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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 13h

Highs and lows. Iggy Pop should have had a secondary career as a character actor, Jafar Panahi is a powerhouse director, horror movies should take more risks.

#letterboxdfriday

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 18h

Certainly helps that like good hypsometric tints, there's few hard transitions – you can generally bet on the full transition being visible to some extent which helps with those ups and downs.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 18h

Strong kinship with the commercially-minded but shotgun approach these artists are taking. OWL FRAME! Hot date with a pumpkin man! An army of pumpkin children will march towards your daughters in space!

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 18h

Been mildly surprised how few books there are collecting the best of em'. Found this one awhile ago and it's full of all sorts of incredible 1900 versions of the selfie setup and whimsy. Maybe I'm just googling wrong.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 18h

Gaah illustrated turn of the century postcards are so wonderful.

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Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920

A collection of Halloween postcards produced in the so-called “golden age” of picture postcards.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 20h

Merry spooky day 🦇 🌙

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1f...

Roy Clark - Spooky Movies (Capitol 4956) [1963 horror rocker]

YouTube video by Vinyl and shellac by Starday

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

an ad featuring two jack-o-lantern acorns and the text 'It's fun to run a Halloween party

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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 2d

To any Boston-area map people who might still be with me on this site: head down to our southern neighbor Thursday evening for Maptime! I guarantee this is the closest thing to Maptime Boston you’re going see in the foreseeable future. www.mapcenter.com/maptimeri

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 2d

Just gotta be extra sensitive to hue, saturation, and tone. Work backwards from saturation/darkness = more. Color Oracle is a blessing here, giving a b/w view that better reveals how close the values actually are.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 2d

Feel like I picked this up from Laris Karklis (one of his maps shown here), but I get a sense data viz overcorrected on avoiding rainbow gradients. Particularly for one-offs, you can use a surprising # of colors! Here the extremes pop way better than if it was just light blue -> dark blue.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 2d

Spent this morning making a gradient for a map showing Hurricane Melissa's forecast rainfall, pretty chuffed with how it turned out.

Story w/ additional visuals here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 4d

no... that's not right.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 8d

Bountiful

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Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 9d

Tech giants keep touting a system they built to label AI-generated content. But it only works if everyone uses it.

So I checked. They're not using it.

🎁 wapo.st/4qokjaC

Few social media sites labeled fake videos as AI-generated
After uploading the same Sora 2 video to each site, The Post checked whether its Content Credentials data was preserved and whether any label indicated use of AI.

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Andy Woodruff @awoodruff.bsky.social · 10d

You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

Cincinnati in 50 Maps - Andy Woodruff, cartographer

50+ original maps of Cincinnati in a book edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff

andywoodruff.com

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John D. Harden @jdharden.bsky.social · 11d

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same wapo.st/43ijIxq

Climate change is coming for D.C.’s trees, and the city won’t look the same

The Post examined data that shows how the decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will change the city’s treescape.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 12d

Irish bands taking over the world within 5 years

www.businessinsider.com/ireland-basi...

Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent

Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

www.businessinsider.com

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 12d

New piece: How the treetop canopy of D.C. is changing due to climate change.

Story by @marissajae.bsky.social , tree illos by Tucker Harris, data by @jdharden.bsky.social , and maps by yours truly.

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It’s hard to be a maple: How climate change is remaking D.C.’s treescape

Decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will change how the city looks and feels.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 13d

The lead story on The Washington Post today is about the No Kings rallies, and it’s already drawn 5,000-plus comments.

I was browsing the top replies, which come from all over the country but hit similar notes: the rallies were peaceful, unifying and focused on protecting democracy and rule of law.

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 16d

A cahoot of cartographers

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Sarah Bell @sarahbell.bsky.social · 16d

I just wrapped up my #NACIS2025 talk and promised a blog post with resources. Here you go! Happy mapping!

www.sarahbellmaps.com/map-animatio...

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 16d

Louise Haupert presenting a map of the Mississippi River carved into black cherry: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1938...

I love seeing #cartography made tangible.

#NACIS2025

Putting Down Roots

Connecting Cartography with the Natural World

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 16d

This years #nacis subgenre, woodworking?

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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 21d

Adjacent, but

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Resonate

YouTube video by The Jones Sisters - Topic

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 25d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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