Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

@kgeographer.bsky.social

500 followers 320 following 370 posts

Karl Grossner, geographer, nomad (still), co-instigator and former lead dev of whgazetter.org #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into #folklore with AI-ish methods. In Vienna again, until mid-November.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Slow Horses day to all who celebrate. 🐎

Reposted by kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 2d

9 99 340

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 2d

Also the fact that every third word out of their mouths is insurrection

1 2

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 2d

Smirking is a shared trait of MAGA apparatchiks

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 2d

450, oh my. Congrats!

1 1

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 2d

So, nicht immer gut. Aber, jetzt gut. You might say.

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 95/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Hibbing, Minnesota. May 2025. Birthplace of Bob Dylan. They are mighty proud of him here.

Hibbing, Minnesota Public Library - home of a Bob Dylan exhibit

Monument outside the Hibbing, MN library honoring Nobel Prize in Literature honoree, native son Bob Dylan

A life-sized Bob Dylan cardboard cutout at the Dylan exhibit in the Hibbing Public Libraru

Small detail of song lyrics on the monument to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, Hibbing, Minnesota. "May you stay forever young"

1 6

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 94/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Minneapolis and Stillwater, Minnesota. May 2025.

George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The historic Stillwater Lift Bridge, Stillwater, Minnesota

Reposted by kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4d

Goodnight from the HQ of WOMB – Women Opposing Male Bullshit – in a squat on Vinegar Street, where their fundraising party is so loud it threatens to wake the plague pit dead. Goodnight from Cass Farley, reading fox-scattered bones as a map to tomorrow. Goodnight from Hookland.

19 39 320

Reposted by kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

170 760 5.2K

Reposted by kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

120 6.3K 26K

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 5d

This stuff reeks of Steven Cheung, now apparently given free reign

4 2 5

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 6d

I guess I really am retired, since I’ve begun playing around with watercolors. A long learning curve awaits. The #GLOS work on folklore and LLMs continues, now focusing more on evaluating LLM interpretation of creation myth narratives dense with metaphor than on analysis of the myths themselves.

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 7d

Something familiar about the scene

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the worst thing a US president has uttered in my lifetime.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8d

The idea of the U.S. military “training” against their fellow Americans is pretty damn dystopian.

www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump offers "dangerous" U.S. cities as military "training grounds"

He told military leaders "we have to handle" the so-called "enemy from within."

www.axios.com

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 8d

🧵 93/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Eau Claire, Wisconsin. May, 2025. Walking the campus and fishing the Eau Claire river.

The Eau Claire river at Big Falls County Park. Good fishing here.

Chippewa River sunset, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

A red dress hanging from a tree on the Eau Claire campus -- one of dozens, on National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

A small amphitheater at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire campus, on the shores of the Chippewa River

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 8d

🧵 92/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Spring Green (Taliesin) and Dodgeville Wisconsin. May, 2025.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin embedded in the rolling hills of southern Wisconsin

Spring Green, Wisconsin's answer to Ace Hardware - Hardware Hank

Dodgeville's finest - Bob's Bitchin' BBQ. Not so great actually.

A Smokey the Bear resist sticker on my suitcase

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 8d

IQ of a fencepost

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 11d

🧵 91/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Side trip to Mammoth Cave and Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. April, 2025.

🎵 Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
-- John Prine

Steps down into main entrance to Mammoth Cave

Green River, Kentucky. It is kinda green.

John Prine Memorial Park, near the Rochester Dam

Memorial site for John Prine and the Everly Brothers. Downtown Central City, KY.

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 11d

🧵 90/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Bloomington, Indiana and nearby Brown County for a couple months, April-May 2025.

Redbud and a storage shed in Spring sunshine

Street sign for Less Traveled Rd, Brown County, IN

Early Spring vista at Monroe Lake, Indiana

Hands Off! protest sign at Bloomington City Hall in the rain: "Americans won't back down. Hands off our democracy"

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe fear of retribution? Get painted as a radical leftist and who knows what might happen to you. The intimidation has succeeded.

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 12d

She is saying he is a dictator, get used to it.

1 2

Reposted by kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

600 5.9K 19K

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 14d

Autumn arrived on schedule in Vienna, 53f/12c and rainy. Love it.

kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 14d

“…the left is dabbling…
Who is “the left”? Perhaps that’s explained in the paywalled article, but that language in the lede is shoddy reporting. Has “the left” stormed the Capitol? Have multiple prominent Dem politicians said she was cheated? Not comparable at all.