I'm going to miss the chaos giraffe. (this image is not photoshopped)

Ah jeez. This sucks. One of the best dudes to ever dude.

Hurry up and elect this guy Vancouver

I look forward to being called before the Parliamentary UnCanadian Activities Committee or PUAC to defend my opinion that fascism is bad. What a nimrod. Most reply guys get less insufferable after Uni, this guy somehow got so much worse. globalnews.ca/news/1168850...

In my experience real Normal Guys quote Marcus Aurelius.

"British Columbia was the most improved province. Last year, 82.6 per cent of respondents said they had a family doctor or nurse practitioner, up from 71 per cent in the 2022 survey." From @kellygrant1.bsky.social: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Sometimes you get goalied.

Any day is patio day if you dress warm enough. (I'm told this is a "very smug West coast thing to post")

I see there's an op-ed mad that Vancouver puts schools in good places. "The City... have developed a strange and entrenched consistent habit: placing elementary schools on some of the most prominent... pieces of urban land it has God forbid schools be in convenient prominent parts of communities.

My Fitbit recently "upgraded" to include AI reviews of my activities, but it is relentlessly and insipidly positive. This is my bike ride to work that I would have described as "routine and unremarkable" "The first ten minutes" were also the only ten minutes of the ride. This slop is so useless.

I just discovered that I know by heart many lines from Spaceballs despite not having seen the movie in probably two decades. It started with someone saying the name Lone Starr out of context. Real dudes rock moment.

He's in jail and used to be lead singer of a band. He was a real piece of work in high school too.

Why is my office so dusty all of a sudden? Man, what a legend. Truly one of the best.

This is so stupid.

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

Crave suggested that because Im watching Heated a rivalry that I might like Goon and, well, I do love that movie but I'm curious to see how the Heated Rivalry demographic feels about Goon...

LAGWAGON! And I get to see Los Furios for maybe the 10th time (I haven't kept a count) As usual, I bought my early bird tickets in January for a full fest pass. See you there!

Real vote of confidence there.

Well this is incredibly frustrating. Stargate is a part of our community!

I wonder what it's like being a CIA guy in a bar in rural Alberta and running into your FSB counterpart who's doing the exact same work

‘It’s a real problem,’ Toronto cyclists file complaint after police charged riders in crash, raising concerns about anti-cyclist bias nowtoronto.com/news/toronto... #VisionZero #VisionZeroTO #ZeroVision #ZeroVisionTO #WalkTO #BikeTO #TOpoli #ActiveTO

Drop an alien that's not from Star Trek or Star Wars. I give you, the moon faced assassin of joy.

Flannel over a band t-shirt is an iconic look that will never go out of style is a thing I regularly tell myself.

Hey Victoria, please settle an argument: (notably:dive bars are a positive thing) 1. Is Big bad Johns a dive bar or a fake dive bar? 2. Is view street social a dive bar? 3. Are there any other dive bars in Victoria?

btw bluesky is having its biggest month in a while by the math

Everytime I need to replace a thing and want to get something quality, it's always impossible to figure out where to look. It used to be you could go to a brick and mortar store and roughly know the quality level. Now it's all drop sale website scams and unknown quality. Anyways, I need a wallet

Also from a time before the term "welfare" was hijacked and actually meant the well being and good fortunes of all in society.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

2025 saw me get back into reading! Partly it was audiobooks, and partly it was helped using the @thestorygraph.com app (add me! I'm Patmeister) It was great reading for pleasure again! Over the next couple of days I want to highlight some of the best reads in thread form here!

One of the best Canadians! Through a convoluted process I got to spend an entire afternoon in the legion hall on Commercial as an extra on the Evaporators music video for Half Empty Halls and he was the epitome of a bundle of frenetic energy, truly a nice and kind person. Just a great Canadian.

Spoiler free stranger things thought: they know that M16s gave repetition mode right???? Also, the finale is 2h8m??? That's 7 minutes shorter than Red October, that's not an episode of TV that's a full movie.

Costconomics vs Walmartnomics in a nutshell. Here’s why having a Costco in a community boosts the entire community, including nearby businesses, while Walmart destroys whole towns and leaves people leaning on social safety nets. And yes, it’s about as simple as you think. …

Gee. Wonder why I got a flat.

“An isolated bike lane is a toy; a useful network of bike and roll lanes is core infrastructure.” I love this commentary on how empowering it is to have choices in your community. It’s also invigorating to know many communities in the region are contributing to a useful network of transportation ♥️

It's our Christmas tradition of taking the 9am boat back to the Island for my partners family Christmas after Christmas Eve with my folks in. Have they considered boats that go faster? Maybe they could do it with a catamaran hull design? They could call them "cats that go fast" Just a thought.

The fondest memory in my entire gaming life may be struggling and eventually achieving stable orbit with Kerbal Space Program. What an unbelievable game ruined by a bad gaming company takeover.

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

Listening to the audiobook for Because Internet by @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and enjoying it thoroughly! However I did NOT expect to hear a shout-out to CUSID in it, the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, where I spent far too much of my university life!

For any Canucks fans out there that need it, this may come in handy right now. I'm currently waffling between anger and bargaining. #canucks #huggybear

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Tonight I made a stew with my homebrew. And I am also drinking another bottle of the same batch.

I feel like Lucy just put a football out for me. I keep buying these games, and haven't found one engaging in a decade, but I am absolutely going to buy this game and play it. www.ign.com/articles/tot...

Why is my feed full of Falklands Islands discourse? I want to be very clear: I am not complaining, I am just trying to figure out why.

Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of my all time favourite plays, what a great talent and a good long life.

One of the three trucks in this picture can Carry full size sheets of plywood.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild Humpback whale Orcas Charging moose A tiny black bear cub The incident when the dog brought a dead opossum into the house. It was playing possum. And to this day I still occasionally have to convince people there are opossums in BC

If your immediate reaction to "Sunday Sunday Sunday" is to shout "at the Tacoma Dome" then you're a part of the PNW I don't make the rules.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts Dropkick Murphy's The second to last ever Spirit of the West show MGB (Snow Jam 2003) Reel Big Fish Prozzak/Aqua