Roots and Routes

own cells’ mitochondria or your microbiome which might be 200 billionth cousins or trillionth cousins to your “main” cells. 2/2

Siblings are 0th cousins. An aunt and nephew, etc. are 0th cousins once removed. Identical twins are double 0th cousins. You’re your own negative 1st cousin genealogically, although if you’re a chimera many of your cells are 0th cousins genetically, and that’s not even counting your 1/2

The environment consisting of acts of disenfranchisement like voter roll purges of legal voters, w/o which she wins GA, MI, WI, PA and — like every Dem candidate after 1988(!)—the WH. The disenfranchisement acts were *legal*. No crime is being alleged. Yet no one should pretend they make a mandate.

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.

Oh how the Carters of Georgia have fallen.

Also delete Google Maps and Apple Maps which will follow. Magic Earth now has great directions.

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.

Seems like branqueamento to me.

without even the illusion of participatory democracy. 3/3

administrative state. Not to replace it with genuine, decentralized, horizontal liberty, no. That would require that holders of capital risk the wealth they “legally” seized from the commons by capturing the state for centuries. Instead, you get the same bureaucratic top-down rule, but this time 2/

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

The *Founding Fathers* demonstrated that.

There are people arguing the opposite somewhere?

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

Thank you! I have notebooks full of genealogy visualization and world tree-building ideas, a CS background, and no team or time. At some point I need to start fundraising, publicly brainstorming and building.

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.

With that font it looks like it’s at the Whitney.

Thanks, but I would like not to do anything like turning this (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlesw...) into vector shapefile with GIS for just a background reference again.

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.

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

anti-monarchist royal genealogy dystopian futurism content

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.

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)?

As for what we should do?

Insist on the multiplicity of meanings of “ancestor” that aren’t just genetic

Fight against the false notion that the product the companies pass off as your “ancestry percentage” is accurate or meaningful.

Preserve, copy, and decentralize records that are under threat

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.

@danielloftus.projectinfant.ie I’d love to be added though I won’t say my posts here have been genealogy only.

Vance called it debaathification on a podcast over 4 years ago, unless I’m mixing up his appearances and it was more recent.

Part 2

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

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.