Simon Kuestenmacher

German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own...

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I’m also sharing the same content I’m sharing here on X on Facebook where I operate as “Simon shows you maps”: https://t.co/TBzQaNNPQR

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

The much awaited GTA 6 is surprisingly cheap when compared to its predecessors. Source: https://t.co/VNaK1UkoOo

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

I saw a whole category of books described as “middle management motivational porn”. Which title is most repetitive of the genre in your opinion?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

@drmirror When would The Flintstones take place? Best guess: around 10,000 BC, when humans lived in Stone Age settlements alongside mammoths. The problem? Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years earlier.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

A #geographyteacher might want to show this #badgeographyjoke to their class. The rest of us can just giggle…

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

@pmnordkvist I’m like this with books. I’ll be the judge please. I watch very few movies and can’t be bothered sitting through something that isn’t Godfather level good.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Wow, I had no clue. It explains though why I felt that some highly rated movies I saw were pretty average...

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

How negatively impacted was your country financially because of the Hormuz closure? The US was hit extremely hard.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Random geography trivia: There are exactly 90 non-overlapping 50km radius circles with over 10 million people. India has 27 of then and China 16. HT @OwenWntr

[boatogravy🇩🇴🇹🇹 @xboatogravy]

holy shit.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

@firefox Shit you not, that ad turned me back to Firefox!

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

By identifying the most uncommon PIN numbers, they have now become the most unsafe PIN numbers to use. What a paradox.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This wonderful animation by @milos_gis shows a full year of the Iberian peninsula as seen from space. Spain and Portugal change their colours less intensely than areas in central Europe where the seasons are more distinct.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Bookmark this for your election night party! Surely, you’ll host an election party…

[Jordan Zakarin @jordanzakarin]

Just launched https://t.co/Nh0SHW61YO, which puts every key election in one place, shows results in real-time, and calculates majorities and flips.

Both federal and state elections included. Hopefully it makes election night a little easier.

https://t.co/2lJh1tpVtL

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Latin America is only becoming a bit more atheistic. Mostly it’s becoming more evangelical. HT @latinometrics (a must follow account if you think Latin America is interesting)

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Interest on the national debt topped $1 trillion this fiscal year.

That’s $87 billion more than we spent on defense.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

The price of electricity in Victoria’s state grid was lower than every other major economy for the first nine months of 2026, according to Rystad Energy.

This will be devastating news for those who insist the exact opposite is happening.

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US.

The only thing discussed more than data centers?

Pickleball courts.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Before standard time zones, the Netherlands used Dutch (Amsterdam) Time: GMT+0:19:32, based on solar time at the Westerkerk tower. Rounded to +0:20 in 1937, it kept clocks and train schedules 20 minutes off until abolished in 1940. Weird. Source: https://t.co/egGbqAGtjm

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

US imports from Russia rose 24% in 2025 to over $4 billion. Exports dropped to under $600 million (making imports 6.8x higher by value). Over 90% of those imports came down to just three categories: fertilizers, inorganic chemicals, and precious metals. Source: https://t.co/a0TsUEzKDc

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Data from India is pretty clear: get phones out of schools. The findings show that restricting phone use can support learning, particularly among lower-performing students. Source: https://t.co/eGvmrwW7Nr