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rhi @rhi.party · 07/10/2026

RETVRN TO TRADITION

Struggle session photo with the big dunce cap

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rhi @rhi.party · 28/09/2026

"You'll love it, it's a sci-fi fantasy series that's like a video game but what if it was real?!"

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rhi @rhi.party · 27/09/2026

Scotch egg is a moon cake

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rhi @rhi.party · 25/09/2026

Skeeters of Abbotsford come see my band

Arbuckles at 33737 George Ferguson Way abbotsford Ocober 10th

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rhi @rhi.party · 23/09/2026

Oh yeah Ren Faire looks from the other day

Rhi dressed as an elf in red and Rachel in a piratey getup in front of a medieval looking tent

Rhi and Rach on a party bus, Rhi all elfed up

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rhi @rhi.party · 09/09/2026

I'm fully WoTpilled 🛞

Rhi's 4 star review of Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

"Ok, I get Wheel of Time.

Compared to The Eye of the World, Jordan's approach to pacing makes a lot more sense now that the wheel is turning. His world is monumental, with a million plates spinning at any given time. While that seems daunting, every new element is foreshadowed hundreds of pages, if not whole books, ahead of time, and the slow roll of the story gives the reader plenty of time to metabolize major changes before the next one arrives.

The Great Hunt is also significantly less derivative than Eye of the World (though not completely free of it, hello blue-eyed, clan-based, water-worshipping desert warriors forged in the crucible of the hostile desert, destined to be lead out of it by a messiah from the West...).

For the three boys, I feel like we got most of their character definition in the first book, with the Great Hunt hammers home their places in the story. Despite getting less of a word count, it's the girls who really get some development in this one, with their hogwarts shennanigans really helping to shape the characters.

The Great Hunt is spoils the reader in world-building, fleshing out tons of things just hinted at in the first book (see the previously mentioned million spinning plates). Getting to see how the Aes Sedai work, how different nations view and interact with each other, factions from off the edge of the map, multiverse stuff.

Not unlike the first book, the pacing really speeds up at the end, which I guess it has to but it does leave a few loose ends and unsatisfactory conclusions, but I guess that's just Jordan's style and once I'm onto book 3 I'm sure I'll forget all about it.

Really enjoyed the Great Hunt, I'm fully on board now! "

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rhi @rhi.party · 09/08/2026

So I did a thing 👰‍♀👰‍♀

Rhi and her wife Rachel in their wedding dresses with the mountains in the background

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rhi @rhi.party · 27/07/2026

Stressed but rocking my way through it

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rhi @rhi.party · 15/07/2026

Any time I bike west of Ontario street I become this much closer to getting an East Van Cross tattoo

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rhi @rhi.party · 12/07/2026

What's going on here

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rhi @rhi.party · 09/07/2026

Woke up with this birthmark

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rhi @rhi.party · 07/07/2026

I looked so dang cool at the first Lovely gig

Photo of a woman with brown hair and a velvet dress playing a knock off Ice Man by @patrickpowers6 on instagram

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rhi @rhi.party · 07/07/2026

Babies first academic journal publication 🤓

Screenshot of table of contents including "An Infinite Quantity of Intermediate Sexes: The Institutional
Status of Queer People in the Early Soviet Union" by
Rhi McGrath

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rhi @rhi.party · 01/07/2026

Officially closer to 40 than 30 ⚰️

A rapidly aging white woman with brown hair and a green dress and a big stupid hat

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rhi @rhi.party · 26/06/2026

every hometown's got the ominous megastructure... what's yours?

The Beast clock in Maple Ridge which is a big ugly robot horse that used to stand up and kick on the hour

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rhi @rhi.party · 25/06/2026

This is what reading Marx's Das Kapital is like

Eggs do not lay eggs it was the goose that created value

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rhi @rhi.party · 08/06/2026

I always think the logo for this paint company looks like it should be on a 60's propaganda flyer from a "Socialist Workers Party"

Graphic of paint can labled SWP pouring red paint over earth with text "cover the earth"

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rhi @rhi.party · 13/05/2026

They closed the feedback form for the Mount Pleasant data centre rezoning so here's the email I sent instead

I am a Mount Pleasant resident, and I am deeply concerned about the planned AI data centre for my neighbourhood. I'm sure you've heard plenty about the concerns around excess water use by data centres, especially in an area that gets regular water-use restrictions in the summer, and I'm sure you've also been made aware of the over-statement of the effectiveness of "closed cooling systems". There are also serious concerns about persistent noise that people forced to live next to these types of facilities regularly report.

