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Russell Mercer

@getspatial.bsky.social
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Cartographer, data nerd. San Diego by way of Seattle. FOSS4G. Love my family, dancing, and travel. Need to do more of the last 2! Getspatial.com

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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Back at the #esriuc2026. This is year too many to count. It is less and less about the software every year, and more about the people and projects using spatial data to change the world. This is my annual GIS battery recharge. If you’re going to be around, happy to meet up and talk shop. #gis
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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Noticing a theme here.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hi all. I’m trying to connect to a MS SQL Server DB from Postgres using a FDW, and am having trouble getting the connection string right. Has anyone done this successfully on a windows server? Any assistance or pointers would be much appreciated. #gischat #postgresql
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Web geo people. I need help tracking down something. A few months back, I ran across info about a library or script that could be used to serve layers from a geo package out to the web without setting up a full product like geo server or map server. I can’t find it now. Any ideas? #gischat
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Son is off school today. He told me he wants to play a game. My recent history of watching YouTube horror movie clips is haunting me as now all I hear in my mind is a tape of the guy from the “Saw” movie franchise starting up and him saying that. 🤣🤣
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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 26/11/2024
Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees? We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share. We escaped hell to be here. Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Aquila Flower @aquilaflower.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Salish Sea contains all of Puget Sound, as well as the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. If you want to learn more about the Salish Sea's geography, check out my overview here arcg.is/1D8rDX0
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Salish Sea Atlas - Table of Contents
The Salish Sea Atlas is a free, open access, digital atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion. Each chapter explores a different theme with text, images, interactive maps, and data download links. Learn more...
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Aquila Flower @aquilaflower.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Winter is coming and the #30daymapchallenge Day 25's prompt is "Heat", so obviously I made a map of the 1991-2020 average winter minimum temperatures across the Salish Sea Bioregion 🙂 #geography #cartography #GIS #SalishSea #climate
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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
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Conspiracy of Cartographers @conspiracyofcarto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My redesign of the downtown Seattle Metro Service map--as seen on the screen and in the wild. 
#seattle #transit #maps #transitMaps #wayfinding
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/11/2024
I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This thread, and others in a similar vein, ie, people passionately expressing their interest and joy in something without being mocked or teased, are probably the best things I’ve seen since moving over here. Please keep it up. Threads like this are so fun and informative!! 😊
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Pretty sure that would qualify as top tier content! Please do! #gischat
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Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.
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Russell Mercer @getspatial.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
While I mostly came here for the geospatial content, #foss4g, #gischat, and mapping things, the number of other interesting rabbit-hole tracing opportunities arising from posts coming through on my “Discover” feed, is really quite lovely! I also apparently like run-on sentences. 😊
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