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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got a teaching level up today.

Picture of HAGOROMO chalk in a box and in a chalk holder. It is really that nice.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chanterelle soup. Yes, it is that good.

Two bowls of chanterelle soup on a table, with a glass of wine in the background.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Everytime I hear someone use the phrase ‘vibe coding’, my brain starts humming the chorus of The Fate of Ophelia. Sometimes my brain makes connections as flaky as a token-deprived LLM.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hey @aircanada.bsky.social - there’s a word for when you claim that the flight has left, but it’s still at the gate. It’s called a ‘lie’. Delays happen and that’s completely understandable - safety and bag loading matters. But making fake claims is not showing but respect for customers.

A screen capture of the Air Canada app, indicating a 12:50 departure time. It’s 13:08 and we’re still at the gate. Which is fine, but don’t lie!

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This SWEET BASTARD CAT has the nerve to enjoy deep REM sleep on the couch next to me and @varnam.bsky.social … while disturbing my sleep in the middle of most nights. He interprets my middle of the night motion as an opportunity to demand PETS and LOVE.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jacob Tierney was cheated out of a co-directing credit for The Odyssey . How else could a naked cyclops take up 200’ of screen space and not flash his genitals even once?

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the 18 year old cat demands snuggles, you snuggle.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There’s a Merlin circling our neighborhood tonight. Tiny, but the cats are still staying inside.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Many former users of the Synchrotron Radiation Center [sic] in Stoughton Wisconsin may find themselves inexplicably cheering for Norway today.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

From a gentle afternoon walk. Not pictured: skunk, fox, grey partridge, sound of grouse, deer and moose beds. Oh, also ticks.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Happy Saskatchewan big-game lottery day, for those who celebrate!

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Melvyn Rudd's memorial survived last spring's fire.

A broken wooden cross memorial for Melvyn Rudd, who was killed by a bear in Narrow Hills Provincial Park in 1983.

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Nadya Voynich @nadyavoynich.com · 05/06/2026

To avoid burnout, use this 30/30 rule: After 30 min of work, quit and disappear into the mountains for 30 years. Happy Friday! #buildinpublic #startuplife #hiking #mountains #nature #productivity

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I wish my employer’s HR would use plain and direct language. WTH is a ‘pulse survey’? Why is HR asking about lentils?

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If we have a blizzard tonight, don’t blame me for having an Aperol drink outside this evening

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My friend @grrrl.bsky.social is now Doctor Rebekah, having done an amazing thesis on teaching and values!

A very meta picture of DOCTOR Rebekah Bennetch and her supervisor, Debbie Pushor, being photographed at @usask convocation

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Maybe they should have played Hollander? Too soon?

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I do not have a sword, but I packed my EDC pocket knife in my checked luggage. #obscurepostsofbluesky

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is exactly the time when a school of arts - any school of arts - should be promoting the security of their Canvas.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Environment Canada is replacing its emergency weather radio … with this.

The famous Smeaton Weather station. A picture of a rock, next to a sign that reads ‘if the rock is wet … it’s raining’

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hudson’s bay is considered an epicontinental sea, as it lies on the continental crust rather than the oceanic crust. Be it resolved: Meath Park is an epicontinental sea

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Go home, SaskParks. You're drunk

Screen capture of the temporary annual permit ... where the bar code does not appear. But it won't be replaced!

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ok Carney. You’ve got your majority. You can be a liberal now.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Maybe they’re just Apollo re-enactors. Space-SCA?

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

You know that the astronaut seated at the back of the capsule is already standing up in the aisle.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I take a 5 minute break from exam writing and this happens.

A photograph of the poster, sitting on a couch, being glommed aggressively by three cars. An elderly calico cat sits on their lap, and two Turkish Van boy cats sit to their right.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

There’s always a risk when you swap the skis for wheels on the luggage.

A picture of a snowy parking lot, where my luggage plowed a path behind me.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Astronauts are just like us.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The prevalence of fossil fuels in our economy is not an accident - nor is it the result of political malevolence. Gasoline and diesel combine a high energy density with easy handling and transport (as a liquid) - which allow extended and remote use, and quick ‘recharging’.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

In ‘climate change’ news, I’m designing and 3D printing a frame that will hold a HEPA filter mesh over a camper window, so we can safely hide out inside the camper l when the winds shift and the skies turn orange again this summer.

Smoky sky last August - Narrows Marina, PANP.

Pictured here of Canada geese at the edge of the board walk at the edge of the water. On the otherwise of the narrow straight are boreal forest trees - jack pine and black spruce. The sky is full of smoke, and the photographer is pissed off at the inaction of politicians.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Only in the NDP would the ‘leadership candidate capable of winning their seat’ be considered the ‘establishment candidate’.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I had to pause Shorsey to bring you this.

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The use of the word ‘alleged’ is a choice, CBC.

Screen capture of a CBC news story: ‘Robert mueller, 9/11-era FBI chief who later probed alleged Trump-Russia ties, dead at 81’

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Stephen Urquhart @urk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

@pamdowne.bsky.social nails so many great ideas here - about the reality of change and culture in academia. We’re leading change, in case you hadn’t noticed. Needs to be required reading for university administrators and those leading ‘planning’ exercises. usaskfaculty.ca/wp-content/u...

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