Cartonaut
@cartonaut.bsky.social
@cartonaut elswhere
Map-o-phile / GIS wrangler / M.S. GIS / GISP / mischief / 🗺️ / solvitur ambulando
Map-o-phile / GIS wrangler / M.S. GIS / GISP / mischief / 🗺️ / solvitur ambulando
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Cartonaut
@cartonaut.bsky.social
· Mar 9
This account is mostly Map and GIS celebration (some gripes)+ elevation of others' mappy work. It will detour into carnivorous plants, nudibranchs, birds, corny puns, stands against fascism and authoritarianism, sharing natural wonder, rowboat and bike adventures, childcare and adult dementia care.
Just completed a DMV trifecta.
Old (~1978) salvaged special construction boat trailer that I repaired.
No VIN
No license/registration
No title
Today I have all three again!
New wheels and lights.
Just in time, need to park on street temporarily when trucks are in driveway while we re-roof.
Old (~1978) salvaged special construction boat trailer that I repaired.
No VIN
No license/registration
No title
Today I have all three again!
New wheels and lights.
Just in time, need to park on street temporarily when trucks are in driveway while we re-roof.
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just completed a DMV trifecta.
Old (~1978) salvaged special construction boat trailer that I repaired.
No VIN
No license/registration
No title
Today I have all three again!
New wheels and lights.
Just in time, need to park on street temporarily when trucks are in driveway while we re-roof.
Old (~1978) salvaged special construction boat trailer that I repaired.
No VIN
No license/registration
No title
Today I have all three again!
New wheels and lights.
Just in time, need to park on street temporarily when trucks are in driveway while we re-roof.
I love those find the differences between the two pictures puzzle.
Would find it in the comics page every week since I was a kid. Didn't realize it would effectively train me to find and delete the damn unwanted & unrequested crap apps installed onto phone with every security update. My candy crush.
Would find it in the comics page every week since I was a kid. Didn't realize it would effectively train me to find and delete the damn unwanted & unrequested crap apps installed onto phone with every security update. My candy crush.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I love those find the differences between the two pictures puzzle.
Would find it in the comics page every week since I was a kid. Didn't realize it would effectively train me to find and delete the damn unwanted & unrequested crap apps installed onto phone with every security update. My candy crush.
Would find it in the comics page every week since I was a kid. Didn't realize it would effectively train me to find and delete the damn unwanted & unrequested crap apps installed onto phone with every security update. My candy crush.
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Every now and then this comes up, going to finally score this.
hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu/node/226 #gischat
hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu/node/226 #gischat
Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD) | Hegarty Spatial Thinking Lab | UC Santa Barbara
hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Every now and then this comes up, going to finally score this.
hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu/node/226 #gischat
hegarty-lab.psych.ucsb.edu/node/226 #gischat
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Planning out interrelations between scenes, chapters, books, and associated notes.
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world #obsidian
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world #obsidian
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Planning out interrelations between scenes, chapters, books, and associated notes.
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world #obsidian
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 18 - Out of this world #obsidian
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Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
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I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
Of A Feather
This is a story about dead birds in drawers, xkcd, natural language processing and feathers. It's about color, quixotic pursuits and art made from data.
It starts in a parking lot.
It's December, 20...
www.jerthorp.me
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about my new birds+data project, Of A Feather:
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I just did $1,002 in in-person sales this weekend. That's more than the Map Center has ever made in a single weekend while I've been the owner. I had hundreds of folks come through and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Doing my damnedest working through the weekend and making progress.
Doing my damnedest working through the weekend and making progress.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I just did $1,002 in in-person sales this weekend. That's more than the Map Center has ever made in a single weekend while I've been the owner. I had hundreds of folks come through and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Doing my damnedest working through the weekend and making progress.
Doing my damnedest working through the weekend and making progress.
Dendronotus iris, Tomales #nudivember
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Dendronotus iris, Tomales #nudivember
So glad that the shut down is...paused. [roll eyes]
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
So glad that the shut down is...paused. [roll eyes]
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Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
How AI data centers were invented #shorts
YouTube video by Charlie Berens
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs.
