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".
A foul night in the Irish Sea. “Near gale”, indeed.
🔎 Observations at 30 Nov 2025, 22:00 UTC
💨 Wind: 31.2 kt @ 191° (Gust: 41.0 kt)
🌊 Wave Height: 2.3 m (max 3.8 m)
🔁 Wave Period: 5.4 s @ 186°
🌡️ Air: 11.2 °C | Sea 13.0 °C
📊 Pressure: 1000 mb
💨 Wind: 31.2 kt @ 191° (Gust: 41.0 kt)
🌊 Wave Height: 2.3 m (max 3.8 m)
🔁 Wave Period: 5.4 s @ 186°
🌡️ Air: 11.2 °C | Sea 13.0 °C
📊 Pressure: 1000 mb
M2 Buoy - Marine Institute
Real-time observations from Irish Weather Buoy Network
www.marine.ie
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A foul night in the Irish Sea. “Near gale”, indeed.
RIP Tom Stoppard. A good innings.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. A good innings.
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
In the same way that each new year heralds the promise of "Linux on the desktop", so too does each new COP herald the promise of muscular, effective action against "the fossil fuel giants".
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In the same way that each new year heralds the promise of "Linux on the desktop", so too does each new COP herald the promise of muscular, effective action against "the fossil fuel giants".
Naturally we have Story Time before bed. Some notes on Beatrix Potter:
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: perfectly pleasant;
The Tailor of Gloucester: easily one of the most beautiful Christmas stories in the English canon;
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan: deranged psychosexual fever dream. 6/10
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: perfectly pleasant;
The Tailor of Gloucester: easily one of the most beautiful Christmas stories in the English canon;
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan: deranged psychosexual fever dream. 6/10
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Naturally we have Story Time before bed. Some notes on Beatrix Potter:
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: perfectly pleasant;
The Tailor of Gloucester: easily one of the most beautiful Christmas stories in the English canon;
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan: deranged psychosexual fever dream. 6/10
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: perfectly pleasant;
The Tailor of Gloucester: easily one of the most beautiful Christmas stories in the English canon;
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan: deranged psychosexual fever dream. 6/10
I‘m going to do some corpus analysis (corpus tbd, but it exists) to find out which journalist or SpAd (depends on the day – Ed) is responsible for popularising the phrase “across the detail” in relation to policy. When I discover their identity there will be the devil to pay, and no pitch hot.
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I‘m going to do some corpus analysis (corpus tbd, but it exists) to find out which journalist or SpAd (depends on the day – Ed) is responsible for popularising the phrase “across the detail” in relation to policy. When I discover their identity there will be the devil to pay, and no pitch hot.
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.
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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.