Merry Christmas from me, @dragonbyte.ca and MoMo (the neighbour's cat).

This is what happens when you get AI to author your signage. This is in Amarillo, Texas.

The Bohemians have shown up! 25 or so of them elbowing against the Robins for the last of the berries on our Ash. 72 species on the yard list now.

$3,000! So one black cartridge and one CMY cartridge?

I was so excited to solve the Advent of Code puzzles in real time this year, but I've already screwed it up. I was expecting the first puzzle tonight, but it was released last night 😐 So I guess I'll do it now and get ready for puzzle 2 tonight. #aoc

By 'help' she means driving and occasionally mumbling awkwardly at people addressing the table when she went to the washroom.

I'm more likely to encounter Jimmy Hoffa than one of these in the town where I live, but if I were to visit a city, and met one on a sidewalk, if it did not yield to me it would be swiftly kicked into traffic.

Lots of ppl talking about how this is 4d chess, and just a way to get concessions from AB and let the failure of any pipeline fall solely on Smith's shoulders. Even if that's true, and that's a mighty big if, we need to talk about how shitty and unseemly it is for our PM to play games like this.

@dragonbyte.ca made some very good dumplings!

I guess that's a good idea if you want large numbers of people to not vote anymore. What the actual fuck are these clowns thinking?

And there it is. Just a couple cm, but it's warmed up a bit and has already started melting.

We've just started getting our first snow of the year. Very light so far. If it stays like this through the night, I doubt there will be much more than a couple cm.

This spreadsheet could have been an email.

The weather will be turning next week and if you have somewhere warm and safe to go, don't take that for granted. So many people in our community are not so fortunate. The money I'm raising will ensure Bissell can continue to offer services and supplies to those in need. Please donate if you can!

Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.

I'm not going to shame the person who posted this meme (without alt text), but rather, offer a counterpoint: They don't extort money, they ask politely for it. Maybe if some of you cheap bastards who've been using Wikipedia for 15+ years sent them some, they wouldn't have to....

Or we could buy defective-by-design F35s with remote kill switches from fascists. I guess Carney will need to ponder the options a bit longer.

@davidebybc.bsky.social We don’t want this coming through our province. This sounds a bit like Carney and Smith are going to walk all over BC.

I've spent the last two days hunting down a bizarre bug in my C code. I finally found it, and it was caused by my own dumbassery. All I can say is: When you re-write a section of code the correct way, make sure you remove the kludges you put in to make it work when you wrote it the incorrect way.

Unlike so many other once great institutions, the PSF can't be bought by fascists. It would be nice if some other governments kicked in some cash to make up the loss.

Capitalism, whether motivated by pure greed or the hand of autocratic leaders, will claim every good thing, every human achievement, package it in an enshitified form shackled by artificial scarcity, and make it defective by design, simply to generate more capital. pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/p...

So cool that you can be summarily executed by a foreign military for being 'suspected' of stuff. Stuff that doesn't even come with a death sentence when convicted in that foreign country.

Today's the day! Hope to see you at City Farmer in Vancouver this afternoon, October 4 from 1-3 pm. I'll bee selling books for $30 each and of course, I'd bee happy to sign them for you!

You best start believing in dystopian futures, Miss Turner... you're in one!

Six Mile Pub in Victoria just responded to a (complimentary) google review I left there about 8-9 years ago haha. Said they'd love to hear more about our experience. Honestly, other than eating there once, I don't recall much.

I've been hacking on this fairly regular, and at 7000+ LoC it is turning from a toy-lisp into a full-blown R7RS Scheme implementation. It has garbage collection, full 'numeric tower' implementation, lists, vectors and bytevectors, partial Unicode support (chars but not yet strings). #scheme #lisp

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To be historically accurate, that cassette needs to be an 8-track. And it's either Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton duets or perhaps the Statler Brothers.

Guess where we are...

Okanagan visitor hitting on that dank BC bud a bit too much...

We stopped in at Prince of Wales for lunch. Lori said it was very 'Wes Anderson', and I can't disagree.

Guess where we are?

Your 55 seconds of the opposite of Zen. DOA at the Prospector Pub, Rock Creek BC, September 14, 2025.

Your 55 seconds of the opposite of Zen. DOA at the Prospector Pub, Rock Creek BC, September 14, 2025.

For some reason, DOA has decided to play the pub at the one-horse town I live in, and as an old-school punk, yeah, I'm going. This will be the first show I've seen in years. The last was Reverend Horton Heat in Edmonton, in spring of 2018? 2019?

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

A lot of you seem to like dunking on Doug Ford for being a 'hash dealer'. Let's be absolutely clear: Dealing hash is one of the least objectionable things he's done. The world, or at least Ontario, would be a far better place if he had remained a hash dealer.

This may read as 'send me birthday greetings', but it was intended as 'if the fates could just be kind to me, this one day', y'know?

Please be nice to me, it's my birthday.

We've just set up at Monck Park just outside of Merritt, BC. The rubber rabbitbrush is in full bloom, and the bees are buzzing. If you're in or near town, make sure to drop by the library tomorrow at 11:00am for Lori's 'Bees, butterflies, and botany' talk. 🐝

'might' doing some heavy lifting here. Everyone from Trump down through the DoD chain of command to the grunt that operated the drone should be charged with 11 counts of premeditated first degree murder. Why do _any_ other countries even talk to these fucking fascists?

This is my bi-annual reminder to purchase Canadian Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamps.These stamps support #Birds, #Wetland and #Habitat Conservation throughout #Canada including @birdscanada.bsky.social's #GreatLakes Marsh Monitoring Program #MMPSurvey #Frogs www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Early September? This is fine.

I think I don’t have a choice by say this is my all time favorite Kingfisher photo I’ve had the chance of clicking The Queen of Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve fishing the moon 📷🌿🪶🌔

First time I've agreed with this jackass.

Some shots from our event at Lac du Bois Grasslands, Kamloops, BC. While our BC Parks Foundation-sponsored events are done for this year, due to popular demand (no, really!) Lori will be giving her Bees, Butterflies, and Botany talk at the Merritt BC branch of the TNRL on Saturday, September 6...

Immature goldeneyes on a log. This is at Isobel Lake, in the hills high above Kamloops, BC #birds #birding

Happy birthday @erinh5995.bsky.social ! Have great day! Or at least one that doesn't suck.

Yesterday morning I started writing a Scheme-flavoured Lisp implementation from scratch. Just now, after 1050 lines of cryptic C code (I never want to type 'l_val' again), I have a REPL that is able to correctly do basic arithmetic 😆