the christopher gs

Pokeweed volunteered in my garden this year--i let it live til the birds picked off the berries but dug it up afterwards so it is less likely to regrow. Look at this absolute unit of a root. #chonker #pokeweed

saving this for later...

I use CoMaps! It's a good map tool in many circumstances, it's a great one when you have limited connectivity:)

I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com

Important Lansing history!! #LansingMentioned

Go Portland pickles

This was totally preventable --in fact, We were preventing it for almost 75 years until Elon/Doge cut the program and now a flesh eating insect is infesting southern farms--a bug that can kill a calf in less than a week and a dog even faster www.michigan.gov/mdard/about/...

Hackberry emperor butterfly enjoying my copy of Mosswood Apothecary (by @jprindfleisch.bsky.social )

Friends that eat mosquitoes #odonata #bugsky

Cute but evil (the reason I can't have hostas)

Woooo!

It's spring forest ephemerals time! Golden ragwort, native to eastern North America aka St James wort aka Packera aurea #bloomscrolling

Nooooooooooo

Virginia springbeauty. Spring beauty-ing #bloomscrolling

Finally seeing baptisia shoots (false indigo). The deer and rabbits always tear into them. I hope they live this year... #picturesofdirt

This is hopeful

This is a really interesting way to attempt to support a native (to Europe) species

(East) Lansing mentioned! Wilson Hall is one of the densest population census tracts in the US... ha neat. I used to live here. Thanks @nerd4cities.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFB5...

Such a cool visualization phys.org/news/2026-02...

thank you, Dr West! #gischat

Finally it's here: Jupyter notebooks inside QGIS. I don't know about you but I've been hoping for someone to get around to doing this for quite a while. http://anitagraser.com/2026/01/10/notebooks-in-qgis/

🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/

#HappyNewYear

This is cool, and I'm not sure when this happened, but the default style on OpenStreetMap now shows urbanization starting at z level 7. It seems to be based on landuse=residential Here you can see the areas of urbanization around many midwestern cities in the US. 💜🌍 #OpenStreetMap

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Lansing Area Free Stands: neighbors helping neighbors. There's a network of folks bringing food to their neighbors. Have extra? Consider donating. Need something? Stop by and grab something. #LoveLansing

Hell yesss we love the pawpaw (Asimina triloba), growing them in my backyard. Three cheers for the pawpaw, Michigan's wierd little tropical fruit

Africa considers Equal Earth projection instead of Mercator due to its Eurocentric distortions #gischat www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A win for team potato www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/potato...

Vector tiles come to OpenStreetMap! Interesting... blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/v...

bird party, not everyone was invited tho #birdsky

Two million degrees in the Midwest but a bee's gotta eat (native bumblebee on crown vetch) #pollinators #bloomsky 🐝

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

It's serviceberry season!!! This is not a drill #amelanchier so happy the city of Lansing has these planted in public parks

I recently discovered #bloomscrolling. Here's my contribution: beautiful sweet crabapple/apple blossoms on the multiuse path near my house ♥️🌸

mason bees waking up a bit later this year! #nativebees

it's paczki season...where in Lansing can you find the tastiest polish pastry? well, here are some reccs at least. (remember: the word paczki is plural! don't add an s!) get you some paczki! #lovelansing #paczki #maps www.lansingography.com/2025/03/wher...

Pisanki is happening!

Time to clean out the bird houses

Life! Every year I mark the blooming of galanthus nivalis (snowdrop). Spring is coming! Phew

candela gets it #StrongerTogether

looks normal to me

great piece in the Freep. Accessible, reliable, and affordable public transit is key to making our cities walkable, safe, and healthy. Lansing, it's time! www.freep.com/story/opinio...

The largest number of micro plastics in mountain glaciers appears to come from car tires. (Similar rates found in ocean microplastics). #CarDependency is destroying our health. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO