George Baker

Photo of the four Save Our Local News founders at the New Westminster Farmers Market booth. The wording promotes a Burger and Beer Night with the founders on August 19, 2025, at The Taphouse in Coquitlam.

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Are you required to keep the camera on as per strata bylaws, punishment by death if it is turned off?

Grok got suspended lol

They did such a good job in LA. I hear no crime happens there now and tourists from Canada are flooding in!

I have been to Prince Geryse a few times, actually. Lots of bullshit there.

It was a good run, Simon. Don't be greedy!!!!

You only live once, Simon

The view out the open door of an aircraft with little squares of farm field below

One of our reporters jumped out of a plane today, and let me just tell you ABSOLUTELY F'ING NOT

Are they not saying "fuck you"? I think you have the wrong impression who they would likely say "fuck you" to.

Furthest I’ve been:

N: Fort St. John B.C.
S: Margaret River, Australia
E: Prague, Czechia
W: Port Alberni, B.C.

Poilievre says of B.C. Premier Eby that ‘one man can’t block’ pipeline proposal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadians, including British Columbians, want a new oil pipeline and Premier David Eby can’t be allowed as one man to block the project.

I very much would like to see a poll on this.

I am dead certain that these articles are meant to anger Blue Sky users and drive traffic to their websites.

currently monthly user trends:

Bluesky +4%
Facebook +0.08%
Twitter -0.2%
Instagram -0.3%
Tiktok -1.1%

Man, the good folks behind Social Media Today -- the real grey lady of covering Facebook posts about vintage photos -- have really lost the plot.

What an auspicious debut!

OMG at lunch time

We all feel so much safer now. Justice as retribution.

Oh no, guess there goes their season

The contrast of Vancouver Pride was best captured in the moment where a band finished their set by saying "free Palestine, no Pride in genocide!" to raucous applause, and then the event emcee got up on stage and was like "Thanks so much! And also thanks again to our sponsor, TD Bank!"

And to be taught in their preferred education.

Cheers to the reporter who just asked Carney whether Canada can really expect the United States to honour any trade agreement.

Carney didn't really answer it -- and given the sensitivities of the current situation, he was probably never going to answer it.

But it's a very good question!

It's really like the Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, only it's the airport and lounging is now just deprived.

“Claude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI's own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED. “Unfortunately, this is a direct violation of our terms of service.” According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to “build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or “reverse engineer or duplicate” the services. This change in OpenAI’s access to Claude comes as the ChatGPT-maker is reportedly preparing to release a new AI model, GPT-5, which is rumored to be better at coding.

Scoop: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

is it because most if not all tech bros were never very cool? what is it that they know about social interaction? coding isn't social interaction.

stop ruining the fucking internet

"More than 15 years before that post, Door County investigators analyzed his laptop, and he admitted to downloading child pornography images in 2009. However, he was never charged with a crime."

MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator Scott Soucek, the husband of a prominent Wisconsin GOP operative, has been accused of possessing child pornography.

“A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography.”

Their argument is that developers won't build unless they can meet current and future market rates. And we have been hearing this. So unless the governments kick in to make sure the developers get theirs, the government won't have partners to build.

On CBC On the Coast the past two days we have had famed developer Michael Audain and Surrey mayor Brenda Locke make the argument that BC real estate needs foreign buyers because no one wants to buy brand new condos.

Right on!