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maxing the pixels to glow R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research I sit and reflect about all that I've learned and all that I've seen hypertidy.org

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Polar Observer @polarobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Antarctic radar data improves forecasts for Southern Hemisphere atmospheric rivers in tests #NIPR #JAMSTEC phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Antarctic radar data improves forecasts for Southern Hemisphere atmospheric rivers in tests
Weather forecasts in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) are generally less accurate than those in the Northern Hemisphere because Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean have relatively few weather ob...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.
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'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' star says he is homeless: 'We have no money'
'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' voice actor Carey Means said that he is homeless as he asked for financial help with a GoFundMe campaign: 'We have no money.'
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Polar Observer @polarobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new draft management plan for the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve is open for public comment #AAD. consult.dcceew.gov.au/draft-manage...
Draft management plan for the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026
how would you decide between when to use a haversine or geodesic measure? I got some learning to do in this space for sure
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 26/09/2026
Going to try this tomorrow!
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 24/09/2026
I cannot emphasize enough how excited I am about {geoarrowwidget} and {deckglgeoarrow}. 3.2 **million** points in 4 seconds. #rspatial #rstats
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026
Is there a way to perform range requests and reading of parquet files over http in R? I can only find support for s3 and file systems... #rstats
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 25/09/2026
i also don't accept 'use duckdb with httpfs extension" as a viable answer 🤣
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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shameful countries that stayed during Hitler-Netanyahu's UN address #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine #GenocideinPalestine #auspol
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/09/2026
UN General Assembly live: Leaders from Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan to speak aje.news/spd4lx
UN General Assembly live: Leaders from Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan to speak
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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026
IKEA names its sofas after Swedish places, and most of its armchairs follow the same rule. IKEA Sweden sells 64 of them right now, and I put every one on a map. Pick a sofa or armchair and see where it comes from! karaman.is/ikea-place-n... #dataviz #maps
 A web page titled "The IKEA place-name map". On the left, a dropdown has MALMKÖPING selected. Below it is a photo of a beige 3-seat sofa priced from 7 295 kr, and it is placed in Flens kommun, Södermanlands län. On the right is a map of Sweden with dots for sofas, armchairs and places that have both. Most dots are in the south, and Älmhult, IKEA's home town, is marked with a red cross.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Essential El Niño knowledge: me and @pennysarchet.bsky.social joined by @tinymaddie.bsky.social and @alecluhn.com youtu.be/KxNHlkNuqG0
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This El Niño Is Shaping Up To Be A Global Catastrophe – We Need To Act Now
YouTube video by The World, The Universe And Us
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Measurement in two #RStats spatial 📦 packages www.hypertidy.org/posts/2026-0... (Details matter, measurements are not absolutel and assertions of "correctness" are specious at best)
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Distance, perimeter and area in sf and terra: which number do you get? – hypertidy
Geospatial data, GDAL, and R — Michael Sumner
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/09/2026
The nightmare scenario for science funding and publishing is a flood of LLM-generated papers and proposals pushing publishers and funding agencies to use LLMs to triage the slop. A deeply dehumanizing outcome.
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's still the same solution, banish anonymous review and paid-for journals, publish in the open always. We're just massively late on a >25 year old crisis
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Richards' boycott and public statement...marks the first time a participant at the Chess Olympiad has boycotted Israel and explicitly pointed to the country’s genocide of Palestinians." @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social A moral compass the Australian govt lacks. www.lamestream.com.au/australian-c...
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Exclusive: Australian Champion Announces World-First Boycott of Israel Over Genocide
Australian Heather Richards has made the world-first statement of explicitly saying that Israel's genocide is the reason she will boycott a match against the country at the chess world's biggest tourn...
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
View COGs or tile servers in any projection - with dynamic reprojection on pan if you template the centre - WebGL triangles with barycentric interpolation (or rust wasm engine toggle) mdsumner.github.io/ortho-cog-vi...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 24/09/2026
every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026
Repeated subdivision of triangles by centroid- infinite zoom
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 22/09/2026
Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! ::vomits from motion sickness:: ... Quaternions! Quaternions! Quaternions! #RStats #rayrender
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
americans-to-legally-wager-3-3-billion-on-march-madness-nearly-half-of-digital-sports-betting-ads-now-come-from-prediction-market-platforms/
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can read the full US submission/directive here, including the arrogant demands that Australia justify to the US government why it is acting to protect Australians from online harm. au.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...
