Arty (Cynthia)

one of the great things about taking harbour air is seeing the stark urban geography of metro vancouver from such a unique view

A friendly caretaker holds a nice juicy piece of apple for a hungry red panda, who happily grabs hold of the slice in its paws for its snack

Daily red panda feeding time :3

"93 per cent of residents say they're satisfied with library services."

Do you know how hard it is to get 93% of people to agree on anything, let alone for that thing to be satisfaction with a government service?

Libraries are freaking magic.

ANALYSIS | Once again, B.C. NDP frames budget as a ‘balance,’ but this time with more red ink | CBC News Some B.C. budgets have big spending announcements, tax cuts, or bold new directions that inspire excited press releases from different partisans or stakeholders. The 2026 budget wasn't one of them.

Here’s my exciting analysis of today’s BC budget!

the analysis is nobody really liked it

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don’t understand why the #CBC #FigureSkating commentators have simply stopped actually commentating. All they’re doing is exclaiming and talking about feelings. #Olympics #Canada #PairsFreeSkate

There are only 130 siheks left in the world. Three of them share a bachelor pad at the Oregon Zoo.

THE LIBRARIANS is now streaming on @pbs.org’s YouTube channel and app. Watch now and get engaged in the Freedom to Read movement in your community!

Watch now: tinyurl.com/TheLibrarian...

It’s interesting how you can’t really tell when you get a new roof, especially considering how much it costs. The colour difference is more due to the white balance on the photos.

Was sad when I heard that #ABookApart closed shop, but just found out they reverted the rights to authors and many have made their books free! https://authors-together.org/ #libtech #webdev

Gaokun getting ready to oven some cajun wings and drumsticks

Waiting is the worst part...

Success! Gaokun will be sharing these with all the plushies, as long as fox doesn't eat all of them!

Gaokun is ready just in time for the kick off! Cajun wings and drumsticks, ready for continuous nommification #SuperBowlOfChicken2026

A happy piggy plushie posing with all this snacks.

Guups is ready for the 2026 #SuperBowl... of snacks! He's not sure we have a bowl big enough, but he's a big fan of an entire day dedicated to big bowls of snacks! #Guu~~

Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.

Seriously, "not hanging up" is a low bar for #CustomerSupport and yet, here we are.

Sadly, #Rogers has not passed that bar.

It's worse because I worked in Support for many years.

person didn't hang up, and was competent.

I hope you never get a "technical issue" with your #Amazon account, 2 chats + 1 phone call, supposedly "escalated" to tech team, unresolved 3 days later. Today, tried chat again, agents either kept transferring or leaving the chat. 7 agents later, I gave up and called. At least the phone

Day -1 Thu 05 Feb Day 0 Thu 05 Feb Day 1 Sat 07 Feb Day 2 Sat 07 Feb

Look, I know counting is hard, but #CBC this is not how to date the #olympics

Muk Muk, the Vancouver Island marmot "sidekick mascot" for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics posing in front of the Vancouver Olympic flame.

It's the Olympics! Official Unofficial 2010 #Vancouver Olympics #mascot Muk Muk is on the scene at the Olympic flame! It's... um... okay it's not lit right now, but: #Olympics!

Kirby and Muk Muk sitting behind a giant (for them) fruit salad

Kirby and Muk Muk are enjoying a light fruit meal at #PalateKitchen before more travels... hopefully Kirby doesn't inhale the plate! O_O

Kawa the otter in front of a Harbour Air DHC-3T "Turbo Otter" float plane.

Kawa, the Japanese river otter, is very exciting about getting to fly on another otter! ...does that make him a flying otter now??

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Vancouver's auditor general criticizes city over lack of paper trail for lost developer amenities | CBC News Vancouver’s auditor general said the city engaged in “serious wrongdoing” when they failed to track whether $6 million in promised community amenities for a much-publicized downtown tower ever happene...

Vancouver staff told council that if it rezoned land so a developer could build a big tower, the developer would spend $6 million on making the surrounding area nice.

The city’s auditor general found that didn’t happen, and that staff basically shrugged their shoulders about it.

OH (in regards to #Duolingo): @TheRealPomax WTF is that? It’s like a dictionary having an accident.

Statement: $5 Billion in Transit Cuts a Huge Step Backwards - