Tim B

Eby lost this election through multiple egregious mistakes, arrogance & lack of political skill. But we also need to see his catastrophic loss as proof of what happens when "progressives" swing to the right. Eby is not the first centrist to be taught this lesson. Can the NDP learn? #bcpoli

If I was David Eby I would have simply not called an election. I would also hit my head on so many doorframes

David Eby with the historical self-own. He sucked, and now people are going to suffer for it. Good riddance. Hopefully the BC NDP can get its shit together and ditch the ridiculous uninspiring centrism that got us here.

Vancouver's new mayor and council can ignore this bad faith scapegoating plebiscite and instead, address reality improve people's material conditions: housing, incomes, food

so alberta liked brexit, and in the uk they announce their results in the middle of the night, so this is really just a tribute yeah i got nothing here

148/149 polls: ABC Vancouver council candidates received 432,596 votes and elected one councillor. COPE received 251,218 votes and elected 4. Greens received 240,430 votes and elected 4. OneCity received 238,864 votes and elected 1. Short slates can win more seats because votes are concentrated. 1/2

Will the council be nimbys? Yes but nothing is getting built for a while in current market conditions anyway.

Always wild to me how much work OneCity does and how little they get out of it (I hope and expect they will continue regardless)

Let the election results drinking commence.

Pretty embarrassing when the party that calls the election can't manage to get a candidate in every riding.

Some people may be confused by the recurring conflict between the transgender community and Bluesky moderation staff. So here's a quick explainer: Every single decision, since day one, that the Bluesky staff ever made has been wrong

“We attempt to put in the most naïve bare effort, where it occurs to us in the context of our biases to do so”

This is the guy who banned me for posting a gif of a person putting a child in a pool, but telling people to "enjoy the camps" is fine. I think it's pretty safe to say that the presence of this man on staff makes this a nazi bar.

Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate

Our booth is at S24 in the Indie Arena booth in Hall 10.2! 💫

We're at Gamescom! Swing by to say hi, check out a demo of Young Suns, and nab a sticker sheet and postcard that's out of this world! 🤩🚀

Made it to Köln. I am very tired and it’s not even 5pm.

Remember that by killing the Villages Plan, Sean, ABC, & "Green" Pete Fry scuttled Complete Communities, an essential Big Move of the Climate Emergency Action Plan. 1000s will commute in cars from exurbs & fossil gas will heat more homes, regardless of what CoV rules say.

ABC told planners what to do, the planners did it well, and they changed their mind and used them for political bait. The Villages plan is in the approved Vancouver plan ffs! I hope Josh White and other senior leadership quit. This is why good planners no longer work in the City of Vancouver.

If the plan that Ken Sim personally promoted for years "disrespected Vancouverites and the process itself" then I wonder who Ken Sim is going to hold accountable for such a disrespectful action

The Vancouver Villages plan was defeated. This is a huge blow to housing policy in the city. This was the easiest part of the Vancouver Plan to implement; Ken Sim directed staff to prioritize it. If we can't pass this, what's the point of any of it? All housing policy work here is in limbo.

For as long as I’ve been a reporter in this city the complaint has been that we build too many giant luxury condos in a few places and not enough medium density housing across neighbourhoods. But this week reaffirmed why that approach is so baked into the DNA and political culture of Vancouver.

ABC deserves more blame for this outcome than anyone; it was their policy and they dropped it like a potato at the first opportunity. Also it was very, very dumb to have this vote so close to the election. Not sure who's most to blame for that.

Grab bag of thoughts re: the Villages I think the last few years have shown us that the wave of support for more housing was... not illusionary exactly, but people don't feel strongly enough about it to counteract very concrete+organized NIMBY opposition. Grim.

I hate seeing another bad local day in my industry every six months and feeling the need to write down my thoughts about it. I am so lucky that a lot of people really appreciate what I do. But I am continually sad about what's happened around me.

One employee was driving to work when the station went off air. He heard the recorded message saying it was over. That’s how he was informed he lost his job. Some found out when other media began reporting it. These employees deserved dignity and respect & Rogers chose not to provide that.

So...VPD posted an AI slop photo of a drug bust, deleted the post, and reposted a 'corrected' version of the photo. Thankfully the Tums turned into coins and the bills look more like legal tender. Cops using AI to generate politically-motivated content seems like a pretty big deal.

ABC just voted to gut the Vision Zero Safe Mobility Plan. This was a critical, evidence-based package of reforms that would have saved lives and had virtually unanimous public support...but they voted to kill the most important part. And they used shameless spin to justify it. Unacceptable!

BREAKING: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC majority voted not to reduce speed limits on major roads, despite 93% of all road fatalities in Vancouver happening on arterials. This was one of the most important Near-Term Actions in the entire plan, because roads will never be safe until people drive at safe speeds.

This is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html

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Visited senakw today - omg. It’s pretty epic, and cheap for the location.

East Vancouver is the best neighbourhood in Canada I will fight you

stupid people close all the bus services, consumption sites, warming shelters, community shelters, and then they're all like "ewwww why are there visible homeless people and visible drug users", even as said stupid people loudly drink booze in homes and bars before hopping behind the wheel

Today, Ken Sim and ABC killed an overdose prevention site that Vancouver Coastal Health has been working towards for years. (1/6)

Wes gets it. I don't think MLS has known where to go for a few years now, or how to even define success. The World Cup has developed into something grotesque rather than "rocket fuel," Messi hasn't been the breakthrough, and dumping a team like the Whitecaps give away the game.

The FN Leadership Council is calling on all MLAs in BC to vote against Premier Eby's bill to suspend the Declaration Act. They've offered alternatives. Every one was rejected. Eby declared suspension "non-negotiable" & then accused FN of refusing to compromise: khelsilem.substack.com/p/first-nati...

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

my daughter and her stuffed raccoon have been reunited thanks to the miracle power of the us postal service. thank you to grandpa and everyone who was praying for reccy’s safe return

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

V8s. Let me tell you how much I've come to love V8s since I began to shop Chevy. There are 387.44 million miles of road that fill this country. If the word 'V8' were written on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the appreciation I feel fo

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...