Max
@fixie.bsky.social
Urbanist | Progressive |
📍 Victoria BC
🌽 Corn lover
If your crayon isn't a little unhinged you're not ready to poast it
📍 Victoria BC
🌽 Corn lover
If your crayon isn't a little unhinged you're not ready to poast it
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Max
@fixie.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I made a starter pack of people in British Columbia who post about generally urbanist topics and local issues.
Its mostly from my own following list, but comment here and I'll add you (or any suggestions) to it.
go.bsky.app/CmvMt5o
Its mostly from my own following list, but comment here and I'll add you (or any suggestions) to it.
go.bsky.app/CmvMt5o
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There's a whole cultural movement that insists men cannot possibly do anything that isn't completely testosterone-soaked unless they're either performing to attract women or are gay/"weak".
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
There's a whole cultural movement that insists men cannot possibly do anything that isn't completely testosterone-soaked unless they're either performing to attract women or are gay/"weak".
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I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca
British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.
globalnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
I am not a mole person. I will not live underground.
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I am not a mole person. I will not live underground.
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The reason people do NOT opt out of online dating, despite its engineered horrors, is because increasingly it's the only dating. Period.
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The reason people do NOT opt out of online dating, despite its engineered horrors, is because increasingly it's the only dating. Period.
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Unpopular opinion but:
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Israel/Netanyahu/whoever didn't make you antisemitic the same way that Osama bin Laden didn't "make" people Islamophobic. You always have the choice to *not* meet hate with hate.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Israel/Netanyahu/whoever didn't make you antisemitic the same way that Osama bin Laden didn't "make" people Islamophobic. You always have the choice to *not* meet hate with hate.
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Unpopular opinion but:
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Israel/Netanyahu/whoever didn't make you antisemitic the same way that Osama bin Laden didn't "make" people Islamophobic. You always have the choice to *not* meet hate with hate.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
Israel/Netanyahu/whoever didn't make you antisemitic the same way that Osama bin Laden didn't "make" people Islamophobic. You always have the choice to *not* meet hate with hate.
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ContraPoints is being called Brianna Wu for pointing out that Rathbone and his fans are openly antisemitic and if you understood that sentence you should log off too
June 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
ContraPoints is being called Brianna Wu for pointing out that Rathbone and his fans are openly antisemitic and if you understood that sentence you should log off too
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I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is.
Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.
Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.
September 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is.
Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.
Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.
Personally I think that we should end the program that is creating a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, and I find it very weird that some leftists have negatively polarized themselves into defending it.
Calls to end migrant worker program will only benefit bosses - who will further exploit this anti-migrant xenophobic discourse to intensify labour discipline, pay shitty wages, and exploit & indenture workers. UN has called Canada's TFW Program "a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery."
September 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Personally I think that we should end the program that is creating a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, and I find it very weird that some leftists have negatively polarized themselves into defending it.
I actually do want more local food production but that’s because I’m a paranoid nationalist, not because I incorrectly think it’s better for carbon emissions.
September 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I actually do want more local food production but that’s because I’m a paranoid nationalist, not because I incorrectly think it’s better for carbon emissions.
Quebec’s state enforced “secularism” is bigotry and should be clearly condemned.
The photo chosen is a kick to the gut. Taken during the early days of the pandemic when my neighbours’ synagogues (and everything for that matter!) were closed. Their minyans and songful prayers brought us solace during difficult times.
The Quebec government is planning to pass a law to ban prayer in public, a move so blatantly unconstitutional I'm wondering if it's a joke. www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
August 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Quebec’s state enforced “secularism” is bigotry and should be clearly condemned.
BC has very low taxes. We absolutely have room to raise them.
An individual earning $140,000 pays the following provincial income tax each year:
BC - $11,000
AB - $11,000
ON - $13,000
SK - $18,000
MB - $19,000
NS - $21,000
NL - $21,000
NB - $21,000
PE - $22,000
QC - $29,000
BC - $11,000
AB - $11,000
ON - $13,000
SK - $18,000
MB - $19,000
NS - $21,000
NL - $21,000
NB - $21,000
PE - $22,000
QC - $29,000
August 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BC has very low taxes. We absolutely have room to raise them.
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Hi yes hello, going to reiterate that this should not be legal
August 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hi yes hello, going to reiterate that this should not be legal
SD61, the Victoria BC school district, is considering using wards, and the way the trustees are to be divided up is super un-proportional.
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
August 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
SD61, the Victoria BC school district, is considering using wards, and the way the trustees are to be divided up is super un-proportional.
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
The proposal is:
- View royal/ Highlands: ~15k ppl
- Oak Bay: 18k ppl
- Esquimalt: 19k ppl
- Saanich: ~125k ppl, 2 trustees
- Victoria: ~102k ppl, 2 trustees
The Libs don’t care about BC.
- There was no Canadian shipyard that bid this, because they’re all full with other contracts for years.
- the Feds fully paid for ships from THIS SAME YARD for the maritimes, while we get to pay ourselves and they’re mad about it.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
- There was no Canadian shipyard that bid this, because they’re all full with other contracts for years.
- the Feds fully paid for ships from THIS SAME YARD for the maritimes, while we get to pay ourselves and they’re mad about it.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Infrastructure Minister Robertson says he asked the Canada Infrastructure Bank to cancel $1-billion loan for Chinese-made ships, but deal had been inked in March
Though Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson said he had asked the bank to reverse course on its decision, Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO Ehren Corey said cancelling the loan was not di...
www.hilltimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Libs don’t care about BC.