The idea that this will somehow be beneficial for the economy of my neighbourhood in the medium-to-long term is also unconvincing, as aside from the benefits to the construction industry which would be present regardless of the type of building being renovated, data centres create very few persistent jobs beyond a few security guards. For the economy at large, AI has been credibly identified as a bubble based on wild speculation of the value of companies and over-estimations of increases in productivity in order to justify the aforementioned over-valuation. Beyond that, the idea of a "sovereign AI infrastructure" is an artificial arms race sold to countries by NVIDIA in order to sell more graphics cards, and in turn has led to companies scamming their governments with promised capacity in places like the UK. As a former worker in the tech industry and someone who follows this topic closely, what I see is the city wasting valuable resources on what will immediately be a warehouse full of expensive graphics cards fulfilling prompts created by other AI agents for the soul purpose of making it look like these companies are doing something, and will soon be a warehouse full of obsolete graphics cards.

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rhi @rhi.party · 13/04/2026

Is anyone else seeing the Motorized Patriot in the back

Motorized patriot from Bioshock Infinite

AI slop blob with what looks like two flags coming off its back

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rhi @rhi.party · 11/04/2026

How i take pictures of my roommates cat vs her dog

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rhi @rhi.party · 29/03/2026

I've never seen an album cover that changes vibe so drastically depending on the quality of the image

Summer side of life by Gordon lightfoot but high contrast and kind of freaky

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rhi @rhi.party · 29/03/2026

I been robbed. all my noggles gone.

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rhi @rhi.party · 22/03/2026

The four genders

Signs for washroom, triple O's, $5 beer $5 wine, carved roast beef, at a Vancouver Goldeneyes game

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rhi @rhi.party · 21/03/2026

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

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rhi @rhi.party · 09/03/2026

Thank God I didn't throw this out

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rhi @rhi.party · 07/03/2026

Unbelievable find

DVD of the awful dragonlance animated movie

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rhi @rhi.party · 18/02/2026

Sometimes I think about the swag on display on the album cover for Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request"

The rolling stones in wizard outfits on a fantastical dreamscape with a cool blue and white border

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rhi @rhi.party · 14/02/2026

I loved Nirvanna the band the show the movie

Rhi and rach in front of the nirvana the band the show the movie poster

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rhi @rhi.party · 11/02/2026

What is the Mechanical Turk? The scientists researching it aren't sure either.

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rhi @rhi.party · 10/02/2026

Where to cop the away jersey tho

Illustration of Chinese national hockey team away jersey

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rhi @rhi.party · 09/02/2026

Got some new toys in the mail today ⚔️

2 Haft Arms feder swords leaning up against a wall one with a pink handle and one with a green handle

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rhi @rhi.party · 06/02/2026

Mfw im dropping some tunes tomorrow 😏

A drawing of Rhi from the album cover of something

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rhi @rhi.party · 06/02/2026

I bet Martin Luther would be hyped to know that in 500 years Chinese people in the New World would be worshipping God in a building with his name on it

New Life Chinese Lutheran Church in Vancouver

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rhi @rhi.party · 02/02/2026

It was a slog at the start, really good in the middle, and a bit of a fumble at the end

3 star goodreads review

Look, The Eye of the World is really good when it's just doing it's own thing. Robert Jordan is great at writing tense situations and actions, and his world has some astounding breadth (if not depth). I'm looking forward to the next book. But the closeness with which this book follows the story beats of Fellowship of the Ring was seriously distracting. Like sure, all fantasy does it, but this was extremely "filed off the serial numbers" writing. I can see how the characters special traits are being set up for the next books, but everyone was pretty bland in this one, with Rand especially lacking main-character charisma. I also found Moraine extremely overpowered, which did allow the obstacles early on to be more extreme but it was a bit unsatisfying how they breezed through it.

The middle third of the book was really tight, once the characters got split up and we got to see their unique elements in a much more high stakes situation. Like I said, Jordan writes tension really really well, and the three groups getting chased through the wilderness was hard to put down. The descriptions of places were extremely vivid and evocative as well.

I didn't love the end, with the book spending so long focusing just surviving long enough to reach destination A and then suddenly changing to destination B. I feel like for the length of the book some of the stuff that's dropped in the last 100 pages could have been set up better (especially a couple villains who jump in right at the end, I found not having specific characters chasing the kids down seemed like a bit of an oversight early on).

Everyone says the series gets better after this one, and though I complain I liked this book more than I disliked it, but parts dragged or made me roll my eyes when I caught what Jordan was ripping off. Oh well, on to The Great Hunt!

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rhi @rhi.party · 12/01/2026

I found a NSBM band from Surrey BC and this graphic design is killing me. They couldn't even think to turn the sun on the BC flag into a sonnenrad. Shameful display.