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Anthony Floyd
@anthonyfloyd.ca
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💬 He/him 🏠 Dad to two, @gwenfloyd.bsky.social's +1 🚲 Safe cycling advocate 📷 Photography 🎲 Board games ✈ Composites 👨‍💻 Software dev (Python, Fortran) 🎓 PhD 🍁 Vancouver BC 🌐 https://www.anthonyfloyd.ca 🐘 @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2m
*cereal bus
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 3m
It's university and scholarship application season, and consequentially, reference letter season.

Reading the things that adults have to say about my kid (kids, really) makes me super proud and somehow makes any room I'm in super dusty.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 3h
Did that work? Doesn't seem to work for me.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 5h
We have more than one XP machine, well insulated from the internet. They run aged lab equipment, and one's a VM that has a development environment tweaked *just so* to create 32 bit libraries for a specific product that still needs to support 32 bit stuff. I'm sympathetic to people clinging to Win10
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 18h
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19h
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?"
Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 1d
Amusing idea: whomever is in the control room >bleeps< out Moe every time he begins a sentence with "Look,"
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2d
Happy Thanksgiving!

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2d
We're hooped.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2d
"Which is closer to your view regarding the tanker ban off the BC coast?"

Leave in place: 29%
Allow for the new oil pipeline project: 26%
Repeal the ban completely: 23%

Unsure: 21%

Angus Reid / Oct 9, 2025 / n=1517 / Online
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2d
a man with a mustache wearing a shirt that says dunkin donuts
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a shirt that says dunkin donuts
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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 3d
Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 7d
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 2d
We did that route a few years ago with the kids. Apparently many of the places to stay didn't survive the past few years, but the Chute Lake Lodge is about halfway between Kelowna and Penticton. Yes, not paved, but still reasonably popular!

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Chute Lake Lodge | Explore The Unseen
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 3d
It, uh, stayed kinda wet until we reached sea level. Fortunately we weren't made of sugar.
A dozen bikes riding on a very wet street in the rain
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 3d
The ride from the Lynn Valley library to Lonsdale Quay with @modacitylife.com started out a little on the damp side.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
It was nerve wracking but somehow I stayed afloat. I mean, made it home.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
Apparently I needed to look at a transit schedule instead of just wandering up to the Seabus terminal. Stuck staring at this.
The lights off the city of Vancouver at night across the Burrard Inlet from the City of North Vancouver's Lonsdale Quay.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
>sob< What do you mean the Seabus only runs every half hour now? I'm just supposed to stand around and *wait*?!
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
About to venture out of my city to the (checks notes) North Shore.

#PrayForAnthony
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
Tacky. Also, we're not going to the States, remember?

You could do Tuesday nights at the Starlight, perhaps.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 4d
Fine. Let's say it first and work on making it happen next.

Driving is a privilege, not a right. There should be more consequences for negligent drivers.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 4d
A family wants immediate suspensions for drivers suspected of causing death after their 12-year-old was killed. But legal experts warn it may be easier said than done www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. considers tougher penalties for drivers after 12-year-old killed in crash | CBC News
The B.C. government says it is actively looking at options to get tougher on drivers involved in fatal crashes after the premier spoke to the family of a 12-year-old killed on Vancouver Island this pa...
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 5d
It seems almost criminal that there isn't secure bike parking at BC Place/Rogers Arena for all their events.

And yes. As part of the event permitting process, CoV should require secure bike parking for at least 10% of the expected attendees.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 5d
Haha. I even looked at the precip map this morning just before it left and it showed a string of showers and heavier rain moving across Vancouver.

Not a drop on my subsequent 35 min ride.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 6d
Isn't that essentially what's happened? ABC wouldn't run a referendum just before the election, would they? They could run it as another question on the municipal ballot, though.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d
Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019.

I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵
The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery
The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 6d
Yay!
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 6d
Dear #bikeyvr, I wore my rain gear this morning so you didn't have to. You're welcome. 😒
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