Sarah Starkweather
@sstarkweather.bsky.social
Bike-heavy / car-light • I grow things, make things, sing in choirs • she/her • Oak Bay / Victoria, BC
Some reasonable responses from those who got stuck in the #yyj Snowbirds traffic: “Well, they warned us! Maybe next time I’ll leave the car at home.” “I had to drive but thank goodness all these people on foot and bikes chose not to or I’d NEVER get where I’m going.”
@planetmoon.bsky.social · yesterday
The Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is hosting its free Island Star Party this weekend, which includes free telescope use and talks from expert speakers in Central…
Calling all stargazers: Free star party returns to Central Saanich this weekend
The Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is hosting its free Island Star Party this weekend, which includes free telescope use and talks from expert speakers in Central Saanich.
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Hey 🦋 friends! We need the CPP Investment Board to GET OUR 🇨🇦PENSIONS OUT OF PALANTIR !!! Please sign + share the @leadnowca.bsky.social petition 👇- let’s see if we can reach 15,000 signatures!
Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!@betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you are just as horrified as we are that CPP + BCI + other pension plan investment managers in Canada have big $$ in firms like Palantir that enable the Gestapo/ICE (see above thread), please consider signing + sharing this petition! ⬇️ 15/x
In honor of NYC's new shame stickers for those that don't move for street cleaning, I offer my own design for bike lane blockers, free of charge:
I love that this is the feature plant in the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific’s “Bridal Garden.” Cheeky gardener, I salute you. #yyj
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
We hope so too. Thank you to the brilliant Maggie Knight for putting into words what so many of us are feeling.
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 5d ago“Someday they will ask me what we did about the climate emergency. We tried so hard, I will say. We knew, we organized, we pushed for change. I hope I will be able to say we finally came to our collective senses.” Maggie Knight writes. 🌎 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
Make your plans now. You will at some point be at a concert, or a play, or an art show, or a lecture where they’ve used AI in violation of both ethical and aesthetic standards. What will you do? Booing is good.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d agoAn experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Today’s Canadian painting is “Jelly Shelf” painted by Mary Pratt in 1999.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Look at this absolutely adorable chocolate bar found at Sabayons #yyj. Teh tarik was my drink when we lived in Singapore.
I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked it up and got the label, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link over the next week and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)
“Someday they will ask me what we did about the climate emergency. We tried so hard, I will say. We knew, we organized, we pushed for change. I hope I will be able to say we finally came to our collective senses.” Maggie Knight writes. 🌎 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
‘Be Careful You Don’t Burn Yourself’ | The Tyee
Reflections on parenting through climate chaos.
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
two days after Vancouver city council voted down their own Villages Plan, west side residents who opposed the plan en masse are complaining that Dunbar (!!) doesn’t have any wine bars, boutiques or gyms — the kind of amenities that require neighbourhood density to support
This is how you know Victoria just did something good (no, I have no idea what this is referring to).
Susan Kim 김수잔@susankimyyj.bsky.social · 6d agoMotion carries with Gardiner, Hammond, Coleman opposed.
if you're bad at driving you shouldn't do it
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
I hear anti-slow defences of this conduct regularly on SM: apparently the city has a moral obligation to stop the traffic-calming and pro-pedestrian projects, because the inevitable result is angrier and more dangerous drivers, who are blameless for their rage.
The issue with The Villages plan was it was too dense and not dense enough and it wasn’t 150% affordable but also didn’t provide opportunities for mom & pop landlords and it wasn’t close enough to transit but not far enough from neighbourhoods and too many young people liked it and old people di-…
Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · last wk.Credit to @lucymaloney.bsky.social for being the only Vancouver city councillor (!?!?) to vote in favour of the Villages Plan to legalize medium-sized apartments in a large number of neighbourhoods across the city. Otherwise a major disappointment for the city.
Cody, drops a truth bomb - "The cyclist’s sin is not that they slowed you down. Their sin is that they demonstrated the trip could be made without the two-ton machine, in front of witnesses." #yycbike medium.com/@cody.little...
We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.
And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.
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I've been listening to NIMBYs in Seattle foreverr—while their underlying goal is "no new housing near me" and more recently "make those people live on the highway," the language has changed with the times. It was "neighborhood character." Currently it's trees. It'll be something else in the future.
