coprolithic.bsky.social
GIS wonk occasionally kidnapped by archaeologists, palaeontologists and fish people. Photographer, knapper, and all weather cyclist in a city reputed to be winter 11 months per year.
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And a lot of these technical skills can absolutely be picked up.
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Then it turns out they can program and manage an enterprise geodatabase but struggle with the things you actually use this “technical skill” for. Or presenting data in the form of an intelligible map.
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I’ve run across plenty of GIS types who came from comp sci backgrounds who were all information systems and no geography. Also had to deal with no shortage of recruiters structuring a hire where they clearly want a geographer and then require a comp sci degree.
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Now it's tagged both "Rude" AND "Graphic Media" with a weird dual key system where you have to click both show buttons like a couple of missile operators having to turn both of their keys to launch.
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I'm going to remain one of the more dignified exhibits that you've featured, aren't I?
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The fact that he can slip through all of the way to tenure unchecked actually lends credence to the sorts of pseudoscience enthusiasts that he now caters to.
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This is why digital curation is so important.
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Keep making excuses not to invest in transit.
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Counterpoint: no one on public transit wants him to take public transit. They want him to drive as far away as possible and run out of gas.
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No no. Teamwork makes the dream work.
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We’re famous.
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I’m reminded of being asked “bUt WhAt R u GoInG tO dO wHeN u R OLD” and my first thought was I sure as heck don’t want to have to drive to do absolutely everything. Heck, I want to be like the old dudes who hang out at the corner cafe in Little Italy spiking their coffee with cognac.
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They also spend next to nothing on advertising.
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In all of the posts justly bullying Doritos, it’s bound to happen.
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On one hand I would be tolerant of a Hawkins Cheezies account, but I also strongly suspect that they would never do such a thing because they do approximately zero advertising.
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Alt text: a hog in a straw lined wood-sided stall taking a huge shit which has fallen upon its grotesquely swollen balls in a visual metaphor for how someone at the Doritos account thought this was a good idea.
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Seems they pay reasonably too. 🤔
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Hawkins’ Cheezies are better and they take Friday afternoons and weekends off.
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I agree that driving like a jackass is a violation of the social contract.
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Bunch of this stuff is actual history in the making. It’s kind of a big deal that after all of the time and energy spent creating false narratives about, for example, Columbus, that so many turned their back on generations of lies and pulled down his idols.
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This was under the Obama administration, and she's not exactly a target for racialized issues. It was a big part of her decision to move back to Canada ASAP.
Sooo, it's a bit mind-boggling to imagine the system becoming deliberately worse, and what that spells for attracting expertise.
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Her employer of course tried to advocate for her, to no effect. She was only able to return to the US because she also had an Australian passport and she re-applied under that.
She was in the interim unable to return to her home and care for her pets.
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“The American people elected me to aggressively be as useless as a chocolate teapot and I am not about to let them down.”
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Also, "I will never use this when I grow up," to their Math, Science, Health, Language Arts, and Social Studies teachers, with the intonation of it being some kind of brag.
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They do need to expand their portfolio of Japanese culinary dramas.
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Everyone asks if Albertans want separation. Never once had a poll ask how much anyone was willing to give up for it.
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Too many other infections competing for limited resources.
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Oh boy. Hopefully you will subdue him with sheer blandness.