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BCNDP should seriously do a leadership race after this election. Eby absolutely tanked the party with a series of politically poisonous decisions

Sean Orr: Universal Daycare. Conservative: 5G WILL TRANS YOUR KID Media: Councillor Orr, how will you temper your radicalism…

If BCNDP looses seats in this week's election, I'd expect Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social to do the honourable thing and resign.

First Past the Post really is a vile electoral system. It's built on blackmail. "No, you can't have your vote represented in govt." "Yes, we will hold a gun to your head to vote for the lesser evil who betrayed you, and if that lesser evil loses, we will blame you." Pro rep now. #bcpoli

Ran into a canvasser for the Greens in West End today, he asked "Did you vote?", I replied "Pete fry FTW!" and the person pointed to @ptfry.bsky.social standing right next to him! I shook his hand!

Me: could you present your Nature paper to a room of non-scientists? Wife: are they smart though? Me: no, but they’re interested. Wife: no.

My first election as a Canadian citizen. No lines at city hall.

Holy shit.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

OMG, I can't believe I get to vote out Ken Sim and @davidebybc.bsky.social next month!

I have to say, I'm puzzled how this is helpful. This shuts down the entire decision making capacity of the government for a month during a critical time, confusing average people who don't follow politics closely between provincial vs. local candidates, and is losing BC some of its best ministers.

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"Putain, putain, c'est vachement bien. Nous sommes quand-même tous des Européens." ("Damn, damn, it's darn O.K., we're all Europeans after all.")

Ursa Major and the bat signal

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

My first one!🥳

Was looking for a pair of 2017 Nike Flyknits but couldn't find any US size 9M, so I got 10.5W instead. 😁 Why have separate unit for M and W anyway?

This is still the position of OneCity council candidates tho! So if that appealed to you, look to OneCity for council seats.

Going to Santa Fe this Sunday, by way of Salt Lake City (~5hr stopover). Any food/sightseeing tips? Apart from Los Alamos, of course.

Enjoying the irony of an upside down "think before you act" sign

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AI is a tool that helps me with the things I don’t like or know how to do, so I can spend time doing the things I love. And I love programming.

Oxygen-centred planar orbitals in the electronic structure and spin-density-wave reconstruction of multilayer nickelates www.nature.com/articles/s41... #physics

First day of Web Summit Rio. I’m beat. Feels much bigger than Vancouver.

Vancouver could never

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Abogado’s number is 7.13*10⁹.

Lately I've been pondering the ideas from Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, specifically Pirsig's thoughts on Quality, and how they relate to generative AI. Looks like I'm not the only one. Worth the read if you enjoy philosophical blog posts. :)

I think Claude is trying to tell me something!

Why does Claude Code keep dropping code comments? I often have to ask it to restore comments after it made some edits.

Orbital - In Sides (1996) is one of my favourite EDM albums, ever.

That's why I had built this: compare DST vs ST yourself at daylightsavingtime.click?city=Winnipe...

How is 10” pizza even a thing. My dad would disown me if he saw me with a 10 inch pizza.

"amazonaws.com" has a bit of a "Chai tea" and "Bao bun" feel to it.

I hooked up consentkeys.com to nounly.com so now you can log in anonymously and keep track of your nouns/URLs.

Sometime the YouTube algo is great: it just proffered me Matt Gray's own remake of his original The Last Ninja 2 theme song! 🙇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWCE...

Making Hong Kong Milktea: 20gr. of Ceylon tea (3 kinds) per liter. Seep for 15 mins. Filter. Add condensed milk.

Wanna know my secret ingredient for making killer Chinese Tomato-Egg noodles（蕃茄炒蛋麵）? 'Nduja, spicy Calabrian sausage. I got the 'Nduja from ndujausa.com in Seattle.

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This ginger is perfect for intermittent cooking: each meal I can use a single node.

This is such an apt logo for the stick-your-head-up-your-own-ass machine

Silicon Valley today

Waiting for Cloud Summit 2026 to start, having my first Tim’s coffee since I became Canadian… last year. 🇨🇦

How's shipping half a pound of dead tree pulp 100s of kms to my home cheaper than delivering ~1MB wireless? I love the free market as much as the next guy, but this is ridiculous.

I haven’t been to Jasper yet. Is the Dark Sky Festival a good time to go?

Nearly empty bottle of Campari outside of Neumos (Seattle) ahead of the Mind Enterprises concert. Of course.