James Boxall
@jamesgis.bsky.social
Geography/GIS educator FRCGS FRGS. Climate SLR. #Dal #SMU #QE2PlatMedal. Semple GeogEd Award. Apoplectic-adorable. Shot 67. Book addict (socialtechfuture) CBCIdeas. Sci-fi. Old movies. WHU COYI. Parkinsons sucks | michaeljfox.org | Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)
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James Boxall
@jamesgis.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Yes, my profile pic is me at a very young age crying because my stuff toy fell off the table. Ya can't have it all. So I pinned this in case folks wanted to know if I was real and had a real face. Well....if you can stomach it...here it is... in my office doing GIS and lovin it.
This is hard to say.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is hard to say.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
PP is an awesome opposition leader!
He's also destined to be the worst PM.
He should do what he does well.
Such sad news. If you knew her, you'd know why it is even sadder than that. (I knew her because her cousin Paula was my best friend growing up next door... she also passed far too young at 44)....damn.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Colleen Jones, champion curler and CBC reporter, dies at 65 | CBC News
Jones’s celebrated career paved the way for other women in sport and broadcasting.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Such sad news. If you knew her, you'd know why it is even sadder than that. (I knew her because her cousin Paula was my best friend growing up next door... she also passed far too young at 44)....damn.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Starting to think Ai is the new nuclear.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Starting to think Ai is the new nuclear.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
1. Nuclear medicine is cool, helpful.
Saved great many lives.
2. Nuclear energy? "beauty in the eye of the beholder."
Some firm yes, some firm no.
3. Nukes best left locked-up, never used.
If you do, kaboom!
Me? 1 yes, 2 maybe, 3 always.
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You know it's Tuesday morning and your grad student hasn't arrived, and you need a distraction.....
🔍 David O’Sullivan explores how to generate random points on the globe in R -- from uniform random to Halton sequences and blue-noise sampling.
Read more: dosull.github.io/posts/2025-0...
#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat
Read more: dosull.github.io/posts/2025-0...
#RStats #RSpatial #GISchat
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You know it's Tuesday morning and your grad student hasn't arrived, and you need a distraction.....
There's one benefit to folks using smartphones and ear buds to chat while walking. I can now walk and talk to myself and no one will give it a second thought.
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There's one benefit to folks using smartphones and ear buds to chat while walking. I can now walk and talk to myself and no one will give it a second thought.
Sometimes I simply cry. Problem is, I'm not sure if it's tears of joy or laughter, or of pain and sorrow. Maybe more fear.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sometimes I simply cry. Problem is, I'm not sure if it's tears of joy or laughter, or of pain and sorrow. Maybe more fear.
I love noticing legacies of another time, habits we still use and they're starting to seem passe.
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I love noticing legacies of another time, habits we still use and they're starting to seem passe.
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
Walking through quiet room in the library, notice two librarians whispering about who-knows-what.
"why ya whispering?"
"don't want to bother the students"
"they can't hear you. ear buds."
I don't really have anything against Monday per se, I simply do not like waking to find out it is Monday.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I don't really have anything against Monday per se, I simply do not like waking to find out it is Monday.
OK, I'm tired of people not moving aside.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
OK, I'm tired of people not moving aside.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
Can't ya see I have a cane and issues walking?
Halifax, better please.
Folks giving me strange looks because my face freezes, glaring, no blinks. It's my PD not you.
On plus side, thanks to the folks opening doors :-)
There are still, always, good people.
N.Carolina Senator thinks we owe NATO $300 Billion. We pay our portion of NATO operations (our "obligation" we do "owe") $300 is his math of 2% GDP defense spend guideline missed since 1990. It's a target some nations don't/haven't hit. It is not owed.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
U.S. senators say relations with Canada suffering
The tariffs imposed on Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump have clearly caused economic pain for Canada, but a U.S. senator from Maine says he’s more worried about how Canadians are reacting on a pe...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
N.Carolina Senator thinks we owe NATO $300 Billion. We pay our portion of NATO operations (our "obligation" we do "owe") $300 is his math of 2% GDP defense spend guideline missed since 1990. It's a target some nations don't/haven't hit. It is not owed.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...
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"Despite the difficulties getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere."
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
COP30 in Brazil fails to secure new pledges to cut fossil fuels - follow live
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Despite the difficulties getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere."
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
Love this #COP30 takeaway from
@georginarannard.bsky.social. Just because countries aren't acting at scale doesn't mean the rest of us can't!
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Don't call it AI or LLM. Call it the Expensive Mistake Generator.
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Don't call it AI or LLM. Call it the Expensive Mistake Generator.
I just realized, I should have been a seismologist. I'm already on shaky parky ground, so perhaps my tremors and earth's would cancel each other out and..tada!
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I just realized, I should have been a seismologist. I'm already on shaky parky ground, so perhaps my tremors and earth's would cancel each other out and..tada!
Santa gives out Rolex watches?
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Santa gives out Rolex watches?
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
That must be one hell of a naughty-nice list.
💾I wonder if we will ever update the “save” icon and bid farewell to the floppy disk once and for all.
Saturday's my deep thinking day.
Saturday's my deep thinking day.
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
💾I wonder if we will ever update the “save” icon and bid farewell to the floppy disk once and for all.
Saturday's my deep thinking day.
Saturday's my deep thinking day.
We are a weird bunch.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Alcohol industry disappointed to be left out of interprovincial trade agreement | CBC News
Some in the alcohol industry say they’re perplexed and disappointed that booze was left out of a recent agreement between provinces to drop interprovincial trade barriers.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We are a weird bunch.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
When you wake up, go to the cafe open the laptop, see the power is almost zero and then find that you left the power cord on campus.
And so I use the last watt to post something that proves I'm and eejit, something of a redundant comment to be honest.
And so I use the last watt to post something that proves I'm and eejit, something of a redundant comment to be honest.
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
When you wake up, go to the cafe open the laptop, see the power is almost zero and then find that you left the power cord on campus.
And so I use the last watt to post something that proves I'm and eejit, something of a redundant comment to be honest.
And so I use the last watt to post something that proves I'm and eejit, something of a redundant comment to be honest.
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On the search for my next PR role in Halifax — shares appreciated!
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
On the search for my next PR role in Halifax — shares appreciated!
Once again, I'm looking for my spacecraft.
I think I landed on the wrong planet.
I think I landed on the wrong planet.
In case you’re wondering:
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
The key people behind tomorrow’s planned nationwide Ostrich Convoy include an aging Burning Man attendee who drives a psychedelic school bus called the “Church of Bubbles” and a Dutch-born Gen Z social media marketer who imports maple syrup to Utrecht, Netherlands
Leaders of Canada’s Newest Convoy Worry Police Are Trying to Sabotage a Nationwide Protest Avenging a Flock of Dead Ostriches
Convoy organizers say they are at ‘war’ with the federal government, but insist they will remain ‘peaceful’
pressprogress.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Once again, I'm looking for my spacecraft.
I think I landed on the wrong planet.
I think I landed on the wrong planet.
Watching stuff via US channels...
One thing always struck me - claim Canada is weaker because of multiculturalism. Everyone going to US can become FULLY American...but ya can't be President. Everyone coming here can be Canadian and become our PM.
So JDVance being an ass about us is...funny
One thing always struck me - claim Canada is weaker because of multiculturalism. Everyone going to US can become FULLY American...but ya can't be President. Everyone coming here can be Canadian and become our PM.
So JDVance being an ass about us is...funny
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Watching stuff via US channels...
One thing always struck me - claim Canada is weaker because of multiculturalism. Everyone going to US can become FULLY American...but ya can't be President. Everyone coming here can be Canadian and become our PM.
So JDVance being an ass about us is...funny
One thing always struck me - claim Canada is weaker because of multiculturalism. Everyone going to US can become FULLY American...but ya can't be President. Everyone coming here can be Canadian and become our PM.
So JDVance being an ass about us is...funny
So, if you are wondering if the climate crisis has a cost, here's your card.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So, if you are wondering if the climate crisis has a cost, here's your card.
Is it ok to simply say "well duh!"
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Is it ok to simply say "well duh!"
Odd how often an atm 🏧 is needed
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Odd how often an atm 🏧 is needed