# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Noticing a theme here.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Hi all. I’m trying to connect to a MS SQL Server DB from Postgres using a FDW, and am having trouble getting the connection string right. Has anyone done this successfully on a windows server? Any assistance or pointers would be much appreciated.
#gischat #postgresql

Web geo people. I need help tracking down something. A few months back, I ran across info about a library or script that could be used to serve layers from a geo package out to the web without setting up a full product like geo server or map server. I can’t find it now. Any ideas? #gischat

Son is off school today. He told me he wants to play a game. My recent history of watching YouTube horror movie clips is haunting me as now all I hear in my mind is a tape of the guy from the “Saw” movie franchise starting up and him saying that. 🤣🤣

Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees?

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share.

We escaped hell to be here.

Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

The Salish Sea contains all of Puget Sound, as well as the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. If you want to learn more about the Salish Sea's geography, check out my overview here arcg.is/1D8rDX0

Winter is coming and the #30daymapchallenge Day 25's prompt is "Heat", so obviously I made a map of the 1991-2020 average winter minimum temperatures across the Salish Sea Bioregion 🙂

#geography #cartography #GIS #SalishSea #climate

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

My redesign of the downtown Seattle Metro Service map--as seen on the screen and in the wild.


#seattle #transit #maps #transitMaps #wayfinding

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.

I like this version of social media, and the world.

Thanks, folks.

This thread, and others in a similar vein, ie, people passionately expressing their interest and joy in something without being mocked or teased, are probably the best things I’ve seen since moving over here. Please keep it up. Threads like this are so fun and informative!! 😊

Pretty sure that would qualify as top tier content! Please do! #gischat

21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.

While I mostly came here for the geospatial content, #foss4g, #gischat, and mapping things, the number of other interesting rabbit-hole tracing opportunities arising from posts coming through on my “Discover” feed, is really quite lovely!
I also apparently like run-on sentences. 😊