Q. Pheevr
“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.”
“Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.”
Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they
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- Roald Dahl, 1954. “The Great Automatic Grammatizator.”
- Text-to-speech synthesis has made great progress (from “barely intelligible” to “almost natural”). It’s a valuable accessibility tool when hiring a human reader would be unnecessary and prohibitively expensive/time-consuming. But it’s no substitute for the human art of reading aloud.
- Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- Today’s typical early-summer Nova Scotia weather forecast says, in part: “High 27 except 13 along parts of the coast.” Which parts of the coast? I’d like to be along them, please. weather.gc.ca/en/location/...
- Reposted by Q. PheevrSo far the most effective way I've found to get students to not use ChatGPT is to say, "you can use it if you want to; if you do, here is the list of things you should do to make sure that it doesn't embarrass you" & then have them write a reflection about their choice
- TIL: Asphalt has a Tiffany problem
- Intermediate Phalanxduggery
- I guess it’s a good thing to have an American pope, because apparently that’s what it takes for some Americans to realize that the Pope is a human being who does a bunch of normal human things.
- Released in Canada under the title A Fistful of Toonies
- Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Nefourrk
- There are two people outside my office window wielding weed whackers in close two-part harmony. This is not ideal for my ability to concentrate on the paper I’m supposed to be revising.
- Silly me, I thought the ROM was in Toronto, but apparently it’s in Segovia.
- Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. Deux Cent Quatre-Vingt-Huit Pointe Blank
- Hey, semanticists, what’s your favourite way to derive the collective–distributed ambiguity of the phrase ‘population growth’? 🐦🐦
- Alas, the people who call themselves “gender-critical” never mean by it what I think it should mean, which of course is that one’s gender has achieved sufficient mass, compactness, and refinement to produce a self-sustaining chain reaction.
- Okay, this is basically a perfect summer day; the only thing worrying about that is that it’s only the end of April. It doesn’t need to get any warmer than this, thank you very much.
