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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

own cells’ mitochondria or your microbiome which might be 200 billionth cousins or trillionth cousins to your “main” cells. 2/2

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Siblings are 0th cousins. An aunt and nephew, etc. are 0th cousins once removed. Identical twins are double 0th cousins. You’re your own negative 1st cousin genealogically, although if you’re a chimera many of your cells are 0th cousins genetically, and that’s not even counting your 1/2

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The environment consisting of acts of disenfranchisement like voter roll purges of legal voters, w/o which she wins GA, MI, WI, PA and — like every Dem candidate after 1988(!)—the WH. The disenfranchisement acts were *legal*. No crime is being alleged. Yet no one should pretend they make a mandate.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I deleted Google Maps, Google Earth, and Apple Maps. Magic Earth is working great for directions and I was already using public domain satellite imagery, basemaps and shapefiles in QGIS for my content.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oh how the Carters of Georgia have fallen.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Also delete Google Maps and Apple Maps which will follow. Magic Earth now has great directions.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Well I don’t need to write a script to let me know when GNIS shifts the name to “Gulf of America”, because I just went to fetch the ID and apparently it’s today. Google said Google Maps is following.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

without even the illusion of participatory democracy. 3/3

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

administrative state. Not to replace it with genuine, decentralized, horizontal liberty, no. That would require that holders of capital risk the wealth they “legally” seized from the commons by capturing the state for centuries. Instead, you get the same bureaucratic top-down rule, but this time 2/

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The coup and its collaborators are the “Stalinists” of the “libertarian” right. No longer content with the speed at which neoliberalism funnels the means of governance into private hands, they act to seize the machinery of the administrative state in order to feign a dismantling of the /1

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The *Founding Fathers* demonstrated that.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

There are people arguing the opposite somewhere?

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black history IS American history. 24/7 and 365 days a year. Period. This administration cannot erase that fact.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thank you! I have notebooks full of genealogy visualization and world tree-building ideas, a CS background, and no team or time. At some point I need to start fundraising, publicly brainstorming and building.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Exactly why we need to replace ancestry composition maps that visually imply we have 0 ancestors outside the regions of close genetic cousins they are calling ancestral regions. There should be a gradient that’s aware of migrations and a model that goes back to identical ancestors point.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

With that font it looks like it’s at the Whitney.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks, but I would like not to do anything like turning this (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesw...) into vector shapefile with GIS for just a background reference again.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We use and need non-corporate hosts and repositories of public information — genealogy, geography and all else — for a reason. Truth is not determined by business relationships with the divide-and-conquer orgs that run our governments.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Google heard “jump” and asked “how high?” while already outside Earth’s gravity well. Even the executive order (applying only to certain federal publications) designates “Gulf of America” only to the U.S. continental shelf portion. Not Mexican, Cuban or international areas. #openstreetmap

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

anti-monarchist royal genealogy dystopian futurism content

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

To some extent I learned through TikTok that I *can* just talk to the camera, but damn if YouTube editing doesn’t get me right back to the habit of doing way-too-long editing for an accurate map or a visual gag.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What U.S. #genealogy tells us about birthright citizenship. It says 1/6, but that’s a maybe even though it’s in full elsewhere. I want to get a sense from followers first. Is posting segmented videos here (or videos at all) annoying (a potential limitation to this Skylight project)?

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As for what we should do? Insist on the multiplicity of meanings of “ancestor” that aren’t just genetic Fight against the false notion that the product the companies pass off as your “ancestry percentage” is accurate or meaningful. Preserve, copy, and decentralize records that are under threat

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Popularizers of genetic genealogy have already provided much of the pseudoscientific underpinning, from NYT putting Nicholas Wade’s racist misinterpretations of scientists’ work on the nation’s science front page for decades to the links between Steve Sailer, Razib Khan and JD Vance.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@danielloftus.projectinfant.ie I’d love to be added though I won’t say my posts here have been genealogy only.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Vance called it debaathification on a podcast over 4 years ago, unless I’m mixing up his appearances and it was more recent.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Gulf of Mexico isn't even named after Mexico (pt. 1 as bsky / #skylight only does 60s and low-res for now)

