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1/3 - Something I explored today: #Samsung's newer versions of #Android incl. an "Edge Panel" - a thin traslucent bar on left or right side of the Home Screen. It's a drawer you can open by swiping over it toward centre of screen. By default it contains apps. You can change the selection ...

Waiting in 100 block W 6th. Buying 1st thing off Karrot market app - a tasty 2018 Chinese rugged mobile (HomTom Zoji Z9) for only $30! Prob keep it but *may* give it (for $30) to #homeless peer who just lost their phone. Seller lives downtown but they've got appointment on 6th soon. #Vancouver

Just did this on my coffee break. Didn't take long. There are many people who can't afford to pay someone to do their taxes who would benefit from automatic filing.

Currently using the TransLink bus door chime as my ringtone. Nice but confusing when I'm near a bus stop. Contemplating a change. Perhaps the hardware handshake of an old Supra 14.4 modem. #Vancouver

Social media platform popular with unhoused people in east #Vancouver.

FAlRVIEW TENANTS BLOCK PARTY Thurs, Sept. 25 6 to 8 pm Granville Park (Fir & 15th) * Music * Free barbeque * Bingo End of summer block party. Know your neighbours. Know your rights. Put on by #Vancouver Tenants Union #housing #BroadwayPlan

I just launched a giveaway with Willowbrook Shopping Centre in Langley - we have a $200 gift card up for grabs:

ok I lost my phone and I'm running on empty and there are shaks. if people could chip in a few bucks, it would be a big help in sorting this out. etransfer: [email protected]

Sitting at out-of-service transit shelter on #Vancouver's Oak St. Noticed a yellowjacket wasp was hovering over my phone. S-l-o-w-e-d down my scrolling speed as I have no idea how quickly wasps can read. 🙂

Careful #Argentina! There's always a quid pro quo with #DonaldTrump - give that grifter an inch and he'll take a mile. (he already owns #Milei)!

Former ABC, now indy #Vancouver City Councillor Rebecca Bligh says she'll run for mayor next yr, w/ slate of candidates under Vote Vancouver party name. Bligh's is at least the 3rd new party created for 2026 muni election. There's also (former ABCer) Kareem Allam's Liberals & a Conservative party.

Look's like Charlie Kirk is MAGA's Horst Wessel.

Former (?) infamous #Vancouver slumlord Luigi Aquilini is back in the news. He and his sons - including Francesco (real estate developer & Canucks hockey team owner) - are accused of trying to illegally cut another Aquillini male out of the family fortune.

I've spent a year trying to get some concrete answers about Township of Langley Mayor Eric Woodward's promise to transfer his real estate holdings to a charity devoted to local causes. The B.C. registrar ordered him to share financial statements with me. He did not: theijf.org/eric-woodwar...

Police in #BurnabyBC say they've arrested three people running an alleged theft ring. As usual, there doesn't appear to be a #homeless or socially housed individual among them.

Visited a friend who lost her job & brought along samosas & alcohol: Fruli strawberry wheat beer & Mike's Hard Orange & Cream. 473ml vodka drink flavoured like a Creamsicle is $4.29 w/ tax at Kingsgate Liquor Store - $0.46 less than real Creamsicle at Spruce & Broadway Ezymart ($4.75)! #Vancouver

Window washing via 4-rotor #drone! Seen in 700 block alley, south side of W Broadway. #Vancouver company called "Skydweller".

In recent months, B.C. has witnessed more than isolated tragedies. These are alarms exposing the lie that violence in the home is a private matter. Its costs are public and its consequences are everywhere. Angela Marie MacDougall writes. #bcpoli

The @cityofvancouver.bsky.social should be aware of new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses with immersive audio, aimed at runners cyclists & other athletes. It's against #Vancouver Bylaw 2849 to wear headphones over or in close proximity to both ears while cycling.

I'm glad about a new campaign to end the at-large voting system in Vancouver civic politics. But it's comical that Kennedy Stewart is the spokesperson, given that he did nothing as mayor to address this racially discriminatory way of electing politicians. www.straight.com/news/1320961...

ABC-run #Vancouver Council & Mayor Ken Sim are distancing themselves from "Think Big" revenue strategy that nearly turfed VanDusen restaurant, saying it's Park Board policy. Sure but driven by Sim & Co! The "Think Big" strategy of selling naming rights came out of Sim's Jan 2024 budget task force.

NOW: Speakers addressing council about @seanorr.bsky.social's motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax. www.youtube.com/live/At2Wpp6...

The Best Pumpkin Bread. 50 years later, My mom's recipe is still the best I've erer had, RECIPE HERE: buff.ly/Wcmex50

Elder friend - long ago #homeless, still a binner - riding bike on sidewalk. Coming from VGH cancer therapy. #Vancouver police cruiser stops him. Officers handcuff him for "mischief". They've had a report, they say… blah blah blah. 15mins in tight cuffs before they admit their mistake!

New #BritishColumbia municipal political party (local elector organization) called "Conservative Electors Association" (or just "Conservatives") has been approved by Elections BC to operate in 15 cities, incl. #Vancouver, #SurreyBC & #RichmondBC. #BCpoli

"It’s reminiscent of the time that Christy Clark’s campaign signed up a cat to vote for her in the 2012 BC Liberal leadership race. The cat, named Olympia, wouldn’t take orders from anybody. Cats, like dead people, are extraordinarily unreliable voters." #BritishColumbia #BCpoli

Nice sunrise seen at 6:24am in #Vancouver Fairview.

last three donations totaling $35 went towards phone bill. kinda running out of food to have one meal a day with (only have enough for maybe 3 more meals). need money for transportation and to print documents for health insurance. personal paylinks for these and for rent: gofund.me/982b699b

#Vancouver Fairview motorists & cyclists be advised - long marked pothole in westbound lane of 1400 block of W 10th is not filling itself; it may actually be getting deeper. When DO potholes become sinkholes? Asking for a friend. @cityofvancouver.bsky.social

Canada’s Parliament just gave Charlie Kirk a standing ovation. You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities. But Canada’s politicians, some media and many employers don’t seem to entirely understand that:

1/2 - 1000s of British Columbia customers of the payday cash lender CashMoney may be entitled to refunds after company was found guilty of breaking loan protection laws. linked article says to go to company's website or call them at 1-877-526-6639...

The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them. She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.

Apparently the murder of that scum Charlie 4Chan has made both mainstream media and social media forget all about that scum Jeffrey Epstein.

"City councillors seemed alarmed when a tenant pointed out … proposed 155-unit tower’s mandated 20 per cent below-market units equaled exactly 30 units: the same number we already had in our old buildings. The tower was adding net zero affordable housing to our community." #Vancouver #BroadwayPlan

For your brunch consideration, the Knight Street Cafe (Kingsway x Knight) Eggs Dundas pictured...with spinach sub for bacon #YanEats www.knightstreetcafe.ca

Elon Musk is letting his inner fascist out to play again! People *really* need to factor the price of empowering his rightwing political pyromania into the cost of buying a Tesla product. Just not worth it!

Biblical Jesus has a way of embodying socially marginalized groups... We know about the poverty & homelessness but what about a trans aspect to JC's identity? Mary only had XX chromosomes to pass on. For Jesus to be biologically male there had to be some divine gender affirming treatment, no?

#Vancouver parking excellence in 2400 block of Alder St. Fancy Lexus covertible is plugging southbound entrance of the bike lane of the "banana barrier (despite the no parking sign), even as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social has put a @limebike scooter station too close to the exit!

"While it is not recommending criminal charges, B.C.’s [supposedly independent] police watchdog is referring officers’ actions to the RCMP’s professional standards department for review after they repeatedly tried to get an arrested man to walk after breaking his leg."

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Bit of luck today! Years ago when an unnamed telco strung #Vancouver Fairview alleys with fibre optic cable I blogged about the reusable, high-strength cable ties being used (& dropped). Collected lots but entire bag was stolen off my trailer. Today contractors doing repairs gave me NEW bag of them!

1/3 Elder #Vancouver Fairview couple who became #homeless late 2023 (hoarding issues) got into a new place before winter 2024 but they said it was too small & ended up on street spring of 2025 for inability to pay rent. Then got free basement suite in East Van. Landlord suddenly evicted them Aug...

Two housed #Vancouver Fairview binners got quite aggressive! Woman dashed past me in alley of 1200 block tween 12th & 13th to grab bag of cans. I told her to "fu*k off". Male partner shouted that was his mom, tried to menace me & grab bag of cans off my trailer. Here's their BMW in same block. 🙄

J.K. Rowling uses her Harry Potter fame to spread Christian hate speech against LGBTQ. Rowling believes trans people are delusional & trans rights are a zero sum gain that only come at expense of non-trans rights (like hers). Both types of assertions are common to anti-gay & anti-abortion activism.

The Van Park Board has made a misguided decision to bring a trademarked Harry Potter experience to Stanley Park this winter. As a Queer woman and a strong Trans ally, this is unacceptable. JKR pours her fortune into actively harming Trans Folks. #TransRights #ProtectTransKids #FuckJKRowling

AI is just a much more invasive version of the "Internet of Things" / "smart" nonsense. Interestingly the new AI "Friend" pendant requires a constant Internet connect but has no subscription fee. That must mean you're literally paying with your life - which it's constantly recording!

Seasonal alchemy in #Vancouver. Friday it felt like late summer. Today it feels like early autumn.

Crown land file number 1412379 containing all 77 applications is open for public comments until October 5th