Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 2hFor reconciliation to be possible, it’s not enough to acknowledge past harms; we have to stop committing present harms. 122
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 25/09/2026Meta 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. 120
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 23/09/2026Why the sodding fuck was there a Trump Avenue in Ottawa in the first place? 220
Reposted by Q. PheevrEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From @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.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 8345192
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 21/09/2026Yes, 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 070
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 21/09/2026youtu.be/mB5YDXFdwaEyoutu.beMartha Argerich & Mischa Maisky – Max Bruch – Kol Nidrei, Opus 47, live Synagoge Görlitz Ausschnitt.YouTube video by Lausitz Festival 010
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/09/2026I 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? 120
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/09/2026It’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. 171
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/09/2026I 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.comThe 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." 050
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 16/09/2026Actually, I’m pretty excited about this antedating of the earliest previously known example of “smackaroonies” 150
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 15/09/2026Instead 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. 170
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 12/09/2026The 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’. 040
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 08/09/2026Today 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. 031
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 05/09/2026I’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!” 280
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 04/09/2026“Racists will be duct-taped and diverted to Thurgood Marshall” is a pretty good policy! 020
Reposted by Q. PheevrCambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026Check out the most-read articles from Canadian Journal of Linguistics 📚 cup.org/4ypytvH 011
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 02/09/2026We 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. 100
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 01/09/2026Okay, but I prefer having one I can carry around in my wallet to having one permanently inked on my dermis. 100
Reposted by Q. PheevrDr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 31/08/2026Pretty much everything I have to say about Lake Ontario. It's kind of long, because there's Backstory. There's so much Backstory.erikas.onlineThe re-Renaming of Astana, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love? Relax about? Authoritarian Onomasticsliterally no one: tokayev: i named my penis nursultan 043
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 31/08/2026Two 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.” 171
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/08/2026I 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? 120
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 22/08/2026Picture 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. 0124
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 22/08/2026Now, here’s a yacht that really puts the “mast” in “masturbation”. 282
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 18/08/2026Me 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: 🤬 080
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/08/2026Deleting some periods on the assumption that vowel durations were measured in milliseconds, not manuscripts. #AmEditing 051
Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 17/08/2026Got 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… 🤷🏼 070
Reposted by Q. Pheevrcageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 16/08/2026trying 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 usechefdb.comChefDb: The Chef and Restaurant DatabaseThe Chef and Restaurant Database is an ongoing project documenting over 100 years of chefs, restaurants and restaurateurs. 0198