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“Nobody wants a parasocial bestie who shills for the plutocrats who are nullifying their votes, degrading their educations, jacking up their power bill, stealing their wages and rigging the system. There is no feminist case for scaring people into adopting A.I.”

If you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct

"Public lands have to be used for public housing. For non-market housing, there's some really important levers like community land trusts...So that the people that work in the city can stay in the city and build a life here.” - @stephanieformayor.bsky.social www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

“Cheryl Weeks, a plaintiff and former Vancouver police officer, said she and other prospective class members have found it ‘astounding’ that their claims of sexual harassment are being compared legally to a ‘dispute over a pension plan.’” From Darryl Greer: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

“It would avoid us doing drugs in public, doing drugs around children, around elderly folks, just around people who don't want to be around drugs. Right now, we're on the street corners, we're on the sidewalk, and it's inhumane.” www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

“We need to dream bigger. We need to fight harder. We can win what people really need and do it with integrity.” -Stephanie Allen

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Five each from COPE, Greens, OneCity, plus three each (so far, I think?) from TEAM, Allam's Vancouver Liberals, and Bligh's Vote Vancouver, is a very crowded not-Ken-Sim's-party field.

“The report says the costs associated with femicide totalled $27.6 million annually, while workplace sexual harassment “contributes an additional $86 million each year through reduced productivity and employment churn.” cfjctoday.com/2026/04/14/g...

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

Sean Orr has filed legal action against Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim for saying to media without evidence that Orr was dealing drugs on Christmas Day

Here’s my full video on Day 5 of the Ken Sim and Sean Orr saga. A bit of today’s news, a bit of historical context to the story, a bit of answering @seanorr.bsky.social’s challenge to me earlier this week. I *think* the story will recede now, but given the weirdness of it all, we’ll see!

Drip, drip, drip… Ken Sim, in his lack of forthright disclosure, or what some might call lying, seems determined to keep this story going 🤔 #vanpoli

I can’t overstate how strongly I oppose this. Yes, time change sucks, but if we’re doing away with it, ALL of the science says permanent standard time is the way to go.

Many suggest government’s role is providing assistance to people in (a) crisis, limiting our vision of public goods and the state. Like Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "Public goods should never be means tested. That's the entire point of a public good! And should be as permanent as anything imaginable.“

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Amending BC's Declaration Act would "set back our collective reconciliation efforts by decades," say dozens of civil society groups and prominent Canadians in a joint statement "Now is not the time to cede ground to those who cynically spread fear and doubt about that vital work" #bcpoli

We do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we love technological progress. The onus is on them to explain to us why we should be excited about new technology while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing: - people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy - drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation - residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires

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Great politics should look like a party you want to join

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

I’ll be interested to watch how these sentiments & people play out in the upcoming BC Conservative leadership race. We’ve already seen people with despicable hate-based views elected as BC Conservatives. Shouldn’t have to say it, but new leader should have zero tolerance for it. We’ll see. #bcpoli

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

Two that come to mind for me: It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan I Left My Wallet In El Segundo, ATCQ

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Heartbroken about Catherine O'Hara. Absolute comedic legend. I'm so glad that people got to see her genius in Moira Rose and that she was afforded that widespread deserved recognition later in her career. But my favourite will always be her roles in the Christopher Guest movies. Devastating loss.

“We are here to ask the courts for ... further articulation of what press freedom means in this country,” Linnitt said. “And on the other side, we have a team of lawyers for Canada and a team of lawyers for the province who are here trying to prevent that from happening – on the taxpayer’s dime.”

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes. Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.” Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.

“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”

Reminded again, radical means root. A non-radical solution is one that is superficial and leaves the conditions that produce the problems intact.

God bless the dead as my son survive; We strive to teach the youth, baby, and stay alive RIP John Forté youtu.be/KPV1InMNUf4

“A friend of mine reminded me that the word encourage literally means to instill courage; we can do that or its opposite with how we speak, with what we say, with how we show up.“ All of this.

This is true across the board for men committing violence in our society. They are mostly men who just couldn’t figure out how to access power via merit. They turn to violence instead because our patriarchal culture will offer them power that way too.

Misogyny has been built into tech forever because it replicates the way we live, and it's a money maker. We need cultural change and the time to start was yesterday. Or twenty years ago. And the time for Canadian officials to get off X is now www.thestar.com/opinion/star...