Cartography and data-viz enthusiast. “Hobby-etymologist”. 🇪🇺 Europhile of multiple identities 🇷🇴/🇭🇺 |✸☽︎|. Immigrant 🇫🇷. Was an architect once.https://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3meybpeg6pk2qToured the Highlands (& Orkney) this summer and can honestly say I'm still enthralled by the beauty of it all, especially the Flow Country, and my wife still mentions every other week how she's yearning to return 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Feb 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3meybpeg6pk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3meyaxhxe622qGreat. Now where am I gonna get my dose of anxiety from? Anyway long time no see folks 👋 [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Feb 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3meyaxhxe622qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lyhuwkjqg22zEU Commission President's anual "State of the European Union" speech means an update to my dataviz analysing the languages used. To the chagrin of some, it was again a predominantly English address, even more so than 2 years ago. German and French got <4 min. each. #soteu2025 #SOTEU 🇪🇺10 Sep 2025 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyhuwkjqg22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3llxv3rwtek2zCartography ladies and gents, check out this watch I was gifted recently 😎04 Apr 2025 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3llxv3rwtek2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lfpj26rkc22vDataviz in my local paper. 🙃 Front page14 Jan 2025 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpj26rkc22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lbwbyfcnu22tInteresting Capital City vs. Other Cities and Towns split in the Romanian diaspora vote... [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2024 09:57 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbwbyfcnu22thttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lbwatclvhs2zFor the fun of it, since Ursula von der Leyen is getting confirmed today: A history of the political affiliation of the European Commissioners 🇪🇺 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2024 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbwatclvhs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lbk56gja6c2pIn preparation for the Romanian presidential (round 1) and parliamentary elections this Sunday, Hotnews has prepared some election maps/analysis of 2014 to 2019 results. Among them this arrow map. https://alegeri.hotnews.ro/cum-s-a-schimbat-votul-la-ultimele-2-cicluri-de-alegeri-prezidentiale/22 Nov 2024 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbk56gja6c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/arnoldplaton.bsky.social/post/3lbi4uhr3mk22Oh I remember when these were making the round on the bird app. @awoodruff.bsky.social had a version. Inspired me to make a radial one, to "bring the 🇪🇺 EU closer to Bruxelles". Literally 😂 https://arnoldplaton.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/how-much-eu-is-there-around-brussels/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Nov 2024 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:jypzfprocopiimicmakezckz/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbi4uhr3mk22