Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I know this is the wrong crowd for this but, I have an important test that I apply to new technologies that people think are going to fix everything. I ask "how does this help with the housing crisis?" Invariably (so far) it does not.

The first time I saw this, I nearly choked myself from laughing. RIP Catherine O'Hara. youtu.be/J0mbLsJe_Lk?...

WE WON. Celebratory gathering at 5pm @ Pattison HQ, to unpack our victory and next steps. Hootsuite ICE protest is ON as planned at 3pm, let’s crank up the heat🧊

Why are so many young families and new businesses choosing #NewWest? Not only is it the most affordable City in Greater Vancouver, it is recognized as one of the most livable Cities in Canada. 5th overall, 2nd by population. And the trend is upward! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

What is up with #NewWest Council members doing municipal election campaign activities on @newwestminster.bsky.social property? On FB both Councillor Fontaine and Minhas are currently advertising this event at the Queensborough Community Centre. STRICTLY AGAINST THE CODE OF CONDUCT! C’mon man. 🙄

Yesterday, I spoke at public hearing to support the OCP updates. Here is my speech.

Ki Sushi’s on fire. #NewWest

Canucks! What a team!

There are four levels of government in Canada: municipal, provincial, federal, and railways.

Countering "crime stats are down" with "yeah but look this business got broken into!" is like countering climate change with "yeah but it snowed a bunch!" Yes this is a #NewWest subtweet.

Telling people there’s no plan for infrastructure (after passing a 10-year capital plan), no plan to pay for it (after passing an interim funding- growth strategy) & no plan for managing growth (while opposing an OCP update to mange growth) is not only misleading, it’s fearmongering. #newwest

“Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.”

1/ As the people of Minneapolis rise up against ICE, it's painful and shameful that Canadian companies are selling armoured vehicles to Trump's masked militia and providing tech support to the dept of Homeland Security.

So glad they used this picture of me so I didn’t have to run up the stupid Queens Avenue hill for no good reason.

Kudos to Vancity for having the courage to take a perfectly functional online banking system and revert it to the heady days of 2005.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

The second edition of Freshet News is out! Read the e-Newspaper here! www.freshetnews.ca/wp-content/u...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

News In Photo:

Oh… I was hoping it was better in context. It wasn’t.

this is, literally, a wild ride

Poll: Radiohead’s OK Computer is a perfect album. Yes or yes?

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Huh, Python's got matrix multiplication as a native operation. Wild.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Block instantly.

NDP supporters are the biggest proponents of military action. What a world we live in.

Community First was excited to hear the announcement made by BC Housing to make Purpose Society's shelter operate 24/7. This is the kind of investment that's is made possible when you lead with compassion, bring others to the table, and meaningfully work with them.

What the heck is #newwest being turned into? I specifically chose to live in New West because of its diversity, walkability and size. I love living here but it’s not lost on me that the more visibly African/Black the city becomes, the more we hear these racist dog whistles and it’s disgusting.

"The Greens have a point," writes @robshaw.bsky.social . "Decriminalization was always meant to be paired with expanded treatment, wrap-around care and incentives to seek help. None of that ever materialized." #bcpoli

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Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY! Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day. Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.

Rob Shaw is nervous that if the politicians he writes about start fleeing the non-consensual sex image generation website he posts on, his account with 33,000 followers will be useless

Kīlauea's doing its thing again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

Nice day for a run 🏃🏻

"If that's not a highlight reel goal I don't know what is" Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score

If politicians and political parties use genAI to generate AI slop graphics, who’s to say they won’t use it for generating AI slop policies?

I’m glad the #NewWest library doesn’t charge overdue fees any more because I just checked out James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Slightly diminish a band U1

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

dependabot PRs, you merge one in and two more pop up

Nice to have a newspaper in #NewWest again! Our Capital budget for the next 5 years is ambitious - and I am still holding out hope that senior government infrastructure investments are going to help get us past this time of economic uncertainty. www.freshetnews.ca/new-westmins...

The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Let's try it? Seems like a win-win-win-win

The first two hours this morning

As @billmckibben.bsky.social wrote about the need to transition to solar and other renewables as quickly as possible, "it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine." billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...