15yo: I just want to teleport to this time next week when all my finals are over and there is World Cup soccer every day …me too kiddo, meeeee too.

Just because my 15yo CAN use mathematical induction to write a proof, this is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL Even for a grade 12 Precalc student (She’s the end of grade 9, just let her sleep) She didn’t know how to write a part in the middle…

For the summer season I would really like Parks to hire a team from lil’wat Nation to great and guide visitors thru the park. I would have appreciated a little education when I went thru. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Take this article and replace AI with social media (remember YouTube counts as social media). Now our response to social media was to ban it, despite awesome content like LearnWithSherlock or PhysicsInHeels, why different with AI? Not advocating either side, just curious www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today in conversations I never thought I’d have with my fam: how much horsepower is in your Catholic guilt? Is it more like a spark? Or a full nuclear power plant? As a kid it was the only acceptable emotion really, it’s my life force Me: right so there’s this cool secular thing called therapy…

I spent a decent part of my career figuring out how people circumvent rules when using software. THIS will result in the spacebar or period key being pressed for 10% of the report “The program requires police to change at least 10 per cent of what's produced.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I know flags are kind a colonial thing but I wish we flew flags of the First Nations at events where they are on unceded land. I know the Musqueam have a flag because I’ve seen it at UBC I think we should have visual reminders everywhere. Land acknowledgements only work if there is something to say

This has to be one of the best notifications your phone can ever give you

Somehow I suspect *this* ban will be enforced unlike the drone ban during the fireworks. Probably the biggest traffic enforcement project the VPD have undertaken in recent years…on drones…you know, for “the safety of our citizens” I’m sure *eyeroll*

Me: we could invite your friends, why don’t you want your friends to see you perform? 12yo: because mom I don’t play guitar to *show off* I play for myself. I don’t want it to be about anything different. Me: how did you get to be so healthy minded? 15yo: therapy 12yo: yeah definitely therapy

EVENT VENDORS: here’s the thing. Families are coming to these affordable events looking for experiences. They are buying products from you because of the *experience*. So if you offer a curated experience (like say you sell bracelets, a little make your own option) you will have more engagement.

My 15yo who just got demoted from her soccer team for “being too slow” won the running race against the senior boys at her highschool and is being heavily recruited by their ultimate team (Kids & teacher) Your relative ability may say more about the company you keep than that much about you

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

The amount I am active on social media is directly proportional to the amount of laundry I have waiting to fold.

OK for everyone whose AI is stealing our jobs. Remember a few years ago if you slapped “blockchain” on any name it’s stock shot up in value? What’s better? Businesses laying off hundreds of people saying “economy sucks” or “we’re retooling with AI” …there are so many other reasons to dislike AI

Did you know you can compress wood that will make it bullet proof? And you can make translucent wood? LOOOOOTS of innovation room in wood products vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/04/f...

Whichever slate campaigns on “making traffic enforcement a higher priority” will win the municipal election. It’s a low bar and easy to clear because there is clearly ZERO in this city.

My 15yo has better mental health skills than my entire generation. She’s played soccer her whole life. It’s a big part of her identity. She was told she was too slow to keep her divisional spot. She made a plan to train hard. Did. Still got demoted. And she was devastated For about 2 hours.

#HappyPride and #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Clay Adamah, a published illustrator of #KidLitArt Since the theme is "yourself as a kid" and it's #Pride y'all! 🌈 I drew myself growing into the joyful human I am today. #ProtectTransKids and #LetTransKidsBloom 🏳️‍⚧️ clayadamah.wixsite.com/clayadamah

It’s #KidLitArtPostcard day. Go check it out and follow some illustrators Even though my kids are all grown up I still have all of their children’s books because each one is like a tiny little art gallery. It’s the most affordable compact way of collecting art! This is my fav thus far today

Can we please remember that before social media, for you algorithms and streaming…. flipping channels was a thing. This is not new behaviour. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m having so much fun trolling my European neighbours since none of them know I’m a soccer fan, by asking them “are you going to the FIFA?” And watch them turn red in the face and see how they handle “that’s not what it’s called!” It’s really fun. 100% recommend.

Oh old navy. Is this where we are at for uplifting slogans?

A-fi E-fi I-fi O-fi U-fi and sometimes Wi-fi

I have seen more police officers in the past week than I have in 5 years combined. 100% of them in motorcades. ZERO public funds are going into that right?

