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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥
@spatialtee.bsky.social
Geospatial Disastertech | Climatetech | Insurtech | Leadership
I've just been writing a bunch lately. The title for this should be "How Queer thinking will save the fucking planet to straight fucksticks". But I did not. I did, however, throw shade at Men's Warehouse.

#climatetech #CTC #GeoAI #Queer #AF

open.substack.com/pub/geospati...
We Can't Dashboard Our Way Out of This
How Queer Cognition Can Rescue Us, Mostly From Ourselves
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Weeee, I’m everywhere this month
In this episode of The Spatial Stack, Matt Forrest sits down w/ AGS Councilor @spatialtee.bsky.social to unpack why #GeoAI could reshape the field as profoundly as GPS once did: open.spotify.com/episode/7rzE...

Register for #Geo2050 & join us Nov. 20-21 in #NYC: www.geography2050.org

#geospatial
October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I wrote another thing :)

How Fintech hears Geo, and how Geo hears Fintech

geospatialrisk.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
You have Two Ears and One Mouth, so Listening is More Important
Full disclosure, some of this is AI generated.
geospatialrisk.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I wrote a thing about how #geospatial and #fintech don't speak the same language

open.substack.com/pub/geospati...
Why Fintech Still Doesn't Get Earth Observation ROI: The Cultural Chasm
Why Did I Write This
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sport Coat > Patagonia Vest
September 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My conference rubric

Halls > Keynotes
Sessions > Vendor Floor
Conversations about blowing all this shit up and doing it over > EVERY GOD DAMN THING
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
finished up my schedule for #NYCW and yeah, my Lyft bill is going to be nuts.

into the breach

#nycw
September 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Unused doodles from my 'Zine for GeoAI, Climate Risk, and Tacos Salon at #climateweekNYC

luma.com/yhqyvlrl
September 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
the more I’m on Bksy, the more gems i find
I read every single interview Kevin Guthrie has done in the past five years to write this, and one thing became very clear: he is intentionally creating a blueprint for emergency management in Florida that he wants the rest of the country to follow.

disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...
Disasterology: September 2025
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).
disasterology.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“the most dangerous place to stand is between Tee and a podcast mic”
September 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
listening to my “podcast psych-up playlist” before the podcast in a guest on this morning
September 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
my #nyclimateweek schedule
was on 3 different apps across multiple calendars. So resorted to a notepad like it was the 90s
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
GeoAI, Climate Risk, and Tacos is full but I have a waitlist. Ping me if you wanna be on it.

Also if you can’t make it, I’ve made a playlist for the vibe

open.spotify.com/playlist/3JG...

#geoai #climaterisk #geospatial #nyclimateweek
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥
@adamsimmons.bsky.social does a good job tracing the arc of #HIFLD, summarizing its impact, and making the case for its value. The effort that gave rise to HIFLD shows that government, industry, and non-profit can collaborate to do hard, yet beneficial, things.

projectgeospatial.org/geospatial-f...
The Rise, Power, and Uncertain Future of America's Open Infrastructure Data — Project Geospatial
For two decades, the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open portal was the bedrock of U.S. disaster response and community planning—a free, authoritative map of the nation's most c...
projectgeospatial.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
nothing like waking up to a potential WW3.
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
So, my #NYClimateWeek #GeoAi , #Climaterisk , and #tacos salon is full.

as we all know not everyone shows up, so if you wanna be waitlisted for an on the fly invite, dm me your name and contact. the current waitlist is about 10 deep
September 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
okay, I’ve got deck.blue on mobile, let’s see if this changes my Bksy usage
September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
How’s work Tee?

I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s “I Hate it Here” all day - including remixes
May 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NGL, I get triggered AF when I see a Tomcat or Apache error screen.

Fuck you #ArcIIMS
May 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Well this is fucking eye opening

www.ft.com/content/5783...
May 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I will go to my grave believing 47 wants Greenland because of the Mercator projection system.
May 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
What, #geodesign is still a thing?
May 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM