Raechel Portelli
@raportelli.bsky.social
Geographer- too many interests to take academia seriously (thanks ADHD)? Teach courses in data science, cartography, and GeoAI Literacy. If it's tactile art, I've probably attacked it in a hyperfocus episode ⭐
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Raechel Portelli
@raportelli.bsky.social
· Jan 26
"What would you be like if there was nobody else in the world? Who would you be if the only opinion was yours? Because if you want to be truly happy you must be that person. You must search inside yourself for what is uniquely you. When you find it, polish it, until it becomes your style." Crisp'09
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🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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It's time to consider saving your lives and those of your friends and family.
You'll need water in the struggle that's coming.
That's in the Great Lakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
You'll need water in the struggle that's coming.
That's in the Great Lakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Trumpism Will Be With Us for a Very Long Time
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's time to consider saving your lives and those of your friends and family.
You'll need water in the struggle that's coming.
That's in the Great Lakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
You'll need water in the struggle that's coming.
That's in the Great Lakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
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Still time to call and jump on their latest social media posts....
Fight, America.
Fight, America.
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Still time to call and jump on their latest social media posts....
Fight, America.
Fight, America.
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Its game on
Time for the sell outs to step aside
Call your rep tonight and give them a piece of your mind
202 224 3121
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Time for the sell outs to step aside
Call your rep tonight and give them a piece of your mind
202 224 3121
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Its game on
Time for the sell outs to step aside
Call your rep tonight and give them a piece of your mind
202 224 3121
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Time for the sell outs to step aside
Call your rep tonight and give them a piece of your mind
202 224 3121
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
Every good little Yooper learns this song before they're knee high. My dad got to meet him once and get his autograph in Green Bay. The Whitefish Point museum is a must see for history buffs, birders, and ship enthusiasts alike. Visit yearly when I go north.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. The ship sank 50 years ago tonight.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Every good little Yooper learns this song before they're knee high. My dad got to meet him once and get his autograph in Green Bay. The Whitefish Point museum is a must see for history buffs, birders, and ship enthusiasts alike. Visit yearly when I go north.
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Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...
The predicability of Republican lies and our Democratic leadership to fall for them every single time is getting really old. My dog is a better judge of character than the Democrats voting based on the false promises
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The predicability of Republican lies and our Democratic leadership to fall for them every single time is getting really old. My dog is a better judge of character than the Democrats voting based on the false promises
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Student Reminder: If you're seeking travel support to attend #AAG2026, AAG will be awarding #student travel grants of $500 plus the cost of in-person registration to help subsidize travel expenses for students presenting in San Francisco.
Apply by November 15: buff.ly/a8D3pkx
#GeoSky #GISChat
Apply by November 15: buff.ly/a8D3pkx
#GeoSky #GISChat
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Student Reminder: If you're seeking travel support to attend #AAG2026, AAG will be awarding #student travel grants of $500 plus the cost of in-person registration to help subsidize travel expenses for students presenting in San Francisco.
Apply by November 15: buff.ly/a8D3pkx
#GeoSky #GISChat
Apply by November 15: buff.ly/a8D3pkx
#GeoSky #GISChat
Maury on my way in earlier. Looking good in his natural habitat lol
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Maury on my way in earlier. Looking good in his natural habitat lol
Well, no more time for new maps it would seem so here's one from last month for analog. Doodle of the UP. You can tell I started in copper harbor since the points not pointy and my hometown has an exaggerated bay 🥹 #30daymapchallenge
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Well, no more time for new maps it would seem so here's one from last month for analog. Doodle of the UP. You can tell I started in copper harbor since the points not pointy and my hometown has an exaggerated bay 🥹 #30daymapchallenge
Big Penny and her cult following are spreading:) [sorry about the pay wall] www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
Truck-mangling bridge catches the imagination of Lansing
A Lansing bridge with a low clearance has always been a bane for truck drivers but has recently captured the imagination of the capital city.
www.detroitnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Big Penny and her cult following are spreading:) [sorry about the pay wall] www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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While there's still a ton of green in my courtyard here in Champaign, back in Michigan...
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
While there's still a ton of green in my courtyard here in Champaign, back in Michigan...
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Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
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This was such a delightful and eye-opening tour!
Happy to tour visiting authors & @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcasters @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social around some key central Vancouver city-building this morning, before their book event with @visionzerovancouver.ca tonight! (some tickets left, apparently)
Great conversation!
Great conversation!
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This was such a delightful and eye-opening tour!
Random lost memory came up during a conversation just now. The first foreign phrase I learned as a kid was "Didi mao", basically "leave now." Dad brought it home with him from the Vietnam War and that was his way of telling us to get away from him. I got a lot of thoughts on that looking back
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Random lost memory came up during a conversation just now. The first foreign phrase I learned as a kid was "Didi mao", basically "leave now." Dad brought it home with him from the Vietnam War and that was his way of telling us to get away from him. I got a lot of thoughts on that looking back
Started down a side track on Thomas Hirschhorn and ended up here. (Now to find my way back to whatever it was that started this lol. art21.org/read/assessm...
Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom — Art21
Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films...
art21.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Started down a side track on Thomas Hirschhorn and ended up here. (Now to find my way back to whatever it was that started this lol. art21.org/read/assessm...
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EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours
Pricing to compete with low cost flights
Reduce emissions by 80%
Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷♂️
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#30DayMapChallenge - Day 7 - Accessibility
In 2010, I went on a weekend trip to Chicago. This trip left a lasting impression on me of how a decent rail system can make a large city so accessible without a car. This map shows a one mile buffer from the "L".
In 2010, I went on a weekend trip to Chicago. This trip left a lasting impression on me of how a decent rail system can make a large city so accessible without a car. This map shows a one mile buffer from the "L".
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
#30DayMapChallenge - Day 7 - Accessibility
In 2010, I went on a weekend trip to Chicago. This trip left a lasting impression on me of how a decent rail system can make a large city so accessible without a car. This map shows a one mile buffer from the "L".
In 2010, I went on a weekend trip to Chicago. This trip left a lasting impression on me of how a decent rail system can make a large city so accessible without a car. This map shows a one mile buffer from the "L".
Not that I have noticed. And for sure "conservative feminism" is the last thing we need in our lives.
I give up. The @nytimes.com has no shame and almost no integrity.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Not that I have noticed. And for sure "conservative feminism" is the last thing we need in our lives.
Kiddo is back into his basketball hypnosis. His dad sent me this lol. "This is what my television has becone"🤣 I'm sure kiddo also has a game going on his phone and on his dad's computer while he takes notes for his player and stats logs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Kiddo is back into his basketball hypnosis. His dad sent me this lol. "This is what my television has becone"🤣 I'm sure kiddo also has a game going on his phone and on his dad's computer while he takes notes for his player and stats logs.
Huge fail on my part. Thought Cold brew with peppermint syrup was a great idea. It was not.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Huge fail on my part. Thought Cold brew with peppermint syrup was a great idea. It was not.
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#GeographyAwarenessWeek is coming November 17-21 and we’re proud to partner with our sponsors Esri and the National Council for Geographic Education this year to celebrate "Making Spaces of Possibility.”
Hosting an event? Check out the #GeoWeek2025 StoryMap and get involved: buff.ly/ohFkOQp
Hosting an event? Check out the #GeoWeek2025 StoryMap and get involved: buff.ly/ohFkOQp
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#GeographyAwarenessWeek is coming November 17-21 and we’re proud to partner with our sponsors Esri and the National Council for Geographic Education this year to celebrate "Making Spaces of Possibility.”
Hosting an event? Check out the #GeoWeek2025 StoryMap and get involved: buff.ly/ohFkOQp
Hosting an event? Check out the #GeoWeek2025 StoryMap and get involved: buff.ly/ohFkOQp