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Stephanie Rieger

@stephanierieger.bsky.social
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Product design leader, ex-Shopify (taxes and payments and fraud, oh my!) Finally back in Scotland ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cats. Books. Writing. Renewable energy tech. Skeptical optimist.

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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The alien poster and tagline. A couple words and a picture was all it took to fascinate and horrify me. ☺️ Didn’t see the film itself until years later.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 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!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wow. Somehow didn’t expect all those robots! My family is from haute savoie so to us opinels have always simply been kitchen knives for cutting bread and cheese or peeling potatoes. We had favourite ones that were so old the blade had worn down, which somehow made them even sharper ☺️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think they did a deal with A&W a while back. We kept running into Costa vending machines at gas stations in Vancouver 🙄 Last year as we were planning our move back to Scotland Pret coffee cups started appearing in our Montreal neighbourhood. I think we tracked that down to A&W as well 🤷‍♀️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WTF?!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Montreal was the same. Huge cycling town with great infrastructure included protected cycle lanes, but a lot of disregard for stop signs, traffic lights etc :(
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I can see how it can appear an easy answer to all sorts of problems. Not sure what an equitable and plausible solution would actually look like 🤔
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🤷‍♀️🙄
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The most depressing thing I’ve read in ages 😞
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
FYI - got it working fine on my computer but it loaded in the muted state and I had to turn that off. On my phone (iOS with Chrome) the un-mute button is missing so that may be the problem.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There doesn’t seem to be any audio on the livestream 🤔
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I don’t recall seeing them as a child. Makes me wonder if they’ve always been there or are a more recent addition to the region 🤔. There used to be lots of swans though!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the top 10 feet in the animal kingdom!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
You are seriously making me wonder why I haven’t been there in 15 years.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Cute secluded spot to read a book and take a dip maps.app.goo.gl/bqynhjikt2Ys... and the main harbour (sail boats, fancy hotels with restaurants, lovely views) maps.app.goo.gl/1egFZKEZNcuQ...
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It is! And the water has always been that clear. Comes down from a glacier. If you have a car, there’s a lovely little town called Talloires midway down the eastern bank with windy little streets, a small harbour, and some secluded places to swim. Spent most of my childhood summers there!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Wow! You’re in Annecy ❤️ That’s where my family is from :)
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
😂😂😂
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ooh! That looks like it could be an early Sony Clie prototype. The Clie was amazing. Still have mine kicking around somewhere. Such beautiful hardware design.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Felix 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"
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Yay! Congratulations @bethkesh.bsky.social ❤️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
‘The future is obvious, but the potential impossible is calling softly and knocking gently.’ - Sun Ra
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The comment thread below it is also pure internet gold. ☺️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
No special preference tbh. I think it would depend on the story. I’m curious, why the question for science fiction specifically?
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Post of the week.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
That’s simultaneously so random and specific ☺️
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Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Good 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!
A green book that says Bad Services: How to fix services that don't work
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) will be at PictCon 2026 @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
UK 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...
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The shortest act?
Parliament redefines ‘thing’
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
70% 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 :)
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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-...
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Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low - Carbon Brief
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in...
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
❤️❤️❤️ haven’t been on this platform much the past 6 months but overjoyed to see him again, all grown up!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Looks like good rock for bouldering ☺️
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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!
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Honestly don’t understand what else they expected 🤦‍♀️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Honestly don’t understand what else they expected 🤦‍♀️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Scotland. 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 🤷‍♀️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It’s cloudy so I just assumed it was Scotland ☺️
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Not quite there today in Scotland, but was definitely earlier this week! ❤️
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Over 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.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Cryogenic Sheldon travelling through space, somehow still managing to annoy the hell out of his synthetic caretakers 🚀
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How else will you build your future audience? Lifetime value is limitless!
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Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Did 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
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 22/02/2026
The Douglas Adams age of technology (2024) interconnected.org/home/2024/02...
It is absurdly improbable that you can hoover up the internet, shred it, then talk to the mulch pile and it talks back.
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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 18/02/2026
All 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
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Followed! Thanks for the recommendation ❤️
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'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.
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Stephanie Rieger @stephanierieger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I’m so looking forward to finally seeing the Outsiders exhibit! Been following you since you started working on the project. Lived in Canada at the time, so never expected I’d be in the right place at the right time. But now I live in Glasgow 🎉
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