Yes I didn't go downtown that weekend
Riding bikes, reading books, petting dogs, trying to improve the world in Victoria, BC. Proofreader and editor. Past lives in law and QA. Swearmonger. No, I am not judging your grammar or punctuation in your posts. Mine only last a week.
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Yes I didn't go downtown that weekend
you should want to keep learning things throughout your life if for no other reason than it gives you more material for jokes
Stating the obvious, but it matters. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I rode down to James Bay on Thursday night and the hordes of tourists on Wharf were overwhelming. Spilling all over the bike lane.
Watch out!
So this post reminded me that Click, Clack, Moo exists. It's an excellent, funny book to read to your toddler to teach them about worker solidarity. Happy Labour Day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click,_...
We did something beautiful tonight: the Pacifica Paddle Sports bioluminescence kayak tour in Brentwood Bay. In addition to sparkles in the ocean, there were lightning flashes in the sky. This video captured exactly zero of all that, but you can hear me splashing. #YYJ
I like the smell too! Most people seem to think it smells gross.
I canāt breathe
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ā¤ļø
5/5 The next highway boondoggle planned for #yyj is the Goldsteam highway widening. $160 million that could be going to improve public transit. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/1...
It's something out of a horror movie where the desperate woman flags a car and Rudy comes out "like oh shit even scarier*. It's classic bad to worse.
best news
A friend posted this. Absolutely. Spot. On.
Urgh this day is coming for me and I dread it already but can't show it because I don't want to affect any choices. Motherhood; who'd do it?
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
This story fills me with sadness. But itās not enough to feel sad. We must all do better to reach Vision Zero by redesigning our streets for multi-modal safety. 2025 has been a very bad year for peds and cyclists on the Island. Itās unacceptable. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/l...
maybe if we sang āFree Palestineā to the tune of āSweet Carolineā we could get more white people on board
My kingdom for a Canadian politician who will make "We are spending money on the wrong stuff" their guiding principle #CdnPoli
I am in neither of these places but I love how these posts lined up to alert me to possible deals world-wide
Again, I would like to hear a clear statement from Canadian policymakers that we will be prepared to do our own science, and not just copy whatever the US agencies do.
Them: even if he dies, nothing with change Me: except heās dead and Iāll be glad heās dead and everyone will be glad heās dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan
Expanding the oil and gas sector creates jobs in construction, not oil and gas. And if we are making construction jobs, we might as well build something else.
This is irrefutable evidence of climate change. globalnews.ca/news/1135412...
mark carneyās first project of national interest should be the high-speed rail line
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
victoriabuzz.com/2025/08/deva... #yyj
My least favourite self-fulfilling prophecy
Them: āCities are all rotting hellscapes!ā Cities:
Still going strong: Japanese anemone, nasturtium, cosmos, and the last one whose name escapes me #YYJ #Bloomscrolling
The Canadian Criminal Code already allows for self defense. This is a performance for far right America-loving gun crazy loons lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...
Or if they're into gin there's Sheringham: www.sheringhamdistillery.com/beacon-gin/
Dream job
šØ PFB IS HIRING šØ (š§µ) SEEKING: part time (12 hrs/wk) Shelving Monkey. Older HS students & post-sec students welcome to apply. $27.25/hr + vacation pay. Duties: cleaning; boxing & reboxing books; shelving as directed by senior staff; assisting senior staff at both PFBs.
It's a full-time job to read this book: This edition has 889 pages; I've been reading it for a couple of weeks and I'm only at page 281 because it makes me feel snoozy.
Ignorance is indeed bliss
Anyways, banning books is pointless and you should read His Dark Materials, if you havenāt already. And any other banned books you want to.
I'll be working this Labour-Day weekend... working my way through Middlemarch whilst swinging in a hammock.
This is a nice BC Ferries story. #SunshineCoast #BCFerries vancouversun.com/news/kindnes...
fossil fuels are a dying industry that continues through automation and cost-cutting. Alberta could be a green energy superpower if it wasn't for business/political elite failure. There's a reason why AB youth unemployment is highest in Canada.
I declare this to be neat-o
Weird how the BC NDP ensures there's enough money to put cops in schools, but not enough money for shoes and backpacks.
What does that even mean?
Still are. There doesn't seem to be any real reason it's being shut down.
