Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/

@amapanda This is our world now. The world of coordinates and layers; the beauty of scale and symbol. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You draw borders, wage wars, erase places, rename truths, and try to make us believe it is for our own good, yet we are the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a mapper, and this is my manifesto.

Well this is cool

https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu.html

Where I saw it: https://gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network/@littlefox/statuses/01KEB7HPGZEA07S90CACJFTAHH

@mtmail https://www.theverge.com/news/855328/viral-reddit-delivery-app-ai-scam

@cmdrmoto Thanks, I edited the post now. Third time this week something on Reddit turns out to be fake. One was a fake photo I saved and lucky rechecked the next day before posting. Another a great revenge story but in comments people pointed out the user's posting history was all over: different gender, different ages, kids/no kids. Trust no one (on Reddit) /s

Have you ever thought to yourself: "It sure would be nice to see the geometry for baseball fields of Nebraska" or "raceways of Germany"... wow, me too! That's fun.

X-of-Y may be the perfect thing. You give it an overpass query and it does it's best to show you everything neatly side by side.

Here's every jetsprint boat lake in the world (on OSM!).

https://watmildon.github.io/XofY/

#openStreetMap #datavis #XofYOSM

I've been on holiday in a German-speaking country, using my private laptop, always declining cookies, do not track,...
(using Firefox)

Today, using my work laptop I've already had 2 websites give me messages in German.

All those banners and consent things are just window dressing

Hab mich grad random daran erinnert, dass die Streufahrzeuge in Schottland auf einer Karte angezeigt werden und Namen haben. https://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker

Finde "I want to break freeze", "Gritney Spears" und "Han-snow Lo“ schon ziemlich gut.

My 🇩🇪 #Germany 🚅 diagram has been updated for 2026! It focuses on long-distance train lines that run at least three times a day. Providing a more interpretable alternative to #DB 's official #IC and #ICE diagram with a stronger focus on the system (regularly running connections and their frequency instead of the sole line definition) was my initial motivation for starting creating diagrams a couple of years ago.
My diagram: https://larstransportmaps.com/2026/01/04/systematic-long-distance-services-in-germany-2026/
Official: https://cms.static-bahn.de/wmedia/redaktion/aushaenge/streckenkarte/Liniennetz-ICE-IC-2026-Stand-09-2025.pdf
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User Trowaway_whistleblow on reddit "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app." "We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better." https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

Them: machine translation is essentially solved

Me: Happy new what now?!

"as early as 1825 British officers stationed in India took to adding quinine to a mixture of water, sugar, lime and gin in order to make the [malaria] cure more palatable, thus creating the cocktail" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_tonic

Believe it or not, I haven't seen enough maps to do a "best of" list for 2025. Here are some mappy highlights of the year (part 1 of 2) featuring content from @pinakographos and @milhaud https://mapoftheweek.substack.com/p/overlooked-mapping-highlights-from

Was* man halt so macht zwischen den Jahren.

*https://www.thomasweibel.ch/emoji-world/ v1.1.

#emoji #worldmap #map #worldclock #mapping #geography #gis #topography #opendata #opensource #digitalhumanities #linguistics #daynight #astronomy @spatialists @OpendataCH

German compounding of words is amazing. I've no issue pronouncing the two words in this meme.

Micro-mapping one property. There's a playground=trampoline, playground=playhouse, leisure=swimming_pool, leisure=garden and footway=sidewalk. (private) pool can be useful in case of wildfires (source of water) I guess. Zooming out though 300 houses nearby are still missing on the map.

I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/

Got new kitchen knife for Christmas, on first use made a "and now I'll cut these vegetables with my new knife" photo, then a minute later cut some skin off my index finger. Finally use for the first-aid kit I got for Christmas last year. (All good, I laughed)

@junesim63 When Ikea does their "throw out the tree, make room for more $ourproduct" ads, that's the universal signal.

"The shoes go into the ovens overnight to bake and harden the block" The Pointe Shoe Makers Of Hackney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/25/the-pointe-shoe-makers-of-hackney-x/