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@tvanl.bsky.social

Ex-predictit. Trying out the government name

created September 22, 2023

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Categoric no on Schengen from Canada as long as the USA is doing more mass shootings a day than we get a year

6/9/2025, 6:52:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. There are real, concrete goals which will not be resolved Online.

6/9/2025, 12:33:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Fortunately you can turn all these stupid things off in the settings

5/9/2025, 6:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey cmaaaahn I'm just following orders also it's my birthday I'm just a little birthday trooperino

4/9/2025, 1:50:37 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I will point out that calligraphy still exists despite being repeatedly obsoleted

4/9/2025, 1:30:05 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this about overemployment or people working 3 minimum wage jobs?

3/9/2025, 11:26:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The New York Times enjoys printing Lies in the Newspaper

3/9/2025, 9:22:29 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, shut up

3/9/2025, 8:49:25 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, O politics-understander-by-sexual-metaphor, I have nothing of substance to say.

3/9/2025, 2:35:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

What kind of submissive do those constitute?

3/9/2025, 2:31:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

That's so true. He's literally doing nothing.

3/9/2025, 2:28:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Ludicrous to post those two skeets back to back. Anyway, I hear your boy Mao really really hated propaganda and popularising his ideas with catchy images

3/9/2025, 2:16:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow! You got me, I didn't send a Real Gun through the internet. Too bad Newsom is only tweeting. Maybe writing a book of Quotations from Governor Gavin Newsom or something.

3/9/2025, 2:08:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsom knows this

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3/9/2025, 1:56:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Where does political power come from?

3/9/2025, 1:51:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The New York Times are the enemy of the people

3/9/2025, 1:50:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You hit the discover feed and must be punished

3/9/2025, 1:43:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, laser eyes and all

2/9/2025, 11:36:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

@regmonkey.bsky.social has a name, you know

2/9/2025, 11:32:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I am a renter who wants to see my rent and my friends' rent go down. I am not, nor have I ever been, involved in real estate, construction, or whatever else goes under "developer."

2/9/2025, 10:21:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Would you say median per Assembly District of 2.4% is "a huge amount"? www.library.ca.gov/crb/quick-hi...

2/9/2025, 9:57:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

It would do a little but would not solve the problem. In San Diego short term rental count is less than we build in 1 year. So even if you can return all of them to the long-term rental market, we will still need to build a ton of housing.

2/9/2025, 9:53:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 8:52:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I am a millennial. Have you done your background research on me? No? Your brain is cooked by the Internet Matthew

1/9/2025, 6:19:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Brain cooked by internet is when you don't do detailed research on everyone in short videos My man. You're over the hill. It's okay.

1/9/2025, 4:44:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Brain cooked by internet is when you don't know all the members of a group which released one good song 17 years ago on myspace There are people reading this skeet who were not born when the song was recorded

1/9/2025, 1:37:29 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah which oligarchs run the CBC again?

1/9/2025, 12:54:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

First, assume nobody will ever act irrationally. Next, assume everyone will put society's needs above their own. Then,

31/8/2025, 8:17:33 PM | 53 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 8:09:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

There's steamseck transparent shells and they sorely tempt me

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31/8/2025, 7:54:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You're objectively right

31/8/2025, 4:41:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Many people are saying! bsky.app/profile/did:...

30/8/2025, 7:27:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Lmfao

30/8/2025, 4:35:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I take huge issue with this from the zoo. They have tons of "oh no this frog is in danger from climate change" inside the zoo, but actively work to make climate change worse at home. Anyone I should write to/call and whine? I have a rant about the bus lanes not being functional loaded tol

30/8/2025, 4:24:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Im starting calligraphysky and none of you can stop me

30/8/2025, 1:57:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:56:54 AM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Dunno. See plenty of people on phone when I go home. Will ask a friend who's there rn

30/8/2025, 12:59:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 12:26:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

All of them, God willing

29/8/2025, 11:51:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Who is telling you that?

29/8/2025, 11:40:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

But my Bayesian priors!

29/8/2025, 7:13:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I leave my house at the start time now

29/8/2025, 4:34:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Good news!

29/8/2025, 2:01:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it's a very basic thing. One which you have not understood if you think transit can run at a loss.

28/8/2025, 9:42:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Bus drivers deserve to be paid. Bus mechanics deserve to be paid. The workers making bus engines and tires deserve to be paid. The workers cleaning buses deserve to be paid. The money to pay these workers does not appear from thin air.

28/8/2025, 8:24:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Did bombing German ball-bearing factories in WW2 mean the bombers were okay with fascism, so long as it benefited them?

28/8/2025, 7:15:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Is both/and off the table?

28/8/2025, 6:35:30 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

They very much do not www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

28/8/2025, 6:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Land value tax would solve this

28/8/2025, 6:24:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I am out here championing the State of California forcing Huntington Beach to build affordable housing.

28/8/2025, 3:44:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Truth hurts?

28/8/2025, 3:41:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You explicitly agree with them on Prop 33!

28/8/2025, 3:38:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I want the State of California to force rich coastal cities like Huntington Beach to build affordable housing. Can you say the same?

28/8/2025, 3:33:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Correct. They must be made to obey state law. Propositions they explicitly support to exempt them from state oversight are bad.

28/8/2025, 3:27:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

No thoughts on why HB was boosting prop 33? None?

