Turned on a local DC area station for the first time in a while and heard "...here, in the most powerful city in the free world!" Sounded very eerie... how long has that been the jingle?

The light pillars seen across Russia on the eve of infamous Oct 5 evoked spiritual reactions of judgment day for many. But in the Bible a light/fire pillar is not apocalyptic, it is how God guided the Jews out of Egypt🤔

Today I re-realized for the 5th time that Kiribati, pronounced "Kee-ree-bass", is the local pronunciation of "Gilberts", which is what the English originally called the islands

DR Congo in the US. H/t Robbie Gramer. Cc Sasha Trubetskoy

Does anyone know when this change happened? Yandex Maps seems to have removed all national borders from its online maps. It actually looks kind of cool

Just noticed something: At some point (this year?) Google reverted to using Ukrainian Cyrillic for Crimean cities, instead of a hybrid of Russian Cyrillic with Ukrainian transliteration (when viewed from the US)

(7) Sasha Trubetskoy Sasha Trubetskoy gave a surprise presentation on diagrammatic maps of ancient Roman road networks. The same conceptual factors that arise in transit maps.

Twitter needs to fix trends where most of the tweets are "why is this trending"

The subway stops of Manhattan. #30DayMapChallenge

An interesting note on symbolism - in the current war in Ukraine, as well as the Cold War, both sides agree on the following: - West is blue - Russia is red - our color represents good - their color represents bad

Setting the tile server language to Latin was not something I thought I could do

Lots of fun making this map for AidData Having worked on Belt & Road research I know the pain of messy data... wish I had their dataset back then! aiddata.org/blog/belt-and-…