iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Teaching herself about dogs in a way that is highly representative of her personality

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”.

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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 · 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 · 21/08/2026

Theo! www.theo.be (the website seems to show only the more…daring colour combinations. I assure you mine aren’t). I was also interested in Hoffmann Natural Eyewear (hoffmann-eyewear.com/en/) but unsure how I feel about horn as a material.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

I thought all economists love him. Historians might feel differently, of course.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Theo agrees with you; here she is hanging out with her barnacle goose friends yesterday.

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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 · 09/08/2026

I will be teaching my daughter how to program her haunted house the “old-fashioned” way, thanks to this book I found in our rental.

A book which promises to help you to help your child with programming, written by Carol Vorderman

Instructions on programming a haunted house using Python

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Come to an island in the Stockholm archipelago where the nice baker took the young lady to meet the giant kitty she spied, nodding approvingly at the resulting squeaks of joy. Also everyone drives heavily modded cargo trikes and nods a friendly hello to you and your child.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

No, but she can mimic a crow perfectly. No, we don’t know where she learned it, and it’s frankly nobody’s business but her own, and perhaps the crows’.

A poster asking whether your child can sing, promising a bright future as a chorister, and of course a good Christian education.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

You can just do things: for instance, you can visualise the impact of July wildfires in Europe and North America on air quality using calibrated sensor data available on ATProto.

Maps of Europe and North Anerica showing each sensor station's peak modified PM2.5 z-score over the date window. It shows where the air quality was unusual for that location.

Rows are the two event regions, each paired with a control region on the same continent: Iberia & southern France against the rest of Europe, the Great Lakes & Upper Midwest against the rest of North America. Left column (log scale, µg/m³) shows the 95th percentile of daily station means. Right column (linear, %) shows the share of stations in the region above that guideline on the day.

Iberia and Southern France: PM2.5 distribution and anomaly count

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Come to the National gallery, where the security guards will laugh while your child does this

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

I chose an opportune day to add AirNow readings, it looks like.

Classified PM2.5 values across Europe and North America (and some other parts of the world euphemistically described as “overseas departements”)

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh to be a little baby having a morning nap in the botanic gardens, surrounded by exotic flora and kindly retired women.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

And of course this isn’t evidence but…

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

Travelling with my Struwwelpeter tote so the locals know I’m “one of them” (someone whose childhood was marked by nightmares about having their thumbs cut off with a giant pair of scissors. Otherwise completely normal.)

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

This is Mr Clickle-Clackle. His japes are much-beloved by my daughter. We find him unsettling. Worse, he has a twin, as yet (perhaps thankfully) unnamed.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

I do this for a living, as the bard (Vincent in Collateral) had it.

A circle I drew. It is as close to perfect as I dared to make it.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

This evening’s mystery is how my daughter’s little yellow dress made its way from VEB Kinderoberbekleidung in Freital (www.archiv.sachsen.de/archiv/bestand…) to the Oxfam on Thomas St, in Dublin. It must have been manufactured before 1990, since the VEB became a GmbH in 1990.

A little girl wearing a yellow patterned dress. Her face is obscured by the emblem of the German Democratic Republic. LANG ANHALTENDER BEIFALL

A clothing label that reads VEB Kinderoberbekleidung Freital

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

It’s a recipe for instant happiness.

A search of the Aubrey-Maturin corpus showing instances of the word “rigged” in context. In the Navy, a sloop may be ship-rigged, y’see.

These sailors are hungry, or “sharp-set” if you prefer.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 27/04/2026

The frontier models are very good at enabling my special interests.

A screenshot of a specialised search application: it is designed to search the Aubrey-Maturin corpus for phrases of interest, with fully tunable parameters for various kinds of fuzziness, result length, grouping &c.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 25/04/2026

My daughter chases a seagull which is probably about her size. It being a university seagull – MA (Dublin) – it easily evades her.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

The hexagon is the largest regular n-gon that admits a tiling of the Euclidean plane, which is, I think, all that needs to be said concerning this afternoon’s announcement.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

Mistook this for something we were going to buy for the child on Vinted for €7. Apologies Jonathan, I was not familiar with your game.

A fine JW Anderson knitted piece, playfully depicting a Georgian facade.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 10/02/2026

No, the "Next" link stays greyed out when I click "Publish as Looseleaf" (see screenshot). I'm authenticated to leaflet using my ATproto (eurosky.social) account. Happy to share DIDs / anything else.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 13/01/2026

[desperately trying to rile up everyone on Bluesky] This is how every white-collar job is going to end up.

A robot mowing a cricket pitch, framed by neo-geothic architectural features and some winter-bare branches. Admittedly a rather heavy-handed metaphor.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 08/01/2026

The new office affords an excellent view of the apparently spectral tour guides. The living are but the latest casualty of university cost savings.

An apparent ghost telling some tourists about a building.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026

My child points approvingly at art, an occasional series.

A baby pointing at a Picasso, at the Sammlung Rosengart

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026

@aodhbc.bsky.social in answer to your question: they are very much still at it, and in new and “creative” ways.

An advertising billboard offering innovations in regional fast food offerings.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026

Magical in Leitrim this morning

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 01/01/2026

A pleasing regional dish-washing programme variation.

A dishwasher menu implying that it can clean fondue / raclette, in possible defiance of the laws of physics.

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steph @urschrei.eurosky.social · 27/12/2025

Modern computers are fast. I've just finished a first pass of the geo crate's new Voronoi module: it can read and process 2.69+ million valid UK postal address code centroids to generate a Voronoi diagram, and write the resulting geometries to disk in under 10s. tangled.org/strings/did:...

A subset of the Voronoi diagram generated from all valid UK postal address codes. You can see the Voronoi cells picking out the undulations of the Thames river.

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