Sep 18, 2025, 4:15 AM
Unironically liking #LiquidGlass on all devices, and could not care less about the tenth similarly looking iteration of the physical devices. Just don’t buy the thing 🤷
Sep 16, 2025, 12:35 AM
I was totally out of the loop on this trend of "yield max" funds that are based on covered calls. Wild stuff.
I don't know who out there needs to hear this but active management and complicated derivatives are not correlated with higher returns, the opposite actually. These are instruments marketed to leech on retail investors.
The best #investment you can make is education, specifically on not getting seduced by financial products salespeople.
Sep 3, 2025, 3:11 PM
The Martian, 8 out of 10
Watched this one again with Aline. One of the great space movies of the last few years. Can’t say I’m a super fan of the crew parts but it’s the survival storyline that carries the weight here.
Watching this in 2025 highlights interesting artifacts of the movie’s optimistic times, when the USA is not broadly hated and the president is not tweeting crazy stuff against the Chinese.
Sep 3, 2025, 3:02 PM
11/23: 11 Years / 23 Stories, 9 out of 10
A wild and different kind of biography. Somewhat alien to me as I was never this deep into the punk scene but still enjoyable, thanks to my teenager metalhead days probably.
Sep 3, 2025, 2:59 PM
Vancouver's Special Guardians, 9 out of 10
An interesting collection of research, from documented facts to hearsay, on these locally famous but otherwise obscure little still creatures. The photography involved is great, it shows that the author is a professional. The book is thin even using a large font so it isn’t a lot of material but I appreciate the effort in collecting it all in one place.
Aug 29, 2025, 2:26 AM
I was having issues with not getting personal projects through the finish line, always starting new ones that sapped the energy from ongoing ones.
Then I got promoted and now that problem is solved. I don’t have the time nor energy to even get something started
Aug 28, 2025, 4:44 AM
Absolutely loving to use and even more so to learn more about the ideas behind the 6.0 update of Transit
Aug 27, 2025, 4:37 PM
A few decades in and a lot of car dependent sprawl later, maybe building a car instead of nicer horses wasn't that great of an idea after all
Aug 25, 2025, 6:56 PM
In the #portuguese speaking activism circles there's a concept called "esvaziamento de pauta" which I wish I could translate to English but I'm not sure what's the prevalent name for the equivalent concept in the anglosphere.
I'd maybe say "hollowing the cause" but it doesn't ring quite the same.
I was just reminded of this as a thing because funnily enough the only-mildly deranged right-wingers are finally realizing that just about anything is being called woke now
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wing-pundit-urges-maga-stop-142453982.html
Aug 16, 2025, 5:23 PM
Instagram is unusable at this point with the amount of ads in the timeline, stories and reels. And then you go read analyst reactions to their earnings report, the consensus is optimistic share valuations because there seems to be _more_ room for monetizing reels and a celebration of increased addictiveness of reels infinite scrolling.
It is truly messed up that there’s this global reward system in place for their attention warfare R&D
Aug 11, 2025, 8:36 PM
Found this one in the wild today and gave it a read while I got my bike serviced 🗞️
So glad to see it surface here! Hopefully #SocialBC can give it some virtual love. The print version is essential but it is available online too https://mastodon.social/@wcculturallab/115011703847719663
Aug 8, 2025, 3:45 PM
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fellow
Me having a beer with people who think immigrants should try harder to assimilate into Canadian culture
Aug 8, 2025, 1:16 AM
It works OK, gotta build the habit of using it. The bigger question is whether straining my eyeballs instead of my neck is the right decision 😂
Aug 7, 2025, 3:37 PM
Trying out a new bike mirror contraption that mounts to my glasses, which I can already say aren’t quite a great choice of glasses model to use with the thingy but will try to make do
Aug 5, 2025, 4:48 AM
Today I used @CoMaps for the first time for hiking (Panorama) and I am so happy with it. The downloaded map had everything I needed - thanks to the many OSM contributors - and it was super useful.
We can have nice things without having to pay CA$35.99 a year, so I’ll happily just donate that amount directly. Long live #OSM!
