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Ayliean
@ayliean.bsky.social
Mathemactivist and Craftamatician.
Constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! 🌈✨

I do nerdy things on the internet, and “real life”
What mistake has happened in my phone to make it tell me the sun is going to go down at 12.36pm in Dundee today?!

All the other locations are showing the normal depressing time of 4.30ish!
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The @ima-maths.bsky.social seems quite proud they invited BAE to speak at their conference.

I am so so disappointed that an institution which normally funds sweet creative maths projects and supports maths communities has chosen to platform BAE Systems which produces munitions used in genocide.
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Nice try human, I’m not wasting time solving that impossible cube.
Treats now.
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I don’t think that @ima-maths.bsky.social should be inviting speakers from BAE Systems to speak at their conference when BAE manufactures weapons which are used by Israel in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

That sounds like Maths being complicit to me.
September 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It’s ya girls first ✨producer credit✨

Here is the video youtu.be/eqyuQZHfNPQ?... it has all your favourite maths hits: triangle number, square number, cube number, 45 pin bowling…

I am very proud of it 💗
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Okay, now I’ve found their “Bagpipe Practice Room” I think Scotrail might just be having us on!
August 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Whisky Distillery”
On a train?! How? @geofftech.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I can’t quite explain it but something about describing a country’s birth rate in “births per woman” feels really misogynistic.

(As well as the obvious erasure of NB n trans peeps who give birth)
July 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’ve been doing so much stuff lately but I never get time to reflect or share!

Here’s a mini documentary I made about the recent free Community Meal we organised, using veg from a local growing project :)

Tryna live as if it’s the first day of a better world 🌍💗✨🦀
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How many Howie Hua?

Only one Howie Hua.

According to Google AI. How did it count?

(@howiehua.bsky.social’s fun subitising resources “how many” are so great for low barrier prompting of mathematical discussions)
July 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Spent my 12345th day on Earth processing sea grass for a re-wilding project at Loch Craignish. It was awesome!

All the sea grass is safely planted now and hopefully soon there will be a sea grass meadow habitat 🌱🦀🦭🦑🌊
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today is my 12345th day on Earth! 🥳

And look at what my van did in celebration (an hour and twenty early) 🚙

I don’t remember being 1, 12, 123 or 1234 days old and I probably won’t make it to 123456 days - so it’s time to celebrate!! 🌈💗✨
June 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Gutted I can’t go to this screening tonight!

The anti-immigrant crowd are planning some get together in Dundee on Saturday so if you want to show them that racism and fascism isn’t welcome then come along and take up the space :)

@foodnotbombsdundee.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Three consecutive hours of high energy Maths Communication done! ⭐️

Complete with modelling balloon Octahedron on a stick

As the only Platonic solid with <2 odd nodes it is the only one which can be made by a single modelling balloon

I will now be retreating back into the woods 🌲🌳🌈💗✨
May 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yes, technically right now I am in a beautiful Scottish mountain stream.

But in half an hour I will be sat at my desk ready to do some fun Maths live streams over on Parallel.

Tonight’s topics:
6pm 3D Shapes
7pm Tiles and Tessellations
8pm Graph Theory

Pop in and say hi!
May 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tonight, 7pm we premier Matt’s Say The Prime debut!

It’s a wild 5 minute ride of number fun. Come along, I’ll see you in the chat :)

youtube.com/@saytheprime
May 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This train journey I’ve been experimenting with Truchet-Like tiles for representing base 10 numbers. Fun squiggles :)
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
You can use classroom skills at protests to build community 💗✨

(and stop the government sliding us into fascism)
April 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Another day, another tadpole cat drawing.

Moby and Steven, my greatest tadpole cat drawing challenge yet. How do you draw an all black cat as a tadpole without them just looking like a tadpole?
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Another day, another tadpole cat.

Trans women are women 💗
Trans men are men 💙
Trans rights are human rights 🤍
April 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Marylebone is listed as having 3 escalators and as you can see in this screenshot it has one of each variety: up, down, and out of order.

Since there are more than two stations with an odd number of escalators, you can't enter the underground system ride each escalator exactly once and then exit :(
April 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Kitten Loaf Tadpoles!
April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When I was in NYC I also kept a page in my notes of all of the fauna I saw!
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And I know they came from these eggs because I watched them form their lil gill frills in these eggs!

Am I about to grow 400 pet dragons?
April 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Last Wednesday the ✨ephemeral pond✨ looked like this:

Which is so frog spawn to me, the forbidden boba!

(thank you @canopyrobin.com for teaching me the phrase “ephemeral pond” I looove it)
April 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM