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alan

@alan@subdued.social

Admin of subdued.social in #BellinghamWA. Lead Cartographer at https://vis.social/@stamen. Social media for https://social.ridetrans.it/@CascadiaRail. 15 minutes of fame: https://subdued.social/@pop_vs_soda

Was https://subdued.social/@mappingmashups on Twitter.
#cartography, #dataviz, #urbanism, #RankedChoiceVoting, #ElectoralReform, #ProportionalRepresentation, #HighSpeedRail, #OpenStreetMap, #TheExpanse

Don't want local content? Just mute the #BellinghamWA hashtag.

pronoun.is/he

Older posts: https://mastodon.social/@mappingmashups

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alan, to random
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Huh, I knew that was named after some random British dude who never visited the place, but I didn't know that there was also a few "Alan Bellingham"s in the family tree.

Technically, these Bellinghams were originally from England and lived in Ireland as colonizers. There's a "Castle Bellingham" in Ireland that is now apparently a hotel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Bellingham,_1st_Baronet

alan, (edited ) to maps
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Hello global community! Maptime HQ has been in hibernation for a while, but it's time to renew the http://maptime.io domain name, and they're asking for donations to keep it registered. Can you chip in to help them meet their goal? https://ko-fi.com/maptime/goal?g=0 Thanks! 🌈❤️

alan, to random
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An important article from an old friend of mine from grad school.

"To Fight Antisemitism, We Need to Accurately Identify It. Too Often, We’re Failing." by Molly Kraft.

https://www.thegrindmag.ca/to-fight-antisemitism-need-to-accurately-identify-it-were-failing/

Anti-semitism is real, and it is growing. But criticism of the state of Israel is not inherently antisemitic no matter how many times supporters of Israel try to claim it is.

alan,
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"When criticism of Israel focuses on its colonialism, violence, displacement, torture, and murder of Palestinians, it is entirely legitimate — just as any other criticism of any other state.

This veers into antisemitism when it is assumed that the Jewish-Israeli settler state inherently possesses some kind of unique power globally. In fact Israel, and any unique power it does hold, has been bestowed by the most powerful and violent settler colonial states in the world."

alan, to transit
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It's great to see our local transit agency getting into the housing business (seriously).

https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-wta-planning-affordable-housing-project-in-lynden/

skaly, to random

I'll say it again:
Zionists = the absolute 99.999 percent of Jews.
If you try and make that difference, because you know a few American or European Jews or even are so yourself - you are giving into tokenizing Jews.
You can separate black people from the organisation of BLM, you can also say that some black people don't believe that black lives matter at all. But you can not say that black people (in west) and the BLM movement are completely separate.
Stop tokenizing Jews and all minorities.

alan,
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@skaly Hi. Completely good-faith question from a non-Jewish rando here: where does that number come from? I’m looking at some stats here and it doesn’t seem that clear-cut. https://jewishcurrents.org/are-95-of-jews-really-zionists

alan, (edited )
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@skaly ok, that’s a big jump from 99.999% to “more than half”

Update a minute later: sorry that reply was unnecessarily rude and terse. I know you’re not saying it’s “just” more than half. Not trying to do a gotcha about the numbers.

KO6YQ, to pnw
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"New Oregon bill aims to make standard time permanent" by @KGWNews NBC Portland - Unlike 2019 permanent DST effort, states may opt for permanent standard time without act of Congress. Bill not conditional on CA & WA joining. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/oregon-bill-aims-to-make-standard-time-permanent/283-d0c56e25-1d55-4152-bad7-010bdaf87013 #DitchTheSwitch #DitchDST #PNW

alan,
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@KO6YQ They tried and failed again in the #Washington legislature again this year. Based on the way the #waleg calendar works, no movement is possible until 2025. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/time-runs-out-latest-push-end-washingtons-yearly-clock-changes/IGDJUSDV3FCR3MZXHEBBTX4SVM/

kgjenkins, to random
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What technique would you use to try to identify every parking lot in NJ?

