If true the signs would be undeniable within a matter of days or weeks. So, uh, let's check back in a bit and see!

Vaccines are... Good, actually!?

Learning to draw is incredibly difficult but it's also pretty satisfying to see improvement. Melinoë last night vs a couple months ago...

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Once more, for old times’ sake

Meanwhile in Canada we're evidently suspending the yacht tax

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Kneecap to the PSE sector - TOTAL temporary resident target (TFWs plus international students) to be roughly halved, from 670K to 370K. That's minimum a $2 Billion hit to the sector. Probably more. Will work this out later

I think every Democrat should be shown this chart and required to explain why any policy solution would convince voters in this environment, and if they cannot, give three steps to fix the media environment, and if they cannot, be forced to resign their seat

The Cowichan court case is dominating BC politics discourse. Municipal leaders are using it to rile up white hot rage. But how many of these commentators have actually read the decision? I'm going to challenge myself to try.

If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.

One thing I've really come to appreciate over the course of my career is how easy it is to write a big article or book about How Everything Should Change and how difficult it is to actually change any single thing.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

#DecaebonizeBC Only thing I'd add is the rate of change now exceeds the rate back then

So I was cleaning up and found this relic - my ticket stub for star wars episode 1 back in 1999!

Question for blue sky: it's time to introduce the six year old to the world of Star Trek. This may seem unconventional... But would starting with Star Trek 4 be a good point of entry? (Wacky whales, environmental message, etc)

I'm reading "nonviolent communication" by Rosenberg (someone recommended it in a workshop I was in). The notion of listening to people, being attentive, etc is all good but boy does he go into weird places when he fails to acknowledge power dynamics or harm.

I've had so many people IRL point to Gates' climate statement as evidence to not care about climate change. This article is a very useful counter-analysis timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

Useful thread #DecarbonizeBC

Missed this one when it came out Clean the air.

This paper showed the large majority of shared-room COVID transmission events are preventable by good ventilation. The fact that it was published by some of the people who had most strenuously insisted COVID *wasn't* airborne (albeit only after they sat on the data for years) is meaningful as well.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

“Why has virtually every country in the world seen an abrupt rise in extremist politics, especially on the far-right, starting at approximately the same date the iPhone was released” The most important question in politics but maybe not a hard one

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... This is disastrous news. If anything this asset should be nationalized. Why are we entrusting our core infrastructure to some random company from Texas?

I'm deeply disturbed by the disinformation campaign being waged. Both the province and feds need to be clearly and assertively communicating actual reality, and municipal govts shouldn't be stoking fear

Fascinating subject that challenges some of my core assumptions about open data

It really seems to be a consistent trend: It's fun to vote for a reactionary hard right government It's not fun to be ruled by one

Always good when the hurricane is so strong that it damages the hurricane plane

When my friends kids call me "Uncle Brett" I will now be sure to aggressively correct them so some future newspaper doesn't get mad at me "NO. We are NOT related by blood. You're NOT TELLING THE TRUTH"

This is deeply disturbing.

This seems .... amazing, and something that should interest Canada

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action. 40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

So... It's a PC?

Hard to believe how hard they're spiralling over this ad

Interesting

Serious Q: Is anyone aware of a north American university shifting instiution-wide to a Linux-based system? Asking because we're all talking about cost-cutting, and we always just treat IT services as this immutable thing. Could we shovel less $ to Microsoft?

We won't fix the loneliness epidemic if we won't build public spaces. We need to be thinking about this very seriously in the upcoming BC municipal elections.

Well this sounds interesting

At the risk of beating a dead horse: we can still trade duty-free into the US, but that would require a pivot to services, but that apparently is beyond the pale of respectable policy discourse.

Two-thirds of your gas bill is now for infrastructure, not fuel. States that are serious about climate risk are starting to plan for alternatives, instead of sinking billions into the fossil system. www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

This is quite something to put out there

This is a very good question from Senator Simons — and a very bad explanation from CBC brass.

There is no grid problem that batteries don't solve. If we just put a 10MWh front-of-the-meter battery next to every substation in the country we would basically have ...

Once again highlighting a key asymmetry in politics: If you are boosting oil and gas, you can basically say whatever you want that fits the moment. Follow up is cancel culture If you're advocating for anything else, you must be 100% accurate at all times or it will be used to discredit you forever

I remember when I got my sound blaster 16 and heard Doom with full music and SFX for the first time Will computers ever instill awe like that again?

It's still bizarre that we can't get Novavax in Canada. Cheaper, fewer side effects, at least as effective (if not moreso), provides an alternative for people who are averse to mRNA for any reason

Anyone know what this stat is in Canada?

Well that's peculiar. I just got this back from CBC. Apparently my complaint "was not received."