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...
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Our #SimplyEverything sale means 50% off every title from Island Press, but only for a limited time. Use code HALF at checkout! Islandpress.org/half
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Our #SimplyEverything sale means 50% off every title from Island Press, but only for a limited time. Use code HALF at checkout! Islandpress.org/half
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Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Day 6: Dimensions #30DayMapChallenge
Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.
Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Day 6: Dimensions #30DayMapChallenge
Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.
Each air-dry clay hexagon was hand-crafted during a Critical Signals workshop on exploring risk and resilience. Each participant shaped their area based on an aerial photograph & when pieced together, the city takes form: imperfect, dimensional, and human.
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Blocked. Let me guess "pedestrian got almost killed on a sidewalk by a parked bike" or "avid cyclist preaching the high-vis clothes and eye contact as alternative to protected bike lines"
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Blocked. Let me guess "pedestrian got almost killed on a sidewalk by a parked bike" or "avid cyclist preaching the high-vis clothes and eye contact as alternative to protected bike lines"
Ugh, we need to keep Steve Pearce out of that BLM position.
He'll treat our national resources like a $100 bill he found on a Friday night in downtown Las Vegas.
He'll treat our national resources like a $100 bill he found on a Friday night in downtown Las Vegas.
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ugh, we need to keep Steve Pearce out of that BLM position.
He'll treat our national resources like a $100 bill he found on a Friday night in downtown Las Vegas.
He'll treat our national resources like a $100 bill he found on a Friday night in downtown Las Vegas.
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Copper has my #OreCup art vote not just because of all the lovely colours it makes but also the copper tlakwa made by peoples of the northwest coast of North America, storied objects exchanged and ritualistically damaged/destroyed for political and cermonial reasons. easteast.world/posts/117
November 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Copper has my #OreCup art vote not just because of all the lovely colours it makes but also the copper tlakwa made by peoples of the northwest coast of North America, storied objects exchanged and ritualistically damaged/destroyed for political and cermonial reasons. easteast.world/posts/117
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
Selkirks from the east looking up the Purcell Trench and from the west looking across Priest Lake. They got a good dusting of snow on the peaks yesterday
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Selkirks from the east looking up the Purcell Trench and from the west looking across Priest Lake. They got a good dusting of snow on the peaks yesterday
The tamaracks are turning here on the Moyie River
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The tamaracks are turning here on the Moyie River
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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The 2026 Women in GIS Member Map Contest is now open — it’s your chance to showcase your work, celebrate creativity, and be recognized by the WiGIS community.
Get the details at
womeningis.org/Map-Contest
#WomenInGIS #MapContest #Cartography #GIS #MapDesign #WiGIS #GISChat
Get the details at
womeningis.org/Map-Contest
#WomenInGIS #MapContest #Cartography #GIS #MapDesign #WiGIS #GISChat
November 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The 2026 Women in GIS Member Map Contest is now open — it’s your chance to showcase your work, celebrate creativity, and be recognized by the WiGIS community.
Get the details at
womeningis.org/Map-Contest
#WomenInGIS #MapContest #Cartography #GIS #MapDesign #WiGIS #GISChat
Get the details at
womeningis.org/Map-Contest
#WomenInGIS #MapContest #Cartography #GIS #MapDesign #WiGIS #GISChat
@burritojustice.bsky.social
Some interesting Kei class adventure van plus new concept vans
youtu.be/rkQWKxP2R2Q?...
Some interesting Kei class adventure van plus new concept vans
youtu.be/rkQWKxP2R2Q?...
Japan Mobility Show 2025 KAYOIBAKO-K コンセプトムービー ダイハツ公式
YouTube video by DaihatsuOfficial
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@burritojustice.bsky.social
Some interesting Kei class adventure van plus new concept vans
youtu.be/rkQWKxP2R2Q?...
Some interesting Kei class adventure van plus new concept vans
youtu.be/rkQWKxP2R2Q?...
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...