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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
This map shows the proximety and rough trajectory of Iceberg #A68A towards South Georgia Island. Red shows water that's shallow enough for the iceberg to likely beach itself. Its position on Dec 3rd and 9th is shown, so's a basic idea of its course (based on 3rd-9th movement).
Right now it's less than 14km from the closest area it could run aground.
AFAIK the effects of such a large iceberg beaching hasn't been recorded this far North, but in Antartica itself, they have abosultely decimated penguin colonies in the past, with species more adapted to the cold.
S Georgia has 1mil pairs of penguins, and ~30mil pairs of seabirds.
References:
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet…

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14 Dec
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14 Dec
It's interesting that 🙈-turned-propagandist Jerry here brings up Tongxin, Ningxia (by showing two sites more than 4km apart, both have been significantly damaged). In this thread I'll show through 16 different mosques in XJ how they've been systematically decimated. ImageImageImageImage
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We have shown, thrown exhausting satellite evidence, that roughly 66% of mosques in Xinjiang have been destroyed or damaged, mostly since 2017. Visitors to Xinjiang since then have estimated to me that about 75% of the ones that do remain are closed.
Some of the photos I've seen showing the inside of closed mosques show an unbelievable amount of decrepitation. Sacred would be the last word to describe how they're treated with what Chinese authorities have done to these mosques
The entire city of Hotan, according to recent visitors, has two mosques that remain operational to any degree. That's a city of over 300,000 people. Fewer mosques than the city of Canberra, with a similar population but only 0.6% Muslim vs >95% of Hotan being Islamic.
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10 Dec
This thread will quickly show, step-by-step how to use GIS to plan protest escape routes, using the example of the last hour's confrontation in Bangkok. With some of the legwork already done (can be done at a city scale), this took 10min to adjust and process.
Essentially, this boils down to using the notion of assigning a cost to transversing each pixel, and letting computers work out what the most efficient routes are. Here's an example of that concept being used for Lord of the Rings. esri.com/arcgis-blog/pr…
In Bangkok, and pretty much every other major city in the world, we can cut out the tricky modelling of how difficult each part of a map is to walk through by turning to @Strava's heatmap, which shows approximately that, easier paths are travelled more.
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22 Nov
New satellite imagery published by @ndtv, conclusively proves that a new village constructed by China and revealed in Chinese state media is indeed located within over 2 kilometres into Bhutan, according to their official maps and claims (27.307, 89.007).
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The high resolution imagery also shows how percarious of a village it is, being constructed on what is essentially a sandbank in the middle of a mountain river valley (where snowmelt and high cliffs make water flow unpredictable and flash floods common)...
In that annotated imagery above, the pink outline shows areas of fallen trees, very possibly where the river has flooded and knocked them over. You can even see tree trunks in blue. Now the other side of those floods would be the village.
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21 Nov
Outrage over the crackdown in Hong Kong 👎
Outrage over the crackdown in Xinjiang 👎
Outrage over totalitarianism in Vietnam 👎
Outrage over human rights abuses in Cambodia 👎
Outrage over a white woman cooking dumplings 👍🥳👍
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Of course it's valid to have perspectives on local culture issues, and I agree that this is sketchy, but it's been taken to the point where the shop owner has been evicted and lost their livelihood in the middle of a pandemic.
There's a big difference between posting food-takes on twitter/not shopping at a resturant you find problematic and actually ruining someone's life over the fact that they cooked dumplings. I don't eat at a similar resturant near my house because I actually agree with her.
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