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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land. present day. present time

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we really did not need to indulge the fantasy that any of these people are about to become prime minister

11.03.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

guess i should watch the last ndp leadership debate before i commit to my rankings, for whatever good that will do

11.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ah, my poor NDP

11.03.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

plans are woke and gay

11.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

things are bad but we still have the way Mitski hits the word "cats" when she sings "but I guess according to CATS now it's his house!!!"

06.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NTSB board member Inman says he was fired by White House A Republican member of the National Transportation Safety ​Board said on Sunday he β€Œwas fired on Friday by the White House without any explanation.

NTSB board member Inman says he was fired by White House reut.rs/3OVrV6p

08.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 15

what was it that happened to the last person trying to stock up on toilet paper in 2020?

09.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hotel Five in Seattle is pretty good for monorail foaming

08.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Liang and I were curious about this recently and I had gotten this wrong!

07.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment

Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released todayβ€”overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year

That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

06.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 280 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 15

someone in the group chat making plans for brunch for a group of twelve people: "let's just walk around and see what's available"

oh shoot, just realized i have an urgent, uhhh, dentist appointment? it's, uhhhh, it's on the moon?? so i gotta get going!!! ok!!! later have fun byeeee

05.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this screenshot neither supports or challenges the claim that an llm was used to target the school.

05.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds absolutely enraging but also very funny, my condolences

05.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

an academic is fully crashing out about Word and it's taking all of my willpower not to quote tweet him with "skill issue"

05.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

incidentally did the US just start a war with a state sponsor of terror while TSA agents are starting to miss paychecks because of the DHS funding lapse

03.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Premier Eby says B.C. will make daylight time permanent British Columbians will adopt year-round daylight time, springing forward by one hour this Sunday for the last time.

Rise up, America/Vancouver, this is our time

03.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Liang just accidentally played some Instagram video that included an Emergency Alert System data packet and tone sequence and I did Not like hearing that tonight

01.03.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of Iranian flags in downtown today, still not sure how to read the mood. Not... upset, obviously?

28.02.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Yellow-orange and purple tulips in a vase on an apartment balcony on a sunny day, seen through a window

Yellow-orange and purple tulips in a vase on an apartment balcony on a sunny day, seen through a window

I forgot that tulips are toxic to cats so they have been obtained, but banished to the balcony

28.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Carney isn't even treating Canadians with the same consideration and respect most CEOs treat employees. It's capital-O-Odd that he hasn't sat down for an interview or made any attempt to integrate his Davos speech into some sort of outreach to Canadians.

28.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

vancouver mayoral candidate william azaroff is so dadcore that the album recs in his weekly newsletter (in which he recommends albums!?) have recently included "you forgot it in people" and "boxer"

not sure this is how you dial in the youth vote but i guess he's got my fuckin' number

28.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

how will this play in north van? the politics of the iranian diaspora seem complex and i do not understand them

28.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

i'd make a joke about the war powers act but you're already laughing

28.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Albanese: "We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security."

www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

28.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

odd echo in the Canada and Australia statements

Carney: "Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security."

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

28.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I'm so sorry, and so glad that he found you.

27.02.2026 06:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

classixx's hanging gardens and fujiya and miyagi's transparent things are goes-to for me

26.02.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

21.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 3776 πŸ” 1517 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 142

This kind of rhetoric and dishonesty doesn't have a place in our civic politics. @lennynanzhou.bsky.social should not seek re-election. What a weird failure of judgement.

25.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You may have recalled BC billionaire Jim Pattison's company ultimately declining to sell a Virginia warehouse to ICE. Here's what they were going to do with it.

25.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0