In 2023, I was working with a charity & we did this market to serve food/provide clothes/haircuts for ppl on the DTES. Pete Fry and Ken Sim said they'd come. Pete Fry came, Ken Sim didn't. 2 weeks later, Ken Sim had the homeless people in the park rounded up, their possessions put in garbage cans.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here's the full video! It's an interesting variant on the "my haters don't know what I've been through" message, and probably evidence that the ABC Vancouver team thinks it's necessary to play up his post-Swagger personality a little bit more

In honour of Brent Bambury's upcoming retirement from the CBC, we remember when @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social told Ween in '93 that cheese chimichangas with samosas are even better than Brent Bambury on ice cream." At 14:19 youtube.com/watch?v=9UES...

Nardwuar vs Ween

YouTube video by lecarltonmusic2

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An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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"In sum, Carney seems to be planning to sell off public infrastructure we need to help fund private infrastructure we don’t—with our money covering the risk, while investors make off with the profits."

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w ago

Mark Carney says his glitzy investment summit will attract major capital to Canada. But as Nikolas Barry-Shaw & Martin Lukacs write, what Carney may be putting on the table is Canada itself—and a fire-sale of the country’s essential public infrastructure. breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

Bluesky is funny because it's a bunch of people explaining the national shitshow of post-9/11 brain rot to people who are too young to remember but also too young to be on Bluesky. But it's nice to be in good company.

25 years

For those arguing the PM plans to learn from the 'mistakes' of the past this is who Carney appointed as principle advisor: “If we really want to end the violence & depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever,” Scott #CDNpoli

Carney’s pick for advisor, Scott Gilmore raising eyebrows

Earlier this month, a number of media sources reported Scott Gilmore would soon be moved into the role of Carneys' principal advisor.

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Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 3w ago

Naturally, it’s being received exactly as expected (and intended)? Gross. The same month as TRC day btw!

Carney is far worse than Harper. But at least "liberals" fought Harper rather than defending everything he did. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Liberals remove layer of review process for energy projects, backing off bypassing at-risk species protections | CBC News

The federal government is moving ahead with changes that will exempt a number of energy projects from a layer of its environmental assessment process. At the same time, a senior government source says...

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I love how Republican strategists are in this weird middle zone where they occasionally forget that they completely abandoned the image of the prudish clean-cut straight shooter, and their base (absent some partisan guidance) will absolutely embrace things much freakier than a guy in a speedo

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w ago

😂😂😂

When Labour Day and Opposite Day collide we get Job Creator Night

One thing I love about heat pumps is how the exterior lineset covers on a retrofit mini split give a bit of a space age Logan's Run vibe. Especially when they're bright white and rounded with those tidy little corner fittings.

These always make me think of Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis

No words 💔

Eight-year-old Gaza girl killed by Israel on first day of school

An eight-year-old girl and her father were killed when an Israeli strike hit their vehicle on her first day of school.

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Angela Haer, an ABC Park Board commissioner who sat on the board of Kal Dosanjh’s KidsPlay Youth Foundation prior to his arrest and fraud charges, announced she wouldn’t be seeking re-election in a late night social media post. But then it was deleted from most of her socials this morning.

Canadian Tire sells shedded tires as a garden mulch & Jericho Park has a 10' PFAS perimeter all around its astroturf field. Maybe we can start sprinkling them on $9 ice cream cones next

Azaroff gains nothing by losing the election and letting Sim win. I'm trying to figure out what he gains by staying in a couple more days if that's his plan. Maybe he thinks it makes him look like more of a serious candidate and sows left division, letting Sim win so OC can say "we told you so"?

Wherever do I get my podcasts?

I'm curious what @onecityvan.bsky.social members & casual supporters think of @wazaroff.bsky.social digging in that he has a better shot than Fry now that Steph Allen has left. I find it so sad & selfish. Election is in less than 2 months. The agreement was solid. This is Art-of-the-Deal behaviour.

Vancouver, I'll be hosting The People's Primary debates and election at my place. Maybe on an upcoming Saturday. But people need to be chill about it and we start winding things down here around 7. I'll announce the winner before bedtime and we can move on from there.

What you do is you name your wifi network to "Evict Ken Sim." And you can even make it a phone hotspot when you're out and about. And the password is "IKnowRight!?"

This isn't my to-do list, but I found it on the ground by Grandview and Lakewood, and it still has a lot of tasks left unchecked. I probably won't research tattoo fonts or draft up a separation agreement, but I'll tackle bikes, taxes, room sort.

1/ Tonight we mourn the loss of a remarkable leader. Joan Phillip was utterly devoted to making life better — for her neighbours in Vancouver-Strathcona, for Indigenous youth, and for working people across the province.

I hope for all the good she did that Dolly got to be an asshole to someone at least once

Hakeem Jeffries really shouldn't have a role in the Democratic party. Any actual "strategic" thing he has done, if any, could be done by someone with values, and we wouldn't have to deal with this

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.

I really do not understand the purpose of this. No one is asking for this.

Most accurate alt text ever, from a 55 or 56 year old, if logic serves

Jason "Moominpappa era" Sullivan@jason0x21.bsky.social · last mo.

Quote skeet with a game released in the year you were born

A reminder Carney's agenda remains a militaristic climate killing and antidemocratic one. He will use all this to further and even expand this agenda. We still need to fight him on this.

Gonna tell my kid about how you used to be able to define your own search terms, including what not to include.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.