28/8/2025, 3:23:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Translated: "two guys put it up in an afternoon"

28/8/2025, 7:43:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Baker (@jwbee.bsky.social) reposted

Here's how far off the rails things have gone in Berkeley, California: next week the Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote to designate this detached garage as a structure of merit, a masterwork of mid-century architecture that "emphasizes horizontality" and "is free of adornment".

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28/8/2025, 5:31:06 AM | 30 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus

28/8/2025, 4:55:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

It's from Star Wars, believe it or not

27/8/2025, 10:16:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Just delete the country cap

27/8/2025, 9:00:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I hear Walt Disney got his car washed there once

27/8/2025, 8:55:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't it exactly 4 countries? India China Mexico and the Philippines?

27/8/2025, 8:37:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Endangered North American Automobile habitat you mean

27/8/2025, 7:50:01 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a bullshit excuse from the l̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶p̶p̶e̶a̶s̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ planning department Literally "nobody goes there, it's too crowded" logic. bsky.app/profile/tvan...

27/8/2025, 6:49:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social)

"We won't upzone because nobody will build there" is utter bullshit Why not upzone? There will be no change if it's so unattractive!

27/8/2025, 6:41:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

I live in an apartment near transit. The "rental box" which is my home conforms to my wallet and the area. Do not tell me how I should live, and I will show you the same courtesy.

27/8/2025, 6:39:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Bowen (he/him) (@acbowen.bsky.social) reposted

My story on San Diego's plan for single-family zoning near its $2 billion trolley extension has been the top story on our website for close to 24 hours now! Thanks to all who have read and shared 💞🏗️🚋 www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

Screenshot from KPBS.org shows most popular story:
27/8/2025, 5:25:20 PM | 48 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

This does not follow

27/8/2025, 6:32:06 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Taxes complicate this. The math has been done and you can find it with some research. I remember checking last time it was big and it was +EV before tax / -EV after

27/8/2025, 2:11:38 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, and you might get better taste in burritos!

27/8/2025, 12:40:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi-viz + camo. Like they're hunting the garbage.

27/8/2025, 12:39:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You should peruse the OB Rag some more, it plays all the NextDoor hits

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27/8/2025, 12:34:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Pardon me, it "was Unjustly and Savagely Abused by our Ignorant and Self-Serving City Council" and the aforementioned teenage (under 60) hooligans. My mistake. obrag.org/2024/05/read...

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27/8/2025, 12:33:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Counterpoint: The OB Rag and it's NIMBY coterie of septuagenarian white land-owning former hippies are not progressive Author used to be on my neighbourhood planning commission. A bunch of rowdy teenage (under 60) hooligans viciously took it over www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

27/8/2025, 12:28:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You're the one arguing they should be doing as much as possible to bail the fascist voters out! That's collaboration, not resistance.

27/8/2025, 12:17:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Good god man. assign blame to the party in power actively doing bad things just one time.

27/8/2025, 12:09:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The American People are not the sharpest bulbs in the shed

27/8/2025, 12:03:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The math is not as difficult as you think it is. Hypothetical maybe sorta almost kinda potential votes don't matter. Just sort by margin and fund hospitals from the top down until you run out of money.

26/8/2025, 10:13:24 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The models do seem to inherit *something* from the parent company's culture, which is very weird

26/8/2025, 9:54:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the "log in with Google" buttons instead of making a new account

26/8/2025, 9:44:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laura Dudas (@lauradudas.bsky.social) reposted

I whole-heartedly disagree with the City of Ottawa administration's decision to mandate a full return to the office for City staff on Jan. 1. I wasn't supportive when federal public services were forced back into the office, and I certainly don't support it now.

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26/8/2025, 7:56:14 PM | 84 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Look, if hospitals are going to close (let's assume they are) the choice is which ones to keep open. Do Democrats benefit more by keeping open hospitals which support reliable voters who have consistently votes? Or by keeping open the ones which support fascists and some hypothetical maybe voters?

26/8/2025, 8:06:39 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The phrase you're looking for is "people who didn't vote and were fine with Trump winning"

26/8/2025, 7:59:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't have agency though 😔

26/8/2025, 7:48:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

The assassination of MLK was eugenics send skeet

26/8/2025, 6:52:24 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Voting Republican is not a genetic trait.

26/8/2025, 6:51:40 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry buddy this is eugenics because voting Republican is genetic

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26/8/2025, 6:50:58 PM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. It's very apparent when you cross the border from Ontario.

26/8/2025, 6:26:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

You can look it up on Wikipedia. It's pretty grim for the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_s...

26/8/2025, 6:24:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

> Omnibi *eye twitch*

25/8/2025, 11:30:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems discriminatory to blind drivers

25/8/2025, 11:06:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it does. Residential water use is a pittance.

25/8/2025, 10:30:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AI GPUs are limited by the Halting Problem

25/8/2025, 9:39:22 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

It stands for artificial intelliGence

25/8/2025, 9:25:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And The Last of Us

25/8/2025, 7:25:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's an enigma

25/8/2025, 7:17:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Enjoy! Make sure you clean the oil off the nib if it's new :)

25/8/2025, 4:04:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Right? They're already semi-permanent. Just make them permanent and make them look nice

25/8/2025, 3:52:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Would you say the same thing if someone mentions the gender pay gap?

24/8/2025, 10:15:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tvanl (@tvanl.bsky.social) reply parent

Gender **disparities**. Read.

24/8/2025, 6:35:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view