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Data projects, Map enthusiast, GIS professional, Educational technologist and leader. Electic music taste and avid reader.
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New Video: Enjoy a relaxing walk amidst golden autumn colours to relaxing ambient music #trees #woodland #TreeClub #Mindfulness
youtu.be/xlWjj4leEnE
youtu.be/xlWjj4leEnE
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New Video: Enjoy a relaxing walk amidst golden autumn colours to relaxing ambient music #trees #woodland #TreeClub #Mindfulness
youtu.be/xlWjj4leEnE
youtu.be/xlWjj4leEnE
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Very early morning sunrise over Pemaquid Point, Maine.
Plein air watercolor.
#pleinairwatercolor #maine #summerlight #watercolor
Plein air watercolor.
#pleinairwatercolor #maine #summerlight #watercolor
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Very early morning sunrise over Pemaquid Point, Maine.
Plein air watercolor.
#pleinairwatercolor #maine #summerlight #watercolor
Plein air watercolor.
#pleinairwatercolor #maine #summerlight #watercolor
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Blue December, acrylic on canvas, 36x36in.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Blue December, acrylic on canvas, 36x36in.
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One of the students killed at Brown was from Birmingham. Two families I know well know the family. This is a tiny town. My heart breaks for this senseless horrific loss. May her memory be a blessing. May we stop the horrific slaughter of our children.
🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/12/alabama-student-among-those-killed-during-brown-university-shooting-church-says.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Alabama student killed in Brown University shooting was a ‘bright light,’ Birmingham church says.
Alabama student killed in Brown University shooting was a ‘bright light,’ Birmingham church says.
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One of the students killed at Brown was from Birmingham. Two families I know well know the family. This is a tiny town. My heart breaks for this senseless horrific loss. May her memory be a blessing. May we stop the horrific slaughter of our children.
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In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves.
capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social
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Fun morning on Lake Huron
December 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fun morning on Lake Huron
This. I live in rural America. We just had to fight to keep our all volunteer ambulance corps - to keep the response time in my village to ~ 5 mins instead of 10- 25 mins.
Warnock: "If you live in Claxton, Georgia, if you live in rural America, even if you have wealth and resources and you're having a stroke and there's no ICU within a reasonable distance because of these draconian cuts, your life is in peril. We can do better than this."
December 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This. I live in rural America. We just had to fight to keep our all volunteer ambulance corps - to keep the response time in my village to ~ 5 mins instead of 10- 25 mins.
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That image was Google Earth zoomed into the northern edge of Newmarket so you could see the densities.
The population density map/data is from: luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/...
The population density map/data is from: luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/...
Mapping Population Density Across the Globe
Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...
luminocity3d.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
That image was Google Earth zoomed into the northern edge of Newmarket so you could see the densities.
The population density map/data is from: luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/...
The population density map/data is from: luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/...
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(Reuters) - Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat apps into ChatGPT, it said on Wednesday, allowing users to edit images, design graphics and manage PDFs within the OpenAI-owned chatbot.
@reuters.com $ADBE
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
@reuters.com $ADBE
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Adobe plugs Photoshop, Acrobat tools into ChatGPT
Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat apps into ChatGPT, it said on Wednesday, allowing users to edit images, design graphics and manage PDFs within the OpenAI-owned chatbot.
www.reuters.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling
[Ottawa – December 1, 2025] As AI tools become cheaper and harder to detect, non-probability, opt-in polls are becoming more vulnerable to synthetic respondents. This deck looks at what’s hap…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
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This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish
Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
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Happy Holidays from a very festive algal microcolony.
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Happy Holidays from a very festive algal microcolony.
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Last chance, starting Sun 4 Jan, to be inspired by the mystique of maps, following two very successful autumn groups on this magical/inspirational theme!
'an enchantment of maps: vision, cartography, inspiration'
7-wk creative-writing workshop series
see: tinyurl.com/mystique-of-...
art: ravilious
'an enchantment of maps: vision, cartography, inspiration'
7-wk creative-writing workshop series
see: tinyurl.com/mystique-of-...
art: ravilious
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Last chance, starting Sun 4 Jan, to be inspired by the mystique of maps, following two very successful autumn groups on this magical/inspirational theme!
'an enchantment of maps: vision, cartography, inspiration'
7-wk creative-writing workshop series
see: tinyurl.com/mystique-of-...
art: ravilious
'an enchantment of maps: vision, cartography, inspiration'
7-wk creative-writing workshop series
see: tinyurl.com/mystique-of-...
art: ravilious
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December 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine.
The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning
The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning
Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future
A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid washing machine
www.positive.news
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine.
The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning
The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning
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This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks!
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
December 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks!
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.
I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, “Does the president care about people like me?”
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Check out our new data visualization platform to explore local economic conditions and policies targeting place in the US: "The Economy in Place." economyinplace.com
The Economy in Place
Interactive, data story
economyinplace.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Check out our new data visualization platform to explore local economic conditions and policies targeting place in the US: "The Economy in Place." economyinplace.com
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Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday,
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday,
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526]
hvrd.art/o/259669
What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
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Climate chaos is costing us. Seasons of flooding and drought is hiking water rates. San Diego will see a 30% rise. '24 heatwaves in Ghana and Ivory Coast drove cocoa prices up 300%. Early blossoming led to a 40% loss in hazelnut yields in Turkey and a 30% price hike.
prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
prospect.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Climate chaos is costing us. Seasons of flooding and drought is hiking water rates. San Diego will see a 30% rise. '24 heatwaves in Ghana and Ivory Coast drove cocoa prices up 300%. Early blossoming led to a 40% loss in hazelnut yields in Turkey and a 30% price hike.
prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
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Pillars of 👀
🔭🐡🧪🎨
🔭🐡🧪🎨
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pillars of 👀
🔭🐡🧪🎨
🔭🐡🧪🎨
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Calls to mental health hotlines rise as farmers buckle under stress
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline, where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need, are increasing.
tinyurl.com/pEhbWf
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline, where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need, are increasing.
tinyurl.com/pEhbWf
Calls to mental health hotlines rise as farmers buckle under stress
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline and the Iowa Concern hotline — where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need — ...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Calls to mental health hotlines rise as farmers buckle under stress
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline, where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need, are increasing.
tinyurl.com/pEhbWf
As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline, where farmers can get support in times of mental health crisis or need, are increasing.
tinyurl.com/pEhbWf