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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 23h

Looking forward to catching up with mappers at @nacis.bsky.social annual meeting in Milwaukee next week! #GISchat

Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 23h

So by this logic, what happens to Pete? Will it also be live streamed? Trump says people who leak military plans ‘should be shot’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump says people who leak military plans ‘should be shot’

Trump attacked those leaking material to the media, calling them the "scum of the earth" during a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#GISchat - where can one find accessible, downloadable geospatial data related to private business locations (e.g. 7-11 stores in Taiwan)? I don't often use this type of data. TIA!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gotta imagine there is some regret in bringing ol' Jack Smith in again today...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was fun to rewatch Queen of Katwe (2016) and to see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's cameo and Music Supervisor credit:

Zohran Mamdani making a cameo as a "city-boy" chess player

Zohran Mamdani in opening credits as Music Supervisor for Queen of Katwe

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tailings ponds in Muchacha mining area inside Okapi Wildlife Reserve appear to have flooded since the area was attacked in March 2026. #conservation #mining

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cannot recommend Binoculars to Binomials enough! You will love it! 🐦🔭

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard to Washington as what he has said is an effort to get tough on an epidemic of crime. They seldom actually fight crime. Soldiers have been involved in about 1.3% of the city's criminal cases since they arrived. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Burgum serving up the BBQ with California Condor cookies

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

By the end of July, we've been losing about 2 minutes of daylight each day here in the DC area. It is perceptible especially as the evening light doesn't seem to last as long. I built this Streamlit app to enable you to check out what is happening where you live. sunrise-sunset.streamlit.app

graph showing the sunrise and sunset times over a two-month period, as well as the rate of change in total daylight.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's World Cup ⚽ Final day!!! 🇦🇷 v 🇪🇸 Cannot wait!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nobody's telling you to do anything, dude. You want to go outside and fill your lungs with chewable air, go for it. Take deep breaths. Open the windows. Order some Taco Bell. Bake yourself some Pillsbury shard rolls.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

2018: Deschamps 2022: Desrunnersup 2026: Desconsolationfinalist (respectfully)

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For three years now I've been teaching courses about birding and data viz that are *secretly* about building our capacity to notice and fostering environmental care. The next ones start in September. Space is limited.

jerthorp.me

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

What happened in DC tonight (the 4th!) ?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I'll say again: DC is a truly lovely city, which has gotten all the more beautiful (and functional) in the many years we've had a home here. Right now it's the litter box for whatever corrupt whim comes into DJT mind, from East Wing to Kennedy Ctr to cage fight. Statehood DC, when this is over.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mitch McConnell’s heart attack raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health.

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

CDMX must be rocking tonight ⚽ 🇲🇽🇪🇨

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 26/06/2026

Good Prime Day Deal on the new Ring Female Reproductive System cam

Still of ring cam with two spotlights coming off two sides of the top. It looks vaguely like ovaries/uterus/vagina, and poster is not busy enough

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is pretty nuts: look at the new forest roads opened in 2024 & 2025 into the forest around Mongbwalu, DRC (centered in below image), the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola epidemic. Here's the link: nrtwur.users.earthengine.app/view/forest-...

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Possible breaking news? There is a flock camera at the reflecting pool, close to the WW2 memorial. (Dm me for licensing.)

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

this was fun to make - click anywhere to visualize a bird call! devoted-linnet.binstobins.online

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My man looks like he sells steaks out of the trunk of a Coupe de Ville

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Allez les Léopards 🇨🇩🐆⚽!!

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Texas Republicans are really in their own little world aren't they?

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Scenes from the National Mall today... literally can't walk across it. 🫩

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

these people are so fucking embarrassing www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/ju...

ChatGPT could not find one example in American history of a third-place candidate surging days after an election to overtake second place — yet that is what we are seeing in the Los Angeles mayoral race, with democratic socialist Nithya Raman besting reality TV star Spencer Pratt over the weekend, possibly edging him out of the runoff.

For mail-in ballots arriving before the election, Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, received 38% of the vote, Mr. Pratt received 28%, and Ms. Raman received 20%. Voter turnout for Ms. Raman on June 2, the day of the election, was so tepid that she gave a concession speech in which she sobbed to her family and friends for having failed.

Then something miraculous happened: a surge in Ms. Raman’s popularity that was not observable before or on June 2. She collected 37% of the mail-in ballots that arrived after the election (a 17% surge), besting Ms. Bass’ 35% (a 3% drop from preelection mail-in votes), and Mr. Pratt’s 19% (a 9% drop).

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our ongoing national embarrassment . . .

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 07/06/2026

Someone else pointed out that with a different admin, the combo of 250th anniversary of America and World Cup would be so many fun parties, but everything this admin touches turns to shit

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

another impressive viz from this guy...

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Joel Masselink @jmasselink.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

note to future self when trying to delete rogue QGIS annotations ‼️

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/06/2026

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport

Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.

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