steph
@urschrei.eurosky.social
Alleged geographer at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. A reluctant polygon enthusiast, I occasionally work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
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steph
@urschrei.eurosky.social
· Nov 24
My offer of a gherkin has just been rejected out of hand as "too reviving at this hour".
How is it possible to write Declare, but also this? Much to consider.
My mom gave me this book with a summary that just keeps growing.
October 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
How is it possible to write Declare, but also this? Much to consider.
“They’re here before…” and other apparently endearing things old ladies on the bus say about your child which in fact imply that they are changelings from beyond the veil &c. I’ll have you know she received her forbidden knowledge telepathically from the cat, like all babies.
October 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
“They’re here before…” and other apparently endearing things old ladies on the bus say about your child which in fact imply that they are changelings from beyond the veil &c. I’ll have you know she received her forbidden knowledge telepathically from the cat, like all babies.
Somewhat surprised to find myself having joined Anthropic’s war on the Pope on the side of the Pope, but here we are.
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
October 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Somewhat surprised to find myself having joined Anthropic’s war on the Pope on the side of the Pope, but here we are.
All I will say about today’s MacArthur announcement is that I didn’t realise that “After Geoengineering” was a Verso book.
September 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM
All I will say about today’s MacArthur announcement is that I didn’t realise that “After Geoengineering” was a Verso book.
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Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social
We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference.
See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference.
See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 29, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social
We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference.
See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference.
See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The internet continues to amaze, part whatever: a culturally hyperspecific part of my childhood (Spaghettieis), something I haven’t really thought about for the better part of 35 years, has suddenly become a topic of discussion on both Bsky and Mastodon.
September 29, 2026 at 6:55 AM
The internet continues to amaze, part whatever: a culturally hyperspecific part of my childhood (Spaghettieis), something I haven’t really thought about for the better part of 35 years, has suddenly become a topic of discussion on both Bsky and Mastodon.
MOBY’s app and data are so unreliable that I spent the afternoon setting up minute-resolution ingest for the whole network; instead of screaming at them I’m gonna build a time-varying birth-death Markov chain model (based on Gast et al, 2015) about it. I just want a bike for 10 minutes, twice a day.
Probabilistic Forecasts of Bike-Sharing Systems for Journey Planning | Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
dl.acm.org
September 27, 2026 at 10:12 PM
MOBY’s app and data are so unreliable that I spent the afternoon setting up minute-resolution ingest for the whole network; instead of screaming at them I’m gonna build a time-varying birth-death Markov chain model (based on Gast et al, 2015) about it. I just want a bike for 10 minutes, twice a day.
@gracekind.net does alignment solve this
September 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
@gracekind.net does alignment solve this
Happy to announce that Bluesky-the-social-network mostly exists to facilitate my ATproto research, and it isn’t close. The more Americans scream at each other about politics, the more synthetic-fur enthusiasts post things my client blurs, the more Brazilians – you guys also post a lot! – the better.
dev.sensorthings.observationBatch
ATProtocol lexicon schema by sensorthings.dev
lexicon.garden
September 25, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Happy to announce that Bluesky-the-social-network mostly exists to facilitate my ATproto research, and it isn’t close. The more Americans scream at each other about politics, the more synthetic-fur enthusiasts post things my client blurs, the more Brazilians – you guys also post a lot! – the better.
The Duchess of Malfi: what am I, chopped liver?
do a christopher marlowe adaptation robert
Robert Eggers is set to direct a new film adaptation of ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’.
The film will feature the actors speaking in Olde English.
(Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
The film will feature the actors speaking in Olde English.
(Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
September 23, 2026 at 7:09 AM
The Duchess of Malfi: what am I, chopped liver?
Teaching herself about dogs in a way that is highly representative of her personality
September 22, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Teaching herself about dogs in a way that is highly representative of her personality
Excellent, excellent, news.
Absolutely fucking amazing. Mike Harrison is on the Booker shortlist.
I thought every one of these books was amazing. I'd vote for the Marlon James book, because I really think it's one of the most stunning books I've ever read. But each of these is worthy in different ways. Really great crop of nominees.
thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/introducin...
thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/introducin...
September 22, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Excellent, excellent, news.
Walking into my building and interrupting the tour guide chirping “and when you enter, you’ll be greeted by two skeletons who—” by loudly yelling THEY HAVE NAMES
September 22, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Walking into my building and interrupting the tour guide chirping “and when you enter, you’ll be greeted by two skeletons who—” by loudly yelling THEY HAVE NAMES
Got some free wooden “educational toys” for the child from the university freecycle group. There has been some speculation that the previous owner was using them to “teach undergrads about fractions”.
September 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Got some free wooden “educational toys” for the child from the university freecycle group. There has been some speculation that the previous owner was using them to “teach undergrads about fractions”.
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I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.
September 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.
Gauzy, innocent memories of seeing several people I (formerly) followed – all working in the sciences – posting earnest, restrained statements about donating 10 % (or something) of their salaries with Coefficient Giving, and feeling vaguely concerned by the language being used.
September 19, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Gauzy, innocent memories of seeing several people I (formerly) followed – all working in the sciences – posting earnest, restrained statements about donating 10 % (or something) of their salaries with Coefficient Giving, and feeling vaguely concerned by the language being used.
This is absolutely incredible. Just wonderful.
Turns out, the author just ... made them up 🤷♂️. I can't get over this. It really doesn't seem ok to me for someone to draw some squiggles, claim that they're illustrative of something in the real world, then act as though it's akin to evidence. The vibes you feel aren't data!
September 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This is absolutely incredible. Just wonderful.
Probably the worst thing about the advent of the smartphone is that it killed Nokiawave as a genre, which in turn hastened the demise of Gitanes Maïs.
September 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Probably the worst thing about the advent of the smartphone is that it killed Nokiawave as a genre, which in turn hastened the demise of Gitanes Maïs.
Almost flawlessly correct over two years ago, and growing asymptotically more correct with each passing day.
mostly riffing on this underappreciated masterwork from @vruba.bsky.social
September 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Almost flawlessly correct over two years ago, and growing asymptotically more correct with each passing day.
The Aer Lingus app has informed me that it now has an “AI Chatbot” called “Erin”. Presumably a Clippy-inspired Leprechaun named “Paddy” was considered insufficiently on the nose.
September 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
The Aer Lingus app has informed me that it now has an “AI Chatbot” called “Erin”. Presumably a Clippy-inspired Leprechaun named “Paddy” was considered insufficiently on the nose.
APRIL — 1987
JACQUES DELORS IS MASTER OF EUROPE
only some kind of proto-internet stands before him
Dublin is now…Clonmel?
JACQUES DELORS IS MASTER OF EUROPE
only some kind of proto-internet stands before him
Dublin is now…Clonmel?
We need to go back to this version of the internet
September 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
APRIL — 1987
JACQUES DELORS IS MASTER OF EUROPE
only some kind of proto-internet stands before him
Dublin is now…Clonmel?
JACQUES DELORS IS MASTER OF EUROPE
only some kind of proto-internet stands before him
Dublin is now…Clonmel?
I am not particularly excited to find out what’s going to happen to the geospatial software ecosystem in the short term given that its most essential developer and maintainer (Even) has gone on (apparently indefinite) strike. If you depend on GDAL to do your work you should perhaps pay attention.
September 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I am not particularly excited to find out what’s going to happen to the geospatial software ecosystem in the short term given that its most essential developer and maintainer (Even) has gone on (apparently indefinite) strike. If you depend on GDAL to do your work you should perhaps pay attention.