Phil Ollenberg

We need to stop blaming the results of this election on non-voters. It's a cheap cheat-out. Polls show there was an obvious rejection of the NDP at this point in the game.

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Well, that's enough doomscrolling after BC's shit-show election last night.

Watching Global BC interview an NDP commentator and a Conservative commentator. 🟠 NDP speaker - optimistic, diplomatic, generous. 🔵 Conservative speaker - robotic, speaking points, still campaigning.

I can't wait to get back home to BC and start budgeting to pay for healthcare premiums, big increases in my car insurance, and big cuts to public education funding.

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Not my dog assertively rolling around onto me because I dared take one hand off of her to text a friend "good morning."

Yahoo! Happy to be travelling home to some good news! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The fact that half the people in the boarding lounge for my cross-border train trip did not know they needed to have their passport pre-checked at a different spot before boarding tells you there's a massive communication gap.

So, this is enraging. Especially the CRA's ambivalence towards it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wonder if there's any correlation between balance, muscle tone, and stability with standing while riding transit like buses or trains. It strikes me as though having to keep oneself upright (albeit with a handhold) aboard a moving and turning vehicle would assist with muscle toning.

The answer to the question: "If you find a spider in your house, do you squish it or put it outside?" tells you a lot about a person in one yes/no question.

"Empty lots and apartments are voting Ken Sim and ABC because he keeps them empty.” - @seanorr.bsky.social dailyhive.com/vancouver/se...

Who’s running in my riding? Candidate list finalized ahead of B.C. election

Provincial ballot balloted. Meow just waiting on my municipal one. #BCpoli #VanElxn

Make out with a couple cute boys, have some local beer, make a new friend. That's how you have a good night in 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓮𝔁𝓾𝓪𝓵 Vancouver.

Denounce racism in all its forms, especially on a day like today, meant to honour the lost and harmed children of the colonial residential school program.

Yikes... A very popular PrEP (HIV prevention) clinic in Canada is getting acquired by a company with a long history of problematic political alignments and data usage. Promptly cancelling & requesting an information deletion before they can hand-over all my health records for skimming.

Watching church-going, cross-wearing, Christian “Family Feud” contestants fumble over naming Bible characters, while two 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓮𝔁𝓾𝓪𝓵 atheists sitting at home are nailing all the answers. Religious piety ain't the same as actually literacy.

“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.

If wasn't already a decided voter, immediately turned off by lack of logic here. Taxes need to move with the economy and wealth.

Sometimes I forget that not every fellow fag runs as fast-and-loose with pronouns as I do. I referred to myself as a "career woman" and my buddy was very confused. My typical pronouns are he/him, but I also go with use/what/ever for me as long as it's meant with dignity.

There will be TWO elections this October, and we hope transit riders vote in both of them! It can be confusing to figure out which level of government is responsible for what (especially when candidates make promises they can’t follow through on).

I'd support the Disney board firing him again if they could, for good measure.

Important dates and timelines for the 2026 B.C. provincial election theprovince.com/news/bc-elec...

Call centre annoyance: when the hold music keeps telling you to "go to our website to do this thing" when their website explicitly says you can't do the thing through their website.

"Give us a call." Or, as us millennials call it, "ew no thanks, I can do business with another company." Buh-bye.

I can't wait to age into the demographic of dude who barely steps into the (empty) train, then immediately stops and blocks the entrance for everyone else.

Want to check how busy someone who claims they're so "busy" is? Text them during the workday. If they can always respond in under 60 seconds, THEY'RE NOT BUSY.

It takes a certain level of self-absorption to be texting with both hands while driving a moving vehicle that has a "BABY ON BOARD" warning sticky in the back window.

Just had one of those wonderful "fuck, I love my city" moments. Doesn't take much around these parts. ❤️

With 22 out of 24 Ontario colleges having published their financial statements, we can have a good look at the annus horribilus of 2025-26. Sector-wide: Total fee income down 43% (about $2bn) Total income down 30% (about $2.3 bn) Net margin went from +8% to -3% (625M surplus to $160M deficit)2

Just found a new nickname for my dog tonight: Scratchy Lee Snifford.

Are Elmo's pronouns elmo/elmo/elmo? Maybe Elmo DOESN'T talk in third person, Elmo's gender is also elmo, and elmo are Elmo's preferred pronouns.

As someone who cleans his instant pot (erm—everything) with bleach, it freaks me out there are people getting maggots because they didn't clean the lid or… like… any part.

I couldn't find this as a GIF online, so I created it as a GIFt to the world. The Simpsons’ Mr. Smithers injects himself with a syringe, then smiles and flails his arms. The macro text "I love boobies!" is superimposed.

Seeing an Indigenous nations recognised separately brings joy to my heart. ❤️ (Also why all these games gotta be in Washington DC. I wanna goooooo!!!)

Malicious compliance: Bank says I cannot escalate a complaint until 14 days after I raised the initial complaint. So I sent the escalation today, 14 days + 1 minute after my initial complaint, documenting the 6 efforts I made to resolve the issue.

I've never been "woofed" by the dude sitting across from me at the lab. Until today. 🤣

Adulting is replacing your hopes and dreams with nopes and screams.

I'm starting to wonder if there's a correlation between susceptibility towards AI slop and mental decline like dementia or Alzheimer's.

There was a very important announcement on the #SkyTrain this afternoon. I transcribed it for everyone: PRURRAH WUNNAH THUH OHHMUNNAH, OF ZZHH RAVVAH YEHNAA MOWWUH, AN NURRAH AHWUNNA. THUH VUMMAH OHH YEMMAH, OF ZZH RUMMA WAAHNUH MURRAVA. THUH YEHAH MURRAH A NUMMAA. THHHHK YOOHHH.

Oh look! Another Globe op-ed about higher education with literally no sense of history. (the value of various types of degrees are largely unchanged over the past 50 years, but sure, tell me more about how "everything is different now").

Big talk from skippy here, who was and occasionally is 47's bootlicker. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Today I learned I've been to the U.S. state of Ohio. To the city of Cincinnati. As an adult. As a grown up real adult. Intentionally. Knowingly.

I wonder what the ratio is of folks who see a branded cybertruck and go "ooh I want to shop there" vs the "ew that's on my blocklist" crowd.