part of the reason i am a lefty-YIMBY is because density is both good for the environment compared to the suburbs, better for growth, and makes the issue of "how many immigrants can come based on infra" a non-issue

Earlier this year I had the shock of losing one of my best friends from high school. Yesterday we all got together for a celebration of life. A friend printed this photo out for us, and I can't get over how nice a gesture that was! Life comes at you fast and it was a trip looking back yesterday

My DnD group just broke down into 5 minutes of jokes about William Jennings Bryan/bimetalism/cross of gold and I gotta say, I've got some great friends.

Burkie absolutely deserves to go in the Hall, even for me as a Small Hall guy. Tkachuk is going in because of his kids, full stop, and that's incredibly silly. His numbers put him FAR from belonging even in a Big Hall. The rest (Bergeron, Curley Rinne) all fine! www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

How did we lose the ability to make reasonable sized vehicles? Is it a lost technology of a former era?

Amazing win today! I'll never forget 14 years ago losing 8-1 to Honduras, closing off qualification that year. Jeez, it's been a rough two decades to be a fan of #canmnt but wow did it pay off today.

Great news! cheknews.ca/were-thrille...

"These streets weren't made for bikes" says a guy driving a pick-up truck so large it can't fit into a standard parking space

the Massey Tunnel re-bidding reporting would seem to suggest the Province is learning from recent mega projects that if you try and have one big contractor who is on the hook for everything you narrow your bidding pool dramatically while ensuring that you pay private sector rates for bearing risk

I saw an online progressive poster I used to have a lot of time for attacking OneCity Vancouver for her perception that they don't hold to sufficiently progressive values on twitter.com and I just cannot fathom how you can gatekeep progressive values while posting OVER THERE.

Have vancouverites considered what happens when you elect a socialist mayor? The parade in NY is Thursday.

Dear Bsky community, is it obnoxious to post "YESSSS!" with just a gif of a small child cheering a sport during a moment like this or is that considered passe? This is my first World Cup on Bluesky but that was amazing by Kyle Larin!

EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”

Bring Troy From Richmond Home!

Hokay, this is the earth

Aaaand @nomoon.phoebus.ca reminded me this is the lossiversary of game 3 in 2011. Sigh. I just want my team to win a cup in my lifetime.

First thing I thought of when I heard the news. Incredibly sad news, what a guy. Everyone that grew up on Buffy saw him as a mentor figure, and the best one And what a damned good villain in Ted Lasso too. 1/2

Normal people still have physical reactions to hearing Chelsea Dagger right? I was walking by a pub in Quebec City last night and heard it and immediately started talking about 2011. My work colleagues were very confused. Goal scored by number 88, Patrick kane.

Fuck yeah unions. One HOPES that another big nerdy company would see the positive outpouring of support for a company voluntarily acknowledging a new employee union buuuuuuuuuuuuut....

Without any exaggeration, Stephanie Smith has long been connected to one of the most atrocious, toxic and awful twitter accounts that has ever existed in Vancouver politics. She has never denied it. It was called @eastvanhalen. This is unseemly. The shit that person used to post was vile.

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

This is one of the most delightfully fun and yet also poignant games I've ever played. A true gem.

My wonderful partner got me this for my birthday this year! I'm stoked to dig into it this summer! Great work JMS, and thanks for bringing this to the world!

This is the most poor-taste, out of touch TIME cover in history. Worse than the mirror person of the year stunt. And worse than that time in '38

Do Ryan Mitton and the TC think that minimum wage workers should earn less money year over year? Inflationary increases keep the lowest earners from facing the brunt of inflation. That's why BC aggressively raised the minimum wage from $10.85 in 2017 to $15 in 2021, and then tied to inflation.

Randomly spotted this guy while cycling to my partners' parents place for dinner tonight. Victoria is pretty great sometimes.

1. That's typically how numbers works 2. Also yeah? That does seem to be the trend? Just maybe not quite in Europe.

New on Left East to West this week for your long weekend listening: Coree Tull, chair of the the BC Watershed Security Coalition, joins us to talk about the importance of watershed security and the potentials in the watershed workforce in our feature Interview. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...

The generation who can’t rotate a PDF are leading the charge with AI and I just think

BC's industrial carbon pricing system is returning big value to BC ecology! www.timescolonist.com/resources-ag...

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I just got a full dental cleaning for $28 with the Canada Dental Care Plan 😭 Jagmeet Singh you were not the right leader for the NDP in so many ways but you got this right and I will never forget you for it dude

It was the short form 😔

Well. Balls. (This is a Canucks post)

Great read!

Tiktok just fed me a paid ad for prep programs for U of T that was VERY CLEARLY filmed in Vancouver's Olympic Village. I was so confused.

I'm not being original here, but this reminds me of that quote about journalism where if one side says it's raining and the other says it's not, the journalist should stick their head outside and determine who is right.

So many hours on this game

Sounds great, wait, WHO IS DOING IT?

Definitely miss that site. Mostly because I am a walking stereotype.

"support the troops"

This is the kind of D&D post that makes me want to incorporate it into my next session

An absolute legend.

Happy 58th birthday to Lucy Lawless, who has always understood the assignment.

I've oddly got a 3 hour layover in YVR. I cannot begin to tell you how cool it is to realize I can jet into town to have a beer and then head back I miss this beautiful town! And once again I want to say how much I love the Canada Line, a refrain I've had for over 15 years now

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"