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State lawmakers’ eyebrows jumped at a House committee hearing Tuesday, as Georgia State University geographer Taylor Shelton shot off a barrage of statistics about institutional investors’ staggeringly high level of home ownership across Georgia. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/02/26/g...

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tfw shapefiles get mentioned in a state legislative hearing and it isn't by the only geographer in the room ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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who needs economists or lawyers or b-school profs when you've got geographers writing in Compact about how academia needs more conservatives 🙄🤮

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Like with everything in the world, there's a geography to Girl Scout Cookies...

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Talking shit about students on the internet is usually a big no-no, but finding out that the grad student you caught using AI to plagiarize a paper in your class ALSO plagiarizes their LinkedIn posts is deeply, deeply hilarious and vindicating

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With just a couple of days delay, we are so excited to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Atlanta Studies by launching our new website! 🎂🎉🥳 A huge thanks goes out to Bailey Betik of @ecds-emory.bsky.social for her work in leading the redesign and providing the journal with a new look and feel

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Landlords everywhere think that they’re being oppressed by the tiniest modicum of regulation or responsibility. Back in my hometown they want to be able to poison you and make you pay them for the privilege.

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We are excited to announce the two keynote speakers for this year’s Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd at Morehouse College... Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar and Hannah Palmer!

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another Kentuckian

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There might not be any Kentucky players in the Super Bowl, but we'll call that Tom Cruise cinematic narration good enough representation for the evening

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So the dipshit libertarian economists are still out here calculating rates of institutional ownership based on inconsistent denominators and claiming it's definitive proof that corporate landlords aren't a problem 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Sorry to be A Geography Bitch about this but want to remind people that Google Maps has been doing dodgy shit labeling politically sensitive places differently depending on location for a long time, this is just the first time it's happening to a place related to the USA

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📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🙏 Abstract submissions for the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium are now being accepted through February 14th! If you weren't already able to get your submission in, be sure not to miss the opportunity to submit by the extended deadline!

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Lou Holtz wearing an 88 hat today feels a little on the nose...

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tfw your wife finally admits that she needs to watch Grizzly Man

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ACAB (but kudos to this one sheriff in Gwinnett County who refused to illegally evict a family from a motel?)

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In Atlanta, out-of-state corporate landlords own over 65,000 rental homes, hiding behind LLCs to avoid scrutiny. Investors purchased 1 in 3 houses in recent years. Georgia also has a law banning rental registries—a ban the real estate lobby fiercely defends to block any semblance of accountability.

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with some quotes from yours truly...

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the renewed presence of Joe and Kelly Craft around the UK basketball program is the notable exception to the impeccable vibes Mark Pope has brought to the program

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we deserve to go extinct

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Just got two different peer review requests from the same journal within three minutes of one another 🧐

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Happy holidays from everyone’s two favorite Kentucky-born geographers! 🎄🎅

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Haven't kept up-to-date on all the Atlanta-based scholarship of the last year? We've got you covered. Check out our 2024 Atlanta scholarship round-up for all the books, articles, theses and dissertations about Atlanta from this year! 👇👇

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At the risk of being accused of overreacting, I think if someone sends you a Christmas card covered in loose glitter you should get to mail them a pipe bomb

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

Atlanta: innovating new ways to do the dumbest, most fucked up shit imaginable at every possible opportunity

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We are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held May 2nd, 2025 at Morehouse College! See the link below for more info on our call for proposals, which are due January 24th! atlantastudies.org/2024/12/09/c...

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Was just out walking the dog and a guy on the street told me I looked like a younger and “slightly more handsome” Quentin Tarantino. I feel like that’s not particularly a compliment?

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

ngl kinda cool to see a former departmental colloquium speaker get a whole ass commercial about them and their research during the SEC championship game

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AND CALIPARI STILL LET US LOSE TO THESE JOKERS IN THE 2013 NIT?!

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this is one reality TV show I haven't watched, but I can always appreciate some more GSU reality TV excellence

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

what is my employer's basketball team doing trying to compete with my alma mater's basketball team? I don't get paid enough to have the basketball team be stressing me out too

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Love too be watching old episodes of Real Housewives and hear them say that speculating on real estate has been "really therapeutic"

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