Stephanie Rieger
@stephanierieger.bsky.social
Design leader @Shopify (Taxes and fraud, oh my!) Finally back in Scotland! Cats. Books. Renewable energy tech. Skeptical optimist.
I’ve never so wanted to contribute to a kickstarter ☺️
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I’ve never so wanted to contribute to a kickstarter ☺️
UK TV is a veritable explosion of Christmas adverts 😳 They’re thankfully quite good, but there are an awful LOT of them…
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UK TV is a veritable explosion of Christmas adverts 😳 They’re thankfully quite good, but there are an awful LOT of them…
Amazing 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” 😳
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Amazing 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” 😳
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Yes.
YES.
YES.
First trailer for Sam Raimi’s new horror film ‘Send Help’ starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien
Follows two co-workers who hate each other getting stranded on an island after a plane crash
In theaters on January 30, 2026
Follows two co-workers who hate each other getting stranded on an island after a plane crash
In theaters on January 30, 2026
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Yes.
YES.
YES.
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Alaskan huskies are wonderful because the only consistent traits are big feet, pulls like a demon, likes a good chit-chat. After that, you basically get whatever the person in charge of making dogs felt like drawing that day.
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Alaskan huskies are wonderful because the only consistent traits are big feet, pulls like a demon, likes a good chit-chat. After that, you basically get whatever the person in charge of making dogs felt like drawing that day.
THIS!
Don't get mad: I'm going to port something work-related from LinkedIn over here.
1. Would you design your website, app or documentation differently if you knew the person using it would be feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by life? Or do you think those users are 'edge cases'?
1. Would you design your website, app or documentation differently if you knew the person using it would be feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by life? Or do you think those users are 'edge cases'?
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
THIS!
Someone in the British Airways check-in queue is carrying what looks to be an XL pizza 🤔
September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Someone in the British Airways check-in queue is carrying what looks to be an XL pizza 🤔
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Looks so very pleased with himself at the end ☺️
Never challenge a crow to a game of tic-tac-toe.. they will murder you
Names for the three-in-a-row game, around the world…
*Tic-tac-toe (US)
*Noughts and crosses (UK)
*Crosses and buns (Denmark)
*Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands)
*Sausages (Latvia)
*Cat (Mexico)
*Game of the old lady (Brazil)
*Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway)
*Pubic louse (France)
*Hobo chess (Sweden)
*Tic-tac-toe (US)
*Noughts and crosses (UK)
*Crosses and buns (Denmark)
*Butter, cheese and eggs (Netherlands)
*Sausages (Latvia)
*Cat (Mexico)
*Game of the old lady (Brazil)
*Tripp-trapp-tresko (Norway)
*Pubic louse (France)
*Hobo chess (Sweden)
September 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Looks so very pleased with himself at the end ☺️
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Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
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Since 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.
September 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Since 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.
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The 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.
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.
August 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The 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.
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.
“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.”
September 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“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.”
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“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...
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...
July 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“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...
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...
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The “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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The “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.
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Farage 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.
September 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Farage 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.
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Sand 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.com/energy/large...
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland 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...
newatlas.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sand 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.com/energy/large...
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We 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
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
We 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
Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇
#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere
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Owl and Bat netsuke — Hōraku, 19th century
August 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Owl and Bat netsuke — Hōraku, 19th century
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My 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"
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"
August 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My 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"
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"
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Solar 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.
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.
August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Solar 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.
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.
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In 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.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 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.
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"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"[email protected]
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...
The future is panels everywhere"[email protected]
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...
July 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"[email protected]
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...
The future is panels everywhere"[email protected]
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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"What we want from the butcher, the brewer & the baker are beef, beer & bread, not for them to be fabulously wealthy shop owners. What China wants from BYD & Jinko Solar are affordable EVs & solar panels, not Trillion-Dollar Market-cap stocks."
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August 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"What we want from the butcher, the brewer & the baker are beef, beer & bread, not for them to be fabulously wealthy shop owners. What China wants from BYD & Jinko Solar are affordable EVs & solar panels, not Trillion-Dollar Market-cap stocks."
asiatimes.com/2024/07/chin...
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asiatimes.com/2024/07/chin...
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Heat Stress - have you experienced a #heatwave in 2025?
Find out how heatwaves and coldwaves have changed across the world with @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new application
Thermal Trace. 🌡️⚒️🧪🛰️🌍
Check out the new application here:
thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Find out how heatwaves and coldwaves have changed across the world with @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new application
Thermal Trace. 🌡️⚒️🧪🛰️🌍
Check out the new application here:
thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
August 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Heat Stress - have you experienced a #heatwave in 2025?
Find out how heatwaves and coldwaves have changed across the world with @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new application
Thermal Trace. 🌡️⚒️🧪🛰️🌍
Check out the new application here:
thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Find out how heatwaves and coldwaves have changed across the world with @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new application
Thermal Trace. 🌡️⚒️🧪🛰️🌍
Check out the new application here:
thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu