Starts this Saturday! See you there?

Don't miss out on the 2025 Bicycle Film Festival this upcoming Sunday October 5th in Nanaimo! This festival in its 25th year, returns to Nanaimo for its 4th showing, first coming to Nanaimo in 2022. This event is part of the Fall GoByBike! Tickets available at the link below. @nanaimo.ca

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

Whoa!!

WOMP WOMP.

MSNBC: Trump Border Czar Homan Recorded Accepting $50K in Cash from FBI Agents

First they came for Colbert…

Some advice: “finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself. if you want to be able to finish large, complex projects, you have to _practice finishing things_. which usually means doing smaller projects.” [bsky.app]

Boycotts and industry pushback works?

The CFL fans at our station are probably going to be in a FUROR over these changes. I already have to tell the Bluebomber and Roughrider fans in the office to chill out!

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Phones are useful on the go, but distracting when you're at home. Here's how to automatically make them less interesting. www.wired.com/story/set-yo...

CBC’s About That w/ Andrew Chang does a really good job explaining the FCC’s role in the Jimmy Kimmel purge and why that is very bad here:

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

"The anti-vaccine fringe is now setting CDC’s agenda." The latest from Dr. Leana S. Wen:

Vancouver Island University made some significant cuts to staffing earlier this week in response to their operation deficit troubles. Midcoast Morning's Joe Pugh interviewed VIU's new interim president Dennis Johnson last week.

"Quaife shared that it is significant to create these employment opportunities in a time of extreme youth unemployment rates across Canada, and particularly in B.C. [...] increasing the capacity of local communities, the YCC enables youth to find meaningful work in their own communities [...]"

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

Me, screaming in Saskatchewan queer, SOMETHING IS BEING DONE! The Supreme Court is going to rule on the notwithstanding clause soon, for the first time in 40 years. Shockingly the liberals seem to be on the right side of history here (unlike SK, AB, and ON). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is the kind of thing that makes you feel something needs to be done about the notwithstanding clause

Past seven day Google search trend for "cancel disney," with "cancel hbo" for comparison's sake.

Something that’s been increasingly on my mind.

Very much looking at canceling Disney+ because of the Kimmel cancellation.

The YMCA closures of its infant and toddler care programs at the West Sechelt and Gibsons locations cut 16 spots from a region already strapped for child care. Some parents say the closure has upended their lives and at least a dozen won’t be able to head back to work. #bclab #bcpoli

Not if MH Fail surpasses it.

The CRA automated line sure sucks. Of all the things the government should be funding, its the folks who I can talk to about my taxes.

So much free speech.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The FCC chair threatening ABC with nonsense investigations for his opinions on Charlie Kirk's murderer is pretty awful. Good thing his employer signed an executive order barring such activities.

Thought this, from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, was really great. youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?...

"During a recent monologue, Kimmel said the U.S. had hit "new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." This gets you canned? 1/2

On a different note... is it really appropriate to refer to the BC Conservatives as Tories? Do they really come from that tradition?

From April: The FCC has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump. Read more from @karlbode.com: www.theverge.com/tech/656653/...

Further to this: "CBC News confirmed with two party sources, whom CBC has agreed not to name because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, that red flags were raised with regards to more than 2,000 new party members."

"You cannot punch up, you cannot make fun of the king."

Mmmmm, ballot stuffing allegations.

The hypocrisy is going to get worse. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggests killing mentally ill homeless people, and yet *nothing* is done that remotely compares to this.

"Given the focus of the Alberta Next panel, we are right to question whether this citizenship marker is a pretext to deny certain non-citizens access to such provincial services." #abpoli #ableg thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

A new edition of Midcoast Morning from CHLY 101.7FM has dropped: Island Corridor Foundation looking at regional projects, CEO makes presentation to Nanaimo council. Listen here.

For those who cannot read between the lines: If "unhealthy" people cease to exist—that is *die*—due to undermining modern medicine and science, you'll be left with "healthy" people. Eugenics is bad.

Man was an *icon*.

Oh fuck! Robert Redford DIED?! I was wondering why folks were posting about him yesterday. Definitely one of my favourite actors of that generation. He was a handsome man, a style icon, and a good soul. I think I need to watch Three Days of the Condor in the near future. RIP. Photos to follow: 1/5

Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield quits saying Unilever ‘silenced’ social mission

“By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.”

Walking with my two android-human hybrid kids on a beach. “It’s going to be ok!” I say with a sigh, and a sudden bout of indigestion. Little did I know that the spicy seafood I had earlier had left me with a rather nasty parasite. Things were not going to be ok.