Hey all, We have hit **682** subscribers, which if you are not aware, is the legally recognized limit where we can become a church rather than a niche community of map nerds. I just wanted to take time to thank every one of you who were sent here by a prank hyperlink, saw what we do, and thought "I want front row seats to this train wreck". Your optimism to consider !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee a train is what drives the mod team to continue to not have to do jack shit but cross post maps of the US that have been photocopied a couple times, read a few comments and proposals for marriage, light up a massive ol' bong, and watch [Marble racing YouTube videos](https://youtu.be/HWd7OUVq5k4?si=4jQ8VIgbOTP2G_7_). When I started this sub, I was just a guy with nothing to prove but that I could hijack a subreddit, build my own mod team, go dark in the protest of 2023, fight god, lose, get exiled to Dallas, get told about Lemmy in prison, join after being rejected by yiffit, Lemmynsfw, and lemmy.ml, create a community devoted to tearing the western world down brick by brick, and then pivot to silly maps after seeing the wifi name "AbsolutelyNotFBI" pop up in my phone. But here we are, and "AbsolutelyNotFBI" no longer shows up when I try to connect to my wifi. Thank you all so much for making that lemonade stand across my street that was run by two grown men in suits and wearing earpieces go away. With that said, I want to announce that in our next year, we will go where no other Lemmy community has gone before. The moon. That's right, with your help, I can ask my wealthy and politically influential dad to bully Elon Musk into giving us a spaceship. As a subscriber to this community, you will be on that spaceship too, whether you like it or not. We will create a new society separate from the mess of late stage capitalism. We will wear silly clothes. We are not a space cult. We are not a space cult. We are not a space cult. If you feel the same excitement as I do for the future of !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee, please post more maps, comment, mention us in other threads when relevant, sell all your possessions, and buy my book on how a life of memes on the moon will liberate you from the horrors of this earth. I continue to be humbled by how many people have been posting, and how many people here are A list actors. Keep up the good work! Sic Semper Tyranus, ~Meep

From https://sh.itjust.works/post/26076570

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23106804 > A side-cut of what the deepest cave in the world looks like rule

As you can see, forties are riding dirty and the Army of Northern Virginia is encroaching on the Fulda Gap, sir. This map is approximately one ping old, Vassili. It's not OC, but we expect an update from IS Zebra on the QT.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19456618 > rulecago

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/17674138 > Trippin

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19179362 > Canada.

(I don't actually have any opinions about Missouri)

([Source](https://www.facebook.com/brilliantmaps/posts/pfbid0Ws3hK8fUM1S75AkXK5QFLn8HtGNNi5ubEJtS6cJdmVLCRFiAgXscLaA5Dbj5vuF5l)) 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/12677634 > Map of Austrialia > > ::: spoiler Transcription: > A map of Australia with lines marking internal borders marked at random across the country, each demarked region being labelled with a state of Austria. They do not align with real Australian states or the positions of Austrian states. Reading top to bottom, left to right, they read Nieder­österreich, Vorarlberg, Burgenland, Ober­österreich, Tirol, Steiermark, Kärnten, Salzburg. Tasmania is labelled "Wien". > > The map is labelled AUSTRIA. > > Below that, a map of Austria and surrounding countries (such as Germany and Slovenia, which are all labelled correctly). Austria is labelled AUSTRALIA. Internally, cities are labelled with the names of Australian cities. Canberra where Vienna should be, Sydney where Salzburg should be, Brisbane at Graz, Newcastle at Klagenfurt, Melbourne at Linz, Gladstone at Innsbruck, and Perth in the far west, near the Liechtenstein border. > :::

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20238336

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18005265 > Unique ways to peace out as national leader

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14696904 > basic geography rule > > it came to my attention that my previous post on basic geography https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14668411 needed an inset for Michigan to provide better geographic context, thanks @Technus@lemmy.zip for the catch!