My wife is now going through this picture by picture muttering obscenities with the occasional gasp and I’m pretty sure she just denied God

I regret to inform you that David Walliams is a creep www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-a...

Pluribus: I suppose one day we will be told something of how Zosia went from being a little girl watching the ships in Gdansk and eating mango ice cream to walking the streets of Tangier filthy and dressed in rags. Probably not a happy tale.

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Garden State pols want to require all e-bike riders have licenses, registration and insurance — citing several instances of drivers killing two-wheelers to justify making it harder for New Jerseyans to access the benefits of even the lowest-speed e-bikes. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/19/n...

Putin tells Russians to brace for a generation of war against Europe. Vladimir Putin said Russia would not back down from its mission to 'liberate its historic lands' and predicted the European backing of Kyiv would ultimately lose power. ft.trib.al/TB1cs17

I regret to inform this morning's newly-minted photography experts that no government in the history of the world has been brought down by unflattering photography.

I did not have “Vancouver Westside is a Nazi hotbed” on my bingo card

Okay somehow this random pathological liar I doxxed back in January has now blown up a far-right party in Canada thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

(Trump tariff architect) Peter Navarro in the FT explaining that China needs to "build out healthcare" is absolutely fucking priceless www.ft.com/content/0297584e-3...

Building off @cameronwilson.bsky.social's reporting for @crikey.com.au, I highlight how we appear to have a baptist & bootleggers situation in Australia, where it appears the gambling industry was a big force behind the "social media ban for teens" in an effort to kill a plan to ban gambling ads.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Reddit needs a confirmation bias filter for any gear-related sub. So many posts are just "I got X and I couldn't be happier" or longer-form versions of the same, and I just don't want to see them.

The balls this must have taken. What a hero.

My Pluribus S1E7 hot-take is that Chekhov's 33 hours - the time it took for the Hive to learn of Manousos - is going to be very important somehow. The delay is referred to twice, in episodes 2 & 3. It also seems important that unlike every other immune, Manousos doesn't have a single question.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court out of daily life www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Waze kind of sucks but I don't understand why other maps apps have not ripped off the "planned trip" feature that alerts you when it is time to leave based on live traffic conditions.

I have to confess I'd never seen Fleabag until a clip on the socials (the haircut one) recently made me go watch it. So good. Very impressed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge's writing on this, each season and the overall series is very well constructed. Now watching Killing Eve.

Maybe if this happens we will get a Skytrain line out to North Van via the Second Narrows actually built. Difficult to see how this location supports 25K people all arriving and leaving all at once using current infrastructure. Beautiful spot otherwise. www.whitecapsfc.com/news/city...

Lucy encourages council to vote for the referral to make sure the work gets done. Passes unanimously. Hard to know what to conclude here. We could have just got this done; now we have to wait. Hope this does ultimately lead to the change we want to see.

I’m sure the ABC majority did not caucus on this in private, because that would be a breach of ethics.

Yellow Cab wants to party like it’s 1999. Never mind that pretty much every cab is a hybrid now, still with the “queues cause emissions” argument.

Clr Maloney's No Right on Red motion is coming up to council NOW! Will be live-posting here, follow along 🧵 visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

Uh oh.

𝔈𝔵𝔠𝔩𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔴: 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱

Not a good sign for Alberta pipeline plans www.ft.com/content/37a7bc5c-3...

The gang is all here…

This reminds me of @activetowns.bsky.social latest podcast where Tepi talks about identifying and calling out enemies of active mobility. E motocross being enemies to active mobility by calling themselves e bikes. bsky.app/profile/acti...

This really needs to be understood: "The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly." The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...

*Finally* an article about e-bikes/e-motos that actually explains the distinction and makes reasonably policy prescriptions. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/ebike-...

Next up, the FIFA ethics prize.

The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years. Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Absolutely genius move by FIFA, give Trump a Temu Nobel. These guys are truly the kings of what they do.

I suppose one benefit of Netflix owning HBO will be that I can eventually close my Crave account.

Area woman did good.

I’m pretty sure there’s a word for financializing a difference of opinion, I’d put money on it.

The slop-bowl backlash is here www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

YVR today sent me passenger data for October. Overall traffic is up. Domestic traffic is up. Other international traffic is also up. The only thing not up is passenger traffic on flights to and from the U.S. That's down for the 10th straight month. #travel #tourism

The replies are fun, as usual. Of course everyone plugs theirs in and never uses gas, but for some reason a BEV makes no sense.

Lots of studies showing a similar result: people who buy "plug-in hybrids" do not, as a rule, plug them in. They are mostly used & operated as gas cars. (My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)

Oh good.

Time Out: shameless enough to call Cambie the 20th coolest street in the world months before they open up a food court on the street, ignorant enough to not fact check the name of the mall they're in

This should be read in tandem with the CBC story about the Ottawa coroner's review of e-bike fatalities. Patterns are emerging that point toward need for better regulation. It's disappointing to see some turn to what-about-cars-ism rather than acknowledge this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/ma...

This should be read in tandem with the CBC story about the Ottawa coroner's review of e-bike fatalities. Patterns are emerging that point toward need for better regulation. It's disappointing to see some turn to what-about-cars-ism rather than acknowledge this. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/ma...

Bizarre contrast with Trump seemingly about to invade Venezuela over the same crime. I'm beginning to think it may not be about the crime 🤔 on.ft.com/3M63JNq

Paradox of tolerance, I'm just saying.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

People who get suspensions always talk the same. “I only had x amount to drink” or “I have a high tolerance for alcohol”. Never assume responsibilities for their actions and always trying to deflect or minimize the circumstances. Pathetic.

West Vancouver drama. Yes, of course you were targeted Councillor Cassidy apple.news/AIBZbw833T6KCIOGYp...

This American Thanksgiving I am giving thanks that I live in a country where even if somewhat unlikely, it is actually within the realms of possibility that our leader is playing 4D chess.