This man has just described the quality that makes cities distinctive and wonderful - and he hates it.

Enormous finsvisl prssyee 😔

263: Shoukd be studying for finals but felt compelled. We all wabt safe and vibrant Vancouver but this isn’t it. Wants clear data. Enormous finsvisl prssyee. Fyck

two days i pointed out sean was still moonlighting as a reply guy on twitter and he's responded with 13 hours of live-skying a budget meeting and he might be actually dying and if so this is on me

Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.

David Leonard, a homeowner opposed to the property tax freeze, slammed the lack of transparency - he said it was like shopping around for extended medical coverage and finding a plan that was cheaper "but you had no info about how it differed from your current plan, who would pick that?"

119: surprise! I oppose. Cement reputation as no fun city. Police are no fun. I want to live in a city that pays artists and musicians a living wage. I want to take my kids to play in a park that has biodiversity and culture. Numbers aren’t adding up. Arts generates 6 billion.

Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.

"Somehow, though, a company can still act like West Mabou is a cake that just came out of the oven for them. Like it’s just been sitting there waiting for them all this time, or it didn’t exist before their interest. But no. Listen: it’s perfect for what you want because it has been protected."

The Pennsylvania Conceptual Zone Kodak XX Nikon N90 #filmphotography

"To create something, anything, good, takes time and desire. [...] If you dip into the well constantly without giving it time to refill, you end up with nothing but pieces of mud, nothing that will satiate a thirst for art. Swift hasn’t given herself time to write anything good in years."

Every single conversation about AI should start with, "AI is an improv comedy partner that is incapable of knowing things."

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A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

Ezra Klein is doing tepid centrism the right way.

'I used ai to reveal what is on the other side of the tunnel the roadrunner painted on the wall'

How come double-clicking an email address usually only selects the first chunk up to the @ symbol? Why haven't we excluded the @symbol from normal punctuation rules, given its ubiquity in email addresses and online handles?

Now THAT'S how you write a fuckin short story. samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-th...

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

Am I crazy or has the last five years seen a 10,000% increase in usage of the phrase “bog-standard”

As one of the scores of arts leaders in Vancouver who submitted letters in support of the original motion, citing my experience at both The Chutzpah! Festival and The Improv Centre, this is incredibly demoralizing, short-sighted, and emblematic of the way this government has been treating us

Couldn't really have asked for a better MtG Youtuber to show off Just Buy Singles. So cool to be a part of such an excellent video! Thanks, Trinket Mage (also subscribe if you're not already, consistently great Magic takes/advice coming from this channel) #mtg #magicthegathering

I’m watching a Death Stranding recap on YouTube. Every few minutes, my wife looks up from her laptop and gives me a strange look. I give her a confided nod in return, suggesting I understand what’s going on. I do not.

at the pho joint where they’re playing the somber emotional piano cover of imagine dragons radioactive

I understand why many leftists on this app are anonymous and also one of the consequences of doing your business on here as an anonymous person is that if you try to moralize and pressure people about something, no one knows why the fuck they should listen to you or what your social location is

Such a cool little project! Watch number go down 😅

Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools. The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

I am against the war and for the safety and flourishing of the people in harm's way so if that's an issue we probably shouldn't make out sorry

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

@wikipedia.org i have been a donor for years and I will cancel immediately if I see AI slop.

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

Seems like most people on here are anti-evil. That's the kind of insular groupthink that loses elections :/

Wearing something around your neck is not a use case.

Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

I really wish this episode had spent less time talking about how worker requirements for Medicaid "poll well", and more time articulating that it's insane to tie health-care coverage of any kind to a person's ability to work, because guess what makes it hard to work? Being sick!!

ok sorry I know everything is extremely bad but this is very funny

Vancouver council is debating a giant permanent sign that says "VANCOUVER", and staff say an issue is putting the sign in a place that won't interfere with film shoots. In other words, a giant "VANCOUVER" sign could interfere with vancouver's lucrative business of pretending to be any other city

Yeah, this the sort of methodology that sounds reasonable until you consider the fact that lots of people went out of their way to vote at polling stations that didn't have long lines, so Thunderbird's turnout would've been artificially higher than usual.

I’ve seen the new Housing Minister and others say this week that house price trends in Canada are basically the same as in other G7 countries. That simply isn’t true, as Hanif Bayat showed in a recent Globe piece. We really do have a made-in-Canada problem.

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

It's so cool and refreshing to get this intimate of a view on what it's like to be ushered into City Councillorhood as a regular-degular citizen. Really appreciating these insights from Sean, as well as his weekly video updates.

"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind

there are some days where i have more people mad at me online than my ancestors would have had mad at them in their entire lives. there is functionally no difference between this and being cursed by a witch

I just published the most personal thing I’ve ever written. The High Cost of Saying No: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About Housing. It’s about Atlanta and San Francisco, growth, and grief. And the decisions that shaped my marriage, my loss, and everything after www.dataandpolitics.net/the-high-cos...

first time filing with the Guardian. these are really challenging stories to write, but they also remind you of how powerfully communities support one another www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

My response to creators who don't like critics is always the same: You're not supposed to. Which doesn't mean you are specifically supposed to not like them, but you're not specifically supposed to like them, and whether you like them is beside the point. Criticism is not advice or correction.

OK fine if you were so right before why didn't I agree with you???