The headline reads weirdly to me. I don't think we'll see any trans athletes at the White House.

@assignedmedia.org Thanks for the site update. My no-longer-great eyes love the bigger font.

It look like you are cleaning off a disc golf tee pad!

Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

NPR in Oct: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n... "USPS hasn't changed how it applies postmarks. What has changed is that, as the mail agency continues its controversial reorganization plan, more parts of the country may not get their first-class mail processed until the day after it's collected by USPS."

I had to look up stanning: "be an overzealous or obsessive fan of (a particular celebrity)." Got it!

Raising Trans Kids - Kelly's Quest Interview with Rebecca Minor YouTube video by ActonTV

Rebecca Minor, LICSW, a Gender Specialist recently sat down with my wife Kelly to discuss her best selling book, Raising Trans Kids, which was published in September.

Kelly's Quest interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yk-...
Raising Trans Kids book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Raisin...

We were just there - at a book launch for a book about RAISING TRANS KIDS. And, they gave us the "we've got your back" line to cheers from adults and youth in the audience.

Yep, you are that good! Congrats!

Me too.

Yep, and we saw how it ended! Congrats!

Athlete Is Agender Athlete is agender. Athlete can mean anyone. "Part memoir, part manifesto" (Booklist) this book revels in the achievements of strong, passionate, and determ...

Link didn't work for me. This one did: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathe...

Celebrating allies A story for Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2025

A StoryMap for Transgender Day of Visibility
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c877...

Had to look up PRRI: "PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to conducting independent research at the intersection of religion, culture, and public policy." www.prri.org

Wow, it seems like everyone in my world is moving these days... Sending patience as you "outcruft!"

Kelly's Quest - Fighting Misinformation YouTube video by ActonTV

@kellyschutzberg.bsky.social interviewed one of my favorite @bsky.app follows, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, for the latest episode of Kelly's Quest. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf_S...

Woohoo! A big win for one of my disc golf faves @bagelpowered.bsky.social today. We were cheering you on all weekend!

Via LinkedIn:

"In case we needed a reminder that open source is political, ... [GIS programmer ER]... kicked off a protest against US policy by committing a change to GDAL (among others) to print 'Trans rights are human rights' with version information."

See the code github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p...

Opinion | What’s Lost if the Government Pushes People Like Me Out of the Military (Gift Article) I’m trans and I serve my country.

Interestingly, this NY Times opinion piece hasn't crossed my Bluesky feed, so perhaps it didn't cross yours, either. The author, Bree Fram, is a colonel in the U.S. Space Force. She also plays disc golf. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

What uni's should prioritize: (1) what the uni dept can offer that distinguishes itself from other offerings - e.g. dedicated guidance not available elsewhere (2) a balance of core geographic knowledge and McGyvering (the ability to learn on the fly and assemble data and tools) No silver bullet!

Hello Matt,

I want to be sure I understand the question. Can you clarify: How should unis respond to what issue(s) in particular? We, and you, shared several observations about GIS education in recent years.

Dhawal Shah on LinkedIn: I spotted something striking while compiling Class Central's Most Popular… | 17 comments I spotted something striking while compiling Class Central's Most Popular Courses of 2024 [1]. Can you spot it? Look closely at the institutions column. Only… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

The other interesting statistic? The top 18 of 20 MOOCs of 2024 (per Class Central) are not from universities, but from companies. David and Ed Team were way ahead on that one...

www.linkedin.com/posts/dhawal...

My recollection is that the original geoapps MOOC (Do-it-yourself Geo Apps) always had the highest completion rate of the MOOCs offered.

Thank you for continuing to take care of the community as we head into the scary future. Mazel tov to the couple!

Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN.
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Adena, on the left, is wearing a little black dress, with her arm around Kelly, also wearing a little black dress. They are standing in front of a fire place on New Year's Eve.

Today my wife Kelly recorded a new episode of Kelly's Quest www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... I'll post when it's out. I'm proud she'll be interviewing more people and telling more stories after a year on hiatus.

She's a middle school teacher; the show is one way she advocates for trans people.

And, we learned the queer pastor with whom we dined had gotten married to her partner last week. Just like we had.

The attendees ran the gamut - old, young, black, white, dressed to the nines, dressed in jeans and hoodies, religious, not religious, with all sorts of gender expressions. The inclusiveness was heartening.

Wednesday evening I attended my first TDOR gathering. We gathered, we introduce ourselves, we solemnly read more than 100 names of individuals killed by anti-trans violence in 2024. We cried. We shared a meal and stories. Small children ran around. We exchanged contact information.

As I've seen in the past, greetings referenced "National," "World," or "International" GIS Day. To my knowledge, it's always been "just" GIS Day. I joked to colleagues that if we need a geographic boundary for the event, maybe it can be "Intergalactic GIS Day," so that it's fully inclusive.

During my work day on Wednesday I observed many individuals and organizations offering greetings for GIS Day on social media. I love that! The day is a nice reminder that GIS and geography, where I've been working for more than 30 years, are invaluable to make a better world.