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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

What is the peg-leg acceptability threshold? 50% is clearly okay; 100% is apparently too many. Is 75% acceptable? Gonna do a study with insects, arachnids, centipedes, and then millipedes to get maximal precision on this important question on pirate science!

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

So, I'm saddened but not surprised that the US alone voted against the UN adopting an equal area projection as its preferred world map, but annoyed the usual amount that very sexy interrupted projections are never even considered for the job!

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@hoopladigital.bsky.social - this is fucking gross. Trans lives >>> that monster's publicity. Offer a better book for free.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I picked up reading Woman Life Freedom after my last assignment for the semester was done, having left off last year sometime, and found that while the movement didn't have the outcome Satrapi hoped for, these panels have proven sadly prescient.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

When @youaregood.bsky.social and @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social decide it's time for me to revisit the plot to kill public transit in LA, I guess I gotta…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A message from Texas for the moderate wing of the DNC…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Possibly the best ask I've ever seen in my Buy Nothing group.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Headed to happy hour at Hole In the Wall, I spotted the 3D floor maps, and marvelled that someone got to update them to match each change; however, the map still shows the location of the Card Catalogs.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I'll be at Geo4Lib Camp next week at @UTLibraries - any of you #GIS or #Library nerds planning to attend? #GISChat . #Ascot #SlowFashion

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Me when I see the them scramble to come up with even incredibly weak ways to attack Talarico

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

If you're in the Austin area next Wednesday, come out for a 🍻 & learn about one of Austin's most ambitious mobility projects, and make an investment in our life after cars! If you're too far away or too busy to make it, toi can make a difference here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

I am unreasonably pleased with my color-coding scheme. #GISChat #UNT #Library

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Today's my 16th Bikeaversiary and of course #BicycleDay - I didn't get to ride much this weekend, but I did get groceries & a #BuyNothing run on Sunstreaker plus outfitted Tracks with some adventuresome handlebars for higher speed outings.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

Turns out germans know a thing or two about how to have a beer outdoors.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Gonna start picking these up when I find them to make a badass necklace - the cycling equivalent of a dragon's tooth.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Sometime during your workday, someone will schedule a meeting while you're pedaling to an appointment. It's very important that your take it.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

A first morning commute ride with Tracks - my new acoustic street & adventure steed! . #EldredgeKnot #SlowFashion #NewBikeDay #Montague #FoldingBike

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Bicycles deliver the freedom auto ads promise, and look much better in ads for planning professionals than the little inset of what they'll actually have to deal with.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Welp, that's a wrap on 47, the year in which I bit off a rather a lot. Here goes 48, in which I attempt to chew.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Here are two graphs that show either how bad humans are at predicting the future OR, just possibly, how oil money can motivate reasoning to bend public & private investments to its will:

A line graph of installed solar power generation capacity, showing actual as a hockey stick with every projection incorrectly levelling out

A line graph of vehicle miles travelled, showing the actual line rising steadily before levelling off and falling with each projection incorrectly accelerating rapidly from the time it was made.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

I guess we'll never know what the third shaker was for…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Celebrating a hard-fought #GIS victory over Connecticut (and institutional intransigence in the face of shifting realities) with the best New Haven pie in town, plus these regional beverages. PSA: If you are a state, please do not completely redraw your counties.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

So busy that I've not had much time to plot what to do in New Orleans next week - what are your bike-from-Treme recommendations? . #TrinityKnot #SlowFashion #FoldingBike #Brompton #NewOrleans

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

I've just put the finishing touches on my presentation, so all that remains is for you to show up to see it! Come see me present The Adventures of Compost Bin Buddy at the 2025 Texas GIS Forum at 10:45 AM on November 5. #TexasGISForum2025 #GIS #ZeroWaste #Community

A graphic for the 2025 Texas GIS Forum, "The Intersect", spotlighting Russell E Taylor, III, who is presenting The Adventures of Compost Bin Buddy on November 5 at 10:45 PM at the UT Commons Conference Center, and a photo of Russell - a middle aged white man in a grey driving cap, purple dress shirt, and green bowtie.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

I know what this is, but without any context for scale, well…

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

Another entry in the annals of offensively bad #Texas maps. Spotted at Leopard Lounge in Austin TX.

A black vest on a hanger over a white Western shirt. The vest has various rhinestone bordered fabric appliques in a kitschy western theme, including a red splotch eith blue text reading "Texas" within it. The splotch has parts that resemble the panhandle and Big Bend suggesting that it's intended to represent the state's border.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

Some of y'all know, but now all y'all do: I have, just today and not without a heap of anxiety, enrolled in UNT's online Master of Science in Information Science program. Tps & tricks for managing school in the midst of *gestures generally* as well as assorted well-wishes accepted below 👇🏻

The seal of the University of North Texas - white on green - at the top of the UNT seal is the lamp of learning, burning with an eternal flame representing academic achievement and excellence. The laurel wreath represents honor, and the beveled Lone Star in the center symbolizes the great state of Texas.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

One day only! Me (and other community nerds) on my usual GIS/cycling/transit/land use schtick, at ACC Rio Grande at Noon! #GISChat #ATX

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Scored a new-to-me grill from my #BuyNothing group, and hauled it home in style! #CarryShitOlympics #CargoBike

A photo of Sunstreaker, a bright yellow Tern HSD cargo bike, towing Combat Deck, a black Burley utility trailer, which is carrying a black Weber kettle grill held down by a grey cargo net, parked on the street in bright sunlight.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

I Was Country (When Country Wasn't Cool) [2025]

A small bag of Planter's peanuts and a can of Coke Zero on a coaster in front of a laptop.

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

The traditional pan-african #tarallucci are ready for my office #Juneteenth celebration tomorrow. Top to bottom are cinnamon, chocolate, and mint iced! . #italianfood #dessert #flag

A square serving plate covered in small irregular toroidal cooked (tarallucci) frosted in red, dark chocolate, and green, arranged in horizontal bands in the style of the pan-african tricolor flag

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025

The revolution will not be ready-to-wear. All these looks require a bit of TLC now and then; luckily, this Taylor is occasionally a tailor of modest skill. Thanks, mom! . @clotheshorse.bsky.social #sewist #mending

A photo of me, a 47 year old white man with a shaved head, a short cropped brown & grey beard,

photographed from the chest up,

wearing a bright blue T-shirt and black acetate glasses

behind a sewing machine with red thread on the spool and a sticker of cute kittens in a basket with yarn and a slogan reading "Sewing is a radical act"

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

God gave Noah the rainbow sign No more water, but the fire next time . #BoloTie #SlowFashion #Brompton #FoldingBike

A photo of me, a 47 year old white man with a shaved head, a short cropped brown & grey beard,

photographed from the chest up

In front of the far side of Kramer Station and it's tracks

wearing

rectangular green-blue metallic acetate sunglasses, a straw fedora, lapis lazuli bolo tie, and a vertical pride rainbow stripesd shirt sleeve button down shirt

A photo of my right foot on the pedal of an

orange Brompton folding bike with its name, Huffer, in purple on the top tube

I'm wearing
mauve loafers with under a green pantleg with no socks

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Russell E Taylor III @ret3.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

There are tiny mammoths on my ascot; your argument is invalid. . #Ascot #SlowFashion #TernHSD #CargoBike

A photo of my right foot on the pedal of a

yellow Tern HSD cargo bike with its name, Sunstreaker, in red on the seat stay

I'm wearing

red perforated leather loafers with under a red pantleg with a bit of green sock showing

A close up of red silky mascot, showing the outlines of wooly mammoths in light and darker tan

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