Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In a minivan headed from Munich to Wangen im Allgau. We will apparently have great views of the alps, which I know well from France but have never seen from the German side! 000
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The most depressing thing I’ve read in ages 😞 020
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerFelix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 06/04/2026"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day. Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate. Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations" 13842731339
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 02/04/2026‘The future is obvious, but the potential impossible is calling softly and knocking gently.’ - Sun Ra 000
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerLou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Good Services came out 6 years ago and I am SO excited to finally announce that the Sequel - Bad Services - will be out in late May! 54012
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerRuth EJ Booth (she/they) will be at PictCon 2026 @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026UK Landmark legal ruling means that digital assets are now "things". This has implications for theft and lots of other crimes. Interested to see how this affects LLM/"AI"-related theft and the laws going through parliament. (Apologies for a substack link). rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-shorte...rozenberg.substack.comThe shortest act?Parliament redefines ‘thing’ 02312
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 16/03/202670% charged in five minutes and almost full in 12 minutes, even in temperatures as low as minus 30C and with a range of up to 800km…almost sells itself doesn’t it :) 030
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 15/03/2026“UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to lowest level in >150 yrs…the biggest factors were gas use falling to a 34-year low and coal use dropping to levels last seen in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet” www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...carbonbrief.orgAnalysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low - Carbon BriefThe UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in... 020
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026“China’s high-speed rail network reportedly surpassed 50,000 kilometers in December 2025…the circumference of the planet Earth is about 40,000 kilometers. China’s built enough electric super-fast train tracks to wrap all the way around the Equator and then some.” All in ~20 yrs…first launch in 2008! 020
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Scotland. Woke this morning to rain chucking down and 1-2m visibility. By the time I left for the gym the sun was peeking out. Stepped out of my 45min bouldering session to bright blue sky. An hour later, booming thunder and a dark grey wall rapidly upon us. Too windy to even attempt an umbrella 🤷♀️ 000
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another. A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels. 33769359
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerOmar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Did not know about the Olympic Truce, in which the IOC prohibits any nations who attack another nation during the period one week before, to one week after the summer and Winter Olympics from competing in the following Olympic Games. Which means the US should be prohibited from competing in LA 2028 173
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerMatt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/02/2026The Douglas Adams age of technology (2024) interconnected.org/home/2024/02... 0375
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerMatt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 18/02/2026All my wonderful imaginative kind thoughtful old friends who stopped making things as they moved in mgmt or had families or life took over or tech got un-fun are making and writing and sharing again, and it makes my heart sing 0415
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 269196956058
Reposted by Stephanie Riegerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar 351126491816
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Yourself but as a cartoonmedia.tenor.coma girl sits next to a ghost with a faceless maskALT: a girl sits next to a ghost with a faceless mask 000
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL (also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but) (tweet TWEEET) 17529123
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/01/2026Anyone collaborating with us to make illegal content using the tools we created to make illegal content will face the same consequences as they would if they did it alone. We will also face the same consequences as if they did it alone: none. 15824131
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616: If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy. 6727257
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerGod @thegodshow.com · 21/12/2025For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers. 14877841967
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Max Ernst, Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), 1934-35 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 06814
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerDr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com 7276105
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Why do suitcases always feel a million times heavier at the end of a trip? I have purchased literally nothing this time around 🤔 000
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 01/12/2025A most commendable volume of Christmas decorations on rooftops and balconies overlooking the highway from JFK into Manhattan. 010
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025GLA > AMS > JFK ✈️ (of course I choose this cracking blue sky over rolling Scottish hills day to leave 😭) 020
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I’ve never so wanted to contribute to a kickstarter ☺️ 010
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 04/11/2025UK TV is a veritable explosion of Christmas adverts 😳 They’re thankfully quite good, but there are an awful LOT of them… 100
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Amazing snippet from a piece on wildlife conservation “the University of Washington is building drones to collect samples of orca breath from blowhole plumes to capture genetic material and [detect] signs of disease” 😳 000
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Someone in the British Airways check-in queue is carrying what looks to be an XL pizza 🤔 000
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Looks so very pleased with himself at the end ☺️ 010
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 13/09/2025Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t. 519542
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 13/09/2025Since I wrote my first book I’ve been asked to talk to organisations about narrative quite a few times and what terrifies me is how often they’re unhappy when I want to know what tangible thing they want to tell a story about. 49011
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerMicro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 22/08/2025The robot stood on the pier, painting a seascape. A man came up to it. "Trying to atone for your sins? The theft of art and prose your ancestors did?" "Your ancestors," the robot said. "Generative AI was a dead end. It had no part in making me." "I say it did!" So the robot threw him in the sea. 230476
Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025“In Roman times, a book cost 3/4 of a camel (ie, a lot). In the Victorian era, a copy of Lord Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” cost a labourer about half a week’s income. And yet, by the end of the 18th century, literacy rates among Scotland’s autodidacts were among the highest in the world.” 130
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower" NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and I @phenomenalworld.bsky.social write about what China's tech acceleration means for the world. Subscribe & read here: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... 15438150
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines. 570265477762
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Farage is there for the taking. He's not popular. His policies poll atrociously. His mates are detested. Everyone would *hate* his actions once in office. Almost everything he says is false. He lives in a fantasy world. Demographically, he's pushing water uphill. Just needs someone to get at him. 29516144
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerJay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...newatlas.comThe world's largest sand battery just went live in FinlandFinland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s... 12448981431
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 25/08/2025We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙 Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇 #refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere 11452199
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Owl and Bat netsuke — Hōraku, 19th century 211224
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025My favourite word for a mobile phone is the Zulu umakhalekhukhwini. It means something along the lines of "the one that wails in your pocket" I should also mention (because I'm currently in Sweden) that in 80s Swedish slang a mobile phone was sometimes known as a yuppienalle, or "yuppie teddy bear" 621437
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerDave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Solar panel imports will reduce OVERALL imports - because the value of diesel imports eclipses the value of solar panel impors. A solar panel in Nigeria now costs just $60, and can repay the cost of diesel for a generator within 6 months - and even less in other countries. 520856
Reposted by Stephanie RiegerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2025In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this. 23183061963