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@vtcraghead.bsky.social

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Bringer of Entropy, Full-Stack Dilettante @Mapbox, Band Interleaved by Line, He/him. https://billmorris.io/shoals/

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · Nov 24

Intro:

My name is Bill; I'm a maker of various maps, most built of pixels. 🛰️

I dwell in Vermont's Big City (Burlington, pop. ~42k), and dearly love this place, though Montréal comes in a close second for my affection. ❄️

My politics are of Community and Equality. ✊

Pleased to meet you.

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 20h

Vermont's extreme drought has given us a nearly-Californian climate here this summer and fall. While that's been a catastrophe for most agriculture, I can't remember a better grape harvest.

Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 1d

Richard, it's Wednesday. But I'm absolutely here for the bridleways content.

Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 5d

"You don't get to decide when you're in a fight. If someone punches you in the face, you're in one. We're in one."

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 7d

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow.

I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 7d

Seems like not the greatest of prizes to be winning.

A chart of drinking percentage by state, showing Vermont at #2 nationally, with around 60% of men drinking.

Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 7d

Bless you for the wonder and stability, ESA. Thanks for keeping the lights on.

kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 8d

2015-2024

😊📹

bsky.app/profile/kosm...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7d

So, I'm sorry bros, but if you want folks to stop calling it 'mansplaining' and saying that basically only men do it, you either need to build a pipeline to produce a generation of arrogant, hubristic female commenters or - and this would be my preference - stop doing it.

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 8d

Some additional virtual rambling this month brought me to the Netherlands, Scotland, and Cape Cod: billmorris.io/shoals/2025/...

Atlas Miscellaneous - October 2025

Cultural exports, petroleum imports, and shellfish reports

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · 9d

Reeves Glacier in Antarctia.

Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 23, 2025.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 9d

Bringing back cavalry charges, that’s what I heard.

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 17d

Me: "When did you last look at a map?"

The general public:

"The Geographer", by Johannes Vermeer, depicting a 17th-ish-century mapmaker at work

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 18d

I'm reading a subtext in this piece, which is that Reinhold Messner has mellowed into an ecumenical position on climbing culture: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High

Climbers are often chasing a rush. Was I cheating by using some help to get there?

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 18d

Oh weeeeiiiiiiirrd.

Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 19d

Sinusoidal, eh? Those always feel so weird to work with.

Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 20d

So reasonable! So approachable!

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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 21d

Not The Onion, somehow:

"Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime
" -- Wireless to The New York Times, Feb. 4, 1939

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...