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My little bit of curve appeal is done! My local guild is challenging our membership to quilts with curves, and this is mysubmission. Have you tried sewing curves? #quiltinginnovascotia #curveappeal #mmqg @_maritimemqg #imrpov #improvquilting
February 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I don’t usually keep track of how long it takes for me to make a quilt. I can tell you tho that it takes me approx 45 minutes to assemble each of these blocks. #mqgsewalong2026 #mmqg #quilting #quiltsky #modernquilting
May 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
this whole scene hits incredibly hard today. I can't believe i didn't see this episode in 1992 even when I was an avid Trek fan. if i had it might have changed my life.

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Star Trek: TNG - "The Outcast" - 'I Am Tired of Lies' Scene
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September 16, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Yeah, overall not the best episode, but that rial scene gets me every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqG...
Star Trek: TNG - "The Outcast" - 'I Am Tired of Lies' Scene
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June 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
05 - get the picture - smash mouth

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Smash Mouth - Hang On (Closed Captioned)
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September 7, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Liberation for neurodivergents

Liberation is always embodied, relational, and accessible to those willing to inhabit complexity. MMQG teaches that neurodivergence is a heightened aperture through which the depth of this constant may be lived.
Liberation for neurodivergents
Liberation is always embodied, relational, and accessible to those willing to inhabit complexity. MMQG teaches that neurodivergence is a heightened aperture through which the depth of this constant may be lived.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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November 22, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Meditation as stillness, mindfulness as presence, Qi Gong as embodiment

Meditation in MMQG cannot be understood as a mere technique for relaxation, nor as a consumerist wellness product to make the exhausted worker more compliant in the machine of productivity. It is not a way of emptying the mind…
Meditation as stillness, mindfulness as presence, Qi Gong as embodiment
Meditation in MMQG cannot be understood as a mere technique for relaxation, nor as a consumerist wellness product to make the exhausted worker more compliant in the machine of productivity. It is not a way of emptying the mind so that it can return cleansed and ready to resume the rhythms of capitalist time. Rather, meditation as practised and taught in MMQG is an ontological act of refusal, an insurgent insertion of stillness into a world that demands perpetual motion, acceleration, and a constant re-assertion of one’s place within hierarchies of competition.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Foundations of Divergent Attunement / Part 1

To begin any discourse on meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong within a framework appropriate to neurodivergent embodiment, one must first abandon the architectures upon which conventional praxis is constructed. MMQG In the normative formulation,…
Foundations of Divergent Attunement / Part 1
To begin any discourse on meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong within a framework appropriate to neurodivergent embodiment, one must first abandon the architectures upon which conventional praxis is constructed. MMQG In the normative formulation, meditation is a stabilising gesture, mindfulness is a cognitive hygiene practice, and Qi Gong is a kind of light exercise conjoined with breath control, used to soothe an overactive system or rehabilitate a body assumed to be malfunctioning.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Attention as Liberation – MMQG through Mindfulness

The contemporary discourse of mindfulness is plagued by a profound reductionism, one that has transmuted ancient practices of radical presence into commodified self-help techniques designed to make workers more productive within the very…
Attention as Liberation – MMQG through Mindfulness
The contemporary discourse of mindfulness is plagued by a profound reductionism, one that has transmuted ancient practices of radical presence into commodified self-help techniques designed to make workers more productive within the very structures that exhaust them. The term “McMindfulness” has come to symbolise this degradation, the emptying out of depth and transformative power in favour of shallow exercises promising calm and efficiency while leaving untouched the systems of oppression, exploitation, and alienation that generate suffering in the first place.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Historical continuities: from Indian dhyāna (ध्यान, meditation) to Buddhist mindfulness (सति sati, awareness) and Daoist Qi Gong (氣功, energy work)

To begin a tracing of historical continuities is to enter a dense web of philosophical, spiritual, and embodied traditions that stretch across…
Historical continuities: from Indian dhyāna (ध्यान, meditation) to Buddhist mindfulness (सति sati, awareness) and Daoist Qi Gong (氣功, energy work)
To begin a tracing of historical continuities is to enter a dense web of philosophical, spiritual, and embodied traditions that stretch across continents and centuries, yet remain stitched together by an undercurrent of shared existential urgency. At the heart of MMQG (Meditation, Mindfulness, Qi Gong) lies not a synthetic invention, nor a hybridised bricolage of Eastern and Western techniques, but a living synthesis that acknowledges three ancient currents: Indian…
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September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Germany urge players to avoid political statements at World Cup https://mrf.lu/MmQg
May 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Here's my Let's Try of the #Demo of Mega Man & Bass: Queen's Gambit (PC), a 8-bit #MegaManClassic #Fangame, in-development by Team MMQG. #Gaming

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Let's Try Mega Man & Bass: Queen's Gambit (Demo)
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December 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today, it's #MegaManMaker viewer-submitted levels & discussing gaming topics!