When two words sound the same but have a different meaning itās called a
āBy signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail ā it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.ā etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-...
What the everloving FUCK?
Goddammit @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social be better!
SCOOP: The BC government has quietly cut a $20 million fund that schools used to waive fees for vulnerable children, pay for school supplies. Last year, an NDP MLA called the fund 'transformative' and the education minister said parents could 'count on the program's help' thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
I thought you were in Italy, not the late 80s
A bit of a fascist aesthetic taking hold in Canada
BC isnāt broke! Equip yourself with arguments to challenge austerity narratives in favour of more sustainable, progressive policy solutions like fair taxation & robust public investment. Join our webinar with senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.socialā¬, Sep 17, noon PT.
So much of their power flows from the way people quietly bow out of their way, forcing them to expend essentially no political capital to shred vital and popular institutions. And then, having done so, they look even stronger, and itās even easier next time.
One B.C.-based non-profit has found a downstream pollution solution: recapture, recycle and recirculate reconstituted discarded plastic back into the market to become sustainable, responsible consumer goods. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. ā»ļøš
So traffic cameras work, and most people like them. So why are they banned in states like TX, WI and MA (and often tough to deploy where legal)? One reason: Autocentrism. A minority of car owners protests ā loudly ā against any effort to constrain even illegal driving behavior. Politicos notice.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Hereās how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Dying at the book he's reading
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
Awesome to have an update on this! I've been past there a few times lately and it didn't seem to be progressingāthis is a big step towards completion. #YYJ
I knew it was Foo!
The blackberry picking is still going strong in this the last week of August. Today's harvest became a clafoutis that was eaten before it could be photographed.
both numbers seem too high
The commentary is incredibly detailed in telling us how to recreate these llama costumes at home
I get the sense that the llamas aren't super enthusiastic
Everyone, the llama costume contest is live.
OMG it's llamas in costumes, not humans dressed up as llamas. Amazing.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Honestly, I'm not at all surprised that copy editors have more spine and moral clarity than most of our elected officials and political leaders
Too many outlets are asking if an AI has feelings and not enough outlets are asking if an AI can be charged with murder.
Most parents in BC won't know until next week.
Callout here: Are your kids paying for school supplies that their school covered last year? If so, please get in touch.
Check this shit out motherfucker *embargoes own country*
I'm trying to picture it... is it next to Superbaba?
Canada needs to launch an investigation into Trump regimeās covert influence ops in šØš¦. If the US has begun engaging in information warfare in #Greenland, you can bet the same is happening in #Canada. Look no further that the traitorous actions of Alberta secessionists as one of the vectors. #cdnpoli
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Sounds fantastic! Homes for people > homes for cars
Parkade to housing: 260 rental homes, ground floor retail, public plaza proposed. victoria.citified.ca/news/downtow... #yyj #urbanism #housing
I want everyone to know that this is NOT the last week of summer. Summer ends September 21. Donāt be a sucka.
So many questions. Like, why does a natty lil' eel vest need armholes? These are the answers we yearn for.
Does his replacement have a better understanding of what the Charter protects? My hopes are not high.
did they really think that FIVE PERCENT of estimated number of British Columbians who use unregulated opioids was sufficient I call bullshit on this
A popularly underrated reason for Canada to make a big defence investment is the possibility of regime instability for our largest neighbouring power.
Yet another one of our #yyjbike colleagues taken out by a self-driving vehicle, according to @cheknews.ca. Time to prohibit these dangerous machines from our roads. This one didnāt even have courtesy to stop. Thankfully bicyclist wasnāt dragged with bikeā¦
These blurbs are making me want to read the whole thing if John stays this chatty
He dictated this thing didn't he
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
Jesus christ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
I like Bluesky. If I scroll long enough, things explain themselves tangentially and I can be vaguely aware of current events without really having to know or care
"Put usa booze back on the shelves" No. Should've thought of that before you decided to be absolute jackasses to your biggest fucking trading partner, who happens to really love drinking metric shit-tonnes of booze. FAFO. Stop being and electing fascist fuckwits. globalnews.ca/news/1134878...
Same in Delft and Vancouver. I look forward to it coming to Victoria!
Apparently it's international dog day again, so here's the best dog at a lovely lake last week
