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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:52:50 JST goatsarah

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   • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

   @christineburns yeah. Made the mistake of day tripping to nazaré because it didn’t look far on the map.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:52:51 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

     Whilst folks are talking about the supersized distortion of Greenland by the Mercator projection it’s a good moment to point out that the size of the British Isles is also exaggerated. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/