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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 6h

Consider our current NDP ran on eliminating bridge tolls and sending giant cashbacks to car owners.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 6h

Vancouver would disagree. At rush hour, the bus lanes are crammed with taxis and Ubers and morons in emotional support vehicles who think they are special. Bus lanes should be separated.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 7h

As a resident, I gotta say, the city imposes plenty. And consultation on a single property is performative action. I couldn't believe after the year of endless consultation on Crystal pool that it's tax impact was a mere fraction of the rubber-stamped VicPD tax increase, which we has NO say in.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like being next to Royal, it would benefit from being mixed use, so that businesses aimed at venue-goers could visit. I will gladly support such a plan of it happens.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 7h

As a resident, I gotta say, the city imposes plenty. And consultation on a single property is performative action. I couldn't believe after the year of endless consultation on Crystal pool that it's tax impact was a mere fraction of the rubber-stamped VicPD tax increase, which we has NO say in.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 12h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 9h

Yes I agree.

Which is why I was skeptical of Locomotive's claim that Atlantic Tories are "left of the NDP."

Not sure where we differ on this. Check my profile friendo.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Dec 9

The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 11h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 10h

I'm gonna need some heavy evidence for that. Outrageous claims require outrageous evidence.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 10h

In 1943, the Nazis landed in Labrador to set up a weather station.

In 2025, the Nazi party finally took control of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 10h

It'll be a Progressive Conservative government in Newfoundland and Labrador

We're just waiting on whether it's a majority or a minority!

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 10h

There has been ample time for Victoria to come up with a plan - this was never intended to be permanent. The snail's pace that we deal with the housing crisis is ridiculous - we don't need public consultation. Walk down the street. The consultation is there:

We need affordable public housing.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 10h

Looking forward to the next decade of having almost exclusively old white retired people being "consulted" at inequitable meetings that barely anyone who would benefit from a given project can actually get to at city hall.

Victoria has had five years to plan this. We knew it would need replacing.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 10h

Sleepy pebbles loves this development even if she does not understand it's ramifications whatsoever.

A sleepy small dog is curled up on a quilt

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

Screw you David Eby. The only people we are being forced to be patient with are you and your other right-wing BCNDP politicians holding back labour negotiations.

Castanet.net @castanet.net · 13h

Thanks for your 'patience,' Eby says to public over B.C. workers strike (BC)

Thanks for your 'patience,' Eby says to public over B.C. workers strike - BC News

British Columbia's premier says it's been a frustrating time for residents as a public service workers dispute drags into its seventh week, but he appreciates their patience.

www.castanet.net

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 13h

It specifically cited neighbours complaining about crime and trespassing. It's turning back into a parking lot - hardly a step forward. I would have hoped that seeing that the parking lot wasn't needed over the last five years, the city would have jumped on the opportunity to repurpose the land.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

And with that, Scientific American fell to the category of "tabloid." I used to read SA a lot. Sad to see them turn into a slop-promoting platform.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

Alright I've decided this person is trash. They don't even own a majority stake in their own home and owe the government over $300,000 in unpaid taxes.

Fuck off.

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 23h

Is a 'B.C. billionaire' rich enough to buy up much of the Hudson’s Bay?

Weihong Liu’s B.C. holdings are not as extensive as they first appear, according to court and land title documents.

dlvr.it

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

This disgusts me - this isn't being removed because the lot is needed for something else. This is pure NIMBYism. It will go back to being a parking lot. All this will do is force the residents onto the street. Victoria has done everything except scream the words "NOT IN MY BACK YARD."

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 23h

Victoria's Tiny Town shipping-container village to close for good next spring

The temporary housing facility on Caledonia Avenue will permanently close March 31, according to a letter sent to neighbouring residents by B.C. Housing.

dlvr.it

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

Waiting for VicPD to confiscate these very same kits and toss them in a dumpster when they are horrified that homeless people are using them on streets.

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 22h

First responders to distribute 'stay warm, stay dry' kits to the unhoused

Victoria Fire Department has created kits with items to help people stay warm and dry, such as waterproof sleeping bags, ponchos, hand warmers, socks

dlvr.it

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

1. Build stupid housing
2. Build endless high-speed infrastructure for cars to access stupid housing
3. People drive cars at high speed on the high-speed infrastructure.
4. People crash car into stupid housing.

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wsmv.com @wsmv.com · 23h

‘All we can say is, WOW!’ | Car crashes into Powell home, Rural Metro Fire says

“All we can say is, WOW!” is how Rural Metro reacted when no one was injured after a car crashed into a Powell home.

www.wsmv.com

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Dec 11

CAR-CRAZY FACT OF THE DAY.

Every 24 hours, US drivers run over 15 children in parking lots and driveways.

jalopnik.com/u-s-drivers-...

U.S. Drivers Run Over 15 Children Every Day In Parking Lots And Driveways

Tall vehicles and long hoods contribute to increasing number of "frontover" incidents.

jalopnik.com

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking of sending this to my colleagues at the school I work at and being like "so tell me more about how we should be brainwashing kids into thinking AI use is the best way forward.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 23h

How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Considering the actual winner of the Peace Prize immediately started kissing Trump's ass in literally their first social media post after being awarded... At this point it should be called the Nobel War Crimes prize.

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 1d

The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.

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