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Ayliean

@ayliean.bsky.social

Mathemactivist and Craftamatician. Constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! 🌈✨ I do nerdy things on the internet, and β€œreal life”

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Oh noooo, I don’t think @wordle-tetris.bsky.social can pull it off today!

We need a word with 4 green one blank…

Having stayed up past midnight, like a badass, I have insider info that it’s just not gonna be possible with today’s Wordle answer.

We can start again tomorrow πŸ₯²

08.03.2026 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aww thank you, hope you enjoyed it! It’s been a thoroughly rough week of isolation but at least I’ve been keeping this covid to myself πŸ˜ͺ
I know Stagehand Sophie will have done an amazing substitute job!

07.03.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Wordle screenshot with the words minty salad early ovary glass and bogus

Wordle screenshot with the words minty salad early ovary glass and bogus

Yusss I got a snap with the wordle tetris bot!!! One point to me 😁

07.03.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ACAB: Always Carry A Book! πŸ’–βœ¨

06.03.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I did a β€œmaths yoga” session at Big Maths Jam a few years back and haven’t stopped thinking about how that would be such a nice career ever since!

05.03.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy 1 year since this! #worldbookday

05.03.2026 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Game 2 day 10
High score: 0

Score: 1

πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”² DOING
πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”² BLOCK
πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”² LAMPS
πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”² WOUND
πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”²πŸ”² CRAIG
πŸ”²πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸ”² CHEFS

04.03.2026 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fun fact: it’s me that writes the Maths Gear newsletter!

It comes out on average once per month (you’ll have to sign up to find out which kind of average)

03.03.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So glad you enjoyed the show!
@standupmaths.bsky.social still has plenty more tour dates upcoming if you want to see me be play the role of Stagehand Ayliean✨

It’s your only chance to catch me wearing all black!

03.03.2026 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The layers of nerdery here πŸ˜… let me explain…!

@wordle-tetris.bsky.social is day by day showing the frames of a Tetris game played on Wordle

and does-it-glider.com is one of my fave weird internet artefacts, where you run your wordle score through Conway’s Game of Life to see if it forms a gliderπŸ€“πŸ’—

25.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Tetris Wordle game 2 is going strong, but the real question …

DOES πŸ‘ IT πŸ‘ GLIDER? πŸ‘

25.02.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A Wordle screenshot showing clump, minty, react, great, plump, tacky. The yellow squares light up in the shape of a zigzag Tetris piece

A Wordle screenshot showing clump, minty, react, great, plump, tacky. The yellow squares light up in the shape of a zigzag Tetris piece

This was my attempt at today’s Wordle Tetris (definitely not done at 15mins past midnight)

25.02.2026 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooooh day 2 of Wordle Tetris is going well!

Also, lil bonus game, you can do your wordle as normal and then attempt wordle Tetris manually - I didn’t match with any of @wordle-tetris.bsky.social words but I did manage to make the Tetris frame!

24.02.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

T’was a heroic effort to ROTATE THE L, but alas!

24.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tetris played on Wordle!

I love what’s going on over at @wordle-tetris.bsky.social

24.02.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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23.02.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 266    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 12

It’s too good, I thought this was an actual cardboard collage!

24.02.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shape nerds ASSEMBLE!

(In an icosahedral symmetry formation)

22.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s how maths’ll getcha! And then after a while you wonder if anyone actually uses these words, but you do now, so you become the perpetuator of this obscure maths vocab!

22.02.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh definitely send me a link to that! I’m working my way through shapes wolfram alpha mentions as having Eulerian paths because they could be done with one balloon whereas things like a cube couldn’t

22.02.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh that is so cool! I’m just a humble maths nerd in it for that shapes but it’s always fascinating to learn what they do in the β€œreal world”

22.02.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks πŸ₯° do shapes like this ever come up in protein folding?

22.02.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Small Rhombicosidodecahedron if u even care.

I know it can be made with a single (incredibly long) modelling balloon because every vertex only has four lines coming from it, so it has an ✨Eulerian path✨

22.02.2026 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Not sure what phase of my life I’m in, but here’s that modelling balloon icosidodecahedron nobody asked for!

In theory it could be made out of a single modelling balloon, although in reality they don’t make balloons long enough :(

22.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Well that’s none of my bismuth

06.11.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a weather app saying the sun will set at 12:36

Screenshot of a weather app saying the sun will set at 12:36

Screenshot of a weather app for Pitlochry saying the sun will set at 16:38

Screenshot of a weather app for Pitlochry saying the sun will set at 16:38

Screen shot of a weather app for Orient saying the sun will set at 16:28

Screen shot of a weather app for Orient saying the sun will set at 16:28

What mistake has happened in my phone to make it tell me the sun is going to go down at 12.36pm in Dundee today?!

All the other locations are showing the normal depressing time of 4.30ish!

29.10.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

The @ima-maths.bsky.social seems quite proud they invited BAE to speak at their conference.

I am so so disappointed that an institution which normally funds sweet creative maths projects and supports maths communities has chosen to platform BAE Systems which produces munitions used in genocide.

16.10.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

16 red squares in total!

30.09.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My cute sausagey dog in a car looking bemused as I hold out a puzzle cube themed dog toy. The cube shows three yellow pieces around one corner, two red central cubes and two identical edge pieces.

My cute sausagey dog in a car looking bemused as I hold out a puzzle cube themed dog toy. The cube shows three yellow pieces around one corner, two red central cubes and two identical edge pieces.

Nice try human, I’m not wasting time solving that impossible cube.
Treats now.

30.09.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not too late for the @ima-maths.bsky.social to un-invite them or just entirely bin that conference all together.

It is possible to take a stand, not doing so would be a choice - maths is not neutral.

29.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0