@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 😆

I've always preferred AMD microprocessors anyway...

I dunno, is all lower-case (like the original tagline) better? i capitalized the Y because i didn't think i wanted any descenders in the tagline, but... idk? this sucks less than i thought it would?

For the locals: The BC government has an official presence here now. @governmentofbc.bsky.social

Teen climate activist (my son) needs Canadians to respond to a 2-minute survey to help him build data to bring to local Cdn politicians to urge them to make it easier for Canadians to donate used electronics for reuse (after wiped clean) and recycling. Pls share: marketing4health.formaloo.me/b8j3vp

The bee walk went well. Now, a well-deserved pint at the Lion's head.

The Kootenay River and the two Brilliant bridges in the distance at Castlegar, from earlier today. Come join us at the Butterfly Garden at Syringa PP for a bee walk tomorrow at 1pm!

Furthest in Canada: N: Behchokǫ̀, NWT W: Whitehorse, YT E: Glace Bay, NS S: Point Pelee, ON.

Republican lawmakers should sit down and shut the fuck up.

Your 49 seconds of Zen for today: Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bee slumber party on goldenrod up in the Grandby Valley north of Grand Forks, BC. 🐝

Found One in Blue! Emerald Wasp in sapphire on wild Scentless Chamomile. Chrysididae Tripleurospermum inodorum 🌿

Bedtime booty. 🐝

I'm not sure how obscure this is, but certainly no one I've talked to has seen or heard of it: the 2007 Spanish film 'Time Crimes' (Los cronocrímenes). I'm a big fan of time-travel films where the paradox is dealt with intelligently, and this one is it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecri...

Black-capped chickadee found on the Terrace Loop trail at North Thompson River PP in Clearwater, BC. 🪶 #birds #birding

Unidentified bee in foxglove. Syringa PP, Castlegar, BC 🐝

It's wren week! Little ones are dropping fr the nests & checking out their neighbourhood. Watching the first to drop to the ground, scurry to cover, then chirp and encourage the smaller/more feeble ones to 'come on down'. Some needed an hour of encouragement but eventually they all took off.

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The Bees, Butterfies, and Botany walk at Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area was very well attended, including 4 BC Parks staff who wanted to learn more about the bees in the park they manage. #bees #BcParks