If you’re looking for a list of maple flavoured TTRPG folks into the new year, here is a wonderful place to start. A big shoutout to @pocgamer.com for putting it together. go.bsky.app/HEx5pr5

labour of love and revisions of 1.5 years New Pub Alert: Fundelius, E. (2025). Empowering Students with Visual Impairments: A Collaborative Approach to Access and the Expanded Core Curriculum. TEACHING Exceptional Children doi.org/10.1177/0040... #Disability #InclusionWithoutSupportIsNeglect

It should be malpractice to have a "painted bike lane" narrower than the "bike lane" stencil. Vancouver has a few of these. 😒 #bikeyvr #PaintIsNotInfrastructure

It's that lovely time where it feels like hiding in a loophole. Happy Twixmas weekend.

Aaaand our Rogers Internet is down again. 😡 I don't understand why our Shaw service was so stable with the same equipment and after Rogers bought them, the reliability is horrid.

Start them early, I guess.

Meat-space PolyBridge. Merry Christmas everyone!

8:30am, Christmas Day. The gifts remain undisturbed under the tree. This whole "kids are getting older" thing sucks for morning people.

Merry Christmas to you! Yes, you. Whether you’re celebrating with friends and family, or just treating it like any other day, I hope you have a great day. You are seen, valued, and appreciated today and every day. Thank you for being part of my online community! 🎄

And with that run through Queensborough I’ve completed 99.71% of the streets in New West! There’s just one left: the dreaded Front Street.

Santa, I've been good! I've composed and deleted three replies this morning and it's not even 10am!

It's a Christmas Eve miracle! 🧩 Puzzle #883 🤔 5 guesses ⏱️ 10s 🔗 alphaguess.com

White Wine in the Sun currently being played on The Early Edition. Thanks @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social! Not a traditional xmas song but so poignant.

Support your local bookseller; it makes them happy.

You know, I seem to recall other countries that required a Schriftleiter, ah, I mean a zampolit, erm, wait, a kurator, no, a "balanced speech officer" embedded with their broadcasters. #FascismLooksLikeThis #HistoryMayNotRepeatButItRhymes

A little travel diary video I made from a road trip to the Kootenays on Dec. 22

Van Dusen Festival of Lights tonight. It was warmer, dryer, and much less crowded than anticipated. Where did the crowds go? #VanDusenFOL #Vancouver

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

11,283 signatures so far. Add yours to voice your objection to using the notwithstanding clause as a weapon to deny people their fundamental human rights.

I've seen so many hummingbirds over the past few days. I wonder if I should get a feeder and if the crows will tolerate it.

"Of the six provinces that responded, British Columbia had the highest COVID-19 uptake, reporting that 18 per cent of its residents have received a COVID shot [this fall]" We learned nothing. And gave in to the liars, fearmongers, and disinformation peddlers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

D'oh! I'm 20 minutes late to wish you a happy solstice! At 10:03 Eastern US time the Sun reached its most southern point on the sky, and will slowly begin to crawl farther north every day. This means today has the least amount of daytime of the year, and nights get shorter from here on out!

Christmas is hope. My novels are about ordinary women finding hope. How does she resist an invading evil being? How does a sheltered youth handle a strange bequest? How do you escape a future Nasty Time? What do you do when you don't want to exist anymore but the afterlife says tough? #SFF #books

Now this is a fun twist on trick taking games. And amazing art too! #OriginStory #bgg #FamilyGameNight

Seems like a good time to point out Canada's official time server: nrc.canada.ca/en/certifica... #TimeIsHard

Laughs with 15 years of False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility energy. vancouver.ca/home-propert...

Coming up on The Early Edition - our show director, Laurence Watt, looks at security cameras for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver, the latest episode of "The Pitch: Vancouver's Road to the 2026 World Cup." The signs are already up near BC Place:

You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them.

@andrewctenor.bsky.social Ahem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jH...

Well that's a new one. The "incoming phone call from a number close to yours" scammers just used *our actual phone number*.

Careful #BikeYVR! The traffic light at Ontario & 12th Ave is out! It's difficult to cross by bike or on foot! #311 @cityofvancouver.bsky.social

The '92 Toronto Blue'ns and '13 Bostoo Yook Yarters were teams for the history books, for sure.

It was a very wet ride home. Stay safe out there #bikeyvr

Natural gas IS methane. I don't understand today's breathless discussion in the media about the Canadian government "reducing methane emissions" without discussion of the natural gas industry too.

It’s official. Rad Power Bikes is bankrupt. Someone will buy the brand for sure but they’ll learn quickly you can’t spend $500 on advertising for every bike you sell (that you may/not even make money on). www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

Leaving mention of global warming out of a story ABOUT global warming is a choice. Maybe it's an editor, maybe it's CTV News policy, but it was a choice made by people who are supposed to be sharing the news without bias. Intentionally ignoring THE CAUSE of events is a massive, unforgivable bias.

From my kid’s school, her Vancouver Winter Weather Bingo Card

Yeah, didn't really expect blinding sunshine today.

RIP Rob Reiner

Ummm...

What an awful fucking day

Some sad news coming out of LA about Rob Reiner and his wife.

Dallas Brodie has apparently been removed as leader of far-right splinter party OneBC

Ok, 19, but that's because I *predate* AOL. My first internet email address was in 1991 and before that, it was all dial-up BBSes. #BBSLife

Oh, nice. We got 1 lb of Godiva chocolates as a Christmas gift from "our" Chinese food restaurant with tonight's order for being loyal customers! According to the receipt, this was our 94th order from them 😬 Shout out to the Szechuan Chili on W 6th Ave.

Abbotsford flood update: • floodwaters continue to gradually recede, some areas seeing significant improvement • Nooksack overflow still coming north but slowly decreasing • Hwy 1 remains closed, side roads also flooded • Currently no way thru Abbotsford to Chilliwack or eastern parts of province

The Still Creek Murder is extra loud and making an extended stopover in the Olympic Village today. #CawCawCaw

Among all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.

Thanks to CBC's On the Coast, a whole lot of us were just sent to #whamageddon. #whamhalla? Whatever. @hungerdame.bsky.social give thanks to whomever is behind the glass. 😒