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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.

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

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alan, to random
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, (where I live) is studying whether our cities have enough room in their Urban Growth Areas to accommodate future population growth, and my eyes are glazing over trying to read this document called "Whatcom County Land Capacity Analysis For Permanent Housing and Employment Needs"...

https://66a2f909-8feb-4909-aed7-264978eeceae.usrfiles.com/ugd/66a2f9_c882c722cfed43e3918413bd71fefe68.pdf

Instead my mind keeps wandering back to this map I made comparing the city of (population 90k) with (population 400k) which have the same land area:

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

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, to random
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From Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide/

^^ Note, these are some examples of bombings in that happened in the last couple of months while Rafah was still a safe zone, before the new wave of intense bombing that began yesterday. Most civilian casualties in will never get this level of detailed analysis by a respected, impartial international organization like Amnesty International. Whether you think they are the exception or the norm, they're still war crimes.

alan, to USpolitics
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So I've been using 5Calls.org to make it easy to call my federal representatives (although now I just saved all the numbers as contacts in my phone so I don't use the app much anymore).

But since @resistbot is on Mastodon (and 5Calls is not) I was thinking maybe I should start encouraging people to use that instead?

Does anyone have a preference between 5Calls and Resistbot, in terms of which one I should be nagging my friends and family to use?

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 washington
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"Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state"

Great article in the Salish Current explaining tribal sovereignty in and the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision that upheld native treaty rights.

https://salish-current.org/2024/02/05/tribes-101-about-the-native-nations-that-share-geography-with-washington-state/

alan, (edited ) to cascadia
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Interesting news-ish article about #HighSpeedRail in the #SeattleTimes sponsored by Microsoft.

https://www.seattletimes.com/sponsored/a-look-at-high-speed-rail-convenience-jobs-housing-and-cleaner-air/

I can't quibble with the content (it all holds water) and it's a good promotional summary of the topic.

The whole sponsored thing is a bit "ick", but whatever, newspapers aren't what they once were! And it's a nice counter to the regressive, anti-HSR editorials recently published in the Seattle Times.

#Cascadia #Seattle #HSR #CascadiaRail #CascadiaHSR @CascadiaRail

alan, to random
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In the early years of Twitter there were so many cool apps built on geotagged tweets for use cases like disaster mapping. Also many beautiful maps of spatial patterns of social media from creative coders like Erica Fischer.

Gradually, though, people stopped using geotags in Twitter and nothing quite took its place.

But now with @Edent's work to implement "Foursquare on Mastodon" maybe a new geosocial age is dawning?

Feature request for geotag display in Mastodon: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

alan, to maps
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"basemaps are a tesseract"

Not sure if I posted this before, but posting it again so I can find it by searching for "tesseract".

alan, to maps
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I really don't know when you would need to do this, but I'm glad you can do this.

From the code examples:
https://sandcastle.cesium.com/?src=Cartographic%20Limit%20Rectangle.html

alan, to cascadia
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The #SubduedSocial Mastodon server now has custom emoji for the flags of #BellinghamWA, #WashingtonState, and #Cascadia. Enjoy!

:bellingham:
:flag_washington_state:
:cascadia:

alan, to random
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Great news that the tool is now under the management of a worker-owned software coop called Cohere! OpaVote is an easy-to-use website that lets you host online. I can't count how many elections I've administered via this excellent tool as part of my advocacy for democratic reforms like and in particular. Congrats to @Zee, @anaulin and the team!
🗳️ https://blog.opavote.com/2024/01/opavote-is-under-new-management.html

alan, to Seattle
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Today is Point Elliott Treaty Day here in the northwest part of #WashingtonState, including #Seattle, #EverettWA, #BellinghamWA, & much of #PugetSound & the #SalishSea. On this day in 1855 the United States signed a treaty with representatives of local sovereign native nations that provides the legal foundation for all non-native settlement in this area, including ongoing legal obligations that we have to our #indigenous neighbors. Take a moment today to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott

alan, to random
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Hey Washington State residents: the "Washington VOICES Act", HB 2250, has a hearing in the legislature in less than a week! We need you to sign in "pro" in favor of this bill to show your support to the State Government Committee. Please do it before January 24! It's quick and easy:

https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=House&mId=31747&aId=157226&caId=23529&tId=3&ms=20240118SignInPro&utm_campaign=20240118signinpro&utm_medium=email&utm_source=everyaction&emci=881bf250-55b6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&emdi=03697a1d-5bb6-ee11-bea1-0022482237da&ceid=885644

alan, to asianfood
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Neat maps of in the US from Pew Research Center:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/71-of-asian-restaurants-in-the-u-s-serve-chinese-japanese-or-thai-food/

via FlowingData newsletter (Nathan Yau) and Pew study authors Sono Shah and Regina Widjaya (none of whom are on Mastodon)

alan, to random
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OMG the anti-truck urbanists are going to go nuts for this one!

That normal car with snow on the hood looks like it has better visibility than the truck with its gigantic oversized hood height.

It’s no wonder that we’re seeing an increase in pedestrian fatalities with truck designs like these. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedestrian-deaths-increase-crash-data

Original FB post: https://www.facebook.com/share/68K2BpbBzgbW5sZy/

alan, to random
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Good morning

alan, to pnw
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Very cool to see so many local Mastodon servers here in the / region, on @jaz's great "Mastodon Near Me" map.

Also an excellent use of the "uMap" tool from the community!

http://mastodon-near.me/#6/44.590/-121.113

alan, to oregon
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Hey friends in , I see on the list of local Mastodon servers on masto.town that there is (or was?) a server for at eug.social with 39 active users, but that domain doesn't resolve anymore. Can anyone confirm that eug.social is permanently defunct?

alan, to voyager
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I must admit, this news about #Uranus and #Neptune has me shook:

"A fresh analysis of Voyager 2's images show both ice giants are in fact a similar shade of greenish blue, which is the 'most accurate representation yet' of the planets' colors, the new study finds."

https://www.space.com/uranus-neptune-similar-shades-of-blue-voyager-2-images

#Voyager #Voyager2 #NASA #color #green #blue #cyan #azure #space #astrodon #PlanetaryScience #IceGiant #SolarSystem

alan, to random
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For all of you making the “123123” jokes about todays date…

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