And during a break, I'll be sampling the demo of Mega Man & Bass Queen's Gambit by Team MMQG.

Afterwards, I'll feature some art from the Discord server. #MegaMan #MegaManClassic #Gaming

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Let's Play Mega Man Maker - #787: Viewer Submitted Levels (LS #347)
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November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Transmission and Presence: The Pedagogy of Embodied Knowledge

Transmission, in its deepest ontological sense, is not the transfer of content but the radiation of presence. In traditions that anchor their pedagogy within embodied praxis—internal martial arts, Zen, and the contemporary articulation…
Transmission and Presence: The Pedagogy of Embodied Knowledge
Transmission, in its deepest ontological sense, is not the transfer of content but the radiation of presence. In traditions that anchor their pedagogy within embodied praxis—internal martial arts, Zen, and the contemporary articulation of MMQG (Mindfulness, Meditation, and Qi Gong)—the act of teaching unfolds as a field of resonance rather than instruction. This field of resonance constitutes an intersubjective topology where consciousness communicates with consciousness without mediation by conceptuality.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Final post of this series: A vision of MMQG as a seed for post-capitalist, post-domesticated learning communities,

The question of how humans might learn once the scaffolding of capitalism and domestication finally erodes is not a hypothetical in some remote future. It is already present as a…
Final post of this series: A vision of MMQG as a seed for post-capitalist, post-domesticated learning communities,
The question of how humans might learn once the scaffolding of capitalism and domestication finally erodes is not a hypothetical in some remote future. It is already present as a living possibility in the interstices of our daily lives, especially wherever the practices of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Qi Gong have been woven into the single insurgent fabric of MMQG. These three streams, braided yet never collapsed into a monolithic method, form a continuously self-renewing ecosystem of attention, embodiment, and energetic presence.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
MMQG as Resistance against Capitalist Education and the Infrastructures of Control

The landscape of contemporary education is inseparable from the machinery of capital. Across continents, curricula are standardised to optimise for labour-market compliance, while testing regimes reduce human…
MMQG as Resistance against Capitalist Education and the Infrastructures of Control
The landscape of contemporary education is inseparable from the machinery of capital. Across continents, curricula are standardised to optimise for labour-market compliance, while testing regimes reduce human learning to metrics that feed predictive analytics and investment portfolios. Surveillance platforms harvest student data as a raw resource for profit. Even the rhetoric of “lifelong learning” is harnessed to the growth imperative, recasting curiosity as an endless race to maintain employability.
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September 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Spiral of release and the cosmological imagination

The experience of transmission in MMQG unfolds beyond the limitations of verbal instruction, beyond the constraints of conventional curricula and the linear logic of time imposed by dominant educational and professional structures. When one steps…
Spiral of release and the cosmological imagination
The experience of transmission in MMQG unfolds beyond the limitations of verbal instruction, beyond the constraints of conventional curricula and the linear logic of time imposed by dominant educational and professional structures. When one steps into a space defined by meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong, the body itself becomes the primary medium through which knowledge, attention, and resistance circulate. In this context, the practitioner is not merely a passive recipient of abstracted concepts but an active node in a living network of perception, intention, and subtle energetic exchange.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Future horizons in MMQG

We are no longer within the terrain of mere comparison between meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong, nor even in the careful articulation of their synthesis as MMQG. We are now tasked with something bolder: to envision how this unified praxis can generate futures,…
Future horizons in MMQG
We are no longer within the terrain of mere comparison between meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong, nor even in the careful articulation of their synthesis as MMQG. We are now tasked with something bolder: to envision how this unified praxis can generate futures, communities, and ways of being that do not yet exist, but which are latent within the present moment.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The triadic structure as a fractal pedagogy – part 3

To move into today's post 8 requires us to inhabit a paradox. On the one hand, we have already unfolded MMQG as a living synthesis of meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong, showing how each tradition, stripped of capitalist domestication and…
The triadic structure as a fractal pedagogy – part 3
To move into today's post 8 requires us to inhabit a paradox. On the one hand, we have already unfolded MMQG as a living synthesis of meditation, mindfulness, and Qi Gong, showing how each tradition, stripped of capitalist domestication and institutional co-option, reveals itself as insurgent pedagogy. On the other hand, we must now explore how MMQG functions not merely as a collection of practices but as a meta-discipline, a living fractal pedagogy whose very structure is triadic.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM