2026-09-05 05:10 UTC
Replies (20)
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@PeterLG@theblower.au 2026-09-05 05:14
A certain orange stain is going to hate it when hea sees that the USA has shrunk a bit, and his prized Greenland is actually quite small. 🤣
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@morton@kolektiva.social 2026-09-05 06:45
@PeterLG@theblower.au Trump’s America is a child with a gun. It’s started crying again.
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@adritheonly@mastodon.social 2026-09-05 07:09
@PeterLG@theblower.au Of course the US complained, this map explains why they, and other vested interests, have fought over Africa for decades and also fomented wars in Africa to stop it from ever uniting. The recent xenophobic problems in South Africa being a semi-successful Russian attempt.
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@oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online 2026-09-05 07:25
If you-know-who can't find Greenland on the map anymore, he's gonna lose interest? Well, he'll probably forbid using this map and say he made America appear great again. 😏 maaga
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@MokhtarStork@zirk.us 2026-09-05 07:27
@PeterLG@theblower.au The UN is a 'dead duck'. Its an institution that just enables people with membership to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, representing their country to do nothing, while their bills are paid by their citizens.
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@Kalshann@mastodon.social 2026-09-05 08:10
@PeterLG@theblower.au Seriously after that, for the rest of the day - every delegate should just start every sentence to the US delegation with "Gulf of America" or "Lake America" and just stare at them.
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@cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-09-05 10:43
@PeterLG@theblower.au honestly I'm amazed they were still using Mercator. Shout out to my all time favourite projection Pierce Quincuncial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection?wprov=sfla1
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@pork_slam@mastodon.social 2026-09-05 11:59
@PeterLG@theblower.au stop this 🤚🏼, a certain type of color will be very angry and will write bad words on the bird app 😤
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@ovrim@wien.rocks 2026-09-05 12:17
@PeterLG@theblower.au is quite sarcastic that the representative of US mentions that as the current PotUS is very keen in renaming (and creating problems) but very poor in actually solving (or at least reducing) problems ...
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@radekcrlik@witter.cz 2026-09-05 12:38
@PeterLG@theblower.au schools should have world globes. No projection, problem solved. Screw US of A.
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz 2026-09-05 13:23
@PeterLG@theblower.au Mercator gets the relative areas of regions at different latitudes 'wrong' but their shapes locally right: Africa in particular looks like it actually does (check it out in Meteosat and DSCOVR images ... or by looking at a globe from a distance). In the UN-'recommended' projection it is markedly distorted, however: how this is supposed to make Africans happy is beyond my understanding.
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@Ralph@hear-me.social 2026-09-05 14:22
@PeterLG@theblower.au I vote for the 'dymaxion map'. https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/dymaxion-map/
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@SenseException@phpc.social 2026-09-05 16:16
@PeterLG@theblower.au Was that claim before or after the vote?
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@cthellis@urusai.social 2026-09-05 16:26
@PeterLG@theblower.au oblig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI Meanwhile to the US delegate: "Your President is ignoring everything important and renaming lakes, for an ideological and political, dumbass symbolic reason." "Also he wants to basically start a war with allies to steal Greenland because he thinks it's super-huge. Maybe changing the map is a good idea."
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@dirtside@phpc.social 2026-09-05 17:22
@PeterLG@theblower.au perspective projection or gtfo
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@divVerent@misskey.de 2026-09-05 18:54
@PeterLG@theblower.au I do agree it's kinda pointless, but I'd still have voted in favour. Like, the UN can say whatever they want, anyone can still use whichever map they like - they just can't claim it to be the one recommended by the UN. The UN is losing its credibility for other reasons though - primarily by having at least two terrorist states with veto power in the Security Council (Russia and USA). Because of that, the UN doesn't actually have the power to solve any of the more important problems - as such, what they did here is at least better than nothing, and I do appreciate that. Obviously, it was to be expected that the US would object, as their entire rhetoric about Greenland being super important for the US to own and that Denmark is too weak to support it falls apart once one knows its actual size.
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@divVerent@misskey.de 2026-09-05 18:58
@PeterLG@theblower.au The real interesting question is how long it will take Google Maps to switch to this projection. Pretty sure they're much more reluctant to represent countries in their actual size than to comply with random water body name trumpery.
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@caillou@fosstodon.org 2026-09-06 15:45
@PeterLG@theblower.au let’s rename a lake.
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@alerque@mastodon.social 2026-09-06 16:09
@PeterLG@theblower.au TheaEckert IV projection compared in your image is not the same as the Equal Earth projection, only similar (and adopted by France I think).
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@cascheranno@hachyderm.io 2026-09-09 06:12
@PeterLG@theblower.au I’m fine with this, but I really really like spherical, scrollable electronic images like Google earth, great circle maps, etc. when tech is at hand.