(I have an idea, but am curious what other's first thoughts might be)

alan,
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@kgjenkins Train some kind of ML model? Create a MapRoulette challenge and organize a ton of OpenStreetMap mapping parties? Also, coordinate with the @parking_reform and their parking lot map? https://parkingreform.org/resources/parking-lot-map/?

enobacon, to oregon
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Cascadia #HighSpeedRail presentation to #Oregon Joint Committee on #Transportation, Jan 12, 2024. #ORpol, agenda item starts after ~11min

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer/?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2024011009

alan,
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@enobacon haha, here I made a link that cuts it off at the end of the #HighSpeedRail section. :) https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&eventID=2024011009&startStreamAt=609&stopStreamAt=3625

mapsmania, to random
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The Street View Surveillance Game - How many examples of surveillance tech can you find in this interactive panorama?
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/02/street-view-surveillance.html

alan,
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@mapsmania Give the Electronic Frontier Foundation a follow on Mastodon here, too: @eff

migurski, to random
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Messing with Null Island spectres in QGIS

alan,
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@migurski scrolling by fast I though this was a cartogram of house of commons election results in England

migurski, to random
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“Map Projections: The Hot Dog” by artist Agnes Denes 1976, in the National Gallery of Art Via https://subdued.social/ @alan /111484204887737024

https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/742458713460359168

alan,
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@migurski Sorry @alan, whoever your are! Looks like the original post has a broken link to @alan

alan,
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@migurski ahh!

alan, to random
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Just announced for this summer, sponsored by the Port of Bellingham:

Northwest Tune-Up Bike and Music Festival Returns to Bellingham's Waterfront on July 12-14 2024.

Announcement link:
https://www.portofbellingham.com/civicalerts.aspx?AID=411

Event tickets: https://nwtuneup.com/

alan, to random
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Via Mona Chalabi, a comparison of population density of bombed cities: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3iR068O5I0/

alan, to random
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The Biden administration is planning to veto another Security Council resolution for an immediate ceasefire tomorrow morning. Please contact the White House, and you could also write directly to the US ambassador to the UN. Ask them to vote for the resolution or resign in protest if they won't go against Biden's wishes. Ultimately being against a ceasefire means supporting further war crimes; that's more than enough reason to vote yes against Biden's orders, or resign.

https://usun.usmission.gov/mission/contact-us

alan, to linguistics
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The epic linguistic map came up in conversation at work today, so today is one of those days to regularly to pause and spend some time admiring this map of North American English dialects by Rick Aschmann:

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

alan, to random
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We're getting lots of spammers signing up for accounts on #SubduedSocial (like with a lot of other small servers on the fediverse in the last day or so).

So I deactivated open registrations on our server. Now all signups will need to be approved by an admin.

alan, to random
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Uh, I don't think that's a seal.

alan,
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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utqiagvik%2C_Alaska

alan, to kpop
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Somehow I ended up having to explain the finger heart gesture to my coworkers on our standup this morning. Yes, I'm that cool. I've got my finger on the pulse of the youth. Also, who knew that finger heart is already in #unicode ?!

🫰

Also, happy #ValentinesDay to those who celebrate. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_heart

#kpop #valentines #emoji

alan, to random
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In : "Israeli settlements stand in the way of peace. Biden can defund them all"

Interesting idea! The Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are so extensive I'd pretty much given up hope they could be dismantled (unlike the much smaller ones in Gaza that were withdrawn in 2005). With the those in place, a viable two-state solution seems like a non-starter. But maybe this move could be a path forward if Biden has the courage to act on it?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/12/israeli-settlements-stand-in-the-way-of-peace-biden-can-defund-them-all

alan,
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FWIW, I'd be fine if people realize that the two-state solution is not viable once they start trying to implement it (mainly, if the settlements can't be moved), but only if that means we end up with a non-sectarian one-state solution where everyone has equal citizenship, equal freedom of movement, and equal protection under the law.

alan, to random
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"UNRWA staff accused by Israel sacked without evidence, chief admits"

So this means we're obviously going to restore funding to , right? Right?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/09/head-of-unwra-says-he-followed-reverse-due-process-in-sacking-accused-gaza-staff

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