steph
@urschrei.bsky.social
Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
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steph
@urschrei.bsky.social
· Nov 24
My offer of a gherkin has just been rejected out of hand as "too reviving at this hour".
Lettuce 2: Electric Boogaloo
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Lettuce 2: Electric Boogaloo
At the risk of participating in the latest round of "why were they banned?" discourse: I do not believe for a second that the subject has not been informed about the reason, irrespective of whether it's valid or justified in your or my view.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
At the risk of participating in the latest round of "why were they banned?" discourse: I do not believe for a second that the subject has not been informed about the reason, irrespective of whether it's valid or justified in your or my view.
Impossible to describe the amount of yoghurt that is consumed by a household with a little baby getting started on solid food. I'm pretty sure that my süzme purchases are currently a major contributor to the wellbeing of the Anatolian economy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Impossible to describe the amount of yoghurt that is consumed by a household with a little baby getting started on solid food. I'm pretty sure that my süzme purchases are currently a major contributor to the wellbeing of the Anatolian economy.
Clapping like a seal at this www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... It is plainly impossible to stop this accelerating, since stupid ideas like "penalise people for errors of fact" casts the net too wide, and will act as a forcing function to increase the quality of submissions.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Clapping like a seal at this www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... It is plainly impossible to stop this accelerating, since stupid ideas like "penalise people for errors of fact" casts the net too wide, and will act as a forcing function to increase the quality of submissions.
@billhookunion.beanyear.com saw this on my mother in-law’s shelf and thought of you
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@billhookunion.beanyear.com saw this on my mother in-law’s shelf and thought of you
Referring to our departed cat, with whom – based on her unwillingness to wear silly frocks and her tendency to drag large objects into a corner for closer inspection – our daughter appears to be in constant psychic communication beyond the veil as her “big sister”.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Referring to our departed cat, with whom – based on her unwillingness to wear silly frocks and her tendency to drag large objects into a corner for closer inspection – our daughter appears to be in constant psychic communication beyond the veil as her “big sister”.
The replies to this post – undoubtedly one of the most serious I’ve seen on this web site – are pure blueskyism. Sublime.
This time will be different
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The replies to this post – undoubtedly one of the most serious I’ve seen on this web site – are pure blueskyism. Sublime.
Congratulations to the first Bluesky Elder to be elected mayor of a major metropolis.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Congratulations to the first Bluesky Elder to be elected mayor of a major metropolis.
Margaret Mitchell is a co-author of the only paper (Yes!! It’s Stochastic Parrots!! Again!!) these people “like” and quote in support of their endless screeching. The fact that she’s also on all of their “hecking sloperinos!!1!” blocklists tells you everything you need to know.
bluesky doesn't want margaret mitchell, who knows how neural networks work
bluesky wants people who yell about things
bluesky wants people who yell about things
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Margaret Mitchell is a co-author of the only paper (Yes!! It’s Stochastic Parrots!! Again!!) these people “like” and quote in support of their endless screeching. The fact that she’s also on all of their “hecking sloperinos!!1!” blocklists tells you everything you need to know.
Took the baby to the British Museum. She declared herself indifferent to “this whited sepulchre whose grisly ‘treasures’ bleed out everywhere from behind a genteel façade”, but she DID like this house post from Papua New Guinea, and what may be the world’s oldest, angriest goose.
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Took the baby to the British Museum. She declared herself indifferent to “this whited sepulchre whose grisly ‘treasures’ bleed out everywhere from behind a genteel façade”, but she DID like this house post from Papua New Guinea, and what may be the world’s oldest, angriest goose.
Hello from baby Mothra
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hello from baby Mothra
Fed the baby at rush hour on the 73, which promptly broke down. The quintessential East London experience.
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Fed the baby at rush hour on the 73, which promptly broke down. The quintessential East London experience.
Reposted by steph
Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is publication day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing!
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
@robin.berjon.com and my internet rewilding is there, 1st published by @noemamag.com
Guess who's also in it? @davidnaimon.bsky.social's heart-opening, genre-busting piece Eleven Stills, about organic and geological time.
Peepo! is one of the most emotionally devastating works of literature in the Western canon, and it isn't close. If you can make it to the last page without crying, there's something wrong.
[voice cracking]
Here's a little baby
One, two, three
Fast asleep and dreaming
What did he see?
[voice cracking]
Here's a little baby
One, two, three
Fast asleep and dreaming
What did he see?
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Peepo! is one of the most emotionally devastating works of literature in the Western canon, and it isn't close. If you can make it to the last page without crying, there's something wrong.
[voice cracking]
Here's a little baby
One, two, three
Fast asleep and dreaming
What did he see?
[voice cracking]
Here's a little baby
One, two, three
Fast asleep and dreaming
What did he see?
I don't know if I – personally – would be comfortable characterising AI data centre compute capacity as useful for "literally anything with floating point operations". I am not an economist, of course.
October 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't know if I – personally – would be comfortable characterising AI data centre compute capacity as useful for "literally anything with floating point operations". I am not an economist, of course.
If you're a Claude code user you can now use Claude to search your local Zotero library for journal articles, books, &c. (including full-text search): gist.github.com/urschrei/8e8.... This uses the new Pyzotero CLI which I just published. The CLI will grow new functionality over time.
Pyzotero local library search Claude skill
Pyzotero local library search Claude skill. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If you're a Claude code user you can now use Claude to search your local Zotero library for journal articles, books, &c. (including full-text search): gist.github.com/urschrei/8e8.... This uses the new Pyzotero CLI which I just published. The CLI will grow new functionality over time.
MIT Media Lab continues to cover itself in glo— well, it’s not glory, exactly.
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
MIT Media Lab continues to cover itself in glo— well, it’s not glory, exactly.
Very funny that Ben Bratton is purporting to have flung open the door of the giant criti-hype clown car that is preventing Europe from innovating (or something). He has presumably done this in the hope that nobody will notice that he was the one driving it. [spider man pointing meme placeholder]
October 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Very funny that Ben Bratton is purporting to have flung open the door of the giant criti-hype clown car that is preventing Europe from innovating (or something). He has presumably done this in the hope that nobody will notice that he was the one driving it. [spider man pointing meme placeholder]
It’s great that they gave a cartographer (Margaret Wickens!) a MacArthur! In announcing this, they misspelled “Leventhal”.
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s great that they gave a cartographer (Margaret Wickens!) a MacArthur! In announcing this, they misspelled “Leventhal”.
The (purported: you're fooling no-one) Béla Tarr Guys are going to be insufferable about this. It's going to be like 2009 all over again.
October 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The (purported: you're fooling no-one) Béla Tarr Guys are going to be insufferable about this. It's going to be like 2009 all over again.
Regional studies, quantitative human geography, cultural geography
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
October 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Regional studies, quantitative human geography, cultural geography
Reflecting upon the fact that I just blocked someone with 225k followers and ~100 mutuals because they’re incapable of even a shred of normality on this website. BlueSky’s self-appointed “power users” do not deserve the medium that lets them screech 24/7 abuse at the people who are building it.
October 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reflecting upon the fact that I just blocked someone with 225k followers and ~100 mutuals because they’re incapable of even a shred of normality on this website. BlueSky’s self-appointed “power users” do not deserve the medium that lets them screech 24/7 abuse at the people who are building it.
…with an original score by Dario Simonetti's GOBLIN.
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
…with an original score by Dario Simonetti's GOBLIN.