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https://www.youtube.com/user/rootsandroutes1 liberation genealogy, genealogical commons, mythbusting, large-scale genealogical networks, mathematical models in genealogy - no paywalls, no gatekeeping, no hierarchies Seize the means of connection.
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I deleted Google Maps, Google Earth, and Apple Maps. Magic Earth is working great for directions and I was already using public domain satellite imagery, basemaps and shapefiles in QGIS for my content.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Well I don’t need to write a script to let me know when GNIS shifts the name to “Gulf of America”, because I just went to fetch the ID and apparently it’s today. Google said Google Maps is following.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The coup and its collaborators are the “Stalinists” of the “libertarian” right. No longer content with the speed at which neoliberalism funnels the means of governance into private hands, they act to seize the machinery of the administrative state in order to feign a dismantling of the /1

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Black history IS American history. 24/7 and 365 days a year. Period. This administration cannot erase that fact.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly why we need to replace ancestry composition maps that visually imply we have 0 ancestors outside the regions of close genetic cousins they are calling ancestral regions. There should be a gradient that’s aware of migrations and a model that goes back to identical ancestors point.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

We use and need non-corporate hosts and repositories of public information — genealogy, geography and all else — for a reason. Truth is not determined by business relationships with the divide-and-conquer orgs that run our governments.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Google heard “jump” and asked “how high?” while already outside Earth’s gravity well. Even the executive order (applying only to certain federal publications) designates “Gulf of America” only to the U.S. continental shelf portion. Not Mexican, Cuban or international areas. #openstreetmap

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

anti-monarchist royal genealogy dystopian futurism content

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

To some extent I learned through TikTok that I *can* just talk to the camera, but damn if YouTube editing doesn’t get me right back to the habit of doing way-too-long editing for an accurate map or a visual gag.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

What U.S. #genealogy tells us about birthright citizenship. It says 1/6, but that’s a maybe even though it’s in full elsewhere. I want to get a sense from followers first. Is posting segmented videos here (or videos at all) annoying (a potential limitation to this Skylight project)?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Popularizers of genetic genealogy have already provided much of the pseudoscientific underpinning, from NYT putting Nicholas Wade’s racist misinterpretations of scientists’ work on the nation’s science front page for decades to the links between Steve Sailer, Razib Khan and JD Vance.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The Gulf of Mexico isn't even named after Mexico (pt. 1 as bsky / #skylight only does 60s and low-res for now)

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Much like NM, the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t named after the country we now call “Mexico”, but after the Mexica people and their capital region. The hydronym long predates the division of the continent into magic polygons, let alone the use of the hemispheric name “America” to refer to only one of them.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

@skylight.social I’d love to beta test this.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The message is back. I keep closing the app and opening because “Continue” isn’t enough of a “fuck you” to the wording of the message. Make like a (crewless) Starship and explode, message!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Why not?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

For the record, if you want the best in public history digital media today, go to @pbs.org’s Origins. Honest, unflinching, intersectional, and authentic. I’m blown away by each unapologetic episode.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like YouGlish is unworkable right now because Google is blocking bots. I’d enjoyed using it for getting accurate localized pronunciations (of places in particular).

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s see how well it works to repost 9-year-old YouTube videos on TikTok with an intro. This is why Australia is missing from my globe. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYoSJX24/

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Predicting “Elizabeth III” is the name of the future final (as of 2201) head of state from the House of Oldenburg male line… barring possibilities like Solar-system-faring microstates, monarchy restorations and radical life extension. On TT, long form YT coming.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

If TikTok does become unusable inside this arbitrary magic 🎻🎻-monopoly polygon on January 19, I’m mostly based @rootsandroutes1 on ▶️ and rootsandroutes.bsky.social. That’s where I got this screenshot I’m using for my #shutdownweekrepost edits.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

MullvadVPN ad confusing me with the letter p looking like Old Swedish þorn. I hate it when comthanies use the theothle’s metadata too.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not complaining about any author in particular here, but if your alternate history timeline includes our timeline’s people being born anyway, decades after the point of divergence, you have a story that can only be true if there’s an omnipotent being (a simulator) controlling outcomes, in /1

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment