Unfortunately I'm missing Pillion at the VIFF but I look forward to furtively watching it on an Air Canada flight in the near future.

ok it’s time

End the provincial subsidy of property taxes via the Home Owner Grant. The dumbest tax policy on the books in BC vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Other countries leverage the massive, countrywide infrastructure of their postal service to provide other useful things to the public, like low cost banking, mobile phone plans, and rural transportation. Late stage capitalism demands we part it out for scrap instead.

Favourite travel people watching games: Homos, bros, or Germans? Dad and son or daddy and son? Now with the Rio addition of: Butt implants or gym?

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

I once did an aerial survey from Van Horn, Texas, where there was a shooting range right next to the airport taxiway. Gun crazy country.

This thing is wild. All the nonexistent bases in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba...and you don't get Whidbey Island, WA? Pituffik (Thule), Greenland? That seems like one to highlight.

Incredible statement from the CEO of a national public utility (Spanish airports) on the bullshit predatory tactics of Ryanair. Need more public/crown corporation leaders with a backbone this magnificent.

Teens start trading pictures of dads that successfully get by the face scan. In 2027, the entire porn consumption across 19 states is officially attributed to twelve dads.

#naspcrew patrol route got a little messed up this morning but it means I got to have a look at the new PNE ampitheatre

Basically every flight scheduled to arrive at #YVR after 9pm tonight that isn't in the air already is cancelled due to a lack of air traffic controllers. NAV Canada is failing the travelling public - there should be a parliamentary inquiry.

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

Above all, Canada's progressives lack leadership. Strong, unifying voices from the left are lacking at every level of government and the NDP only believes in elections, not building a movement that can carry them between campaigns.

Ominously pretty blanket of smoke getting blown over the city from the Mount Underwood fire near Port Alberni. #yvrwx

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Spending $20 thousand dollars of Alberta taxpayer money to fundraise for an American right wing think tank that supports the same party waging a trade war on our country. I am surprised this did not get more coverage. From @readtheorchard.org www.theprogressreport.ca/premier-prag...

All told, showing up at the hospital in agony at 5AM and walking out without an appendix 14 hours later is pretty damn good.

Millennials at Pride this year got issued one of three outfits

Plumes of smoke from the Cameron Lake wildfire on Vancouver Island today. Smoke filling many of the valleys to the south. #bcwildfire

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The new Turing Test is conjuring an AI chatbot of Alan Turing and asking it questions about cottaging in mid-century Britain.

Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane

The final nail in the coffin of "cancel culture" ever being real. A self-professed fascist made over $33k in 24h after being 'fired' due to his views in this video.

Somehow not @theonion.com

Goose Spit and Comox on a busy sunny summer day on the water. #naspcrew

...have we tried reframing carbon emissions as a directed energy weapon that is changing the weather, and the way to fight back is to switch to renewables that the government and a conspiracy of oil companies don't want you to have?

NGL a 2025-1995 version of Back to the Future set in Shanghai or Dubai could be fun.

We would be a better country if we were influenced more by the French than the Brits.

Most iconic American foods are eaten with your hands. Burgers, hot dogs, pizza, fries, nuggets, fried chicken, wings, bagels, cheesesteaks...all the way up to lobster rolls, caviar bumps and oysters. This really is just racism and classism.

this is like thinking the point of eating a meal is to experience having shat

I'd argue Costco is actually pretty communist. Limited range and variety of products, staff are compensated fairly and everyone who shops there eats, uses and wears the same stuff. Capitalism is a boutique breakfast cereal store with hundreds of varieties of one item.

It's why the Wellness influencers do so well: it's all conservatives selling each other potions and taint-tanning instead of going to therapy.

Hikers seeing two semi-adjacent trails on a map and deciding to try to link them is probably a top-5 reason for a Search and Rescue call on the North Shore mountains. This AllTrails feature is going to kill people.

You're telling me the rocket that is massively overweight, which the company is trying to fix by reducing the robustness of many fuel-related components, just blew up *checks notes* for the fourth time in 6 months?

I was frankly not prepared for the level of homoeroticism brought by Mathew Baynton to this series of Taskmaster. A legend, an ally.

The effusive praise for something GPT didn't even ingest is disturbing. You can see why people fall in love with it, or think they're talking to a higher power - it does nothing but validate. A confident liar trained on the language of therapy.

The buttercups this spring in Charleson Park are outta control. Shiba height.

The new AI surveillance camera enforcing the unpaid labour we make customers do so we can pay fewer staff is just like the thing in that sport you poors like.

Hilarious that we're now in a Canada where 1) there's a marginal separatist movement in Alberta and 2) Edmonton could win the first Stanley Cup in 32 years for Canada.

State and Federal officials rushing to enforce the orders of the President of the United States of America that a teenager must be prevented from competing in long jump at a high school track meet.

Incidentally, I've seriously considered applying to Nav Canada to be a controller, but you have to be flexible to move anywhere in the country, and are unlikely to qualify for an airport like YVR or Area Control Center like Surrey for several years. www.navcanada.ca/en/careers/a...

The Nav Canada ATC shortages around YVR have been worsening each summer since the pandemic travel rebound. Many days we call up for a slot for our NASP patrol flight to return and ATC has one 12-minute window they can take us all day, if anything at all. Hugely restrictive.

This @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social endorsement of genocide is sickening. The word "Gaza" is somehow hateful - and the city should immediately scrub it out from view of Zionist protesters? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

NYT Op-Ed: iPhones can be made in the US by a workforce of Femmes and Twinks By Peter Thiel

Just attended my first academic conference in the AI era and sheeeeesh has it ever pickled everyone's brains.

Mathew Baynton going for the short inseam running shorts has been a blessing all season