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U.S. Government Response to the Australian Consultation on the “Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026”
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A sickening week for women. And...what's wrong with these pampered private schoolboys?? Guardian:
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chip in to put our new ad on TV & expose Big Gas’s greed! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donate_lick_...
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Chip in to put our new ad on TV & expose Big Gas’s greed!
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🐦 What is the BirdNET team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology building with R? Sunny Tseng, PhD takes us inside birdnetTools 2.0, helping researchers turn millions of BirdNET detections into ecological insight. r-consortium.org/posts/from-b... #RStats #BirdNET @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Sunny Tseng, PhD, is an independent ecological consultant and R programmer based in Vancouver
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats
Graphic for upcoming R Core and R Foundation panel discussion - Oct 6, 2026
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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not really sure why or how I came to be seen as a responsible adult.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am working on my Hobart candidate guide and hope to release it tomorrow, unsure whether before or after nominations drop. #politas #lgtas
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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It me
Ben Affleck smoking meme but instead of a cigarette it's .Last.vale
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 10/09/2026
there's this "R is slow" prejudice that people get fed in grad school and then just continue into their working lives and not enough people push back at that. grrrrr 😤
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 14/09/2026
3) having a Proof of concept _somewhere_ 📜 it could be a script, a blog post, etc. But showing that you've thought about this _outside_ of the proposal means a lot to us.
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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 16/09/2026
A new R package for redistributing counts to flexible spatial grids 🗺️ Christopher D. Higgins’ `{pycnogrid}` implements pycnophylactic interpolation for H3, A5, S2, ISEA, raster, and local hexagonal grids, while preserving the original totals. higgicd.github.io/pycnogrid/ar... #rstats #RSpatial
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{pycnogrid}: Flexible pycnophylactic interpolation to discrete global and local grid systems
Christopher D. Higgins
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 17/09/2026
remember to `cargo clean` was wondering how my 1tb drive only had 300gb left...
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Removed 269864 files, 463.1GiB total
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Howard Butler @howardbutler.com · 14/01/2026
From Even "in PROJ, the central meridian correction (lambda minus lambda_0) is applied in the generic code path of src/fwd.cpp and src/inv.cpp. This saves some typing in formulas of all map projections. phi_0 correction is different as its impact is really per-projection method"
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Go back to watch this. It’s absolutely spot on. The massive jump in ON’s numbers isn’t “natural.” It is very likely an anomaly reflecting massive social media distortion. Manipulating algorithms? Overseas disinformation factories. Who is paying for it? Gina’s money @ Advance? Or? #Auspol
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone cut some corners there. Seems like a refund is in order… or at the very least fixing it for free.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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Activist group using AI to flood ABC with thousands of bias complaints
The AI system lets campaigners deliver thousands of messages from their supporters with different language, tone and length but the same meaning.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The road to Spilhaus in open source PROJ: mdsumner.github.io/spilhaus-tra...
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just prepend /vsicurl ( or one of many other /vsi* protocols) the normal tools stream and work in the normal ways, in python, R, qgis, Rust, etc
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suthernx.bsky.social @suthernx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We have a Government totally owned by Israel. How freaking pathetic are @australianlabor.bsky.social & @albomp.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia's sanctions statement withdrawal leaves EU states 'disappointed'
European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.
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✨Directed by John Carpenter✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can’t believe I missed the ed Sheeran stuff I despise that weird little ginger fuck.
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Boo Day @boodayrpg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I work in a factory with a lot of fancy automation. Yeah, this is what it's like. It works great until something doesn't go 100% as scripted, then it becomes hilarious.
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI Apocalomptimist was a pretty good watch. No Doctorow but Yudkowsky was a guest, I need to watch his sections again actually it was very late I read a third or so of EY's book recently need to finish that (it's in Mona's wonderful library)
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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Emperor penguins are moving to avoid climate change. New paper now out: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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