Heidi

@heidi2o.bsky.social

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data, policy, and feelings hobby collector

Book titled “Gentle Disclipline: using emotional connection - not punishment - to raise confident, capable kids” by Sarah Ockwell-Smith on a wood table with a matcha and sandwich
Book titled “Gentle Disclipline: using emotional connection - not punishment - to raise confident, capable kids” by Sarah Ockwell-Smith on a wood table with a matcha and sandwich
Four friendship bracelets with the text: Talk Data to Me, Open by Default, c’est la viz, and I ❤️ open data
Ilya: I know your mother is Japanese or something. Probably where you get your looks. Shane: Half of them, yeah. Ilya: And your dad is, what, boring? Is that where you get your boring from? Shane: He's not boring. Ilya: So, he's exciting, reading the New Yorker? Shane: He's normal, OK? He works for the Treasury Board of Canada. Ilya: Hmm. Crazy! Shane: Fuck you! He played hockey for McGill. Ilya: Whoa. McGill?
Black and white tattoo of two standing cats in togas based on Plato and Aristotle in the School of Athens painting. Plato is a long hair Siberian tabby and Aristotle is an orange short hair tabby.
A rolled up pant leg showing a calf with two cats in Greek togas one with a paw pointing up and one with a paw gesturing down
A maroon hand knitted dress with deep pleats
a popup from thomaswc.com: "You win!!"
Mishka, a fluffy brown tabby, snoozes on her side facing toward the camera, a hand holds her tail and back paw
Taylor Swift singing her song Majorie
A page of doodles about a fluffy tabby cat named Mishka titled “How to train your humans”
A stack of 6 zines with a doodle of a fluffy tabby cat frowning titled “How to train your humans by Mishka”
text: "Application Status: Awaiting Decision"
A black case with black headphones that has a copper trim
Cardboard box with a line drawing of headphones with text Sennheiser Momentum 4 Special Edition
4 lines of text with comments surrounding 1 particularly which was missing and broke the rest of the code
A screenshot of Obsidian MD showing knitting charts with a line of text showing the chart row in progress underneath. The first chart row reveals the calculation underneath: "Chart row: `VIEW[{back-count}%20]`", the second one shows the rendered calculation: "Chart row: 3"
a screenshot of frontmatter in obsidian with details of a knitting patttern, Aspen by Michele Wang
the user interface of obsidian, a markdown editor software, that is customized to be in lilac, showing a graph with linkages on the right side, and the main note containing links and embedded charts.
A bowl of tofu, peanuts, sesame oil, peppercorn oil, spicy chili crisps, soy sauce, and radish.
a screenshot of an obsidian vault themed in lilac, showing a homepage with an overview of the month of the month of august, at the bottom area a row of cards with images of book and article covers with everything that was clipped this month.
A screenshot of a rendered markdown note for the month of August 2025 with a quote: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." ~ Hannah Arendt
Nadja, a vampire, carries a doll animated by the spirit of her human body. They are in matching voluminous curly hair styles and wear a blue velvet bodice.
A white board with text “days since a throw up incident: 0” next to a drawing of Heidi holding a screaming fluffy cat.
Mobile view of a simple webpage with a graph showing semantic linkages describing a function
interface of obsidian showing a table summarizing all files in the vault and their class and subclasses
interface for obsidian showing a note with a graph of connections to other notes in the vault
a screenshot of the interface of the obsidian program in purple
An iPad showing a video of a smoking volcano and a work in progress knitting project in colourful fair isle patterns of blues, greens, purples, and yellows.
Twelve different colours balls of yarn spread out with a work in progress knitted cardigan project with just the bottom hem and first few colourwork rows complete. In the background a finished back of the same cardigan pattern representing a past attempt to knit this.
A pattern booklet showing a tapestry like sweater in rich reds, gold, blues, and greens and a work in progress knitting project on metal needles
A fluffy brown tabby cat posing regally with two paws crossed over a stick over her shoulder
The front and back piece of a work in progress sweater seamed at the shoulders made from squares of red, green, and yellow yarn, hung over the back of a wooden chair.
a work in progress knitted back of a sweater made out of a checkerboard pattern in green, yellow, and red
A yellow knit fabric with cabled textures in progress
A mustard yellow knit fabric attached to circular knitting needles to show a work in progress sweater.
A group of 6 people around a conference room table with their heads down working on their data art projects in large white poster boards.
An Italian sandwich wrapped in plastic wrap
snow covered train tracks of the Corso Italia station in Ottawa
A fluffy brown cat curled in a lap covered in a brown blanket.
An example of the data a model might see when being trained on language modeling. The model is provided some intput (in red) and asked to predict the next word (in blue). Of course, for a model like GPT, this data would be extracted from large corpus of documents. (Source: linked article)
A tabby cat lays on her side on top of a foot. A hand is around her middle, the arm has a tattoo of the same cat as a lucky charm.
The body of a sweater in progress with a pattern of green and pink squares
A microsoft teams meeting screen showing a notification that accompanies a binging noise that pops up in a meeting to indicate that someone is "Waiting in the lobby"
A visualization of the term "Agri-food Industry" showing connections to the French translation, the related terms, and the narrower terms.
a graphic interface of a notetaking app called obsidian showing a page with squares titled the name of a month in 2025 and the associated tasks.
a screenshot from obsidian showing the relationships between different entities in the subject of Art, Music, Literature. For example narrower terms describing the different forms of art.
A watercolour style digital painting of a grey tabby cat laying upside down on a yellow couch.
a watercolour looking digital painting showing a dark pink giant squid with 8 arms and 2 tentacles next to gold text saying "Merry Squidmas" the background is a light blue speckled with darker blue bubbles
a screenshot of a Jupyter Notebook file with a graph output showing "USA Total Testing Capacity" to confirm that the programming language Julia has been set up properly.
A desk covered by a keyboard, mouse, and an elevated silver computer with a black gear shaped logo on it. The keyboard is colourful and decorated by images of cats. The wrist rest in front of the keyboard shows the foreheads of three cats staring. In the corner of the desk is a plate of Chinese bakery buns (hotdog bun, pork floss bun, and portuguese style egg tarts) and a grey mug that is textured to look like it is knit with foamy coffee inside.
A digitally colored in image showing two girls having a sleepover, sharing a pink quilt. They are chatting animatedly under the warm glow of a lamp and the cool glow of the moon and stars in the big window.
A screenshot of an Obsidian vault showing the graphic view of the file "Adolescents" showing the connections to other notes in the vault.
a screenshot of a powerpoint presentation with an overview list of the contents open: 1 My journey into data, despite my best attempts to avoid it; 2 “Trust me, data is fun!” – figuring out caring and inclusive approaches to spreading the joy of data; 3 Experimenting with making data fun through arts and crafts; 4 Applying other lessons from art in digital transformation work – fixing the “rest” of the problems so we can keep having fun with data." Previews of additional slides can also be seen. The preview shows the pink colour scheme of the presentation and 2 photos of Heidi, one recent, one from when they were around 5 years old that appear at the beginning of the presentation titled "Analogue Tools for Digital Change: Teaching Data with Arts and Crafts".
Heidi wears overalls in a floral couch fabric. A demon cat lurks in the background with flashing eyes.
A poster board covered in disordered red scribbles.
A poster board with a small dot at the bottom, layers and layers of lines lead up to a calmer surface, a lightning strike radiates outward above the pressure point created by the dot.
Heidi is biting into a large coin with the map of Canada in red behind a virus.
A graphic advertising a blog post titled “I made data art with giant heads”