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@urschrei.eurosky.social
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Alleged geographer at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. A reluctant polygon enthusiast, I occasionally work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms usw., which I promise almost never to discuss.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12h
Quite bleak that most of the people I’ve seen posting that “who holds up the Internet”…thing are academics. Did you not notice that it’s so obviously LLM-authored that I would be quite confident guessing the exact model that spat it out? Do you regularly read student-submitted work?
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
How is it possible to write Declare, but also this? Much to consider.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
“They’re here before…” and other apparently endearing things old ladies on the bus say about your child which in fact imply that they are changelings from beyond the veil &c. I’ll have you know she received her forbidden knowledge telepathically from the cat, like all babies.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Somewhat surprised to find myself having joined Anthropic’s war on the Pope on the side of the Pope, but here we are.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
All I will say about today’s MacArthur announcement is that I didn’t realise that “After Geoengineering” was a Verso book.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
The internet continues to amaze, part whatever: a culturally hyperspecific part of my childhood (Spaghettieis), something I haven’t really thought about for the better part of 35 years, has suddenly become a topic of discussion on both Bsky and Mastodon.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
MOBY’s app and data are so unreliable that I spent the afternoon setting up minute-resolution ingest for the whole network; instead of screaming at them I’m gonna build a time-varying birth-death Markov chain model (based on Gast et al, 2015) about it. I just want a bike for 10 minutes, twice a day.
dl.acm.org
Probabilistic Forecasts of Bike-Sharing Systems for Journey Planning | Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
nw
Columbo Season 3, episode 2, “Any Old Port in a Storm”.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
@gracekind.net does alignment solve this
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy to announce that Bluesky-the-social-network mostly exists to facilitate my ATproto research, and it isn’t close. The more Americans scream at each other about politics, the more synthetic-fur enthusiasts post things my client blurs, the more Brazilians – you guys also post a lot! – the better.
lexicon.garden
dev.sensorthings.observationBatch
ATProtocol lexicon schema by sensorthings.dev
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
The Duchess of Malfi: what am I, chopped liver?
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Teaching herself about dogs in a way that is highly representative of her personality
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent, excellent, news.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Walking into my building and interrupting the tour guide chirping “and when you enter, you’ll be greeted by two skeletons who—” by loudly yelling THEY HAVE NAMES
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Got some free wooden “educational toys” for the child from the university freecycle group. There has been some speculation that the previous owner was using them to “teach undergrads about fractions”.
Wooden shape toysNumbered wooden blocks
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026
I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.
Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Gauzy, innocent memories of seeing several people I (formerly) followed – all working in the sciences – posting earnest, restrained statements about donating 10 % (or something) of their salaries with Coefficient Giving, and feeling vaguely concerned by the language being used.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
This is absolutely incredible. Just wonderful.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Probably the worst thing about the advent of the smartphone is that it killed Nokiawave as a genre, which in turn hastened the demise of Gitanes Maïs.
Jean Reno as “Vincent” in John Frankenheimer’s seminal Nokiawave masterpiece “Ronin”, blasting a dart.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost flawlessly correct over two years ago, and growing asymptotically more correct with each passing day.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
The Aer Lingus app has informed me that it now has an “AI Chatbot” called “Erin”. Presumably a Clippy-inspired Leprechaun named “Paddy” was considered insufficiently on the nose.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
shoutout to my haters, I couldn’t have done it without you
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
APRIL — 1987 JACQUES DELORS IS MASTER OF EUROPE only some kind of proto-internet stands before him Dublin is now…Clonmel?
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
I am not particularly excited to find out what’s going to happen to the geospatial software ecosystem in the short term given that its most essential developer and maintainer (Even) has gone on (apparently indefinite) strike. If you depend on GDAL to do your work you should perhaps pay attention.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Unsubscribing from an academic listserv, just to feel something. Goodbye forever CRIT-GEOG, I should have done this eight years ago.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
@davidcrespo.bsky.social I just got the robot to adapt your prose plugin to work with Typst docs. Took about ten minutes and works perfectly. I am clapping like a seal.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Some news: I have decided to throw up geography – and the infernal computer – instead returning to study for a B.Litt. under Gabriel Turville-Petre. That this work will have to be undertaken in 1953 is a mere detail and I don’t see why it matters. I cannot divulge the subject, for secret reasons.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Sorry to hear of Frank McDonald’s death. The city will miss him.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
Why yes that is Caslon. Thank you for noticing.
A screenshot of a concordance app for the Aubrey-Maturin novels.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
This morning’s Sesame Street episode (0493) contained a segment about a postman in Appalachia delivering the mail on horseback, with a banjo soundtrack. Easily the best two minutes of TV I’ve seen in years. My daughter agreed, though she allowed that the presence of Elmo would have improved it.
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Sesame Street: Mailman in Appalachia
If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at http://www.sesamestreet.orgT...
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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New German Critique has the Digital Theory Lab's Semiotic Machines special issue forthcoming, featuring a collection of essays by people at the cutting edge of AI and interpretation, politics, and culture ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu
New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
I think that this should replace Zachary’s Karate Club as the canonical dataset for intro network analysis. It should be available as a NetworkX module.
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Malkintrash @malkintrash.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
A map of where and how people in London started collective childcare projects, campaigned for childcare, organised for better working conditions or tried to make childcare more inclusive, from the late 60s. Now mostly gone or under threat: childcarehistory.org.uk/map/
childcarehistory.org.uk
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Childcare histories
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
As a new semester lurches ominously into view, one’s thoughts are inevitably drawn to important matters, neglected during the long vacation: a perfectly formatted module introduction, containing introductory material and assessment instructions of crystalline clarity. Nothing could be misunderstood.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
Ah, there we go; the rain.
sensorthings.dev
Phoenix Park: Rainfall Rate
25.1 mm/h · 27 Aug 2026, 19:00 UTC · Met Eireann
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Doing a new bit where whenever we see another stroller I point it out to the child and authoritatively remark “she is madly overpressed with sail”.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
I am genuinely thrilled that much of the Flock material I incorporated into lectures earlier this year will have to be revised in light of Events.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New post: why was everyone freaking out about Daron Acemoglu? Was it all just character assasination by AI shills and Jeffrey Epstein’s friends? Is he actually The Real Deal? And what’s the deal with settler mortality, anyways? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/extraordin...
someunpleasant.substack.com
Extraordinary Machine
I am joining the war on Daron Acemoglu on the side of Acemoglu
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
A small child is an infallible weapon in your arsenal if you wish to enquire about any aspect of a dog. I have just deployed my daughter in order to determine all there is to know about a passing Kerry Blue from an owner who would make Flurry Knox appear to be the very soul of kindness. Sucker.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
“De Gaulle film turns into surprise hit with younger viewers” is a very funny headline
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
This is very thorough. It will be interesting to see whether any of the historians (here, and elsewhere) who took issue with Tillie Walden’s book respond to it.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Ug can’t believe the BFS gag was right there. Pathetic.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Saw an ad for a pop group called “A*teens” who presumably have beef with despised rivals D\I\J\K\S\T\R\A
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
My daughter has graduated to art theft, apparently.
A young lady attempts to steal Canaletto’s “The Piazza San Marco, Venice” (1742)
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
Apparently warm again in Dublin today
sensorthings.dev
Casement: Air Temperature
28 °C · 12 Aug 2026, 10:00 UTC · Met Eireann
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On the off chance you're relying on OSF to store your data; put copies of it somewhere safe ASAP. I like to think they've got the runway to keep storing things like they suggest, but it wouldn't be the first time something like this went dark on the internet. www.cos.io/osf-changes
cos.io
OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
I probably said the same thing last year, but the Vasa museum has easily one of the most ghostly auras, from the outside alone. You can see it, hulking, across the harbour from Moderna Museet, the masts of the ship protruding from the roof.
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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
I see @irishtimes.com quoting from a source that is obviously generated by Claude: “That risk was entirely mine to carry, and I knew it when I booked. Yet Delta is now considering a partial refund on a flight I never took due to a risk I chose to take.” @conorpope.bsky.social surely someone noticed?
irishtimes.com
A ‘cold, spreadsheet-driven’ Aer Lingus response to a young woman’s ‘freak accident’
Woman says rival airline staff ‘visibly shocked’ by Aer Lingus attitude after spinal injury requires urgent trip and repatriation
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