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Much like NM, the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t named after the country we now call “Mexico”, but after the Mexica people and their capital region. The hydronym long predates the division of the continent into magic polygons, let alone the use of the hemispheric name “America” to refer to only one of them.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As a genealogist I can only guide in explaining how we’ve been primed to accept their framing of inherited “illegal” status, not predict their precise actions. But anyone can conclude NS only needed Ahnenpässe last time because they didn’t have facial recognition, Palantir and Meta.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Only while that stance advantaged them. “States’ rights” until federal supremacy becomes plausible.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The message is back. I keep closing the app and opening because “Continue” isn’t enough of a “fuck you” to the wording of the message. Make like a (crewless) Starship and explode, message!

The pro-Trump “Welcome back!” message on 🇺🇸TikTok, interrupting the show of Starship shrapnel over 🇹🇨.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

For the record, if you want the best in public history digital media today, go to @pbs.org’s Origins. Honest, unflinching, intersectional, and authentic. I’m blown away by each unapologetic episode.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looks like YouGlish is unworkable right now because Google is blocking bots. I’d enjoyed using it for getting accurate localized pronunciations (of places in particular).

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Let’s see how well it works to repost 9-year-old YouTube videos on TikTok with an intro. This is why Australia is missing from my globe. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYoSJX24/

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Replying to @saymynamestorytelling Throwback video. Why did I dig Australia out of my globe? Exploration of limits of border absurdiry

TikTok video by Roots and Routes

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Predicting “Elizabeth III” is the name of the future final (as of 2201) head of state from the House of Oldenburg male line… barring possibilities like Solar-system-faring microstates, monarchy restorations and radical life extension. On TT, long form YT coming.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Beekman, but would have to have been made after the bridge was built in 1883, even though the ancestor who told that story says he heard it from someone who died in 1882 — or transferred from a claim about the Fulton Ferry. But the storyteller might have been influenced by a bad 2ary source too.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Same. I have a generation that’s been doubted where I haven’t constructed my own valid conclusion from primary sources. Strangely though, it comes with an oddly specific family claim that “one of our ancestors owned the land the Brooklyn Bridge is on” (which would be true for Wilhelmus

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If TikTok does become unusable inside this arbitrary magic 🎻🎻-monopoly polygon on January 19, I’m mostly based @rootsandroutes1 on ▶️ and rootsandroutes.bsky.social. That’s where I got this screenshot I’m using for my #shutdownweekrepost edits.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I see. In that case I agree with your initial assessment that language is an unlikely factor. A few interrelated families moving west together won’t be sufficient to make such a young man monolingual. My own NJ-VA-OH line (Beekman) were deeper into NJ but were marrying English by that time.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

rural and upstate well into the 19th century. Also, another angle, the clerk may have even had trouble with English spoken with heavy Dutch influence on syntax and vocabulary, which is what you’d have encountered from Dutch New Yorkers who largely learned English from other Dutch New Yorkers. //

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Clarification, please. Are the soldiers themselves from Manhattan, or are you using “took over Manhattan” as “took over the colonial apparatus based in Manhattan and through it took all of claimed Nieuw Nederland?” You may know already but it’s important because there was Dutch monolingualism /1

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

MullvadVPN ad confusing me with the letter p looking like Old Swedish þorn. I hate it when comthanies use the theothle’s metadata too.

A MullvadVPN ad where instances of the letter ‘p’ look like the letter þorn used in Old English, Old Norse, and other related languages

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

“conquerors, not immigrants”, they say, as if the only correct way to migrate is violence

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Yeah, and it’s stans of the warrior-class-centered aspects of proto-Indo-European-descended cultures generally, especially when mixed with ahistorical claims of homogeneity.

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Roots and Routes @rootsandroutes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

i.e. there probably is still some late 19th century or early 20th century World War if you change something in 1800, but having your favorite characters still exist is just fan service. //

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