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Q. Pheevr

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“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.” “Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.” Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they q.pheevr.ca

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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 2h
For reconciliation to be possible, it’s not enough to acknowledge past harms; we have to stop committing present harms.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 28/09/2026
The Sounder Pattern of English
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 28/09/2026
Stronger Poison (or, for that matter, Strong Poisoner)
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 28/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band name: Unmarried Iron Person
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 28/09/2026
The punkining has begun.
A triangular flowerbed surrounded by green grass. In the flowerbed are various late-summer and early-autumn blooms, plus a bright orange pumpkin.Close-up of a planter with red and pink flowers, in front of which has been placed an assortment of small decorative gourds.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band: Foocubus Foocubus
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: The Nunees
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band: Talcrown Heads
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band name: Les del Río
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band name: Mx. Mx.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Gender-neutralize a band name: Kidz II Adults
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Masculinize a band name: Gentlemansmith Black Mambazo
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: Womanfred Frau’s Earth Band
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 26/09/2026
The snake has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 25/09/2026
Meta must be destroyed. If you have an account with them, delete it. If you have an app of theirs, delete it. Block all their sites on every system you have control over.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/09/2026
I’ve got to start remembering to stretch first.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 23/09/2026
Why the sodding fuck was there a Trump Avenue in Ottawa in the first place?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
technologyreview.com
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 21/09/2026
Yes, you should define your terms. However, once you’ve defined a term, you don’t need to repeat the definition every time you use it again within the same paper. #AmEditing
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 21/09/2026
youtu.be/mB5YDXFdwaE
youtu.be
Martha Argerich & Mischa Maisky – Max Bruch – Kol Nidrei, Opus 47, live Synagoge Görlitz Ausschnitt.
YouTube video by Lausitz Festival
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 20/09/2026
Antigonus:
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/09/2026
I can’t fathom why anyone would imagine a chatbot could provide reliable info about whether a Chinese ship is carrying components for nuclear weapons. Even if the bot has access to SIGINT and you’re using it to search/summarize… wouldn’t anybody with half a brain want to double-check the source?
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/09/2026
It’s bad enough to have academic decisions being made by bean-counters, but it’s especially humiliating and destructive when the bean-counters in question don’t even know how to count beans.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/09/2026
I had no idea the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was still allowed to utter the prefix cis-! www.space.com/technology/a...
space.com
The battlefield now extends all the way to the moon, U.S. military's highest-ranking officer says
"Today's modern battlefield operates from the seabed to cislunar space."
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 16/09/2026
Actually, I’m pretty excited about this antedating of the earliest previously known example of “smackaroonies”
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 15/09/2026
Rory Kinnear and a pig in a studio with black curtains and a couple of flatscreen video monitors on wheeled stands. The pig is standing in front of a bowl of food, facing away from the viewer. Kinnear, standing in the foreground, has his back to us as well, and appears to be looking at the pig.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 15/09/2026
Instead of waiting with the cars for the construction worker to turn the sign around from STOP to SLOW, I activated the most underrated superpower a cyclist has and morphed into a pedestrian.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 12/09/2026
The technology is new, but the tactic of manufacturing fake Indigenous personas to crowd out real Indigenous people is as old as colonialism itself. It is, however, something this technology is especially suited to—appropriation, decontextualization, and deceptive façades are the métier of ‘AI’.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible The Travelling Pillsburys
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 11/09/2026
ffs, nyt 🐝🔠⁉️
Screenshot of the New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game rejecting the word DICKHEAD
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 08/09/2026
Jenny Calendar.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 08/09/2026
Today I discovered, to my chagrin, that earlier this year I must have unwittingly abstracted a set of safety instructions from an Airbus A321. I apologize to my fellow travellers for having endangered them, and promise to be more alert henceforth when retrieving my belongings from the seat pocket.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 05/09/2026
I’m so glad I left Twitter, the site where the world’s most annoying dipshits garner engagement by posting inanities, and came to Bluesky, where people garner engagement by posting screenshots of tweets by the world’s most annoying dipshits and saying “Look how inane this is!”
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 04/09/2026
“Racists will be duct-taped and diverted to Thurgood Marshall” is a pretty good policy!
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 04/09/2026
Oh, so THAT’S why some of it is complete fucking garbage.
Screenshot: “Extended Language Quiz. Answer all 122 questions from the original Harvard Dialect Survey and 26 supplemental questions added by AI.. The map updates in real-time as you answer questions.”
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026
Check out the most-read articles from Canadian Journal of Linguistics 📚 cup.org/4ypytvH
Most-read articles from Canadian Journal of Linguistics
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 02/09/2026
We can take this further: commutativity should be defined such that an operator − is commutative iff for all values of b and p, b − p = q − d.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 01/09/2026
Okay, but I prefer having one I can carry around in my wallet to having one permanently inked on my dermis.
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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 31/08/2026
Pretty much everything I have to say about Lake Ontario. It's kind of long, because there's Backstory. There's so much Backstory.
erikas.online
The re-Renaming of Astana, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love? Relax about? Authoritarian Onomastics
literally no one: tokayev: i named my penis nursultan
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 31/08/2026
Sultans of Grunge
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 31/08/2026
Two snippets of boilerplate from the same misaddressed message: “If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately.” “Please don't reply to this email. This mailbox is unmonitored.”
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/08/2026
I really don’t know anything about the Flash beyond “He’s a guy who can run really fast.” But apparently he can also… hang around looking over your shoulder really fast?
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 22/08/2026
Picture Batman riding that wee orange subway. Banging his pointy bat ears on the doorframe as he boards the train. He’d go aff his nut.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 22/08/2026
Now, here’s a yacht that really puts the “mast” in “masturbation”.
The yacht Kaizen docked in Halifax Harbour on a summer evening, seen from the port side. It’s not the biggest luxury yacht I’ve ever seen, but it has a mast that’s taller than the whole vessel is long. (I looked it up—the yacht is 48½ metres long, and the mast is 59 metres tall.) The mast is supported by an impressive array of guy lines.The yacht Kaizen docked in Halifax Harbour on a summer evening, seen from the aft. The name of the yacht is painted on the stern in kanji (改善), then below that much larger in romaji. Below that is the home port Bloody Bay, CI. From this angle, the height of the mast is even more striking, because it’s nearly six times the breadth of the beam.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 19/08/2026
Human.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/08/2026
Cover of a Supraphon CD: Antonín Dvořák / Rusalka / Highlights from the opera / Beňačková · Ochman · Novák / Czech Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra / Václav Neumann.
The cover art is a highly stylized image of the moon behind pine trees surrounding a lake, all in glowing lavender hues. The Supraphon logo at the bottom depicts a crowned, two-tailed lion with a lyre.
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/08/2026
Me when people ride Bird scooters in the bike lane: 🙂 Me when people ride Bird scooters in the bike lane in the wrong direction: 🙄 Me when people park/abandon Bird scooters in the bike lane: 🤬
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/08/2026
Deleting some periods on the assumption that vowel durations were measured in milliseconds, not manuscripts. #AmEditing
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/08/2026
Got an e-mail inviting me to participate in a survey. Q1: What is your age? I clicked “Prefer not to say”. Survey: Based on your answers, we’ve determined that you’re not eligible to participate. Bye! If I’d known the question wasn’t optional, I might have been willing to answer, but… 🤷🏼
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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
trying to figure out who owned a long-gone favourite restaurant in Toronto led me to this site, which appears to be quite an amazing historical resource for restaurant industry information! (and yes, i found the answers i was seeking) Definitely bookmarking this for future use
chefdb.com
ChefDb: The Chef and Restaurant Database
The Chef and Restaurant Database is an ongoing project documenting over 100 years of chefs, restaurants and restaurateurs.
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