Iran is one of those places that chooses to make their lives more difficult by being a half hour time zone, GMT +3:30

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Recognizing this pattern is one of the most important things in thinking about what principles and values ought to guide urban planning.

Is Gastown saxophone guy still around? He wasn't good but I just remembered him.

We’re back to regular Whitecaps luck this year. #vwfc

Every sports team discord has that guy who is a core mod but doesn't live local to the team.

Objectively 3 on 3 OT in a final is bad

Glad for Canada Dry and ginger ale getting a bump from Heated Rivalry, I feel it’s really underrated within Canada that our flag carrier soda is the global standard in its style.

Been following the Whitecaps for 12 years and am ok that it's only 5% less dorky after all that time to say FUCK YEAH MLS IS BACK TODAY.

Ready to be anxious about hockey before noon two more days in a row.

I think that people who are angry about the BC NDP like this should grapple more with the fact that they won by 1 seat and won one of those seats by 22 votes.

Great news for Edmonton retaining some of the most progressive infill policy in Canada.

Found a reference to a home in North Vancouver that Aleister Crowley visited, pull it up on Googs and of course it's a condo now.

"high-social-capital person who has done a lot of good in their community goes off the rails when a building is proposed near them" is one of the more common NIMBY types, and there is basically no way to persuade them that they're on the side of evil now

Time to start (nicely) bullying Pete Fry to not run for mayor everyone!!

Virtue and Moir are two Olympics retired from ice dance but just Moir being back as a coach is making people online discover their uh, history and have the same reaction of "they just went off and married other people??"

Western Canada should separate, just on paper while maintaining free trade, so that Canada can field two curling teams at the Olympics. Like at the Brier there's Northern Ontario/Southern Ontario teams.

I'll just say it... I don't like relay races. Too much complexity.

[tune of "Pink Pony Club"] Gay Hockey Show

Discord must be the biggest platform for sports rebroadcasting now. I literally just scanned the long list of servers I barely check for ones that had a voice chat icon, and found a Super Bowl stream in a random Twitch streamer's server.

Seeing posts of people amazed that FPV drone operators can follow an Olympic downhill skier or luger at 140km/h for a great camera angle, they've evidently haven't been watching Ukrainian drone videos pop Russians daily for the last three+ years.

I can say in retrospect of 16 years that the Olympics have some kind of occult power where just watching another country’s opening ceremonies flashes me back to the surreal chill of the first day of Vancouver 2010, simultaneous joy and anxiety.

Reminiscing about Olympic Ceremonies and remembered Catherine O'Hara was in the 2010 Closing Ceremonies.

Curling Sweep ASMR [10 hour loop]

I'm sorry but the "Pattison Group is selling a building to ICE" news story is a laughable attempt of Canadians trying to insert themselves into an American issue.

TSN is YouTube streaming full coverage of The Scotties women's curling if you VPN out of Canada. (noticed because I had the VPN fired up to watch PWHL on YouTube "outside Canada")

I appreciate the Canucks for what they _have_ given us this season... $4 Big Macs

Why does Justin still get to go to Davos? And bring Katy Perry lol? Dawg we need you to fuck off and not distract from Carney's New World Auramaxxing.

Upgraded from iPhone 11 to 17 and my first speed test was launching the horrible but frequently used McDonald’s app.

2:15am NYE Barrett’s Privateers singalong

Listening to tiki lounge music to feel warmer on a dark winter morning actually works.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) is a Christmas movie, something something hope for mankind.

the SkyTrain is one of the best decisions we ever made as a region+province, and it almost didn't happen; there was a ton of "expert" pressure to build ground-level non-automated light rail instead

Unfortunately folks I think I have to give up on all other municipal progress, become a one issue voter, and that issue is a soccer stadium six blocks from me. Selfishly I might have to vote for Ken Sim just so I can maybe enjoy tailgating in New Brighton Park someday.

Happy 40th birthday to Skytrain, as loved as it is still underrated in how much weight it carries to make our region not just another suburban sprawl wasteland.

Frozen pizzas on sale forever is how the Westons keep the listless single men of this country from revolting.

Moment of reading the name in a news post and realizing that literally NO ONE in western TV media was saying the name of the Hong Kong tower complex with the massive tragic fire because no one wanted to say “Wang Fuk Court”.

Every origin story of a UK electronic music subgenre is like “there was this record shop in [non-London lesser city] and [three pioneering legends of the genre] all worked there”

Need a separate Translink high priority alert account I can turn notifications on for to get messages like "SKYTRAIN IS FUCKED AGAIN, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES RUINED" but isn't posting "Route 739 to Buttfuck Langley has a one block detour"

iOS 26.1 update has been an improvement on my older phone

TFW you're seeing posts about an Apple TV outage while watching their new show that you torrented 😅 Pluribus is good

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Costco in Canada, with the first location being in Burnaby (I assume Brighton Ave?) www.cbc.ca/archives/the...

As a Halloween prank city council should approve one zoning-non-compliant building every year in late Oct.

Yay BCL is back 🥲

First went to a game in 2011. Regular fan going solo in the supporters section since 2014. Still went through the rough years because in the end it was still fun enough. Finally get the dream year. Do Canucks fans know this costs $40 or less? #vwfc

Took until Oct 24 for me to have a fresh hop IPA, shameful, fake craft beer fan

Damn my closest weed store is finally out of vape carts after weeks of the distribution system being on strike. Save us mediator Vince Ready!

The only “Canada’s team” I will accept is the Jays. The Jays are Canada’s team, even when the Expos existed.

Matthew Good told me what this city would be like through his lyrics and I still moved here, no regrets.