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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 6h

Social media has destroyed the fabric of civilization buts it’s also helped me a lot personally

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 5h

fantastic and detailed piece by @micksweetman.bsky.social about the impacts and implications of the government's decision to make prescribed alternatives to the unregulated drug LESS accessible

#SafeSupply

thediscourse.ca @thediscourse.ca · 20h

A local doctor says the province’s new safer supply rules are more about politics than public health.
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Safer supply changes leave patients struggling for stability – The Discourse.

A local doctor says the province’s new safer supply rules are more about politics than public health.

thediscourse.ca

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 22h

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

@christineboyle.bsky.social
@gregorrobertson.bsky.social

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Metro Vancouver's glut of empty condos: What's unsold and why?

No amount of incentives seems to be able to reverse the glut. How did we get here? And how bad could it get? Read more.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 19h

The deep efficiency of the invisible hand.

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 22h

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

@christineboyle.bsky.social
@gregorrobertson.bsky.social

vancouversun.com/business/rea...

Metro Vancouver's glut of empty condos: What's unsold and why?

No amount of incentives seems to be able to reverse the glut. How did we get here? And how bad could it get? Read more.

vancouversun.com

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 6h

the AG's announcement is a statement of allegiance to the war on drugs, which Trump is using as motive for imposing tariffs that shred global trade, for extrajudicial mass murder, the disappearing to El Salvador without due process, and the military invasion of cities

she's helping

Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 6h

AG James' announcement of mass drug arrests was accompanied by a dangerously misleading statistic, and more broadly counteracts New York's harm reduction efforts, writes researcher Kevin Revier.

"Simply put, when drug raids happen, communities become less safe."

New York Attorney General Uses Scare Tactics to Publicize Fentanyl Busts

Her mass drug arrests and misleading information put New Yorkers at added risk, and contradict the state's commitment to harm reduction.

filtermag.org

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 5h

hoping to see my former coworkers' new publication, a nonprofit news co-op to replace the Glacier papers that closed earlier this year, flourish and help prove a different model for journalism
www.freshetnews.ca/a-new-beginn...

A new beginning for local news in Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities - Freshet News

The Freshet News is a new voice for Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities with a mission to put community back in community news.

www.freshetnews.ca

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

the police are *claiming* that overtime spending has increased exponentially since 2023 because of an officer shortage, an easily disproven assertion.

cc @bakergeorget.bsky.social
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

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B.C. police academy pushes back on calls for city-run police training amid officer shortage | CBC News

The institution responsible for training municipal, transit and tribal police recruits in B.C. is pushing back against calls for city-run academies, arguing that a single, province-wide system is ess...

www.cbc.ca

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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 3d

The truth about Israel as a euro-colonial entity is that they chose genocide and urbicide because they couldn’t conceive of living equally with Indigenous Palestinians that welcomed them as refugees.

So they dropped 9x more fire power on civilians than the American nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 3d

never met a water bottle I couldn't lose

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 5d

Couldn't agree more. This kind of predatory landlord behaviour needs to be curbed or we're going to lose our downtowns.

Editorial: Occupied commercial buildings need rent control

A Vancouver-based real estate firm, Upfield Capital Management, has purchased Oak Bay’s historic Bell Block building, and tripled the rent.

www.timescolonist.com

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 4d

Yes, yes, abroad we all call him Trump the peacemaker

NY Times story: The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a few Retribution Campaign at Home

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 4d

the police board chair says that there's so much overtime because THE POLICE NEED MORE POLICE

AND THE POLICE AGREE

youtu.be/vAQVdXO3mnc

Vancouver Police Board chair admits OT hours worked by officers 'a concern'

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 4d

fantasy hockey draft is the annual open book exam, except instead of finding out i failed all at once, my failure materializes over the course of six months

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm learning things

screenshot from the website "the spruce pets"

with the tagline "Vet Reviewed & Pet Approved"

a subheading says:

How to Feed Pumpkin to Cats

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm making pumpkin cinnamon buns for a friends dinner this weekend and to get rid of stone of the extra pumpkin I decided to also contribute a 1.5x recipe of pumpkin cream cheese dip, but even with that and making myself some pumpkin spice syrup, I'm gonna have way more than I know what to do with 🫠

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 5d

every recipe I use with pumpkin calls for at most 80ml of pumpkin and every can of pumpkin is at least 800ml

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 6d

this coal giant.
elkvalleycoal.com/john-horgan-...

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 6d

"i know you love writing, but what if you subcontracted the joy of writing to a cacophony of emotionless drivel"

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 6d

Look, I'm sympathetic to interviewers but man, you've got to have never watched The Wire or read any David Simon interaction to imagine a more AI-positive response than this.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 6d

a coffee creamer company was giving out free coffee samples downtown today and instead of asking me what kind of creamer i wanted the guy asked what kind of "enhancer" i somewhere behind the dead eyes and flat tone was a soul desperately trying to escape

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 8d

globalnews.ca/news/1146669...

this

shelters have violence, lice
public housing has bedbugs

telling ppl to live in indignity is not 'helping' them

it's offering a shit option so you can say you did something and forget about them

it is shameful and beneath us as Canadians

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 10d

people complained a lot when i was in community news about us posting wire stories about BC/nat'l/int'l news, and i get that complaint, but we didn't fill the local news page with it. it's just bizarre to go to the BC news page and see less than a quarter of the top stories directly impact BC

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dustin @godfrey.bsky.social · 10d

go to Global's BC news page, and you will find among its top stories:

- 5 international stories
- 4 news stories from other provinces
- the same Blue Jays story twice
- 1 national story with relevance to BC
- 2 BC stories

like, they have world/national pages for a reason?

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