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Will Niver

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PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, pictured right

Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's not long at all -- 11 pages total -- and what I desperately want is one computer setting that stops this prompt from ever popping up in any of my apps again.

Adobe worries that an 11-page PDF is an overtaxing burden to read and has offered to summarize it for me.

Black text reading, "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant," appears against a blue background.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

not loving these hints

A screenshot from the publication "The Atlantic" showing two articles recommended specially for me entitled "Why We Lose Our Friends as We Age" and "You Might Be a Late Bloomer."

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The less you know about sports the more unhinged these ESPN headlines seem

Screenshot of ESPN.com headlines including:
"Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash"
"Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27"
"Hidalgo nears quadruple-double as Irish advance"
"Ole Miss QB Chambliss clears hurdle to play in '27"
"Sources: NBA presents 3 anti-tanking proposals"

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I've never put too much stock in these charts (false precision much?), but man if this doesn't just about sum it up. What a debacle. I refuse to even look at my bracket, but I guess I'm cheering for High Point now. Go... Methodists? Furniture makers?

A graph from the ESPN website showing each team's chance of winning the game, updated in real time as the game progresses. This match was between Virginia Commonwealth University (11 seed) and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (6 seed). The graph depicts UNC (up 14 points) as having a 99.1 percent chance of winning with 6:32 remaining. Against all odds, UNC managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This will never not get a small wry chuckle from me.

A screenshot of the score of the basketball game between Cal Berkeley and Southern Methodist University, which is in Texas. The game is being carried by the ACC Network, a television channel dedicated to covering the Atlantic Coast Conference. Neither California nor Texas are on the eastern seaboard, but counterintuitively, both teams are members of the ACC.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

On top of everything else, this except from a 2014 Ariely interview lands differently these days.

In an excerpt of a 2014 interview with Dan Ariely, the author gushes about how busy Ariely stays with so many academic engagements around the world, including meetings in London. In the next paragraph, one of the London meetings turns out to have been with Prince Andrew.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Whirlwind southern Vancouver Island bike trip: Swartz Bay > Duncan > Victoria > Swartz Bay. 48 hours, 110 miles, almost 6k feet of climbing. Excited to spend more time in the saddle in 2026 and maybe even properly train so that these trips aren't such a bear! 😂

A photo of Kinsol Trestle, also known as the Koksilah River Trestle, on a clear day. It's a wooden railway trestle located on Vancouver Island.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

There's undoubtedly some weird subtext here, but for me the kicker is placing the word news in scare quotes. The outlets in this screenshot are pretty well established, mainstream sites?

A screenshot showing but a tiny portion of the vast news coverage dedicated to AOC and the Met Gala dress House ethics panel findings

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@alliemullin.bsky.social would be fun to audit, wish this had been offered back in the day!

An ad for an American Studies college course focused on race, gender, and sexuality in horror

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Drink Guinness instead

A photo of that same dog's face somehow printed onto the foam of a pint of Guinness

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy hour is holding the line 🇨🇦

A page from my menu at happy hour. It's completely blank except for one sentence: "We are not selling American wine at this time."

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

One of my favorite posters. But yeah, we need to make this real, kind of like how Lego lets you submit ideas for future kits.

Jacobin magazine's "Guillotine" cover, designed by Remeike Forbes. Humorously rendered like IKEA instructions.

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Great minds!

A coffee mug emblazoned with a Swiss flag

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Finally watching The Penguin and wow, I get it now 👍

a photograph of Pingu, the titular character of a Swiss animated series that ran in the 1990s, and not a still from HBO's "The Penguin," as the post seems to suggest

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Will Niver @willniver.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Delilah recently had her annual checkup, and the vet's notes read, in part, "Sweet but nervous, likes EZ cheese, does not like needles," and honestly every word of that resonates.

A yellow lab named Delilah sits smiling in a couch

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