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Brendan Kergin

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Vancouver is Awesome reporter, covering news, quirk and history.

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Apr 21

A thread of my #Vancouver factoids and history posts, starting with the place.

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Vancouver's #geography and #geology

#history #canadianhistory #vancouverhistory

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Vancouver's geography and geology

Vancouver is a city in eastern B.C. No, really.

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · 17d

Earlobes?

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28d

Pingnguaqti (Player)
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2025

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Oct 3

I know it’s the most minor of issues, but the more of I think of this paint job on our new back step (installed yesterday) the more it baffles my mind. Like, did you only have a table spoon of paint?

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Marv Beatty @marvbeatty.bsky.social · Sep 19

A nice story here about Blake Lively's husband 😉 from @kergin.bsky.social at Vancouver Is Awesome.

Congrats, @vancityreynolds.bsky.social!

www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/r...

Ryan Reynolds gets Freedom from City of Vancouver

He got pinned by Mayor Ken Sim.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Sep 3

|The alliance will coordinate health guidelines and align its immunization recommendations with those of "respected national medical organizations," instead of those of the CDC|
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Washington, Oregon and California will issue their own vaccine recommendations, separate from CDC

Citing a lack of faith in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's CDC, Washington, Oregon and California will issue their own vaccine recommendations.

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Aug 29

Cool. Cool cool cool.

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Aug 29

Some smart marketing group should convince a town to hide hidden ‘gems’ all over the place like a video game

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Aug 12

This ad from a newspaper in 1920 suggests offering former troops Moir's Chocolates when they get "that old trench craving."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 10

The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota.

But after the state passed a measure preventing transgender young people like their daughter from using girls’ bathrooms, they sold it and moved away.

A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away.

The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Aug 11

The phrase "en route to golf course" adds so much to the headline.

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Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC

President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

www.theguardian.com

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · Aug 1

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1

imagine being the night watchman here

Lex 🕸️d @chelicerati.bsky.social · Aug 1

Venthaven, a ventriloquism museum in Kentucky.

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Vancouver Is Awesome @viawesome.bsky.social · Jul 24

Photos: Electrifying fireworks display on second night of Vancouver's Festival of Light

Did you catch the booming show over the water?

dlvr.it

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Marv Beatty @marvbeatty.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here's a very cool thing happening in Kamloops at TRU this October:

#Kamloops #NASA

Thompson Rivers University @thompsonriversu.bsky.social · Jul 18

The 2025 NASA International Space Apps Challenge is landing right here on campus. 🚀

Join the TRU engineering department from Saturday, Oct. 4 – Sunday, Oct. 5 for a hackathon where global teams will tackle real-world challenges related to the Earth and space.

Register: www.tru.ca/science/news...

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Jul 17

B.C. couple dodging dozens of calls about their missing cat — but their cat isn't missing

Their phone number was featured on a shirt by a U.S. designer (literally called Wisdumb NY)

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B.C. couple dodging dozens of calls about their missing cat — but their cat isn't missing | CBC News

After many months of trying to figure out why this was happening, Jonathan McCurrach asked a caller how they got their number. The caller explained the number was listed on a shirt styled to look like...

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Brendan Kergin @kergin.bsky.social · Jul 11

"There will be no tariff if Canada, or companies within your country, decide to manufacture product within the United States," the letter read.
Canada is going to manufacture stuff in the US? Huh?
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