Stephen Urquhart

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Shiny!

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If you listen to Joe Rogan, unfollow me now. Or let me know so I can block your transphobic ass.

This.

So much fucking this.

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Oh, and the quality of his writing in these pieces? Dismal.

I hope that the 2012 members of the @usask.ca board are at least *now* embarrassed with their decision to name the College building after MacKinnon. It wasn’t wise at the time. And even more unwise now that the former president is squandering his legacy with all of his unlettered takes.

Bullshit.

The primary cause of autism is autistic people fucking.

The fundamental problem is lack of supports and empathy, not a ‘pathology’.

I forgot - elk stock for the soup.

Dinner tonight was a wild rice and mushroom soup - embiggened with dried bolette powder for extra flavour - and an open face sandwich of leftover mule deer roast and gravy. Very Saskatchewan hunt and forage … with the culinary magic of @varnam.bsky.social

Sometimes one wishes for a higher calibre of enemies. Because those two … Shesh.

Please stop showing Gretzky in the Canadian gold medal hockey coverage. He made his choices - he's not a quisling, but wants to be one.

If you’re going to come to my account with whataboutism about Neil Fucking Gaiman, I will block you.

I am not the courts. My opinions and actions do not need to rise to the legal standards of guilt.

LOOK AT THIS 18 YEAR OLD SWEET CAT

Yes. This.

Your premier is a putz. A putz who made his money on questionable retail sales. And then passing judgement.

The string version of Wrecking Ball on Bridgerton is making me pine for the French Revolution.

No, that’s just the fucking aristocracy. The music is quite ok.

May cat save the republic of Canada.

(And yes, I’m descended from united empire loyalists)

There isn't a moral imperative to dispose of your Neil Gaiman books through a used book store or donation.

They're your books. Recycling is an acceptable option.

Yeah, I’m doing active learning (POGIL) - a persistent feedback is how some students prefer passivity (I didn’t say *passive learning* as I’m suspect about the learning part).

A kind paternalism for better learning seems better than the smug paternalism of ‘we’ve always done it that way’.

Making fascists *uncomfortable* is an always a good outcome.

An image of a two-dimensional slice from a 3D CAT scan (not a ‘CT’ scan), showing a cross section of my cat Aziriphale’s paws. LOOK AT THOSE PEETS. LOOK AT THEM!

Our sweet cat Aziriphale has been professionally deemed on his way to recovery, without the need for surgery.

I managed to hold myself back from asking the vetmed resident about the number of angles used and the voxel size in the 3D reconstruction.

Stares in IBV.

Picture of a cat pile, of two brothers / littermates. On the left is Terry, a bratty and outgoing cat. He’s white and orange, with medium length fu. On the right is Aziriphale - also a white and orange cat with medium length fur, and currently wearing a fabric cone to protect his injured leg from grooming.

Gimped cat has a buddy, for therapeutic snuggles.

When I told @varnam.bsky.social that I wanted pancakes today, I was specific. Not pancakes with a bit of maple syrup, but ‘pancakes as dumplings’, with maple syrup as a soup.

I’m just gonna shut off my CGM alarms for a while

Well, it’s a good fucking thing that we’re adding more irrigation out of Lake Diefenbaker - and silting up the downstream in the process - and expanding coal mining in the rockies. Such good things to do when the amount of water flow declines.

I have a kinder interpretation - I've met of lot of dedicated professionals in that field, that do the best they can under bewildering direction and competing pressures.

But I've also seen enough 'bad' examples that would cause me to pull my hair out.

I am proud of my work to teach students how to write with proportion and accuracy.

I wish that the institution's PR was aligned with my commitment.

You might think that an institution applying for a repeat award would try to remove inaccuracies from the vendor's copy: reviews.canadastop100.com/top-employer...

You would think wrong.

Be the institution 'more concerned with external validation than internal reality' the world needs.

Velcro bunny

Given the frequency of neurodivergence in the faculty ranks (much higher than the population) and the fact that floating / open offices are TERRIBLE for neurotypical people, let alone for neurodivergent people, this 'notion' will either die quickly - or die slowly, and alienate everyone further.

Tiny garbage pail balanced on the edge of a recycling pail. Because how else can my employer show respect for the time an energy of its employees than by treating them like … whatever this is!

Go home, employer-supplied garbage pail. You’re drunk

It was fun explaining to my non-chemistry collaborators that the original deadline was pure fiction.