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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 30/09/2026

The debauchery is limitless.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 23/09/2026

He thinks he is the UN. He doesn’t understand the point of the meeting.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 22/09/2026

I was recently asked a bunch of questions during an online talk...this little video crosses a bunch of them off the list. youtu.be/Cat4alXJGus?... #gischat

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Well, you know, I like a hustler.

YouTube video by open-source geospatial solutions

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 17/09/2026

Bonny the younger discovered Tableau back in the hey day of Christian Chabot’s leadership, Hans Rosling’s dynamic talks and a strong sense of community over anything else. I loved every minute of it — until I didn’t. #dataviz bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/drawing-th...

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drawing the lines and depicting abstractions...

I uploaded my video from one of my talks from FOSS4G Hiroshima.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 06/09/2026

Museum of the Fallen Art Students: A Tribute to Dreams Cut Short www.nippon.com/en/features/...

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 06/09/2026

The only voices you hear on the train to Tokyo are loud Americans. Just an observation.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 06/09/2026

Absolutely. I don’t want to leave.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 02/09/2026

Oh boy. Harder to find a good one…

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 17/08/2026

Returning to the mathematical and dynamical sublimes of Kant would serve us well and clearly elevate creativity over form.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 17/08/2026

I am caring for mom. She has advanced dementia and won’t qualify for any services beyond private pay unless she falls or has to be hospitalized. Meanwhile she requires 24 hour care and is unable to perform ADLs and often is combative when my brother and I assist. Never mind my career…

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 09/08/2026

We lost our institutions and founding documents to looting and corruption. What are we now?

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 08/08/2026

This viral image (not AI) shows a whale spy-hopping while a group of whale watching tourists are otherwise engaged. This was one of the most popular posts from the year I created the conversation. datamongerbonny.substack.com/p/the-only-t...

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 08/08/2026

The root of impactful storytelling — art and community

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 04/08/2026

Invest trillions and I’ll pay you in billions — what could go wrong?

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 04/08/2026

The only labels you need are vote for the constitution or vote against it.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 01/08/2026

Many of them… without our constitution and the institutions we’ve created in its name Our idea of America is a failed experiment.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 01/08/2026

How do our lived experiences shape what we see when we look at art? Let's explore the many ways meaning is made—through perception, memory, bias, and the stories we carry. @highpointsult.bsky.social #gischat #dataviz www.eventbrite.com/e/artobjects...

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art.object.story: The Art of Interpretation | Panel Discussion

How do our lived experiences shape what we see when we look at art?

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 31/07/2026

data is the new oil or is oil the new data? Is it true we begin anew with every fresh canvas or new page whether digital or captured on paper? Why does this song visit me with melancholy? Is it a particular chord? The costumes? open.substack.com/pub/bonnypmc... #GISchat

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data is the new oil or is oil the new data?

Hi.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 29/07/2026

Any highlights for non subscribers?

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 28/07/2026

This one caught my eye because I am opposite. I am one of those Gilles Deleuze types (The painting before the painting) except I write. I need a crowd of thoughts and ideas to step forward and get the ball rolling. The more raucous the better ;) talkingpicturesblog.com/2026/04/13/g...

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Gilles Deleuze “On Painting” Session 1 (A Painter’s Response)

“What does ‘speaking about painting’ mean? I believe that it means precisely: forming concepts that are in direct relation with painting and with painting alone.” Things have not been going well i…

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 23/07/2026

Gosh. Give me some of your tots 😂

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 16/07/2026

Because it’s a power grab not a concerted or genuine effort to be transparent, safe or responsible.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 13/07/2026

Early morning book club…quietly leaning into a busy day. 📚✍🏽🏃🏽‍♀️🎙️

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 11/07/2026

The two water pressure options are dribble out of the showerhead or remove a nipple

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 09/07/2026

Interestingly enough when I use it in my talks about perception and perspective I often compare to Edvard Munch… you might really enjoy this book—https://www.amazon.com/So-Much-Longing-Little-Space/dp/0143133136

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 05/07/2026

America is just an idea. Without the sovereignty of its institutions and a modicum of civil morality the experiment is a failed one… maybe Democrats should focus on that instead of their political infighting and handing microphones to psychopaths.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 03/07/2026

Well deserved! I love reading your work — absolutely well done.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 03/07/2026

What is this summer break you speak of? 😂

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is a smart little explainer on the questionnaire design process: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/p...

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How Our Polling Team Writes Sensitive Questions on Controversies

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activist360 @activist360.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When the federal government took Climate.gov offline, an independent nonprofit stepped up to save the science. Climate.us has officially resurrected the Global Climate Dashboard, the 5th National Climate Assessment, and vital toolkits. 🌍 bit.ly/activist360C... #ClimateScience #ClimateHope

A modern digital climate dashboard interface featuring a colorful 3D global heat map alongside interactive data charts, line graphs, and metrics tracking global temperature variations and environmental anomalies.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 26/06/2026

This is how we lose our democracy…

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 23/06/2026

Don’t get me started with “life on Mars” 🙂‍↔️

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 22/06/2026

I might need a tattoo lol...

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“I can recollect better my father’s diction than I can my father.” —Gordon Lish

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Gordon Lish, The Art of Editing No. 2

“I’ve got the fucking gift for it. Instinct, call it.”

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/06/2026

Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. Through geologic fire and brimstone, much about its earliest eon has been lost to history, but the basics are agreed upon: It began as a ball of mostly molten rock. It became a blue marble. How?

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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. | Quanta Magazine

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.

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datamongerbonny @bonnymcclain.com · 19/06/2026

...follow the thread to LLMs and think of Claude as an unreliable narrator, not unlike the heroics of Homer. In a similar way of the map — planning what we are writing we are presented with a blank canvas. Or are we? #gischat bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/tell-me-ab...

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"Tell me about a complicated man..."

Homer’s Odysseus and Claude as unreliable narrators

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