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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧵 131/x The Long Roundabout (TLR), Oct 2021 - ? Three-week road trip in Japan begins with quick overnight in damp Katori, 30 Sep 2026. Companion now has provisional name, Appa - short for "Apparently we are doing this." Seems I'm the glass half full one on this trip. Onward.

Katori Japan street scene with a security officer admiring a graffiti mural of Fuji observed by a graffiti mural of a geisha.

Beanbag creature still uncertain, now named Appa - short for 'apparently we are doing this'

Claude-generated map of a 3-week road trip - counter-clockwise circle from Narita, north, west to Sado island, south through Takayama to Nara, Ise, return north to Narita. And points in between.

Statue of horse-mounted Japanese warrior gesturing forward with a flag

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🧵 129-130/x The Long Roundabout (TLR) Oct 2021 - ? Overnights: 1) Emirates flight through Dubai and over the Strait of Hormuz, 2) catastrophically flooded Bangkok, on the way to flooded Narita/Chiba. Sep 2026 The companion my artist granddaughter made for this 6th year of TLR was concerned.

Flight aerial map of plane landing at Dubai during a relative pause in the US-Iran war

Flight aerial camera view of ships in the Strait of Hormuz during a relative pause in the US-Iran war

Flooded streets in Lat Krabang neighborhood of Bangkok near Suvarnabhumi Airport

A beanbag creature journey companion with a perpetually concerned expression on her face

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🧵 128/x The Long Roundabout (Oct 2021 - ?) Overnight in Lisbon, Sep 2026. Um tram elétrico e dois museus.

Detail of stainless steel handrail in Lisbon electric tram

Egyptian stone bas relief (detail) in Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

Room for “The Exhibition of a Dream” — in Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon

Detail from one panel of “Águas-vivas” triptych by Ines Zenta (2025) with sculpture by another artist in foreground — in Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧵 127/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?) 23-26 Sep 2026 New 4-month circumnavigation begins in Braga, PT for Spatial Humanities 2026 at U Minho. Talking regions and my new #EDOPS environmental data project edops.computingplace.org

Sign at campus entrance, U of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Sunset over Braga, Portugal with silhouette of draped figure in foreground.

A gentleman waits on a bench for a train, beside a blue tile panel portrait of a woman standing with a riding crop.

“A platform for everything cannot be tuned for anything” - Stephen Gadd @docuracy regarding representing uncertain region bounds

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧵 126/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?) Seven weeks with family in Denver to end Year 5 of this ramble and stage the next phase. August-September 2026.

Riparian pathway in a south suburb of Denver

Cloudy morning in Huntington Park, south Denver, on a morning walk

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Last Two Weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (31 August - 14 September 2026): Over the course of the last two weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 37 new and 197 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Anne Chen […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from the British Isles in the north and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to northern China in the east and the east coast of central Africa in the south.

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Call for citations: does your article, chapter, book, etc. cite Pleiades as a data source? If so, we'd like to add a citation to our new "Pleiades in Use" blog section at pleiades.stoa.org/docs/pleiades-in-… . Reply here or drop us an email at pleiades.admin@nyu.edu Boosts […]

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#EDOPS is the environmental half of my Computing Place initiative; a cultural-dimensions companion (#CDOP) is 2 early stage. Showing pilot work on African subregions (Lovejoy, et al) at Spatial Humanities in Braga, 23-25 Sep. computingplace.org github.com/kgeographer/edops DMs open 3/3

Screenshot from the Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Workbench page exploring the African Subregions project of Lovejoy, et al 2021 and D-PLACE societies

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Three ways in to #EDOPS, + an API + good docs • Sandbox: look up place or polity, choose spatial scope, explore signatures several ways • Workbench: Pilot environment/culture correspondence studies • Data Explorer: global & regional maps of underlying variables edops.computingplace.org 2/3

Screenshots from the 3 principal pages of Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS): Sandbox, Workbench, Data Explorer

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time 1/3

Home page of the Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to its 3 principal pages, Sandbox, Workbench, Data Explorer

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jeffries said Kushner asked for the meeting. Wouldn’t prejudge its topics.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I move around too much to have a cat, but I take pictures of them all over...Chiang Mai, Istanbul, Oxford, Butrint. #caturday

White cat at orange steps of the Ganesh Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

White and orange cat patiently awaiting morning meal at an Istanbul doorway

Black and white cat on a backyard shed rooftop, Oxford, UK

Three sibling kittens gathered in the shade - on and under a table in Butrint, Albania

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a Magritte sky on my morning walk in Denver, mourning Nepal and Dolly

quiet morning in a Greenwood Village, CO park, with fluffy clouds and greenery

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some news. Peripleo github.com/britishlibra... is set for a re-boot thanks to the Research Software Maintenance Fund www.software.ac.uk/research-sof.... We're going to rebuild Peripleo as an open, accessible, browser-based map app that can be configured without coding skills or hosting costs 1/2

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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

De Adder

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just because I’m a Bloch-head don’t take me for granite. Sorry.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

He’s “not that informed on national security.”

