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Stephanie May
@mizmay.com
geographic technologist
Opinions mine but we can share
👩🏼‍💻🤦🏼‍♀️ 🌎💕
#location #geo #ux #seattle #urbanism
This is as succinct an explanation of what it means to be a cartographer as I have ever seen. #gischat
This simple label took me over day to make. I am still learning expression builder in #QGIS. I needed the highest value for each feature from over one hundred attribute columns AND the name of the field name. The worst part is I don't know if I will use this info. lol
January 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s geopolitical strategery.

I know, disparaging the whole thing as venal petty nonsense is more fun, but…

Climate change means melting ice means access to the Northwest Passage, rare minerals. That’s why.
Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Tamagotchi but for health checks?

Started the day reading about this app topping the download charts that emails your emergency contacts if you don’t tend to it.
Are You Dead? - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Dang why didn’t the founders of this republic just say “the government can’t use deadly force on protesters and then say they had it coming?”

Oh right they 100% did. More than say it, they structured the government around it.
January 15, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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This is my favorite plot from this post, showing life expectancy at three spatial scales:

- Countries of the world (range: 51 to 85 yrs)
- Counties of the US (66 to 90 yrs)
- Census tracts in King County, WA (71 to 87 yrs)

At each scale, averages hide dramatic spatial heterogeneity in health
January 14, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Spatial Analysis with Claude Code

I've been doing more (a lot more) with Claude Code lately. With its subagents and skills features, it's become more customizable and powerful. I can really dial it into doing things the way I want them done, which accelerates my development and quickly gets me to…
Spatial Analysis with Claude Code
I've been doing more (a lot more) with Claude Code lately. With its subagents and skills features, it's become more customizable and powerful. I can really dial it into doing things the way I want them done, which accelerates my development and quickly gets me to where I am focused on important behaviors, rather than rote scaffolding. I recently wanted to trying expanding beyond code generation to analytic tasks, so I set about building a Claude Code Skill to do point-in-polygon analysis between two PostGIS tables. Truth in advertising: I used AI to help me with this experiment.
blog.geomusings.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Watch how gerrymandering has changed the partisan skew of the U.S. House and state legislatures with the newest PlanScore update!
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My #seattle peeps know #ridwell. Even if you aren’t a #climatech #urbanism nerd (unlikely) you’ve seen the distinctive metal boxes on people’s porches for years. My🙋🏼‍♀️ naive question: how does this work for renters? Landlords? Multi-unit buildings?

How could it work better?
January 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Dropped by Seattle City Hall to watch Katie Wilson get sworn in. A+ for #crowdsize #mayorkatiewilson
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I made it to the public comment on the final updates to the Seattle One / General Plan yesterday afternoon.

For those who did more than show up 👏🏼 😊 What an incredibly long hard journey. Urbanists agree it doesn’t go far enough, but at least we survived. Let’s all go hug a tree. 🌲
Green Lake resident Ruth: "The only thing I really don't like about my neighborhood is how many of my neighbors are living and dying on the streets because they can't afford housing."
September 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The stupid is just wearisome.
August 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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August 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Hmm so this is interesting.

I’m curious to track down the primary source to see what the African Union actually says, since @theguardian.com is a bit off in the reporting here…
August 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
That latest South Park.
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Can you believe it’s been on the air for 27 years?
July 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Of Montreal @ Neumos 7/22/25
July 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Chat “geo folks” GPT helped me come up with algorithms for custom label placement.

I guess asking how to draw radial lines outward from a center point called “brc_man” was a bit of a tell…
July 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
ChatGPT is “geo folks” apparently, and thus already knows all about Black Rock City (I did not mention that is what I’m mapping) … #burningman #rstats #cartography #gischat
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The #bunnies are WILD #caphill this summer. What about the rest of #seattle?
July 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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This is a self-referential post.

It contains its own record key (3luvbueq7vyhr)

It links to itself:
https://bsky.app/profile/sri.xyz/post/3luvbueq7vyhr

#atprotoing
Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man
ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans pointing at each other (self-referential post!)
media.tenor.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In memory of the wonderful bogwitch Janey Godley, #trumpisacunt. #janeygodley
July 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Pulled some older footage captured in 2022 to compare to now. Never have been in the market with so many others. A million times better and no going back now.
Pike Place Market is much better without cars | 2022 vs 2025 footage
YouTube video by Juan Rodriguez
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
DUMMYMANDER (n): A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.

AS IN, dear friends in Texas: there is not further the GOP can go to dice left-leaning voters out of existence, or they would.
July 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Finally! Got this uploaded to Bluesky! My favorite photo. I shot this in 2014 in Seattle: the Space Needle as seen from the Chihulu sculpture garden at the Seattle Center. Title: City of Tomorrow. Hope you like it.
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
July 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM