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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 8d

I've just been writing a bunch lately. The title for this should be "How Queer thinking will save the fucking planet to straight fucksticks". But I did not. I did, however, throw shade at Men's Warehouse.

#climatetech #CTC #GeoAI #Queer #AF

open.substack.com/pub/geospati...

We Can't Dashboard Our Way Out of This

How Queer Cognition Can Rescue Us, Mostly From Ourselves

open.substack.com

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 11d

Weeee, I’m everywhere this month

The American Geographical Society @americangeo.bsky.social · 11d

In this episode of The Spatial Stack, Matt Forrest sits down w/ AGS Councilor @spatialtee.bsky.social to unpack why #GeoAI could reshape the field as profoundly as GPS once did: open.spotify.com/episode/7rzE...

Register for #Geo2050 & join us Nov. 20-21 in #NYC: www.geography2050.org

#geospatial

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Kelly :)

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 11d

I wrote another thing :)

How Fintech hears Geo, and how Geo hears Fintech

geospatialrisk.substack.com/p/you-have-t...

You have Two Ears and One Mouth, so Listening is More Important

Full disclosure, some of this is AI generated.

geospatialrisk.substack.com

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 13d

Okay Jan

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote a thing about how #geospatial and #fintech don't speak the same language

open.substack.com/pub/geospati...

Why Fintech Still Doesn't Get Earth Observation ROI: The Cultural Chasm

Why Did I Write This

open.substack.com

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 25d

www.flipsnack.com/78CAC98C5A8/...

#climaterisk #geoai #mftacos #geospatial

TACOS_Open

Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

www.flipsnack.com

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 28d

Sport Coat > Patagonia Vest

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 28d

My conference rubric

Halls > Keynotes
Sessions > Vendor Floor
Conversations about blowing all this shit up and doing it over > EVERY GOD DAMN THING

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 28d

eeeeewwwwww

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · 29d

finished up my schedule for #NYCW and yeah, my Lyft bill is going to be nuts.

into the breach

#nycw

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 19

Unused doodles from my 'Zine for GeoAI, Climate Risk, and Tacos Salon at #climateweekNYC

luma.com/yhqyvlrl

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 13

I Did a deep dive into 80s and 90s punk for this ‘Zine thing for GeoAI, Climate Risk, and Tacos. it was a fun adventure. I

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 13

#geomongers

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 12

the more I’m on Bksy, the more gems i find

Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · Sep 12

I read every single interview Kevin Guthrie has done in the past five years to write this, and one thing became very clear: he is intentionally creating a blueprint for emergency management in Florida that he wants the rest of the country to follow.

disasterology.substack.com/p/disasterol...

Disasterology: September 2025

This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).

disasterology.substack.com

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 12

“the most dangerous place to stand is between Tee and a podcast mic”

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 12

listening to my “podcast psych-up playlist” before the podcast in a guest on this morning

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 11

my #nyclimateweek schedule
was on 3 different apps across multiple calendars. So resorted to a notepad like it was the 90s

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 10

you stop that. 🤣

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 10

GeoAI, Climate Risk, and Tacos is full but I have a waitlist. Ping me if you wanna be on it.

Also if you can’t make it, I’ve made a playlist for the vibe

open.spotify.com/playlist/3JG...

#geoai #climaterisk #geospatial #nyclimateweek

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Bill Dollins @geobabbler.bsky.social · Sep 10

@adamsimmons.bsky.social does a good job tracing the arc of #HIFLD, summarizing its impact, and making the case for its value. The effort that gave rise to HIFLD shows that government, industry, and non-profit can collaborate to do hard, yet beneficial, things.

projectgeospatial.org/geospatial-f...

The Rise, Power, and Uncertain Future of America's Open Infrastructure Data — Project Geospatial

For two decades, the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open portal was the bedrock of U.S. disaster response and community planning—a free, authoritative map of the nation's most c...

projectgeospatial.org

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 10

nothing like waking up to a potential WW3.

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 9

So, my #NYClimateWeek #GeoAi , #Climaterisk , and #tacos salon is full.

as we all know not everyone shows up, so if you wanna be waitlisted for an on the fly invite, dm me your name and contact. the current waitlist is about 10 deep

Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 9

😳

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Tee "Effin" Barr 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗺️ 🌊🌀🔥 @spatialtee.bsky.social · Sep 9

okay, I’ve got deck.blue on mobile, let’s see if this changes my Bksy usage

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