Joel Masselink
@jmasselink.bsky.social
nature, geospatial, current events, and sports
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 24: Places and their names
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
in Webster, Massachusetts.
The rough translation is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle" in the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc.
Day 24: Places and their names
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
in Webster, Massachusetts.
The rough translation is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle" in the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc.
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 24: Places and their names
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
in Webster, Massachusetts.
The rough translation is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle" in the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc.
Day 24: Places and their names
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
in Webster, Massachusetts.
The rough translation is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle" in the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc.
Getting older (in the 40s) is when you don't sleep well for no apparent reason... 🥱.. send the coffee ☕
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Getting older (in the 40s) is when you don't sleep well for no apparent reason... 🥱.. send the coffee ☕
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Excellent long-form investigation on the trade of African Grey Parrots #conservation:
The Parrot Cartel wireonline.org/reporting/th...
The Parrot Cartel wireonline.org/reporting/th...
The Parrot Cartel: Inside the Illegal Trade in African Grey Parrots | WIRE
A yearlong investigation exposes how poachers, smugglers, and exotic-pet buyers drive the global black market for African grey parrots — one of the world’s most trafficked birds.
wireonline.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Excellent long-form investigation on the trade of African Grey Parrots #conservation:
The Parrot Cartel wireonline.org/reporting/th...
The Parrot Cartel wireonline.org/reporting/th...
Finally found the lost remote at the end of my kid's sick day
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Finally found the lost remote at the end of my kid's sick day
The zombie of Sec Rubio strikes again - he should never be allowed back in gov't if we ever have normal elections again.
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The zombie of Sec Rubio strikes again - he should never be allowed back in gov't if we ever have normal elections again.
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 11 - minimal
Transportation in Manhattan (ferries, rail, streets)
Data from OpenStreetMap & Overture Maps Foundation
Day 11 - minimal
Transportation in Manhattan (ferries, rail, streets)
Data from OpenStreetMap & Overture Maps Foundation
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 11 - minimal
Transportation in Manhattan (ferries, rail, streets)
Data from OpenStreetMap & Overture Maps Foundation
Day 11 - minimal
Transportation in Manhattan (ferries, rail, streets)
Data from OpenStreetMap & Overture Maps Foundation
read the alt-text 😂
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
read the alt-text 😂
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
Campaign for #USAID Memorial Traffic Circle in Arlington, VA.
Please sign the petition: c.org/RFyY2WD52F
Please sign the petition: c.org/RFyY2WD52F
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Establish an Official USAID Memorial in Arlington County
c.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Campaign for #USAID Memorial Traffic Circle in Arlington, VA.
Please sign the petition: c.org/RFyY2WD52F
Please sign the petition: c.org/RFyY2WD52F
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"still punk as ****" I whisper as I print my directions
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"still punk as ****" I whisper as I print my directions
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
#30daymapchallenge
Day 5: Earth
A "press release" announcing Landsat 1's first image capture, of Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas on July 25, 1972.
Day 5: Earth
A "press release" announcing Landsat 1's first image capture, of Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas on July 25, 1972.
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
#30daymapchallenge
Day 5: Earth
A "press release" announcing Landsat 1's first image capture, of Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas on July 25, 1972.
Day 5: Earth
A "press release" announcing Landsat 1's first image capture, of Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas on July 25, 1972.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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This must be triggering his ptsd. It’s is so horrific
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This must be triggering his ptsd. It’s is so horrific
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Eventually, they’ll figure out population density. 🤡
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Eventually, they’ll figure out population density. 🤡
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🧵: It's almost time for...Rick or Treat!
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🧵: It's almost time for...Rick or Treat!
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
(Thanks to all the happy travelers who've sent in fun Halloween shots over the years. I’d love to see your own travelin’ costumes here on Bluesky!)
Great 🧵
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Great 🧵
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
On a roadtrip I stayed at a historic hotel which was in total disarray after hosting a 4-day retreat of #Blackstone
I had to look up more to learn more about this group, whose CEO Stephen Schwarzman is worth ~$48 Billion.
Plutocrats gonna plute...moving with the political winds...
I had to look up more to learn more about this group, whose CEO Stephen Schwarzman is worth ~$48 Billion.
Plutocrats gonna plute...moving with the political winds...
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On a roadtrip I stayed at a historic hotel which was in total disarray after hosting a 4-day retreat of #Blackstone
I had to look up more to learn more about this group, whose CEO Stephen Schwarzman is worth ~$48 Billion.
Plutocrats gonna plute...moving with the political winds...
I had to look up more to learn more about this group, whose CEO Stephen Schwarzman is worth ~$48 Billion.
Plutocrats gonna plute...moving with the political winds...
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Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
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Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.