diluez! diluez! ok!

Canadians: A friend launched this House of Commons e-petition to encourage the government to launch a Build Canada Stronger Climate Program, with these five pillars; I encourage you to read and sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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figured I'd listen to Christy Clark make the case for the new Conservative government's fiscal policy since there's a huge and widening deficit, they're promising tax cuts, and they say they won't cut healthcare apparently the fix is just to chant "Laffer curve" until you start to feel better

Guess I'm not shocked that Yaletown swung right a week after we put a bouquet of 🌹 types on city council

Call me a child or a rube but I think trying to time a snap election to catch your opponents with their pants down was a poor expression of democratic ideals and deserved to fail. (Although I wish that it hadn't! The consequences are going to be real and they're going to be bad.)

Dallas Brodie, who mocked the recall petition against her for only getting 3,663 signatures this summer, earned 805 votes in last night's election — placing last with less than 5% of her own riding, with her party getting 1.5% province-wide. thewalrus.ca/bc-snap-elec...

All right, leadership race, let's go

i am in great pain

[norman rockwell guy] i don't think clearing some land to build things is often a crime against humanity or indeed against all of creation, even when the result is aesthetically inferior environmentalist rhetoric is poisoned by a deep well of self-hatred

I am somewhat annoyed about having a snap election, but time to put that aside and go vote. Voting matters, elections have consequences.

oh lol, the compromised emudhra private keys are all one-byte integers mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/11747...

Thank you Iona, Jarrett, Frances, and Caitlin. You are all some of the most experienced, hardworking people in the city, and you ran a campaign that was authentic, rooted in the belief that City Hall can be more. Your voices and your ideas have made this party, and this election, better.

Well, we've got four years to work on it

Polls are OPEN, Vancouver! Don't miss your opportunity to change your life. Bring your friends and neighbours, tell your community, VOTE. www.onecityvancouver.ca/vote

timely

On the train from Xi'an to Shanghai last night, we could see farmers burning maize stalks in their fields to prepare to plant wheat; the smoke smell in the train was very strong. This is apparently both illegal—the province fines villages if they light up fire-detection satellites—and ubiquitous.

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

>we’ve reached the worrying about prison phase of the Trump Presidency

my most middle-aged opinion is that tax codes should discourage unnecessary shower control innovation in hotels

I expected problems accessing Western social media from China but this (while using a US-based eSIM) was unexpected. And GPS doesn't work on the bullet trains!

Used Alipay to order milk tea from a stall in a high-speed rail station our train to Xi'an was transiting. It came to our seats a few minutes after the stop. Would have been a real five star experience if only we had more customization options for the teas 🥺

Perhaps Fukushima was most importantly a climate disaster

北京 urbanism: these electric scooters are ubiquitous and most of them have quilted windbreakers attached.

the actual practice of biological and medical research has a way of breeding a radical epistemic humility

Beijing highlight: the Liangmahe is a river with a nice reclaimed green bank and a pedestrian path. Along one section, a bunch of guys were standing around with boats they'd inflated on the spot, offering rentals. Lots of young people splashing around amid bored looking security guards.

🗳️🚨Over 25,000 people voted today, the highest single-day advance turnout on record. Next chance to vote is this Saturday, Oct. 10th, 8am to 8pm. #EvictKenSim

The brave people at the "party of public safety" don't care if you die as long as it saves drivers 10 seconds

Win or lose, the BC NDP deserves more serious leadership than this

aw, new firefox is so round

prime minister stark harney

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

the ceremonial aspects of the job interview assess the performance of social class, which is more important for some roles than others