I mean I’m 99% sure boomers said the exact same thing about us millennials "Teenagers are presenting at their first jobs with reduced attention capacity and ability to focus and have complex conversations” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wow kiddo, look at how much your printing has improved over the past 6 months! 12yo: ughhh nooooo I saw already Me: what? You should be proud this is amazing 12yo: NOOOO because if i am then I would have to admit you were right about printing practice Me: oh well we can’t have that now can we

I take exception to the exceptions. You should not be able to be a landlord if a unit has “limited electrical capacity or building integrity issues” that prevents cooling. I say maybe a grace period before enforcing to get those rectified. I say as a landlord myself, with aluminum wiring.

Wait wut? Data centres are taxed as “places of business” and not “heavy industrial”?!??? They are factories. They always have been factories. AI or traditional data centres, tax them as factories, that’s a no brainer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I think if a soccer coach has decided to demote a child, particularly one who has been with the club for 10 years and incorporated every piece of feedback or metric they asked of her, should have to do so to her face and not make her parents do it. 😭

WE BETTER *glaring at all of vancouver*

Ministry of ed response to 16yo being forced out of school by parents: yeah like we know this sometimes happens but it’s not of “widespread concern”. And even so it’s a district issue so, yeah. Me: wait, this happened before, you are aware it is a problem and are OK with it? WTF

I wonder if we can do a FOI request for Ken Sims AI prompts to look for any possibility of information pertaining to COV business being disclosed. I wonder if @seanorr.bsky.social can request for any instances his name appears. Or at the very least if AI use is being billed to the city.

THIS. We need traditional data centres immediately in Canada and it should be a national project to keep our data on our soil. And these should be built in Canada’s north. And that means laying more digital infrastructure too up there. BETTER THAN PIPELINES. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/02/u...

OMG so many of the #CanMNT gave their coats to the kiddos walking them on!!! 🥰

Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand.

Geez. Learned a terrible statistic. Anecdotally, 50% of orthopaedic (I think he said er visits) are now e-scooter related. (Source, hospital ortho med student @uvic) Also, in vancouver, a high school kid just lost his dad to a e-scooter accident. WTF Who’s looking at these stats?

I gained an appreciation for during the lead up in 2010, we needed transit expansion and by tying the rav-line to the Olympics it opened a different pool of funding I don’t know how projects are accounted that would not have otherwise happened (like the arch) vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/01/n...

I think e scooters should have mandatory packaging ala cigarette packaging that displays ER room photos.

On the way to Mama Mia with my kids. And on the way home (video in comments) …and these incidents will not be reported or captured in any statistic @visionzerovancouver.ca I sincerely hope we start moving in the right direction

Can we please F**KING raise property taxes and improve this city so me and my kids don’t have to witness a cyclist get killed!?!?! one guy over the handlebars, and later one guy smucked by a car. BOTH CYCLISTS were IN SEPARATED bike lanes Both cyclists were fine. But we MUST fix this.

*ugh* *runs hands down face* More people publicly endorsing spending more time, money and attention on children’s genitals I spend 0% of time worrying about other peoples gender. Seriously. ZERO. Can we cure cancer please? Maybe addiction? Mental health? Public transit?

Me: so mama Mia was a musical created from ABBA songs 15yo: old school phone book optimization? Me: wut? 15yo: like Acme, ABBA would come before it in the phone book. Is that why they called themselves that? Me: 🤦‍♀️ you didn’t look up bands in the phone book 15yo: oh, was that the yellow pages?

I am a landlord (not in Vancouver). I have a tenant who was a cancer patient. My brother’s home (willed to me) has ALUMINUM wiring (royal pain to get insured). I have provided and INSISTED on her using a portable AC unit. We agreed I would pay the extra power costs so she could afford to run it

Because for some reason, the city of Vancouver subsidizes a lot of parking, it’s actually very often cheaper to drive than it is to take transit. Any reduction in cost for transit helps balance the math. Getting people out of cars has innumerable benefits, making transit cheaper is a great start.

I’ve reached the “my daughter might be on a date and doesn’t realize it” stage of parenting 🤭 I’ve made her read romance novels so, I’m not worried. She’ll clue in eventually.

I wish all measures before council had this level of data attached to it.

People in our neighborhood are getting pretty annoyed with the FIFA motorcades…and the games haven’t even begun!

My grandmother operated one of these at Nanaimo Hospital My dad always wanted to play with the switches :)

Raise your hand if you are financially supporting a parent thru this time of increased costs during their retirement ✋ And what kind of financial supports have been put in place for millennials? Oh right cheapish debt. right right right.