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wanted: **comprehensive** list or map of temples of #Artemis (and of other deities). #ClassicsBluesky #ancientHistory #ancientReligion please boost for reach

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Simplest explanation: he envisions an axis of oligarchic US, China, Russia aligned against squishy democratic Europe, and N Korea is a China satellite.

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very excited that the MapReader team will be collaborating w/ @bertspaan.nl @mradamcox.bsky.social & @openhistoricalmap.org on some infrastructural work linking up MapReader w/OHM & Allmaps! nlnet.nl/project/OHM-...

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NLnet; OpenHistoricalMap + MapReader

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some teaser screenshots for v0.4 update to Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) platform, releasing in a couple of weeks. Delivers parameterized environmental data profiles ('signatures') for any terrestrial location, w/tools to explore in sandbox and workbench pages. Writing docs now.

home page of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to Sandbox, Data Explorer, and Workbench pages

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Sandbox page, showing signature-building controls and example for 10c Kaifeng, China

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Sandbox page, showing signature-building controls and example aridity distribution for 10c Northern Song Dynasty

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Workbench page, experimental exploration of correspondence of cultural practice with environmental settings

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One should live their life so they never have to skip town in a catering cart.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The last image on most of my slide decks since 2005, applicable to so many things. Artist unknown (pre-AI obv).

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Democrats who think their biggest battle right now is against other Democrats are so mind-bendingly stupid it is driving me insane. Or maybe they just care more about being the *very most moral* than defeating the greatest scourge this country has ever known.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/08/2026

"This is how you rebalance the Senate and Electoral College. Minority rights are still protected. You’re not abolishing the Senate or moving to a national popular vote. You’re reforming existing institutions." Not to say these are minor tweaks:

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The HULK SMASH Plan for Fixing America

JVL’s grand scheme for how to build the new American founding.

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you haven’t recently used Claude Code*, you might not understand where AI is at davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-haven… #AI #agents

Yes, one can get bogged down in the semantics of "reasoning" or
"understanding".
". But here I just mean:
for practical purposes. At this point, AI agents are solving real problems for me, and do so in a way that sure looks functionally like reasoning or understanding.
I believe AI will have a massive impact on the world, good and bad. For much of that impact (though not all'), what matters is that it can do these sorts of things, not whether it can "really" reason. I think much of the world isn't taking AI seriously enough, and we can't deal with the challenges if we can't see them coming.
So my goal here is to help convey where Al is currently at, and hint at where it might be going.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🧵 125/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?) Winding up a 10-week stay in Santa Fe NM. May-July 2026. Approaching the end of year 5, pace of travel slowed for a while, will pick up in September. Back to Denver now for 7 weeks. Scenes from daily neighborhood walks...could get used to it.

Street signs at intersection in Santa Fe, reflecting the population: Pueblo, Latino, Anglo

Coyote fence of "raw" cedar posts along a paved walking trail in Santa Fe

Common yard signs in Santa Fe, NM -- "Resist" and Deb Haaland for Governor.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Maybe *steps* towards abolishing, but not *all* the steps? C'mon.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am always both smarter and more knowledgeable after a @timothysnyder.bsky.social lecture. If you like hearing what he has to say here and his blog, check out professor mode. It’s first rate.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“I’ve got this thing and it’s […] golden”

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m telling you, we need an Atlantic Pitchbot franchise any more. Definite trend.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

You claim to like reasoned discourse, but turning a bigger-wealth-tax argument into a pat generalization like everyone on bluesky hates me ‘cause I’m rich is a) false, b) not helpful. We need to curb the outsized political power of wealth like Musk’s or this whole republic thing dies.

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One Who Understands www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Calling yourself a democratic socialist invites the shift to 'communist' in GOP messaging and even to 'Nazi' (national socialism), because they can rely on general ignorance of what these labels mean - for MAGA, but across the board. There needs to be a vocabulary-ed meme campaign. #OwnGoal

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I fully trust this guy to hold his own in a room full of Russian spooks.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Boosting for Indigenous archaeologists 🏺

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