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Alison

@mapsanddata.bsky.social
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Data nerd passionate about public education, bike routes, housing, neighborhoods, kayaks, plants, cats, dogs, and just getting things done to make life better.

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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Undead Kat, The Oracle Near Delphi Falls. @originallabgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My son was told about affirmative consent his entire life, so much so that I was wrestling with the cat which was growling at me (not seriously and she was a cat who growled when she was playing also when she ate food) and my toddler son told me that the cat said no. That shit's not hard to teach.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Albino Badguy @albinobadguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should study data-center heat, but we can also use it. In Finland, waste heat from data centers is captured and fed into district-heating systems to warm homes and businesses. One major project is expected to supply about 40% of local heating demand. Instead of dumping the heat, use it.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 26/09/2026
Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a ‘fed bear’ really should be a ‘dead bear.’ buff.ly/wfv6lgy
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As bears ‘spin out’ in southern Montana, wildlife managers are at wit’s end - High Country News
Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really…
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Fighting the good fight @elpeposo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Unless we stop the destruction of public education across the US through voucher scams and charter schools, the descent of the country will only accelerate. Oklahoma must allow taxpayer-funded religious charter school, judge rules | Reuters share.google/JBaNB7iB18Ut...
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Oklahoma must allow taxpayer-funded religious charter school, judge rules
A federal judge in Oklahoma cleared the way on Thursday for a Jewish organization to establish the ​nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case over religious rights in American ...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
A federal court ruled that Oklahoma cannot prevent a Jewish charter school from operating in the state, paving the way for the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school. The school had previously been blocked from operating in Oklahoma.
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Federal court gives green light to first-of-its-kind Jewish charter school
The school had previously been blocked from operating in Oklahoma.
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IndivisibleNWI @indivisiblenwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IndivisibleNWI registers more than 40 new voters at the urban league event yesterday in Northwest Indiana! Thank you voter registration squad!
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16/09/2026
Josh Johnson isn't sure Mitch McConnell’s return to the Senate dispelled the “secretly dead” rumors
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
YETI co-founder is helping Trump destroy Big Bend. www.kut.org/news/2026-06...
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YETI co-founder among owners of West Texas ranch facilitating border wall construction
Public records show Ryan Seiders, co-founder of global lifestyle and outdoor brand YETI, is one of the owners of the Moody Bennett Ranch in the state's Big Bend region. The ranch, which lies in the pa...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/08/2026
Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left Autumn Hill had already gone home when a protest outside an ICE facility in Texas turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years in prison, over twice as long as any Jan. 6 defendant. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/07/2026
The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.
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A Recent Supreme Court Opinion Completely Misunderstands the Point of Sports. One World Cup Superstar Is the Corrective.
We’re fundamentally misunderstanding the point of sports.
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Matt Hodler @mhodler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I just want to say, while we’re on the subject: ALL of our youth sports, in one way or another, are too expensive & have too high of a barriers of entry - not just soccer. + we should reform our youth sports not with the goal to win a mWC, but with the goal to provide opps to play for all kids
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
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AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said. As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages, many inject their own political biases – some leaning distinctly rightwing, others more liberal, according to a study from Oxford and Potsdam universities. Continue reading...
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
41C in the UK? In 2015 the IPCC warned world leaders not to breach 1.5C as it would unleash “frequent & severe droughts, heatwaves & rainfall.” We’re now on track for 2C in years, 3C in decades & 4C in our children’s lifetimes. The most spectacular failure of leadership in history.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Suraj has a point.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"In 1992 New York tried to create a review board for NYPD officers accused of misconduct Thousands of off duty cops responded by smashing car windows, chanting racial slurs, breaking barricades outside of city hall, attacking journalists, pedestrians, and blocking traffic across the Brooklyn Bridge"
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Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot - Wikipedia
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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dear user interface designers: if you rejigger things so that the option I click 20 times a day is in a new place and clicking in the old place does something I don’t want to happen, please know that I hate you
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
me: hey can I expense $10 to make a spreadsheet employer: Absolutely not me: hey can I spend $10 worth of company tokens to have ChatGPT make a shitty spreadsheet I will have to put even more work into to fix manually employer: yes 💖
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/06/2026
NEW: U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, who previously ran a company that provides aircraft for fighting wildfires, has proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft. One of the company’s aircraft failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing.
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A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/06/2026
2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a
Comic-book panel from WATCHMEN has blue Dr. Manhattan sitting on the red surface of Mars, depressed at existing in several times at once, the futility of it all
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 05/06/2026
We've reached the point where just selling you a thing and not a subscription to a thing is an act of rebellion.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2026
1/ You might assume that investigative journalists are cynics. In reality, we’re optimists. We immerse ourselves in the details of harm and abuses of power because we believe that once people know the truth, they will demand better. And they do.
We pursue the answers the public needs. You make it possible. Donate now.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Forgive me for being tedious, but "hostile work environment" has a particular meaning in anti-discrimination law. It does not mean, as an idiot snowflake like Bari Weiss would have it, that someone questioned the boss' poor leadership and she felt bad about it.
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Responding to a question about credit card delinquency with "well, the credit card company CEOs are fine with that" is... honestly a perfect distillation of this administration's economic policy.
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Pro-Democracy Indiana Resister 🇺🇸 🔄 🆘 🟦 @woodenstares.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The middle class is being priced out of food, housing, and healthcare by greedy corporations. I don’t know how people are going to survive another month. The inflation numbers can’t possibly be accurate.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...
Screenshot of a PatriotTakes post on X describing a 6-minute Republican opposition video outlining Ken Paxton's corruption, originally distributed by the NRSC, that has since been made unlisted on YouTube. The post includes a still from the video showing a black-and-white image of Paxton with a graphic reading "2011 - TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE" and text describing Paxton soliciting investments in a technology company called Servergy while serving in that role.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
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Alison @mapsanddata.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Alison @mapsanddata.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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School Segregation in Cities Across America Mapped
About the Project This interactive data dashboard allows researchers to quantify school segregation and its contributing factors to inform policy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2026
Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Alison @mapsanddata.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Local politics matter, but there are so many racist & classist assholes in northern Indiana that I dropped off of Nextdoor, and I filed a police report about an alleged KKK member threatening me for stating I was reporting (to FB moderators) his demand that folks take up guns against immigrants.
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🏴‍☠️ MC Pablo ∴ @p4bl0.net · 07/05/2026
Programming still sucks. « AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. » #resistIAgen
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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
#Caturday
A picture of a cat. It says, “4 years ago lived in a bush and hunted my own meals.
Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own house, & a personal chef.
Follow me for more financial advice.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The call is coming from inside the house.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Kevin the dog picking out a toy: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected...
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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I just want to make sure everyone knows Mayo Clinic has a therapy miniature horse named Blue Sky
A still from a video of a tiny white horse the size of a large dog. Its forelock is braided. It's wearing a little blue vest/cape. It has tiny black booties on it's itty bitty hooves.
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RAIN GATE. 🩸🦇🌒 @hearthholmes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm just going to put this here.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/03/2026
Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart
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Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart
The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy
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