This is incredible

SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget. Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...

hey what happened to defunding the police? Its not even on this list of options

defunding the police has more support than a 0% property tax increase among participants of the city’s budget survey fund the city, the people said.

42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver but wait there’s more a lot more 1/? council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Q's first 'nucks game.

In 10 minutes - Dungeons and Dragons 5e! with @mspixieriot.bsky.social Watch live: twitch.tv/PlaidDogEvents Donate: andreasadventurers.ca ⁠ Your donations have in-game effects!⁠ ⁠#andreasadventurers2025

Ok, I know "long-form commentary" seems better than sound-bites, but there's no way I'm going to watch a "film-length" explainer no matter how interested I am in the topic. What is "film-length" even, anyway? 60 minutes? 90 minutes? 180 minutes? 13 hrs of LOTR? I wasn't even motivated to find out.

Ahahahahaha the Vancouver car-eating banana barrier made it into their slide deck.

I'm fun on Saturday nights. #SafeStreetsForPeople #BikeYVR

Channel your own @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social here homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f... h/t @meghancarnold.com

Saw @tomflood.bsky.social standing on a corner in the Olympic Village on my way to the @visionzerovancouver.ca workshop. I had to stop and flash my "Bicycle Freedom" t-shirt at him 😄 Welcome to Vancouver, Tom, sorry I couldn't stop and chat. #bikeyvr

TIL my 3D printer will make rather good quality minis, which was something I thought only resin printers could do. Uh oh. #3dprinting #BambuX1C

"Citywide solar access policy might limit allowable max height on some sites" Shadows. Once again you're using shadows as an excuse to not build housing. Why try to hide that? Solar access policy, lmao

I am once again asking everyone to use my Canadian, free, science-based #Menopause website at www.Herstasis.com

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Inaccurate violent crime statistics touted by Vancouver mayor’s party

The Vancouver budget will be devastating to services so many rely upon and to the hardworking employees delivering them, but here's one tiny sliver of good news: the scheme to spend millions to widen Beach Avenue and tear out the bike lane appears to have been dropped from the Capital Plan!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Drove Q to Granville Island tonight. Tesla driver had some sort of interaction with a pedestrian in the crosswalk on Anderson under the bridge. Driver then got out of his car, opened the trunk, walked over to the sidewalk, and attacked the pedestrian. So that was fun.

If this was you, BC 169 ADM driving a Toyota Matrix, you're an asshole. Dark, pouring rain, on a designated bike route, in a car canyon, and you feel the need to honk and close pass. An absolute tool, a moron, an imbecile. As you heard while I narrated behind you the whole way. (video next) #bikeyvr

Anthony, what is it like doing engineering internationally? Sometimes you're working with Americans, sometimes with EVERYONE ELSE. Which means holding all "intuitive" numbers in my head in at least two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT unit systems.

Vancouver Goldeneyes, huh?

In other news, the tide was as high as I've ever seen it in False Creek this morning. Maybe 3 ft below the top of the Seawall? It was weird seeing all the gangways horizontal.

Oh good, we won't be hearing about these weirdos and their ostriches much longer.

(Looks outside) Hey maybe I don't need my rain gear this morning! (Looks at weather radar) Oh. #bikeyvr #raincouver

I'm sure everyone's already posted theirs but the crows and I were chasing this #rainbow home for the whole ride. #bikeyvr

I don't have hatches to batten, but the wet-leaf index on the bikeways is off the scale. #bikeyvr

The continued enshittification of the internet, part 23421. This used to work.

Tonight, I took my granddaughter to her singing lesson, and we both enjoyed this view of False Creek.

Burnaby's new bike/ped bridge is getting swung out over highway 1 on Saturday night!

Today Elections Alberta requested $13.5 million to be able to administer recalls and referendum. The UCP committee in charge revised their request to just over $1 million. And then voted it through. The UCP just defunded recall/referendum. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

Some people knew this was coming. Here's what I think should be done with it: bsky.app/profile/anth...

The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀

"It's fall back, so you get an extra hour in your day" No, now I'm just hungry an hour earlier

This, and the fact the entire storyline is launched by regional transportation planners failing to properly engage with an impacted neighbourhood over some alleged “get traffic moving” scheme, make the HHGG as relevant now as ever.

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have they ever had to change the clocks at a baseball game

The pressure is getting to the pitchers

Well then.

Nine down, nine to go.

10

Storybook finish if Kirk gets this.

My youngest kid went to school like this today, after spending quite some time doing his makeup. I drove him. I'm running the building's Halloween party tonight, and he didn't want to take the bus home for some reason, so he's riding his bike home. In the heavy rain. I need the "after" photo!

This year's ghost clan. 🎃 👻 🎃 #HappyHalloween

We’ve done four Peabody #BikeBus rides with the band so far, and each one relies on an incredible selfless army of volunteers. I’m so grateful to them without whom we couldn’t pull off this joyful madness. A true community. Happy HONKoween 🎺🎷🎃

My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."

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