was one summer night, 1992β¦β news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...
I am so thrilled that youβre writing about this topic. These papers revealed and celebrated the unique culture and geography of places, provided guidance on how to show up in a community, and gave us essential context for local politics. Cities have suffered from their loss.
Omg maps please?
Sehr cool.
www.chronotrains.com/de/explore/2...
Petrofuture Long Island 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map
Petrofuture London 66m sea level rise on a vintage Esso gas station map
Petrofuture France 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map
Petrofuture Washington DC 66m sea level rise on a vintage Shell gas station map
Hey Seattle folks,
Iβll be giving a talk about the Petrofuture maps this Tuesday. Tickets are almost gone!
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
#seattle #petrofuture