Karl Musser

I'm sure it'll shock you, but I also always had a book with me.

A write up of my recent Germany trip: kmusser.dreamwidth.org/519187.html

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general life update post: kmusser.dreamwidth.org/519095.html

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

YouTube video by MNScreaminEagle Penn and Teller's 50th Anniversary performance at the MN Renaissance Festival August 16th, 2025

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

Word, is so good, and had recurring thought that if someone had not been such a @$!% we could've had more :-(

We're seeing him in October!

If when you get to that point you want some American transgender contacts I could probably facilitate that.

None for me either, I'm a little older, 16 for me would be 1987 and I think the closest for me personally from that year would be R.E.M.'s Document, but I feel that still has some filler tracks.

Closely related, in gaming we call this analysis paralysis, having too many choices and figuring out which one is "best" is too complicated so you do nothing.

USDA building in DC on the Mall, I walked most of the way home to Silver Spring that day.

YouTube video by NPR Music Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert

Damn, Tiny Desk, they still got it!

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

I probably would've too, I got the trade paperbacks of those which have different covers. They are quite good, though very very different from the laundry files books (mostly thriller/intrigue - they don't have the humor the laundry books do).

I originally signed up here just to follow andrewhickey.500songs.com, he's a friend that does a music history podcast (500 songs) that I absolutely love.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Just saw them last year, largely on your recommendation, still sounding great!

Badly drawn action figure pack labelled Map Store Guy with a sextant, globe, laptop and shipping tube.

I was gonna do one of those AI action figures all my GIS nerd friends are doing but I just like drawing badly more. Any fun and stupid thing worth doing is worth doing imperfectly by hand.

YouTube video by DJ Cummerbund DJ Cummerbund - DragulAPT.

The DJ has released a new masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOt...

What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.

wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...

Tariffs

xkcd.com/3073/

Mapping DOGE's activities.

Screenshot of a map of the USA showing places where academics have been targeted by ICE and the State Department.

Did a quick map of academics targeted by ICE/State Dept wtih @lindsaythomas.net this morn. @goldfarb.bsky.social was there in spirit. We're gonna hand this over to We Are Higher Ed and contribute to them going forward. More polished version might follow if it becomes useful to y'all.

I am appreciating that you're in the U.K., things are degenerating rapidly over here.

#firedfeds | Karl Musser Two weeks ago USDA terminated its contract with Straughan Environmental (and partners New Light and JMT) to provide GIS and database support for the Natural…

Made public post re losing our contract via LinkedIn.

Everything is fine.

Another useful website, tracking the implementation of Project 2025 by agency. Makes it easy to see what is still in the works. www.project2025.observer

Working on catching up, we're watching season 1 :-)

During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.