Jul 31, 2025, 3:08 PM
Reminds me of Cersei rebuttal of Littlefinger’s “knowledge is power” with putting a blade to his neck to remind him that “power is power”
Jul 31, 2025, 3:05 PM
Who would have guessed that after a period of “Revenge of the Nerds” tech oligarchy soft power the pendulum would swing back so hard into “regular bullying and pettiness” politics, ie strongman power
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Jul 26, 2025, 8:08 PM
We already have #NeoDB and #BookWyrm for tracking but when are we getting the #fediverse bookcrossing.com? Maybe it's already out there and I haven't found it yet 🤔
Jul 22, 2025, 4:13 AM
If this was 2023 I’d be ready to shell out good money to buy an awesome carbon bike wheel manufactured in the US.
But in this shitty timeline it makes more sense for me to pay more than a hundred bucks in shipping to import from China instead.
Congratulations on bringing manufacturing jobs back to “America”.
Jul 18, 2025, 12:45 AM
Georgia St needs bus lane enforcement so bad. We cannot trust drivers to behave at their best, and the rush hour towards the north shore brings out the worst
Jul 10, 2025, 8:11 PM
I wish the Tyee would do a story on why/how the hell did The Walrus decided to run a page ad for online gambling
Jul 1, 2025, 3:18 AM
So it turned out that #BCTransit on the #SunshineCoastBC has a daily bus fare cap and I found out just now that the 4 times I took the bus today to go from city to city costed me $4 total.
And the cherry on top is the ferry from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay is free for foot passengers. This is awesome, and it’s wild that there are so few making use of this!
Jun 29, 2025, 10:56 PM
I’ve just set up my monthly donation. This is such an important work! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hirrgj3gs4mkftk5oopdeekc/post/3lsrcevctxc2a
Jun 25, 2025, 12:13 AM
Murder of Couriers, 10 out of 10
Found this doc/movie by accident and found it so interesting. I ride bicycles, I live in Vancouver, and I caught myself wondering about courier life. This film allowed me to peek behind the reality, awesomeness and toxicity of courier culture in the area.
May 28, 2025, 7:15 PM
The Burnout Society, 4 out of 10
Surprisingly uninteresting, quite a disappointment. The book is a social critique written as a philosophy graduate essay: a lot of time is spent on stating analogies to describe modern society defended by other philosophers only to say that the description is inaccurate because so and so. The book has some pillar concepts related to "achievement society" but routinely reaches for unnecessary analogies to immune systems or alternative framings like positivity/negativity. The audience is people who read Heidegger instead of people who do want to understand burnout society.
May 28, 2025, 7:02 PM
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Schitt's Creek Season 2
Good lighthearted fun. John and David continue to be interesting characters, Alexis is given some more development, but Moira is still... that. I wish they tried less hard to make Roland so disgusting. Overall a slight improvement over the first season, with an hopeful ending that did feel a little forced.
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The Handmaid's Tale Season 6
Should this series have ended a while ago? Probably. Are we getting tired of the series trying to hype up yet another conflict using a closing shot of June looking at the camera? Maybe. But we're still here for it, and I think the overall arc of the story is developing in a sensible direction (USA losing to Gilead means Canada starts capitulating with the winners). I just wish that the whole June & Blaine didn't take so much of a central role in the story, it's not an interesting foundation for the plot.
May 8, 2025, 7:14 PM
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Schitt's Creek Season 1, 8 out of 10
Good lighthearted fun. John and David are amusing, but it's a shame that the women characters of the family (Alexis and Moira) are a bit too stereotypical. David's character had a bit more creativity going into him, so why not spice up the women too?
May 8, 2025, 7:11 PM
Sinners, 7 out of 10
We've got jazz, intense soundtrack, black power and entrepreneurship, AAVE, vampires, shootouts, wild west mood. It's a modern fusion with no restrains on its quirkiness, so it's definitely not an all-round crowd pleaser. I enjoyed the central role that music played in the story, and it's not as if vampires ever needed justification to attack people but this tried something different so that's fun. I do think the villains are a bit overpowered, though, to a point where it's hard to believe they wouldn't be more widely known through folk tales, but that's a bit of world building nitpicking. I also found the epilogue a bit too "fan service" - of course it's rewarding to watch klan racists be rampaged by the protagonist but the whole scene was a bit too obvious.
May 8, 2025, 6:54 PM
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Somehow I missed that How Democracies Die had a followup. Tragically relevant given the current state of affairs
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