Mayor of Gastown
@mayorofgastown.bsky.social
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My name is Paul and I live in Gastown. Cycling, LFC, Raptors, and more cycling.
Zero sympathy. This will never happen to me because I will never delegate any decisions to AI.
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about 14 hours ago
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Edmonton made Chappelle cry, they are still the City of Champions.
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2 days ago
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🎯
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3 days ago
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Jón Kristinsson
4 days ago
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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I can tell you without even look at your phone, and the answer is "too many".
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4 days ago
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Sachin Nakrani
4 days ago
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS
5 days ago
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This won't stop the AI layoffs from continuing. The point of AI isn't higher productivity, it's lower human employment.
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5 days ago
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Worth repeating for all those folks in the back, like
@kensimcity.bsky.social
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7 days ago
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Mayor of Gastown
The Beaverton
7 days ago
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A timely reminder that Marx was usually right.
theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
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The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
https://theconversation.com/the-ai-bubble-isnt-new-karl-marx-explained-the-mechanisms-behind-it-nearly-150-years-ago-270663?utm_medium=article_native_share
7 days ago
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A ironic upside in Vancouver's terrible 2026 budget is that there's the money allotted to rip out a wildly successful and popular separated bike lane has disappeared . . . much like the imaginary Stanley Park traffic backups which used to justify this project.
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9 days ago
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It would be a pretty great troll move for Premier Eby and the BC NDP to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to pass legislation banning any new oil and gas pipeline projects BC.
10 days ago
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I can't recommend this
@defector.com
dive into the very Canadian history of the term "gong show" highly enough.
defector.com/how-a-campy-...
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How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector
On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...
https://defector.com/how-a-campy-1970s-game-show-became-part-of-canadas-national-lexicon
11 days ago
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Can confirm.
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11 days ago
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Seconded.
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11 days ago
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Mayor of Gastown
Dave Levitan
13 days ago
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦
13 days ago
Hey, Ontario, repeat after me: Doug Ford is a total asshole.
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Mayor of Gastown
bakoon
13 days ago
the "virgin megastore" was a great third place. you could take dates there and shoplift together as a romantic activity. richard branson has so much money and nobody who works there gave a shit, you could just walk out with stuff
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It's on days like today that I miss Gawker more than ever.
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13 days ago
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And that's why we'll never see this info again
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14 days ago
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It's well past time for a public audit of the VPD's finances.
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16 days ago
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Vancouver drops from #19 to #30 under the so-called "leadership" of Chairman Sim and ABC. What an embarrassment. Anyone who says "buuut the rain" should try winter cycling in Montreal and Quebec City sometime.
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17 days ago
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What an interview, what a captain.
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19 days ago
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😍😍
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22 days ago
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Brought to you by the same people who wanted Vancouverites to trust them with park lands.
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22 days ago
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So, Chairman Sim thinks public consultation is a waste of time? What a Sigma Six loser.
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24 days ago
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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw
24 days ago
Semi-regular reminder to absolutely politicize my death when I’m killed by a reckless driver. I trust you all to take that opportunity and make the most of it, whether to advocate for more public transit, Vision Zero, or bike lanes
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Over to you, Vancouver. It's past time to get the horse-drawn carriages out of Stanley Park.
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25 days ago
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Mary Gillis
26 days ago
I am so goddamn tired of conservatives destroying things that belong to the public. This department doesn't belong to Sim, it's not his, he has no moral right to do this. This is social vandalism. He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.
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I guess Vancouver isn't going to get the 100,000 newtrees Sim and ABC promised during the last election.
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27 days ago
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Seems like an entirely reasonable position to me.
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27 days ago
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Mayor of Gastown
woke mayor
29 days ago
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Welcome to The Resistance.
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29 days ago
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Same here. I'm sure this Costco location has more customers arriving on bike and foot to grab a bag or two of groceries than almost any other.
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29 days ago
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Now there's a perfect headline
30 days ago
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Great essay--we need to fight against the techbro assumption that delivery robots can use sidewalks. They have wheels, they're motorized, they don't walk: force them to use bike lanes and roads.
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about 1 month ago
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Mayor of Gastown
The Beaverton
about 1 month ago
News Inn Photo:
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Hey Doug, the tunnel is a ridiculous, completely unfeasible idea. Where should I send the $9m invoice?
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about 1 month ago
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ESPN has entered their "bankrupted a casino" era.
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about 1 month ago
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Mayor of Gastown
Dave Weigel
about 1 month ago
The great
@attackerman.bsky.social
on Dick Cheney
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dick-cheney-war-on-terror-executive-power/
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This is bad, right?
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about 1 month ago
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They're gonna be selling TURN THE VOLUME UP tees on the street by midnight.
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about 1 month ago
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Mayor of Gastown
Gregg Levine
about 1 month ago
Eugene Debs in the house! Zohran Mamdani starts his victory speech by name checking the guy who ran for president as a socialist.
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Quoting Eugene Debs in your speech opening is a power move. Get in, Zohran.
about 1 month ago
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The
@nytimes.com
is enshittifying its games platform with a whole bunch of "features" no one asked for. Who could have seen this coming? (Everyone)
about 1 month ago
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Arbutus Club member Ken Sim and Okanagan resident Brian Montague vote to cut popular Vancouver public services they never use. Go figure.
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about 1 month ago
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Mayor of Gastown
Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
All chatbots are right wing chatbots. 🤷🏿♂️
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Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/business/right-wing-chatbots-gab-arya-chatgpt-gemini.html
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"Zero means zero" . . . except for the VPD.
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about 1 month ago
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Mayor of Gastown
Phineas
about 1 month ago
New awareness campaign
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