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26.02.2026 22:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@obtusatum.bsky.social
Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
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26.02.2026 22:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
25.02.2026 20:30 β π 2443 π 1164 π¬ 164 π 350snow creature chilling on a bench with a coffee
a moth with grass antenna
enormous, well crafted psyduck
a snek
blurry snapshots of brooklyn park creatures
24.02.2026 23:43 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0transit-pilled kia boyz
24.02.2026 19:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At least some of it seems to be terrain, not just urbanization?
24.02.2026 14:39 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of my favorite pieces of MTA public art. emmettpalaima.com/CHAMBERS-HUM
23.02.2026 15:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1historic bridges, post offices, warehouses for schools, for spaceflight, on Pacific islands, buoys, gunranges, laboratories for nuclear research and for tree fruit, schools, childcare centers, airport control towers, barracks, datacenters, ranger stations, radar systems, greenhouses, hospitals
23.02.2026 00:00 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0the checklist ID S46116491 is entered, highlighting that user and their connections across the network
To find your own dot in the eBird network, you just need the ID of one your checklists (e.g. S46116491, which you can find from the URL of a checklist, ebird.org/checklist/S4...)
Then enter that ID into subject.space/projects-sta... and the visualization will show connections for that eBirder πͺΆ
a graph also showing a central point in New York, but with many more lines drawn to highlighted points around the world.
The most connected birder on eBird (using the measure of "betweenness centrality") is none other than Chris Wood, Director of eBird at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. ebird.org/profile/MTQ3... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between...
22.02.2026 17:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0a graph of points representing birders on ebird. one is highlighted, with lines drawn to several other points, organized in colored clusters
For example, here's mine, highlighting the shared checklists I have with folks in the California cluster of the US (bottom left), the Northeast cluster (central), and scattered connections to Costa Rica, Colombia, Indonesia and Georgia.
22.02.2026 17:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Made some improvements to "Who Birds With You?", my eBird-based birder social interconnection visualization. Now it's a bit easier to highlight your own dot in the network and explore the birders you are connected to.
22.02.2026 17:23 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 010.7 inches of snow in nyc
15.1" of snow in NYC
17.3" of snow in NYC
20.0" of snow in NYC
stop
22.02.2026 13:00 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2
if you look at the model evolution, you can see why: it depends on accurately forecasting where the band of heavy precipitation will be. www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=...
the european model still has the heaviest snow more offshore, giving a much lower forecast for nyc.
anyone else seeing a giant tetrapod thing stomping around Maspeth?
21.02.2026 15:14 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you're confused about the situation monitoring monitoring situation, this instructional video should help.
20.02.2026 22:55 β π 21 π 6 π¬ 3 π 2
It would be almost exactly the ~20x base fare multiple for a monthly pass that you have pointed to as better than the MTA's ~45x many times
obviously I was tongue-in-cheek with the name, and the scale is not comparable.
he should make a Mamdanilandticket for β¬63/month
20.02.2026 14:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0the X-Trans II sensor has simply the most beautiful noise character I've ever seen on a digital camera. sublime. I shoot at ISO 3200 in the daylight just to have it
19.02.2026 20:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As I understand it, RAD PACT is less about privatization for privatization's-sake, then it is an arbitrage play for housing aid dollars at the federal level. Privately-run subsidized housing can be funded through Section 8, unlike NYCHA-run buildings which need money from a shrinking Section 9 pool.
19.02.2026 20:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Breaking: NORA, a false flagged container vessel, detained by Danish authorities.
19.02.2026 14:27 β π 255 π 47 π¬ 8 π 3
A maritime "false flag" isn't a conspiracy theory - it's a vessel sailing under fraudulent registration from a country that never authorized it. And now it's happening at scale through the web.
Out today with my co-author @pa.nton.cx and team at @bellingcat.com
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
Read my latest, with @tomi-mcc.bsky.social and @pa.nton.cx.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
A table of vessels, mainly oil tankers, with certification issued by IMSAG
But at Bellingcat, we found evidence of hundreds of IMSAG issued vessel certificates, some as recently as December 2025.
19.02.2026 13:24 β π 51 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0In August, Suniel Sharma claimed in an FT interview that his ship registration company "International Maritime Safety Agency of Guyana," disclaimed as fraudulent by Guyana and the International Maritime Organization, was no longer active and remained online but βnot operational just informative."
19.02.2026 13:24 β π 44 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe consider OpenLayers for this, which can use a COG directly? Iβm surprised MapLibre canβt, so Iβd check that Codex output too
18.02.2026 05:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The preferred drink is coffee milk, made in Rhode Island by flavoring milk with a sweetened coffee concentrate called coffee syrup.
the whole thing is too @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social coded
18.02.2026 04:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ah, Los Angeles, that concrete jungle where dreams are made of
18.02.2026 04:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New York System has to be one of the wildest names for a restaurant, even setting aside the fact that they are not in New York.
18.02.2026 03:43 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Unfortunately a huge hole in New Yorkβs policy is that if a landlord denies that a rent stabilized apartment is rent stabilized, there is practically nothing the tenant can do.
18.02.2026 02:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0there was a peer to peer venture backed startup for getting free/discounted plane tickets in exchange for carrying packages. they called it Mule. it uh, didnβt take off
18.02.2026 02:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0