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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

In retrospect, the signs were plain to see #four

Cover to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Going to call my dog Satisfactory Small Man from now on Source: fops.cloud/objects/b7a5ccd5-e5b5-46…

AI-suggested revision for the phrase “Good girl” — “Satisfactory small woman”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Every single time, I see this as a fish. Every single time.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Myturnmyturnmyturn! Finally showing available at my university library: The Psychology of Software Teams by @grimalkina . This is pretty much the entirety of my summer TBR pile.

pdf reader showing cover of Cat Hicks' The Psychology of Software Teams book

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

RIP Nikita Khrushchev, you would have loved Donald Trump

First paragraph from Globe & Mail article reading in part “President Donald Trump threw a summit of NATO leaders into disarray on Wednesday as he demanded the United States cut trade ties with Spain and made renewed claims on Greenland”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Pardon my #Frenchie. This is George, newest addition to our family, just adopted on Saturday.

A very ridiculous gray-coloured French bulldog

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?

Close-up of Canadian $20 bill, on which Elizabeth II’s face floats menacing and huge above the parliament building

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

Yknow what, I AM similar to Duran Duran. Thanks for noticing, #Bluesky!

Screencap of my account feed on Bluesky with a Similar Accounts callout from the app showing Duran Duran’s account

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Every day I think about how right that little gray dude was

Still from the Lord of the Rings movies, caption reading “WE’RE NOT IN DECENT PLACES”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Today's the day for my Kate's fantastic book *City of the Muse*! Out now, available everywhere in Canada and on Amazon and Barnes and Noble elsewhere. It's a really fun AND thoroughly researched dual-timeline #mystery: One part is set on a dig in early-20th […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Cover of Kate Hilton's City of the Muse. Caption: On Sale Now

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

The Guardian doesn’t identify which DHS spokesman responded to the resistance in MN by saying “This is beyond insane. Why would these labor bosses not want these public safety threats out of their communities?” But I’m choosing to believe it’s this guy […] [Original post on aoir.social]

The character of King George from the original cast production of Hamilton

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Man, I tell you what, there’s no king like a mad king

Globe & Mail headline / slug reading “Trump says eight European countries will face additional 10% tariff for rejecting U.S. control of Greenland U.S. President is scheduled to travel on Tuesday to Davos, where he likely will run into the European leaders”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

Stop sneaking weird shite into my manuscript illuminations […] [Original post on aoir.social]

Image of a nun harvesting phalluses from a tree in a medieval illuminated manuscript

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

If no one has yet described this phenomenon, I’d like to propose *stochastic enshittification*: Building on @pluralistic ’s stages of platforms’ 1) being nice to users, 2) screwing users for the benefit of customers, and 3) screwing customers for the benefit of […] [Original post on aoir.social]

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

It either currently means or is about to mean he is walking right up to them and slashing them. It also means we need to impeach and remove him asap.

NPR headline reading “Trump is slashing the number of refugees. What does that mean?”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Um, ordinary members of the public don't do that shizz

slug from The Guardian reading "Ex-prince Andrew should answer US questions on Epstein if asked, UK minister says: Chris Bryant says government welcome's king's decision on his brother, who is now 'ordinary member of the public'

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

“quite unlike anything in our collective experience”? Not quite. Not quite unlike. When we were in the camps some of the guards would specially favour those of us who sold out our fellow human beings to collaborate with them. Same/same. Correct response to the […] [Original post on aoir.social]

The Trump presidency seethes with hostility toward many different minority and subordinated groups. But Jews have been elevated to a special protected category, exempt from the lines of attack deployed against Muslims, non-Norwegian immigrants, women Trump deems unattractive, and so on and on. This special exemption poses a moral quandary for communally concerned Jews quite unlike anything in our collective experience. Jewish collective life in America has been built on the assumption that people who espouse any form of bigotry-whether against African Americans, or gays, or the disabled-will, sooner or later (and probably sooner!), also turn upon Jews. The famous Martin Niemöller poem begins, "First, they came for the socialists"; only in the third line do they "come for the Jews."

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

We are living in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Job listing on LinkedIn whose entire About the Job section is just the line “Reallocation 8025959 Albert Abel J N” repeated ad infinitum

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Gonna just Betteridge’s-law this one and move on.

Teaser for a Globe and Mail story with the headline “Is Pierre Poilievre okay?” By Robyn Urback, 4m read

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

#Walmart now telling me to kneel in supplication before them

Walmart ad reading “Give thanks for lower prices”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Haven’t yet seen a crowd estimate for today’s #drawtheline protests in Toronto, but it looked big to me.

Photo from amidst the crowd at the Draw the Line march in Toronto, with the AGO in the background

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

If you were thinking everything digital is crappy,

Ars Technica headline: “Distinct digits may have evolved by using DNA that makes the cloaca”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

31.5 quarts of canned San Marzano tomatoes from 2 bushels. It’s a *good* tired. I feel like we’re prepped for winter now.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

First batch of San Marzano tomatoes canned for the year. 3 more batches to go! 🍅

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

I’m sorry, we need to start offering Product Owners a living wage. Sixty dollars (or even sixty five!) is too little to get by on for a whole year these days.

Thumbnail listing for Product Owner job showing “CA $60/yr - CA $65/yr”

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

I mean, I don’t see how it could hurt. 🤔

Globe and Mail headline from Business section reading “Could being nosy, manipulative and reckless help your career?”

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