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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That’s almost definitely ceremonial 😸

Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’d love a way to get from either ( or both) of the westside Metra stations to an L station, minimizing stepping outside till the very end of the trip*. At this point even a pedway connection between both Clinton St stops & the two metra stations would be grand. *other than waiting on a platform

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh for fuck sake. Can the Tolkien Estate come out and sue the shit out of companies that are using their IP for the names of their crappy companies already

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We used to have all sorts of signs up here for the man. 1/3 of the cars had bumper stickers in praise of him; “The speaker is my coach”. Within 2 weeks of the big press coverage, you could not find ANY references to him in the public view. Some people make the world a better place by leaving it

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve been out of the archaeological field for a long time so I had not heard of them but this firm came across my desk last year when we were looking to migrate to ESRI’s parcel fabric. For some reason they put in a bid. I thought it odd a CRM firm was looking to contract a pure gis job.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rogue potato the dog put into her toy box when she decided she was done playing with it

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alright Texas. Hide your couches! They are not safe.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let us save a location, drop a pin, etc. without needing to enter an address. There’s a wide chunk of rural America that is not constrained to a nearby address point.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was way faster than two days. I recall the hate showing later that night as the facts started to come out and be twisted to make whole swathes of people guilty just because of their assumed ancestry or religion.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And they have the ability and right to ignore the GNIS. As a mapper myself I refuse to acknowledge a number of the GNIS entries for my jurisdiction because local knowledge knows it’s BS.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Parent: “Don’t use AI” Kid: “Why?” Parent: “It’s pure shit.” Done 🧐

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nah. Too big of a gap. Besides we cycled through counts of 3 a few times since he passed.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Fat Man in a Skirt @fmias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly was the best of us. She knew who she wanted to be, she made herself that, then set about everything that everyone who came after her could as well. She didn't pull up the ladder after herself. She built a fucking staircase.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s from all of the bull s- that comes out of his mouth.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

IF (and that’s a very big if) they had any actual UI/UX designers working on Pro, did they use Cow Chip Bingo to decide how this interface is supposed to work? Because it certainly smells like it.

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❄️ ABOLISH ICE @kskm3.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are constantly being told that we have to use AI and that it is amazing and makes our lives better, but the stupid plagiarism machine can’t even produce an accurate map? I have zero respect for anyone who thinks this technology is good. Clown shoe shit.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Agreed! Also applies to person in 2nd, 3rd, etc. It’s a short light folks. Everyone else wants to get through it too.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sad state of our nation for this to even be considered. Glad to know I’m in a solid green (for now) state. But I know there are people chomping at the bit to change that.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/07/2026

USA citizens- residency not required- can submit comments. Link in the threaded post!

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I see ESRI now has an “AI Enhanced” support tool Great! Now I can just have a computer tell me my bug is not a bug at all but a feature, without needing to take up the time of one of their employees. But they’ll still use this as a reason to jack up the cost at the end of the year.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m not too sure they give a rats rear end about ethics.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

But those corn fields rotate to produce other crops as well. Would be best used to find additional crops those fields can grow when not growing corn intended for ethanol. We are already losing good farmland to solar only.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Some personal news: I'm doing a hard pivot to AI (Asskicking Idiots)

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An annoying side effect of being part of IT is when we hire a GIS position, we get a lot of pure IT people not understanding what they are applying for. I don’t care if you can configure a switch, blindfolded, hands tied behind your back, in 30°f room. We don’t need you.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Instead of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we should call it Artificial Stupidity System (ASS)

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/06/2026

Jonathan Ross is the man who shot and killed Renee Good.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We are finally expanding our office and adding another GIS Analyst position. If you know anyone interested in such a role, situated where the Chicagoland concrete gives way midwestern corn fields, feel free to send them our way. #gischat #gisjobs #gis www.kanecountyil.gov/Pages/employ...

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/05/2026

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Congrats! I suspect (and hope for your sake) it’s not the Illinois city of Aurora. If it was then I’d be saying “I’m sorry”. Though it would be cool to have you as one of the Chicagoland GIS folk.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I had a Shetland sheepdog that would wander off all the time ignoring us yell when he’d get into the neighbors yard. Once my nephew started to walk, that dog would trail him right to the property line and then he’d herd him back every time. Furry little $#|^ knew the property line all along. 🤣

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I find it funny that ESRI likes to play up all the new features in AGOL. But they still cannot figure out how to keep me logged in like every other website can. Yeah that little Keep Me Logged-in checkbox doesn’t do a damn thing.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We still have some legacy systems hitting it for read only access for a few more weeks, otherwise I’d just take the entire thing off-line.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Let’s see on Monday morning how many people listened to me about switching over to our newest SDE database. I’m just sitting here killing all rights to all of the layers & tables. I know some people ignored our earlier emails and are going to be complaining that we shut down the server.

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Geospatial Professional Network @gpn-org.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Milwaukee is pretty spectacular. And now you have a good excuse to visit! Submit a presentation proposal for GIS-Pro 2026 by March 23: thegpn.org/page/GIS-Pro...

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Dear Census Bureau, Please stop telling my townships to contact me about their boundary changes. Because most decades, they don’t 🤬 change! The last (only) time we had a change was about 120 years ago. They don’t change! At least not so often you need to tell them to contact the county every year🙄

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not quite. Heretics yes. Heathens, no. We have nothing to do with that BS. Please don’t rope us in with them. We generally want to live and let live. Each person can do their own thing.

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Geospatial Professional Network @gpn-org.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🎤 Call for Presenters: GIS-Pro 2026 | Milwaukee, WI Have a GIS project you’re proud of? A workflow that saved time (or sanity)? A lesson learned the hard way that others could learn from? 👉 Submit your proposal here: thegpn.org/page/GIS-Pro... 📅 Deadline: March 23, 2026

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Geospatial tech really has become mainstream these last few years. 🤣 #gischat

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Oh no. There was usually no text involved. It was JUST screen shots.

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Jason V 🗺️ @gislemur.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The previous administration used to create a PowerPoint file w/ screen shots for each server or service and stored them on some obscure folder on a server, not easily searched. Going forward it’ll be word/pdfs posted to an internal documentation web app with some search capabilities.

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