Dave is right. Forest mismanagement has handed climate change an open runway in BC. And the BC NDP continue to clear the runway for both more forest mismanagement (they've done nothing to fix forestry in 9 years) and climate change turbocharged by their fracking methane/LNG. #bcpoli #wildfires

Dave Unger@daveunger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Thx I'm OK the fires aren't under control & won't be anytime soon. BC ended the nuclear option to fight forest fires, opting for small bucket dumps that are unable to stop raging fires. Our orange sky matches the BC NDP as they continue to prioritize fracked gas projects releasing tons of methane!

This is how the president of the Vancouver Liberals @vancouverliberals.bsky.social speaks to Vancouver voters? #vanpoli

Hey spellcheck, please get over your insistence that "financialization" is not a word. It's a thing we need to talk about, and it's most definitely a word. Take it up with the Oxford English Dictionary www.oed.com/dictionary/f...

Rumour is the horrific fire around Vernon was started by a guy after he injured himself on his quad (what on earth are guys doing riding quads around during fire season anyway? Known cause!) and the Spokane fires were started by yet another arsonist. So, it's either lightning or... men?

Karma for the guy who butts his cigarettes out front several times a day and makes me pick them up

The New York Times accidentally did some real journalism. The Democratic Party was forced to release its report on its last election failure, but they held back a key chapter. The report's author gave that chapter to the @nytimes.com Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter

A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

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Details of celebration of life for Mike

RIP, USB cable. Good work on the planned obsolescence, Apple

Even one usage retroactively makes all your content questionable - how do we know the previous work wasn’t hallucinated? How do we know it’s trustworthy? The answer is simple. Do your own research and write your own stuff. Don’t outsource your credibility to an LLM. 6/6

Sir David Attenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18...

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Oil and gas capital doesn’t care about your biblical plagues

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 5d ago

Toxic caterpillars are becoming a regular part of European summers—partially owing to the conditions of climate change. www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

CBC The Current interviewed a computer scientist who has written a book about the gratification people get from small sensory experiences. It was a really frustrating & empty listen. I wrote a thread below, & the transcript is here (CBC have no audio link): www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

Friday July 31, 2026 Episode Transcript | CBC Radio

Full text transcript

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Lindsay Brown@lidsville.bsky.social · 5d ago

How is this Atlantic writer on CBC The Current managing to talk about aesthetics without mentioning aesthetics? Or why sensory experience in the modern world is so degraded, or what the politics of that are? Or anything else that might be interesting in this topic? I despair.

How is this Atlantic writer on CBC The Current managing to talk about aesthetics without mentioning aesthetics? Or why sensory experience in the modern world is so degraded, or what the politics of that are? Or anything else that might be interesting in this topic? I despair.

When housing displacement is a choice. "'This will ruin our lives': Vancouver OKs hotel to replace Mount Pleasant apartments" as told by @SarahGrochowski via @VancouverSun #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

'This will ruin our lives': Vancouver OKs hotel to replace Mount Pleasant apartments

An older lowrise apartment building will be the site of a new highrise hotel after Vancouver council approved a rezoning request

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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Opinion | The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided

Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.

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Is this really the sort of right-wing awfulness—deliberate, tacit violation of both norms and Supreme Court decisions—that journalists should be flatly reporting as if it’s totally normal? We know what doing that is called and where it leads, right? #bcpoli

Jas Johal@jasjohal.bsky.social · last wk.

Rob Shaw: BC Conservatives urged to stop using term 'First Nations' "Findlay’s team has encouraged the use of Indigenous, Aboriginal or Indian instead." #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.biv.com/news/comment...

Is this really the sort of right-wing awfulness—deliberate, tacit violation of both norms and Supreme Court decisions—that journalists should be flatly reporting as if it’s totally normal? We know what doing that is called and where it leads, right? #bcpoli

Jas Johal@jasjohal.bsky.social · last wk.

Rob Shaw: BC Conservatives urged to stop using term 'First Nations' "Findlay’s team has encouraged the use of Indigenous, Aboriginal or Indian instead." #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.biv.com/news/comment...

What a truly great person and community and SAR advocate Mike was. This is just shocking news. Condolences to his family. Sylvia, I'm so sorry.

Michael Coyle@oplopanax.ca · last wk.

This is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered

“We have this big crisis with housing. Housing has become this horrible currency,” said Schofield. “I mean, even today, look at this ridiculous bailout for these developers. It’s just monstrous." —Vancouver novelist @anakanaschofield.bsky.social on her brilliant new novel Library of Brothel #vanpoli

The powerful in our city have never seemed to understand that our best culture comes from places and people that they consider disreputable, and "vitality" can't be measured in property wealth.

As many of us have been saying for so long, demolition of history and historical context, mixed with rampant speculation driving arts and cultural activity out of town... Well, who wants to visit that? Let alone live in it. #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Douglas Todd: Low on 'culture and history,' world's tourists rank Vancouver a surprising 70th

A respected organization that measures how global tourists feel about a destination rated Vancouver much lower than Seattle.

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If this is real, then we are at Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go already

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.

Of #FIFAworldcup host cities, Vancouver had the highest declines in YoY hotel occupancy "Did the World Cup Live Up to ‘104 Super Bowls’? The Winners and Losers" via @nytimes.com #bcpoli #vanpoli GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/t...

Did the World Cup Live Up to Tourism Expectations? Here Are the Winners and Losers. (Gift Article)

Host cities, hotels, tourism boards and more had lofty expectations for the World Cup, but some struck gold, while some fizzled. Here’s the breakdown.

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I filled this out. My message to the feds? We won't play.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

How to fix your dead garburetor: Do everything youtube/reddit says, for 2 days. If nothing works & it only hums, it's dead. Go spend $400 on a new one. Come home, watch more DIY videos. Turn old garburetor on to use hum to figure out which breaker it's on. Old one will start working. Return new one

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

It was March 2007. Apple had just debuted the iPhone. The Iraq War was raging. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth had won two Oscars. And the prime minister of Canada was talking about “the exciting new technology called carbon capture and storage.” by @meyer.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...

For 20 years, Canada’s leaders have promised a carbon capture fix | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

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Do not let this go, folks. RFK Jr. is lying. “We did cuts in the FoodNet program, but they were redundant surveillance… we’re still doing surveillance in all the states.” He minimized measles. Don’t let him minimize the cyclosporiasis outbreak.