The year is 2029. Half of Bluesky is screaming "He's only killing and eating protesters because it's a full moon! In the morning he will return to 9-D chess vs Donald Trump." And the other half is like "Donald Trump is gone and that's not even how vampires work!"

This is an awesome addition to B.C.'s charging network right as summer travel ramps up. The Coquihalla highways is a busy, long and steep climb into the province's interior and this charging option takes pressure off congested stops at the bottom of the route. www.castanet.net/news/BC/6222...

Every chud-farming culture war leads back to US resource companies. "Property rights" mean the ability for O&G and mining companies to do what they want, without regulation. Remember, the panic over DRIPA and Indigenous rights only kicked in when they pushed back on corporations.

When people proclaim that EVs are dead because Japanese brands won't make any, please remind them that Korea also exists. The PV5 comes to Canada later this year, priced under $50k, and will qualify for the federal rebate. www.auto123.com/en/news/kia-...

... and Jesus said "Oil, it's what whales crave! Let's get pumping. America first, baby" (Enbridge 4:20).

My organization is moving away from Cloudflare after several of our domains were suspended because CF randomly, mysteriously registered them to some no-reply email instead of our provided info. Websites down for a week and tech support only responded once every 24+ hours.

A remarkable sight in Canada. The street is lined with cars. Not trucks and SUVs, but cars. It's like being transported back to the 90s, to not be walking beside a wall of RAV4s and Ram 2500s.

This thread is essential reading for British Columbians. DRIPA opposition is crass, cynical, greedy erosion of regulation. For people like Armstrong, it's simply another episode of insincere panics like carbon tax, EV targets, ostrich cull, plastic straws, human rights tribunal, bike lanes ...

The purpose of an AI company, just like any other company, is not to make our lives more interesting and rewarding. It is to make as much money as possible.

I know there is a lot going on in the world, but Cloudflare support is criminally bad. Every other domain registrar I've used will respond within a couple hours at most. CF's buggy automation can take multiple sites offline for days at a time and their pay-to-play support replies once per 24 hrs.

Whenever you hear that a not-for-profit or community organization has folded after losing a few thousand dollars of funding, remember that the OneBrainCell party got $600k from taxpayers to make performative racism slop.

Every time you hear that there is no funding committed for flood adaptation infrastructure, remember that the four largest oil sands companies profited $131.6 billion from 2021 to 2024. So ... maybe we could do some taxes? www.theenergymix.com/encore-u-s-o...

Parts of B.C. are once again at risk of flooding due to atmospheric rivers. Experts say the province could be doing more to dampen flood risk when atmospheric rivers hit. thenarwhal.ca/bc-atmospher...

Every time you hear that governments are tightening their belts, remember that Lululemon alone made over $2.4 billion in net income in 2024. Perhaps we could dial up the socialism just a smidge.

The richest 1% in Canada *increased* their wealth by $3 trillion between 1999 and 2023. In 2025, Canada's big six banks profited $70 billion. Meanwhile, the sky is falling over sub-$15 billion provincial deficits. Everything is being cut back or axed because we will do anything but tax the rich.

AI will not replace office workers because it does better work. It will replace office workers because there will be no more cheap laptops.

This tiny tax increase causes every news outlet to scream that the sky is falling while raising ... $0.29 billion this year. Meanwhile Lululemon alone had $2.5 billion in profit in 2024. Can we please tax the rich?

I feel seen and attacked at the same time.

Every moral panic, every divisive issue is like 3 degrees of separation from US oil money.

Elon speaks of "hard men" but does the work of Wormtongue.

I'm lucky to have independent grocery stores near my house. They focus on Canadian products and are often priced the same or less than American products at chain stores. While buy-Canadian sentiments are awesome, I hope this kind of marketing research doesn't get abused by Loblaws.

I feel both seen and attacked.

Courtenay, BC. A socialist dystopia of street calming and protected bike lanes. There is plenty of work still to be done but I am encouraged by the gradual street narrowing and safe bike lane projects added each year in the city. #comoxvalley #courtenay

Sharing this again as Danielle Smith proposes an ambiguous new pipeline to BC's coast with the implied backing of Trans Mountain crown corporation. The US gas companies treat Northern BC like Afghanistan, and Smith's new proposal sounds like more of the same.

Weird how we figured out socialized medicine but socialized mail is just too much. Whenever I see news like this I look up Loblaws and Rogers' net income; it sure seems like we could dial up the socialism a bit and solve a lot of problems.

Some brands have invested wisely in EV tech and have successful EV programs, while NA and Japanese brands mostly have not. Backing off from EV policy chooses winners and losers, and makes winners out of losers.

Living in the dumbest, perma-fried frat-boy timeline.

American auto makers that can't make EVs are the same ones that can't even make hatchbacks, sedans, wagons or vans. But that only applies to North America. We are their dumb money demographic insulated by tariffs.

one of my new pet issues is making canada adopt eu car standards so we can get nicer small cars and hatchbacks

Conservative playbook will be Axe the tax, Axe the bike lanes, Axe the EVs, Axe e-bikes, Axe public transit, Axe hybrids, Axe fuel consumption regulations, Axe South Korea, Axe startups, Axe anything smaller than a 6.4L Until our cheapest mobility option is a Ram 2500 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This should be the most played, most covered song of 2025. Also, Sophie Powers (🇨🇦) plays the vlogger and doesn't sing in this, but check out her own dark, sarcastic glitch-rock. youtu.be/xKH3Hj4lqLs?...

I would like to see Critchley as an MP, defeating PP aside. She seems like a great person to have in Parliament.

Dear Congressmen, This Big Beautiful Burn will totally obliterate the DEI trees from our woke forests. These trees are real bad hombres. They have been making fentanyl the likes of which nobody has ever seen before. This is a flawless operation. It will be over in about two weeks. WINNING.

This should be required viewing for Canadians.

People keep telling me that EV infrastructure "just isn't there yet" despite not driving an EV and not knowing anything about charging stations. In BC, fast chargers are all over the place: in rest-areas, at gas stations, on campuses, at parks, and so on. Every highway has coverage.

Just providing some nature pics as a reminder to get outside.

Canadian elections are like a party game where you pay attention to clues, sift through misdirection, guess what everyone else is going to do, then try to prevent Loblaws from forming government.

Timeline cleanse from Mount Washington, Vancouver Island.

"This is the closest thing to The Matrix ... The computer hallucinates an image, then gives it to you, to do manual labour on." This common at work now. People hand me half-cooked slop for "review and approval." I spend hours documenting and communicating the mistakes. youtu.be/zhdHTax1wyQ?...

Thanks, @thetyee.ca, for laying out all these relationships. It's an important media literacy primer for 2025.

Happy almost new year from a little cabin on Hornby Island. #HornbyIsland #ComoxValley #ExploreBC

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Putting some old photos out into the world. Near Valemount, BC. #exploreBC #NorthernBC #Valemount

Winter at the University of Northern BC in 2010-ish when I was first getting into photography. #UNBC #PrinceGeorgeBC

A misty afternoon in Cumberland. #comoxvalley #cumberland

A bomb cyclone approaches Vancouver Island and I've got my storm kit ready.

Cat dad. I do not consent to your candid photography.