Bruce Bouček
@bboucek.bsky.social
Unrepentant Geographer & Polar Bear.
UU, Atheist, Humanist, Pluralist. Abortion is Healthcare.
Design School GIS & Data Librarian
Opinions here are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsement or agreement.
UU, Atheist, Humanist, Pluralist. Abortion is Healthcare.
Design School GIS & Data Librarian
Opinions here are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsement or agreement.
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 27: Boundaries
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Seemed like an appropriate thing to map today.
Also, how many things to critique and/or be curious about with this map? North arrow? Scale bar? Projection? Natural versus political boundaries? Service layer credits!
Day 27: Boundaries
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Seemed like an appropriate thing to map today.
Also, how many things to critique and/or be curious about with this map? North arrow? Scale bar? Projection? Natural versus political boundaries? Service layer credits!
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 27: Boundaries
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Seemed like an appropriate thing to map today.
Also, how many things to critique and/or be curious about with this map? North arrow? Scale bar? Projection? Natural versus political boundaries? Service layer credits!
Day 27: Boundaries
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Seemed like an appropriate thing to map today.
Also, how many things to critique and/or be curious about with this map? North arrow? Scale bar? Projection? Natural versus political boundaries? Service layer credits!
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When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 26: Transport
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
US Cities have challenging public transportation issues. This city gets a lot partially right. Would be great if it leaned into making public transit great for everyone.
Day 26: Transport
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
US Cities have challenging public transportation issues. This city gets a lot partially right. Would be great if it leaned into making public transit great for everyone.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 26: Transport
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
US Cities have challenging public transportation issues. This city gets a lot partially right. Would be great if it leaned into making public transit great for everyone.
Day 26: Transport
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
US Cities have challenging public transportation issues. This city gets a lot partially right. Would be great if it leaned into making public transit great for everyone.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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It’s really interesting to see which government officials and members of Congress are comfortable publicly writing on social media that they’re fine with service members carrying out unlawful orders and abandoning The Constitution. Someone should start a list.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It’s really interesting to see which government officials and members of Congress are comfortable publicly writing on social media that they’re fine with service members carrying out unlawful orders and abandoning The Constitution. Someone should start a list.
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 25: Hexagons
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Revisiting the first map of the series - just binning trees by hexagons for Cambridge. Was hoping to do something more interesting but busy day, so kind of called this one in. Holiday week may interfere with completing.
Day 25: Hexagons
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Revisiting the first map of the series - just binning trees by hexagons for Cambridge. Was hoping to do something more interesting but busy day, so kind of called this one in. Holiday week may interfere with completing.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 25: Hexagons
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Revisiting the first map of the series - just binning trees by hexagons for Cambridge. Was hoping to do something more interesting but busy day, so kind of called this one in. Holiday week may interfere with completing.
Day 25: Hexagons
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Revisiting the first map of the series - just binning trees by hexagons for Cambridge. Was hoping to do something more interesting but busy day, so kind of called this one in. Holiday week may interfere with completing.
Reposted by Bruce Bouček
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
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I'm procrastinating so naturally I'm doing a deep dive on the history of The Map Center.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm procrastinating so naturally I'm doing a deep dive on the history of The Map Center.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
I had been saying it was established in 1953 but I found a source that says 1950 which would make it the oldest map store in the USA. Which is cool. Looking forward to verifying and marketing the crap out of it.
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Where are deaths now outpacing births? According to new analysis from the @washingtonpost.com, it’s happening primarily in older, whiter counties.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Where are deaths now outpacing births? According to new analysis from the @washingtonpost.com, it’s happening primarily in older, whiter counties.
Reposted by Bruce Bouček
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 24: Places and Names
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Ran out of time. Massachusetts doesn't fit well in a square. Definitely a draft but a fun one, especially with multiple constraints.
Day 24: Places and Names
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Ran out of time. Massachusetts doesn't fit well in a square. Definitely a draft but a fun one, especially with multiple constraints.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
30 Day Map Challenge
Day 24: Places and Names
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Ran out of time. Massachusetts doesn't fit well in a square. Definitely a draft but a fun one, especially with multiple constraints.
Day 24: Places and Names
#30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025
Ran out of time. Massachusetts doesn't fit well in a square. Definitely a draft but a fun one, especially with multiple constraints.
Architecture and architecture adjacent friends and colleagues: www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
Architecture no longer considered a "professional degree" in USA
Students in the USA will receive lower loans under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill as architecture will not be considered a professional degree.
www.dezeen.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Architecture and architecture adjacent friends and colleagues: www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
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The easiest way to make friends in academia is also the hardest
You just need to have funding that you can share
You just need to have funding that you can share
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The easiest way to make friends in academia is also the hardest
You just need to have funding that you can share
You just need to have funding that you can share
Incandescent rage.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Incandescent rage.
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One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
I got a good question from a customer and I tried to answer it. Yeah, most of my customers are men but in the two years I've owned this business it's gotten much closer to gender parity because I cura...
TikTok video by the Map Center
www.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One of the reasons I keep telling people that new maps are cooler than old ones is because old maps were made by a very narrow slice of humanity but contemporary maps are made by EVERYONE and they're rad. Here's a quick vid about gender and cartography www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSJ3u/
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this year i am thankful for zunk junk and dunk
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this year i am thankful for zunk junk and dunk
Evil
Trump's EPA is moving to strip protections from wetlands all across the country. This rule will have disastrous consequences for many American communities by polluting their drinking water and skyrocketing water treatment costs for taxpayers.
E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Evil
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Hm maybe young people are more astute analysts who understand that seemingly distant struggles for democracy, social and economic rights, self-determination and against occupation, apartheid and genocide are interconnected
It still is ridic that more Gen Zers showed up for pro-Palestine protests than the ones now against Trump. They're all about a conflict 6,000 miles away that doesn't involve any American soldiers but not their own country falling apart
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hm maybe young people are more astute analysts who understand that seemingly distant struggles for democracy, social and economic rights, self-determination and against occupation, apartheid and genocide are interconnected
Evil
The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Evil
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Oh no, Jimmy Cliff crossed the final river, comforting myself with this epic live version.
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
Jimmy Cliff - Many rivers to cross - Live stéréo 1970
YouTube video by Lamalopépit de Bruno Carlier
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Oh no, Jimmy Cliff crossed the final river, comforting myself with this epic live version.
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
youtu.be/6utjK46tZPU
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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Exactly
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Exactly