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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I started using LibreOffice calc a few years back and it has been my default over Excel ever since. Works great on windows and plays a lot better with Wayland than it used to.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Setting aside the spontaneous migration of New Zealand, I was curious about Greenland being listed as primarily tea-drinking. I'm guessing "tea" in this case includes tisanes. I landed on this article over Wikipedia because I was charmed by the term "qajaasat" www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...

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Labrador tea - its effects and history

I was lucky enough to be visiting Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, last week. We were having tea with Agnes, a local Greenlander, and a grandmother who had cooked us a big spread of Greenlandic and Da…

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Give em the old Jerry Lundegaard and keep that smile going until you've left the building and made it back to the solitude of your own car. It's really the safest option.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally, someone to pick up the phone! There's not even a machine or recording. Just have to keep trying again later.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Magically acquiring four new winter tires and a window(?) in the front of the garage is interesting. All you need to do is clean up a mess you didn't have and you'll find you have even more things you didn't have as well.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So, it's a bad movie, but it's also somehow both hilarious and prescient? At least the linked article accidentally recommends a good movie with that still from In the Mood for Love.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wild, I'd prefer that "trying medicine" not be a thing at all.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe I'm latching onto the one grievance small enough for me to fully process.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Of course, I find the whole thing upsetting, but every time I think about it, my brain ultimately gets stuck on that one detail.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Helmets have protected me from serious injuries more than once. None of them involved cars. Your take here is monumentally bad. PPE is always a good idea.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It may be small by comparison, but to me it represents a hope I held for the future even in the recent past. It is a reminder that moving in the direction of better things has always been an option, and continues to be even in the midst of great loss.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not too long ago, there were people in the community advocating for a portion of the grasslands atop the coal ash storage site to be marked for preservation as the plant was retired because bird species not commonly seen elsewhere in the county are frequently observed at that site.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think this might have reawoken something in me.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As a geospatial professional, I'm having a hard time imagining what this "range of useful purposes" entails.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Assuming the face at 0:01 is meant to convey wonder, but after Widow's Bay it definitely doesn't read that way.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I added tencel sheets earlier this year because I was still overheating with my eucalyptus comforter and they made a huge difference.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just having this view lined up in person would be exciting enough, but to have it happen while holding a camera is unbelievably cool.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Can't convert your grain mash to alcohol? Still issue.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My day just got a whole lot better. Thank you!

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I misspelled "accommodating" in an interview follow-up years ago. I kept having trouble with it. I just stopped using it as much in writing. Also, "calendar"

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Conditioner makes the pomade hold a little better.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Really grim to see the little real time stock ticker going up next to Alphabet's name within the article about how their product drove someone to suicide.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

It's hard to even know what they're mad about. Carhartt is pretty famously a work wear brand. Is he fake for wearing Carhartt while interacting with city workers? Or, is he elitist for paying the tens of extra dollars it would cost to customize such a jacket?

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I walked out of Oppenheimer because of the noise. Absolutely painful.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I don't know how you got past the first paragraph! It's infuriatingly disingenuous

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I feel this so much. I often get this sense that much of my 20s was wasted, then I am reminded of how much I needed to unlearn before I could make any forward progress. Could I be further along? Technically, yes, but it does me no good to chart a course from places I've never been.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Given this new information, has anyone considered just giving him a Greenland poster to hang on his wall?

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

"My AI girlfriend is so quirky. She loves it when we go out and collect training data for modeling commercial HVAC systems together."

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Yes, the fridge, independently wants to help you shop for groceries. It worked its way up from the mini fridge line, sat in the corner of so many board meetings, just keeping sodas cold and biding it's time...A true triumph of the silicon spirit!

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Beyond the logistical hurdles of ethically navigating such development, a key value proposition would likely break: that a person could create their own little masterpiece without investing significant time and effort. The very time and effort that give art the soul to which I previously referred.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

There may be a world in which the balancing forces could exist to prevent the worst of the environmental harms, and to ensure ethically sourced data, and to safeguard end users and bystanders. I do not believe ours is that world. In that world, this could not be quite the boom industry it is today.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'm not opposed to new forms of art, or technology. But, how can you separate an inherently extractive technology from the issues of capitalism? To build his first printing press, Gutenberg did not first have to go steal every book from the library.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And, when the localized and global impact of these costs are fully realized in the decades to come, what will we have to show for it? Doodads in our pockets that spit out soulless simulacra of art, while a handful of equally soulless people sit atop piles of wealth too large for the mind to fathom.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

These tools will not turn our world into some Ghibliesque dreamscape. They are purpose built to capture revenue that would have otherwise gone to artists, and at the cost of unjustifiable use of power, water, and land.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This comes close to the point in recognizing that AI could not exist without ingesting a vast array of images, primarily without permission or compensation, it is too credulous in repeating the idea that this is some benevolent tool to bring art to the masses.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This is beautifully written. Thank you

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Can you provide other examples of tools and methods you are thinking of here? Or, are you specifically thinking only of LLMs, with ChatGPT as shorthand?

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"Blueberry pie recipe" "Bluebburrby pie recipe" "Bbluebery pie recipe -glue" "Blubeberry pie recipe no glue +edible" "Write me a story about someone who grew up loving blueberries in the summertime and learned how to make a delicious blueberry pie and tells you how to make it at the end"

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

All of these are valuable food sources in a healthy ecosystem. But they sure do pose a serious threat to human health.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thanks for adding context. I had to see it mentioned a couple more times before I realized this was the name in question. So, for anyone else who feels extra out of the loop, if you scrolled past this phrase with no hint of recognition, you didn't know who it was either.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Amazing! I've been thinking about how display my smaller collection of teaware, and this is inspiring!

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I didn't see any mention of Good Girls Revolt but it felt like it was still picking up steam at the end of it's only season. Also, I have to second Scavenger's Reign, because I knew it was cancelled going in and I still grieved the loss.

Three women stand in front of a yellow patterned background. They all wear different colors in a matching pattern. In front of them the title of the show Good Girls Revolt appears

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The one consistent thing I've heard in every story about a trip to Ireland is how great the people are. You couldn't find a more effective way to distance yourself from that good reputation if you tried.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I tried sitting in on an open jam around a campfire. I didn't play very well, but everyone was very gracious and welcoming.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I also once recorded a long session on my modular synth where I was manipulating a new sample and I was so proud of how it turned out, but I plugged the line into the wrong jack on my recorder. So the onboard mic picked it up so quietly and me plugging and unplugging patch cables so loudly!

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I did the same the but I hadn't loaded the film properly and I didn't realize until the film didn't stop advancing when it should have.

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Ah, I see it now. Checkmate, science, I guess...

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David likes maps 🌎 @mapsandcoffee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Admittedly I may be biased, as my cartography background assumes a geoid Earth, but I'm confused by the decision to mark the equator on a flat earth map. I shudder to think of what mental gymnastics one must use to explain daylight/weather patterns on this plane of existence.

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