Gonzales Neighbourhood Dissociation
@gndissociation.bsky.social
The voice of a particular Victoria neighbourhood. We're dissociating. From you. From ourselves. Harm reduction, cycling, stopping genocide, clover point discourse, owning the NIMBYs. Vulnerable to fire damage, resistant to psychic damage.
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
What the fuck is dry lightning
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Greater Victoria folks woke up to hazy skies Tuesday morning (Aug. 4) as wildfire smoke drifted through the region.
Hazy skies loom over Greater Victoria as wildfire smoke drifts in - Victoria News
Smoke is forecast to linger through Thursday morning, Aug. 6
vicnews.com
US has sent out an email requesting ideas on "new creative and unconventional ways" to defeat Iran. “Hey chat, CENTCOM here 🫡🇺🇸 We’re low-key out of ideas 💀 Drop your most unhinged ways to defeat Iran or get them to negotiate.👇Best one gets a 3 month Rip Its and Zyns drop."
What was that skeet going around a few months ago? Something like “being a leftist is being accused of fearmongering because you were right too soon.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Evacuating a #hospital with a rapidly spreading #fire is a nightmare, my thoughts are with the #healthcare staff in #Spokane and the #disabled
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d agoThe expanded Level 3 (GO NOW!) evacuation zone also includes the Mann-Grandstaff Spokane VA Hospital.
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
the involuntary treatment legislation that Daniel Vigo and David Eby have been working to expand has been found to be in violation of the Charter: bsky.app/profile/dsdp...
Doctors for Safer Drug Policy@dsdp.ca · 5d agowww.cbc.ca/news/canada/... An exciting, long awaited day. Hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social sounds like you have to write a new law. If you would like to consult with a few GENUINE experts on substance use disorders, we know a few. Hell, if you were feeling real bold we know a few patients too.
I love how CONCACAF rejected the World Cup thing and it’s barely registering anywhere when Europe doing it is all over the news
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
theonion.com
huge deal
Anna Mehler Paperny@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 6d agoBC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com
How can we explain that we don't want to login to read your website?
If there’s one thing tenants should learn is to organize.
Like, the reason renters experience housing precarity isn’t that they are bad with money, or that they don’t know their rights. Like food insecurity, housing precarity is a structural issue closely related to income.
NEW: Corb Lund officially files a judicial review challenging the Chief Electoral Officer’s decision to deem the Water Not Coal Citizens’ Initiative unsuccessful. The reasons? He argues the decision was unreasonable, procedurally unfair, and inconsistent with purpose of Citizen Initiative Act.
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
You could just get a classics degree.
