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<p>forbidden cartography</p><p>Circa 200 years after the Three MATA Brothers left their bunker to reassert MATACORP dominance over what remained of the destroyed planet, a hobbyist cartographer, Mavic Pengellan, born to an affluent penguin family in one of the Penguin Protectorates, would create his depiction of the world (with a fair amount of creative liberties).</p><p>His work was immediately suppressed in favor of the official MATACORP map of the world.</p><p>Pengellan&#x27;s map however remains as the closest approximation of the world, used by wandering techno-mages.</p><p><a href="/tags/unix_surrealism/" rel="tag">#unix_surrealism</a> <a href="/tags/analognowhere/" rel="tag">#analognowhere</a> <a href="/tags/cartography/" rel="tag">#cartography</a> <a href="/tags/technomage/" rel="tag">#technomage</a></p>

<p>Last week we published a set of three in-depth <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#map</a> reports covering territorial control across <a href="/tags/somalia/" rel="tag">#Somalia</a>&#x27;s claimed territories from 2023 to present. The June 2024 report is free for all readers, and shows the height of &quot;<a href="/tags/islamicstate/" rel="tag">#IslamicState</a>&quot; (<a href="/tags/isis/" rel="tag">#ISIS</a>/<a href="/tags/isil/" rel="tag">#ISIL</a>) control in the country: </p><p><a href="https://www.polgeonow.com/2025/06/somalia-territorial-control-map-2024-isis-shabaab.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.polgeonow.com/2025/06/somalia-territorial-control-map-2024-isis-shabaab.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.polgeonow.com/2025/06/soma</span><span class="invisible">lia-territorial-control-map-2024-isis-shabaab.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/hornofafrica/" rel="tag">#HornOfAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/cartography/" rel="tag">#cartography</a> <a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#maps</a> <a href="/tags/geography/" rel="tag">#geography</a> <a href="/tags/somaliland/" rel="tag">#Somaliland</a> <a href="/tags/puntland/" rel="tag">#Puntland</a> <a href="/tags/ssc_khaatumo/" rel="tag">#SSC_Khaatumo</a> <a href="/tags/mapping/" rel="tag">#mapping</a> @geography @cartography @geopolitics <a href="/tags/alshabaab/" rel="tag">#AlShabaab</a> <a href="/tags/alqaeda/" rel="tag">#AlQaeda</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/osint/" rel="tag">#OSINT</a></p>

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