- There was no Canadian shipyard that bid this, because they’re all full with other contracts for years.
- the Feds fully paid for ships from THIS SAME YARD for the maritimes, while we get to pay ourselves and they’re mad about it.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
- There was no Canadian shipyard that bid this, because they’re all full with other contracts for years.
- the Feds fully paid for ships from THIS SAME YARD for the maritimes, while we get to pay ourselves and they’re mad about it.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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Just wanted to say -- a tsunami wave crosses the Pacific kind of like the speed of a jetliner. Russian quake was big, but if there's a wave it'll take hours to reach NA. (Not like the Cascadia Subduction Zone.) Experts assessing whether there's anything. Keep checking this map.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Just wanted to say -- a tsunami wave crosses the Pacific kind of like the speed of a jetliner. Russian quake was big, but if there's a wave it'll take hours to reach NA. (Not like the Cascadia Subduction Zone.) Experts assessing whether there's anything. Keep checking this map.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
This is the most recent Tsunami report for the US and Canada mainland.
Warnings and advisories for Alaska and Aleutians, Watch notices for the rest of the pacific coast. Watch notices mean they don't expect damage, but to stay alert and updated as reports come in.
tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
Warnings and advisories for Alaska and Aleutians, Watch notices for the rest of the pacific coast. Watch notices mean they don't expect damage, but to stay alert and updated as reports come in.
tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
tsunami.gov
July 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is the most recent Tsunami report for the US and Canada mainland.
Warnings and advisories for Alaska and Aleutians, Watch notices for the rest of the pacific coast. Watch notices mean they don't expect damage, but to stay alert and updated as reports come in.
tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
Warnings and advisories for Alaska and Aleutians, Watch notices for the rest of the pacific coast. Watch notices mean they don't expect damage, but to stay alert and updated as reports come in.
tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
I love how normal the discussion around housing development gets. Gotta really hear these concerns
July 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I love how normal the discussion around housing development gets. Gotta really hear these concerns
I’ve been visiting Vancouver over the weekend, and this city’s government (really the park board) has a real problem with coming up with rules for things that are nonsense.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’ve been visiting Vancouver over the weekend, and this city’s government (really the park board) has a real problem with coming up with rules for things that are nonsense.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Like what do you mean the beach “closes at 10”? This is a statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Winnipeg’s 2022 Mayoral election was so cursed
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
July 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Winnipeg’s 2022 Mayoral election was so cursed
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
You’ve got:
Gillingham, conservative, 27%
Murray, Green/Liberal, 25%
Klein, also a conservative, 15%
Loney, Social enterprise guy, 15%
Ouellette, also a Liberal, 8%
Like 4/5 of you are ostensibly in the same parties! What are you doing?!
this is so evil lol
The NIMBYs are rallying against the elementary school in the Olympic Village, promised 20 years ago. The typical complaints. "Too big, too much, why here?".
My eyes cannot roll enough.
#VancouverNimbyism
My eyes cannot roll enough.
#VancouverNimbyism
July 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
this is so evil lol
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Is your province building affordable homes? $50 million, 95-unit affordable housing project breaks ground in Saanich - Greater Victoria News share.google/VZaP8HyAiBGX...
$50 million, 95-unit affordable housing project breaks ground in Saanich
With $15.6 million from the province and $198,000 from the District of Saanich, the building is anticipated to open in August 2027
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July 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Is your province building affordable homes? $50 million, 95-unit affordable housing project breaks ground in Saanich - Greater Victoria News share.google/VZaP8HyAiBGX...
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Trying something new today, as my attention span permits. Thursday, July 10 Committee of the Whole (COTW) kicks off. Hammond online. Loughton away dealing with family matters in the aftermath of her dad’s passing. Sending love her way. <3 1/n
July 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trying something new today, as my attention span permits. Thursday, July 10 Committee of the Whole (COTW) kicks off. Hammond online. Loughton away dealing with family matters in the aftermath of her dad’s passing. Sending love her way. <3 1/n
This Saanich News article by Olivier Laurin is both-sides-ing nonsense. It was not “the entire room”, it was the “Save our Saanich Group” doing this.
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
July 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This Saanich News article by Olivier Laurin is both-sides-ing nonsense. It was not “the entire room”, it was the “Save our Saanich Group” doing this.
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
insults did not “fly from one audience member to another”, the misogynistic and homophobic comments-
www.saanichnews.com/local-news/a...
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OMG, the Saanich/Victoria amalgamation report. Did these people read ANYTHING about other amalgamations before writing this?
From here: drive.google.com/file/d/18Ggi...
From here: drive.google.com/file/d/18Ggi...
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
OMG, the Saanich/Victoria amalgamation report. Did these people read ANYTHING about other amalgamations before writing this?
From here: drive.google.com/file/d/18Ggi...
From here: drive.google.com/file/d/18Ggi...
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Hey folks, we built enough so that rents are coming down ever so slightly. It’s a slippery slope.
The best time to stop building was yesterday but the second best time is now.
The best time to stop building was yesterday but the second best time is now.
June 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hey folks, we built enough so that rents are coming down ever so slightly. It’s a slippery slope.
The best time to stop building was yesterday but the second best time is now.
The best time to stop building was yesterday but the second best time is now.