City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.

fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought

Today's hiking destination! Here's Twin Falls in Lynn Canyon Park, North Vancouver.

Gull in the wind.

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴

Baby pigeon mystery. My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

Bluesky needs a bit of a culture shift I'm noticing that engagement has kindof been cratering, but favs haven't. People will fav a post but not comment or repost it, I've noticed this with others as well. If you like something, spread it! Try commenting to bump it or repost it eh?

Asking people for reciprocal follows on Bluesky is more likely to get you blocked. Engage with people — preferably accounts that do NOT have thousands of followers — and your followers will come. This is a year-old post I wrote, but the basics are still true for getting started here.

great sunrise AND got the front seat on the train 7:40am and the day has already peaked

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

ME: a doctor put a curse on me WIFE: which doctor ME: yes

Bonus: Two servings of avocado toast for $6.50. Unreal deal!

Yesterday's treat. I tasted a Kölsch, pale ale, brown ale, and IPA from Wildeye Brewing in North Vancouver.

daily hive are y’all okay

Is this a check to see if I can order one more beer?

DMV Worker: Stop staring at your phone while I take your driver's license photo Guy: But this is how I look when I drive

(solemnly) You've had mail.

California Gull. British Columbia, #Canada Shake it off! #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #birding

So this is the Vancouver transit to work mode share map As you can see - the skytrain works. Otherwise, people living in South and East Van are more likely to ride the bus or skytrain to work, as well as other areas. see Census Mapper: censusmapper.ca/maps/3719#11...

The great migration of Sandhill Cranes are standing tall and flying high through our part of the world. #birds #AB

In my opinion, if a graph doesn't immediately illustrate a clear idea or narrative on first glance, then it's a bad graph. If you need to closely examine a graph to suss out the meaning of the data, it would be much better to just explain it with words, rather than a messy and ambiguous chart.

Irruption.

I've been doing some film photography lately (with various success). I'm still finding my footing, but I like the nostalgia of it and I like really thinking about a photo before I take it

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals. Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team. So proud.

The end of a pleasant Sunday in Vancouver.

Today's kayaking snapshot. The weather was perfect!

Linguistic map of Europe.

Current mood:

A second chance: B.C. wildlife rescue group heals gull's broken wing

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

I feel uneasy about today and this week. I've just had two coffees, and it's not even 7 AM.

For the health of your back in middle age, avoid risky activities such as: - Standing - Sitting - Lying down

As a safety measure chatbots should be required to speak in rhyme. To users they will sound like fickle and untrustworthy elves from the faerie realm

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

Here's a photo from my Monday hike. Green, green, and more green.

#ToucanTuesday #ToucanoftheDay Collared Aracari at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #toucans

Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September. Release times: 7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST Game price: USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

For a short moment I thought I had spotted a gull in a dressing gown… Yellow legged gull and cormorant / Mittelmeermöwe und Kormoran (Biblis, Germany) #birds #gulls #nature #birding #rhine

Me: Maybe you’re not immune to propaganda, but I am. My mind is an unassailable fortress (sees can of pizza-flavored pringles) Me: Those mad geniuses. They did it. The taste of pizza and pringles together at last

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

DID YOU KNOW? The seagull enclosure looks like a Walmart parking lot to reflect their real life natural habitat.

A lively waterfall at Lynn Canyon, North Vancouver.

Well… it may be apocalypse now with the wildfire smoke, but holy cow, it’s also beautiful. #yyj

Metro Vancouver's TransLink releases transit trading cards

Moments like these, cooking dinner over an open fire, sitting on the shores of the amazing Fort Peck Reservoir in Montana, watching a storm roll through at sunset into a beautiful rainbow. Moments like these are why I’m so passionate about being outside and seeing the world around us. 

It's hot outside. I needed this! #Beer