iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have taken in a part time role that means the workday on Thursday ends at midnight and I'm in the office at 7:30am Friday morning. It's an adjustment!

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Working on my postcard map for the @nacis.bsky.social map gallery on this beautiful afternoon in Buffalo NY and exploring classic road trip postcard styles #creativecarto

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

JK Simmons has been in more Spiders-Man than any of the Spidermen. This is factually true and grammatically correct. I am pretty sure.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a very Dad library pickup...not my dad, per se, but the cultural Dad

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever a book with a long subtitle about Duke vs UNC basketball and Reacher season one on dvd

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

spaghetti model living up to its name

tropical storm fay model track guidance with eight models all pointing in wildly different directions

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having the insane experience with a specific company where if I apply for a job, I get a personal rejection. Three applications, two phone calls and a zoom meeting. It's nicer than being ghosted but it is INTENSELY misleading.

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Vanessa KW (she/they) 📍 DC @run-for-funner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

💥 We are BACK!!! 💥 Come join the official #CreativeCarto relaun this Sunday at 5pm EST, now with me plus 3 other hosts: @alyolli.bsky.social , @sarahbell.bsky.social , and @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social 💓💓 creativecarto.github.io #cartography #cartographer #gis #geospatial

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is one of the dumber thoughts I've had lately but doesn't it feel like Nevada should come after Pennsylvania in alphabetical order? I know it doesn't work that way...and yet...spiritually....

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're going to fail at mundane things like having a career, getting fit, integrating your personality, why not spice things up and also fail at something magnificent like trying to make great art?

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

good news everyone your annoying friend hasn't changed

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

conflicted by this email from the zoo announcing a new legless lizard (horrifying concept, somehow not just a snake?) by saying "we have a new tiny face to introduce!" (unbelievably cute)

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

there's a spider on the tube I use to knock down spiderwebs

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

They were among thousands of students, teachers, and volunteers who helped document the nation's landscape – often on a shoestring budget, always in sturdy walking shoes. Half a century later, Margaret spotted an article in The Geographer featuring a map with familiar colour-coding.

A close up of one of the maps Margaret and Katy helped make.

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"southpaw in vestments" is my sleeper agent activation phrase

white sox mascot southpaw, a real cutie, in papal vestments

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

you know you're in for a ride when the pilot offers tips for combating nausea ten minutes in to the flight

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

excited to report this is happening again

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

what is the outlet that will publish a piece about the intersection of east coast - midwest cultural foodways and chicken finger subs

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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The NACIS schedule is out! Particularly excited about our panel on the fantasy maps of Karen Wynn Fonstad. She was highlighted in the NYT series of overlooked obituaries although they annoyingly refers to her as a "novice cartographer" when she in fact was an expert. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article)

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

linkedin stop showing me jobs from which I've already been rejected challenge

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I had a dream last night about a tequila martini with six olives. Dream me and awake me both had serious misgivings about the tequila but the olives were stuffed with smaller olives and I think I'm on to something there.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I keep getting ads for fancy hotels that do not mention where the hotel is??? Seems like a real oversight.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

scene report: someone is driving around downtown blasting "You Can Call Me Al." It is 10:07pm.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Last week Buffalo put some basic traffic markings in the city's previously lawless central traffic circle (Niagara Square, shapes are hard) and it is WILD how much safer it's gotten.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Having a very Aaron Burr lunch as I did not put enough jam on this pb&j and just got a phone call.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

appears I have restarted the ritual of being up from 4:30-6:30am stressed about work & obligations, then feeling the tiredest I have ever felt in my entire life for the twenty minutes before my alarm goes off

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Football scores: the France-England match today was a higher scoring game than Bills-Browns 10/11/09.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I feel like this burger is going to be my entry point to a major sauce bordelaise phase.

the "burger parisienne" at St James in San Diego with american cheese, caramelized onions, and so much sauce bordelaise it's pooling on the plate

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

whole thread is great but this piece especially: why passively cede your own spatial knowledge to corporations when there's so much else to discover?

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael's stunning Wānaka Tree photograph has been on my wall for years. Check out his work, maybe buy a stained glass cool S.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

AI Refusal Statement
I did not use generative AI at any point in the production of this book or presentation, including the literature review, writing, editing, translation, organization, or any other task (e.g. brainstorming). To the extent that it is possible to know, I did not cite any studies that used generative AI.
Justification: GenAI technology is based on stolen labor, anti-solidarity between workers, class exploitation, structural racism, misogyny, environmental injustice, and climate destabilization.

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

made a map of @theguardian.com's 100 Best Novels of All Time list www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

a map and gantt chart of the guardian's list of the 100 best novels of all time

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Midnight Run John McPhee the brisket biriyani I had this afternoon Judy Holliday Frederick Law Olmsted ice cream out of a bowl shaped like a baseball hat

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today in downtown Buffalo it's Comic Con, the Taste of Country, and the NHL Draft, all within blocks of each other. The vibes are all over the place.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“And the building shakes in Seattle!” PNSN’s seismic stations captured the crowd response to both Alex Freeman’s goal and the VAR decision overturning the offside call. It’s #USMNT 2 to Australia 0 at half-time. #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology

Graphic showing seismogram with two big spikes at "Goal" and "VAR decision."

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Watching Egypt's goal against Belgium in the PNSN SeismoLab today—we spotted the action on the live seismogram viewer before the broadcast caught up! #EgyptVsBelgium #EGYvsBEL #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology

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vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026