When a Farmer Comes to the Hospital… By Mary Elizabeth Rudd

Students in my Community GIS are wrapping up. They write blog posts about their work throughout the semester, and this one is especially thoughtful.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

LivingGeography Dispatches from my geography classroom, life as a freelance Geographer, and Everyday Geographical discoveries.

Closing in on 10 million page views of LivingGeography - should reach that tomorrow - over 13700 posts since May 2008 when I started it livinggeography.blogspot.com

Nice article about the quake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent advisory. 🧪

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!

“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”

Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry

#SecretGarden

Cycling for an icecream ... 🚲🍦 ... the journey is the destination

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

On Sunday, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.

Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

One night before the elections the great people of Hungary are on the streets, rejecting the malicious influence coming from Russia, Serbia and certain people from the USA. The crowds are huge across the country. They can write history tomorrow.

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

1/3. Very helpful summary in preparation for the epochal Hungarian elections tomorrow. See also essays by Anne Applebaum and Lászlo Gendler and commentary by Kim Scheppele
mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough”

The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

Genius

Close up of a cowslip flower

Cowslips in a field

Cowslips in Kent #Springwatch

Bob's Burgers - Transmission (Cover) (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Bob's Burgers Side Orders

Brilliant Joy Division cover: youtu.be/L2UzKWC9CfY?...

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map...

The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

Parkinson’s Awareness Month - Parkinson Canada Together, we can break down barriers to Parkinson’s care. #LimitlessParkinsonsCare Raise your voice Add your perspective and help shape the future of Parkinson’s care in Canada. Join a roundtable disc...

April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. #LimitlessParkinsonsCare
You can expect a few posts from me with brutal honesty about the science, facts and my journey.
@parkinsoncanada.bsky.social @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social @parkinsonseurope.bsky.social @mjfoxfoundation.bsky.social
www.parkinson.ca/pam/

Reposts welcome 🙏🏾

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

SpeedGeeking is in 1 week at Esri Dev & Tech Summit 😄 Come geek out about GIS things with me!

Tues, Mar 10 • 5-6pm • Renaissance Palm Springs (San Jacinto + Santa Rosa)

#ArcGIS #GIS #Esri

IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays.

The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

An expressive watercolour painting of a chiffchaff

This is a chiffchaff. While small numbers overwinter here in the UK, hearing their song ‘chiff chaff chiff chaff’ for me really signals the start of Spring, I know I’ll be hearing one any day 🥰

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

Beautiful map of the Hawaiian islands with inset globe showing their relative location in the Pacific Ocean

Make your (story) maps move.

🌋Lava creeps, smoke billows, and rifts glow in this Kīlauea story refresh — all thanks to new animated symbols in Map Viewer.
Give them a try: ow.ly/oUMA50YmC1M

#gischat ⚒️ #geogsky #geogchat

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW

This week: A Tale of Two Andrews

Ian, Adam, Andy and Rachael Claye discuss two men named Andrew - one who used to be a prince, and one who’s still a solicitor with a very dubious practice.

Listen: pod.fo/e/395f64
YouTube: youtu.be/pHNuqHyF5M0

#gischat

Watch this from Historian Sir Anthony Seldon 👏

➡️ Calls to wipe student debt and pay for it out of general taxation

➡️ Bring in Martin Lewis and give him four weeks to find a solution

➡️ There are no dead end courses eg the arts, stresses universities are so much more