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Keir DuBois

@keirdubois.bsky.social

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · May 6

New pin with all my vector projects plus one bitmappy book:

📣 I'm Keir, a freelance map artist. Hire me!
🗺️ I make #maps for publications & locations
🎨 Also custom #ttrpg maps for worldbuilding
⌛ Availability: full-time/contract/project
🌎 Working remotely from SoCal/805
💻 Contact: keirdubois.com

Montage of 12 (4x3) vector maps created by me, Keir DuBois. L-R row x row they depict: the Denver Botanic Gardens, Downtown Homewood IL, the Inn at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, Lahaina HI fire damage, the Riverside County Fair, Wilmington NC, my "Nua Gazetteer" fantasy atlas cover, Florida National Park Units, Iron-Curtain era Europe, Boston as if it were a microchip, the USA showing programs supporting diversity in design by state, and the Santa Barbara City College campus.

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Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 12h

If this isn't the painful truth. If we could just keep this series going forever and never have to declare a winner.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12h

If I had to complain about anything in this Mariners/Jays series is there’s no bad guys

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 7h

A good album to help me get through being 19. Got my first bass guitar the same year. Several years later, my second band was named Honey White after the first song on this album. It sounds pretty good for being 30.

morphine "yes" album cover. closeup abstract image of a log burning in a fireplace.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 15h

When they hit, the waves' impact often resembles the short sharp jolts of local earthquakes (as opposed to rollers I've experienced in other areas of the state), which is definitely an unsolicited bonus feature.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 15h

Random observation: it seems to take about 10 minutes for the shockwave of a rocket launch from Vandenberg to reach my windows in Ventura, a distance of ~90ish miles.

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 15h

These men are cowards, Donny

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

The term "toxic masculinity" is overused but it applies to the guys who get so mad at having a successful wife that they divorce them www.businessinsider.com/troubling-re...

The plight of the trophy husbands

The data is in: The worst thing a woman can do for her marriage is be the breadwinner.

www.businessinsider.com

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier than me. I feel like I was only starting to not be an idiot when I was, like, 46 or 47.

(I am now almost 49 and probably still very idiotic)

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 1d

I can't believe Sam Altman is only 40. I was only starting not to be an idiot when I was 40. Absurd to put so much power, global quantities of power, in the hands of so many men in their 40s (and younger!).

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 2d

Rebranding discourse always makes my head hurt. Neither pros nor lays ever cover themselves in anything resembling glory.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 2d

Welp didn't have "Padres will yet again be seeking a manager this offseason" on my bingo card, but perhaps I should have

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about seeing Elvis Costello last week & how it feels watching your favorite artists age onstage: jukeboxgraduate.com/elvis-costel...

Elvis Costello & the Imposters featuring Charlie Sexton, Royal Oak Music Theatre, October 9, 2025

They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss

jukeboxgraduate.com

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 3d

Color-related issues I can work with. "Bad" typeface choices I've learned to get over. It's the elastic nature of how my time is valued that always seems to be the rub, but of course I'm not the only one, so I won't cry *too* loudly about it.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 3d

(those are both design-related, but I'm sure any map mutuals can come up with carto-equivalents)

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Make the logo bigger"

Or, scarier:

"That shouldn't take long"

Harbinger of Doom @brandesstoddard.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

The editor won’t mind if I go over word count a little bit.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 5d

Nah he'll stop the 2025 season at the point when the Red Sox and Yankees both got eliminated

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 5d

Cubs-Brewers damn well better not be a blowout tomorrow.

I want as much baseball as possible.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 6d

I can still deploy it at both big-market big-apple teams all winter, though.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 6d

Perhaps predictably, just like this character, the laugh is now on me. Welp

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 7d

Related: the laugh I did after tonight's game between the NLDS 2 and 3 seeds, in which the 2 seed won handily

a man in a suit and bow tie is smiling and laughing .

Alt: michael from the good place laughing evilishly.

media.tenor.com

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 7d

Related: the laugh I did after tonight's game between the NLDS 2 and 3 seeds, in which the 2 seed won handily

a man in a suit and bow tie is smiling and laughing .

Alt: michael from the good place laughing evilishly.

media.tenor.com

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 7d

It sucks me in and makes me care, for the most trivial reasons, about teams and/or players I wouldn't give a second look at in the regular season.

The postseason knows that there's only so much baseball left, favorite team or not, and that it can bleed me for all I've got.

Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know if I'm built for postseason baseball.

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 9d

Then I can tell you that the most recent set I've completed shares a title with the Baldur's Gate 3 fanfiction I'm currently writing

(the lyrics are way better)

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 9d

Things that will never be in my bio: age, job title, marital status, religious affiliation, political beliefs, pronouns, or other flotsam of identity that allow people to reductively judge me.

(people can judge me about my song lyrics, but that just confirms they're not worth my time)

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 9d

My bio is indeed the first line of the most recent original recording project I released, which might turn out to be the final original recording project I release.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 9d

your bio should be your death poem. the thing you set up when you make your account, that thing

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 9d

I think a real problem in this world is a lack of posting bushido. You can go to war with the mods, with the big accounts, hell with the government itself on X the Everything Site, sometimes it is the honorable thing to do. But you should have your death poem written.

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Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 11d

For better and worse, some of my best friends are Dodgers fans.

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 12d

I'm good with it actually if it keeps certain fanbase responses to Padres elimination out of my feed, because they'll absolutely still be doing that two days later

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 13d

Actually seeing Seattle in the world series would be fun since it would be their first

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 13d

And it's off again. Only thing left to root for now is for yankee-dodger implosions so we don't have a repeat of last year's FBI vs CIA world series

Keir DuBois @keirdubois.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like mindlessness is back on the menu, boys!