The Ancient Greek Cynics were more hardcore than I initially appreciated, and in this era of widespread capitulation to far-right forces, they are resonating with me more and more

Got a hold of the Canada Post stamp set for graphic artists, Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Very cool And apparently very popular, they were sold out at the previous three locations I went to

Huh The way I see 'common sense' used a vague, reactionary rhetorical device makes me a bit wary, but describing 'common sense' as a "counterhegemonic knowledge built on workers' embodied understandings and 'good sense'" is really interesting as a new concept for me

CNV Library just received a new copy after I requested one Excited to start reading "... the Capacitor Collective has conducted eleven illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts ... imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement." #booksky

Disco Elysium is free today on Epic Games store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/disc...

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Okay, hear me out What if AI is itself a sign of the fact that we are "running out of good ideas." Like ... what if it is a bad idea

I can't wait to read this collaboration between these two fantastic authors

Happy 40th birthday to Skytrain, as loved as it is still underrated in how much weight it carries to make our region not just another suburban sprawl wasteland.

Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school. SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply. pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...

Made some new maps of the City of Vancouver (and UBC), comparing commute modes in small localized areas with the city-wide average. Was fun to make, and you can see that depending on the area and the distance from downtown, it can really impact the proportions of commute modes #rstudio #vanpoli

I suspect not many British citizens would meet the standards of the UK Home Office, which probably explains why so many people are disillusioned But also, I'm just exhausted from governments constantly tying good citizenship to financial success. It's incredibly one-dimensional and self-defeating

As I recover from a terrible cold, I thought I’d share my top books for the year I grouped them into categories My theme for 2025 was the Environment and Climate Change, so it gets its own category

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Wow Reading "Last and First Men," by Olaf Stapledon and the foreword, by Gregory Benford, recommends skipping the first four chapters, because it is critical of the capitalism of the US, which, by the 1987 when the foreword was written, means the book is "startling off base" and "antique."

The RCMP has shared a useful visual, reminder to help keep everyone safe when using an E-Scooter. Remember, unsafe behaviour like riding on sidewalks, doubling up, going too fast, or not wearing a helmet can lead to fines and serious injuries.

Sometimes you just got to admire a really good book title "Death: The End of Self-Improvement" by Joan Tollifson app.thestorygraph.com/books/c73431...

Map of the Road Network of Kelowna Made using R Studio

Cleaned up my code a bit for this map of the Road Network in North Vancouver

IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives?

Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Doing politics well is also about doing communications well You need to be a spokesperson for a grand, new vision And you need to build political trust from your coalition by showing you care about their issues I think this MOU hurts the environmental part of the coalition

Vancouver Writers Fest ( @writersfest.bc.ca ) just opened up the Digital Festival Line-Up Super excited, lots of great authors I want to check out (I have my eye on The Feminine Grotesque with Awad, Sookfong Lee, and Moreno-Garcia) Also, really like that there is a sliding price #booksky

Congrats to Beiser! Was a great book, I really enjoyed And was pleasantly surprised about how local it was as well, speaking as someone from Vancouver Really gets at the heart of the question of how environmentally friendly are electric vehicles

Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED. Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed. Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others. Full story to come.

My reading theme for the year is the environment, which I chose so I could understanding why we commit to fossil fuel extraction in the face of climate change Here is one of the best arguments I've heard, from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

If Homer was a group of poets, spread out over generations, slowly building upon an oral tradition Then why shouldn't modern translators of The Odyssey and The Iliad also be able able to call themselves Homer?

Really enjoyed "Spent: A Comic Novel" by Alison Bechdel It was a lot of fun to read and the art is beautiful It was very self-aware as it deals with feeling overwhelmed from politics Worth checking out, especially if you like graphic novels and/or are feeling politically insecure

I wonder how much electrical energy is lost just from ai chat bots responding to other ai chat bots online

Not sure a random system is less than ideal Ancient Greece used a lottery system, and as Astra Taylor notes, it was "on the grounds that elections were not democratic enough, as the well born and well spoken tended to win," and randomness meant "that no one individual or group could dominate."

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Before reading this book in my early twenties, I didn't know it was possible for this kind of book to exist, it changed my conception of reading and writing forever Like, the structure is actively tying to break the form of a novel at every step

It's just so weird to be living in a place and time when a nation-building project includes liquid national gas expansion and open-pit mining, and the news article doesn't even mention 'climate change' or the 'environment' A total lack of imagination for economic growth, which will doom us all

When I listened to their podcast about this story, it was so depressing, learning about how a generation of children were taught such a destructive way of reading features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

"If approved, the proposed budget could eliminate nearly 400 full-time jobs and reduce funding to community services, arts and culture, real estate, ... The document lumps planning, urban design and sustainability together as a line item and collectively cuts their funding by 14 per cent."

After winning by huge margins last Tuesday, I can't wait to see how Democrats use their leverage to really force the policy agenda on their terms, especially as a cohesive block It's nice to finally feel some hope ... wait, what

"There are, in the genealogical tree, traumatized, unprocessed places that are eternally seeking relief. From these places, arrows are launched toward future generations. Anything that has not been resolved must be repeated and will affect someone else, ... one or more generations in the future."

"DULF produced a peer-reviewed study that showed after about one year none of its compassion club members had died. Members reported having fewer overdoses and engaging in less crime"

Had a bit of fun making a new map of the False Creek area Still a work in progress, but I like the direction #rstudio #rayshader #vancouver

BREAKING: The BC Labour Relations Board has ruled that all research assistants at Simon Fraser University are workers and members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). TSSU successfully organized research assistants twice over the last six years. www.tssu.ca/grad-student...

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (@arquives.ca) is launching its largest-ever digitization initiative focusing on hidden Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ histories. Learn more: arquives.ca/the-arquives...

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I love how it looks Stebe! Awesome work and thank you for bringing my tutorial to life! Tutorial 👉 youtu.be/E7F75OFXu-I

I made a new kind of map This one is of the City of North Vancouver, with City Hall right at the centre Still a work in progress, both in understanding the code and in the design Big thank you to @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social who made a great tutorial video and shared his code! #rstats #rayshader

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

"If there's a single overriding ideology that defines all of One Piece, it's that people who follow their dreams make the world a better place. And so the best possible world can only come about when everyone is free to dream." Really enjoyed this video about solidarity and mutual support

All this news about the East Wing reminds me of an old story About how Trump bought the Bonwit building in 1979, with some historic Art Deco pieces Trump originally said that the Met could have the pieces, "and yet, without warning, Trump’s demolition crew destroyed the sculptures" under his orders

Have you spotted the Hope in Shadows Calendar around town? @megaphonemagazine.com vendors now have this in stock and it's filled with some fantastic photography from the Downtown Eastside community. It's available from your local vendor for $20.

"The reason is brutally simple: logistics costs have soared — rising from 50 to almost 90 percent of the coal’s final price — while discounts to Asia remain steep, sometimes forcing producers to export at a loss merely to secure foreign currency and protect mining-region jobs."

Feels like the same iceberg inverted