Nevin Thompson

Nevin Thompson

@nevint.bsky.social

I like poetry, photography, languages (esp Japanese), and religion (esp Japanese). And movies (esp Japanese). And Bob Dylan. Epilepsy parent.

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John Michael McGrath
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

A high-turnout election! Bradford got more votes losing than all but 2 winners in Toronto's post-1997 history, and both those cases were incumbents running against relatively weaker challengers. Olivia Chow, of course, won *even more* making her the most vote-getting politician in Canadian history.

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Hey Japan!
@hey-japan.com

Made for the 1873 Vienna World Exposition, Japan's first world's fair as a nation: an o-daiko drum covered in cloisonné by enameller Hayashi Kodenji. The rooster on top stands for peace. In an old story, a village alarm drum went unused so long that chickens moved in. #Meiji

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

There's an app for that docs.cloud.google.com/managed-spar...

docs.cloud.google.comPigJob  |  Managed Service for Apache Spark  |  Google Cloud Documentation
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My son was suspended from school for giving another student a "pigjob" and now we're all sitting around the empty dinner table as a family with our palms flat on the surface staring at nothing in particular in silence. It is understood none of us will ever ask what the word means.

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Robert Jago
@rjjago.bsky.social

Our First Nations traditional territory maps are progressing. We're likely a week away from completing our alpha build. This will replace the Native-Land.ca territory maps, which went offline earlier this year (though they have other maps still online). It'll go online at knowledgekeepr.com

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

One of my thoughts about the premier-elect's victory speech last night is that it's Vancouver and the South Island that keep the lights on, pay for the roads, hospitals in the rest of the province. Not the other way around. #bcpoli

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SEAN ORR
@seanorr.bsky.social

Very much this.

Jeremy Caradonna@jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social

My first thought this morning? Victoria and Vancouver will need to work together to counter the cuts and setbacks that are coming. Harm reduction, non-market housing finance, housing density, etc, are all on the chopping block. @seanorr.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social Let’s hold the line.

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

While waiting for the election results last night, watched Barry Lyndon with my younger son. Besides the painterly compositions, it is such a funny movie...

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

"Barry's father had been bred, like many other young sons of a genteel family, to the profession of the law. And there is no doubt he would've made an eminent figure in his profession had he not been killed in a duel, which arose over the purchase of some horses."

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

I found this film to be unwatchable.

Criterion Channel 24/7 Bot@unoff-criterion-ch.bsky.social

🎬 Now streaming on Criterion Channel 24/7: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) Directed by Hajime Sato Starring Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato Next film starts around: 84 minutes (2:34 AM EDT/11:34 PM PDT) Watch on Criterion Channel

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

Eby calling the election and simultaneously being unprepared and then trying to figure out a winning campaign issue. #bcpoli

Josh Crough@smokeycrow.bsky.social

LOL. “When a snap election is called, at least one side would normally be prepared.” #bcpoli

cheknews.caWhy has B.C.'s snap election caught both main parties unprepared?When a snap election is called, at least one side would normally be prepared. But that hasn’t been the case in British Columbia, resulting in a provincial election campaign like no other, political wa...

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Recliner Notes
@reclinernotes.bsky.social

Each story is more outlandish than the previous one! Makes me like this band even more.

Nina Corcoran@ninacorcoran.bsky.social

I went down to New Orleans to profile Twisted Teens Come for the answers to those pervasive questions online (How do you write three addicting albums in one year? Who even are they and where did they come from?) and stay for the stories of lifelong trainhoppers pitchfork.com/story/twiste...

pitchfork.comTwisted Teens Hit the Big TimeA bunch of train-hopping crust punk fiddle players end up in New Orleans, sign a deal with Sub Pop, and put out three incredible garage rock albums in one year. How did this happen? We head down to NO...

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Russ Jones
@russincheshire.bsky.social

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comEvery Briton should stockpile water and food supplies, government advisesBe Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state
Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

There are more baleen whales in local waters here. Humpbacks, seis, minkes. And occasional fin and blue.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

The municipal elections in Greater Victoria saw this. > This is exacerbated further by the collapse of local media; a 2025 poll found that more than half of voters in communities without local news outlets couldn’t find trusted information about their candidates. Instead, they have social media,

Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com

wrote about Dallas Brodie, who will almost certainly be out of government after tomorrow night, and the likelihood of another version of her getting elected in our deeply jaded, low-information voting culture: thewalrus.ca/bc-snap-elec...

thewalrus.caThe BC Snap Election Is Uniquely Demoralizing | The WalrusWith all the defections and new parties, do voters know who stands for what?
Nevin Thompson
@nevint.bsky.social

> This content circulates within TikTok’s broader True Crime Community (TCC), an online fandom centered on mass killers. TCC’s activities can include glorifying previous attackers and, in more extreme cases, encouraging further acts of violence.

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism@globalextremism.bsky.social

TikTok continues to allow videos that turn white supremacist massacres into virtual reality. A GPAHE investigation found users recreating recent massacres through BONELAB, while sharing extremist symbols and weapons, exposing serious failures in TikTok’s enforcement of its own content policies.

globalextremism.orgThe Virtual Recreation of Extremist Violence on TikTok: BONELAB Videos and the True Crime CommunityTikTok continues to host videos using the virtual reality game BONELAB to recreate deadly white supremacist attacks. The videos reproduce weapons, locations, and neo-Nazi symbols. Circulating within T...