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 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
"southpaw in vestments" is my sleeper agent activation phrase
you know you're in for a ride when the pilot offers tips for combating nausea ten minutes in to the flight
what is the outlet that will publish a piece about the intersection of east coast - midwest cultural foodways and chicken finger subs
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...
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.”
nytimes.com
linkedin stop showing me jobs from which I've already been rejected challenge
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.
I keep getting ads for fancy hotels that do not mention where the hotel is??? Seems like a real oversight.
scene report: someone is driving around downtown blasting "You Can Call Me Al." It is 10:07pm.
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.
Having a very Aaron Burr lunch as I did not put enough jam on this pb&j and just got a phone call.
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
Football scores: the France-England match today was a higher scoring game than Bills-Browns 10/11/09.
I feel like this burger is going to be my entry point to a major sauce bordelaise phase.
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?
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo.The old map shows what's now the Tate Modern when it was still a power station. The Google map is so much uglier and doesn't bother to name a lot of the streets, but it does s show chain shops and corporate hotels.
Michael's stunning Wānaka Tree photograph has been on my wall for years. Check out his work, maybe buy a stained glass cool S.
⚔️ Michael Whitney@michaelwhitney.bsky.social · last mo.I have a BIG sale on all my photography and stained glass before moving abroad. Tons of photos and cool glass pieces all 25% off! www.colorgravity.art
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!
made a map of @theguardian.com's 100 Best Novels of All Time list www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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
Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’ve been thinking about the America I’m proud of and that I want to celebrate tomorrow, and it’s things like hip-hop and blue jeans and sending a man to the moon and this.
Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time
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.
“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
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
What every woman truly wants: a second order of deviled eggs.
abandoning a 20 year career in cartography for the mysterious world of cheese ops
