German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own...
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I’m also sharing the same content I’m sharing here on X on Facebook where I operate as “Simon shows you maps”: facebook.com/share/1AXePrrrC…
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Being sleep deprived due to the World Cup is normal but which nation's fans have their sleep disrupted the most? Spare a thought for the Algerian football fans! Group-stage kick off times converted to each team’s local time and how much sleep might be lost. Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Hot take: I want Mamdani as FIFA president
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup.
Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament.
The beautiful game belongs to everyone.
ALT Mayor Mamdani attends the match between Morocco and Brazil with some of the New Yorkers who won the World Cup affordable tickets lottery.
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May I say that while X has been improved massively over the last few half year, the World Cup version feels like the very best of former Twitter again. Truly great stuff!
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The World Cup just proves that people around the world want to chill, drink, eat, and bullshit together
Algerians doing jigs in Kansas... Brits eating barbecue in Texas... Koreans doing full on kegstands in Mexico... just goes to show that the entire world can be united by the simple concept of getting really drunk and watching a sporting event
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The usual time of eating dinner in Europe. I remember traveling to Spain as a young kid and my German 6pm meal had to wait until 10pm. It was weird. Source: buff.ly/36goiS4
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What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ
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Etymology at its finest. "Zero fucks given" in different European languages. Source: buff.ly/3fGTNqc
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The map showing the birthplaces of the German Football National Team is a pretty decent population density map of Germany.
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Gorgeous map shows the watersheds of Germany. Source: buff.ly/2MbLMvO
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As regular followers know by now, I love skyline timelines. Here is how the skyline of my chosen hometown of Melbourne has changed over the last 25 years.
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Jun 13
"Hydration break"
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Fuck FIFA and fuck every TV channel on the planet who shows ads mid-game.
Jun 12
📺 Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to NOT show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks."
"We prefer the old school way. We should be able to see what the players do. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."
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Jun 12
The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth.
The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt.
This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention.
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Number of Spanish speakers by country. The US is more Spanish than Spain. Source: buff.ly/3QdkJ1w
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Global LNG trade map. If prices are high the exporters benefit and folks in the importing nations pay big bucks. Have a look at which importers see their gas travel through maritime choke points. Great map to ponder when thinking about geopolitics.
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Wow. Chinese electricity generation keeps climbing and climbing.
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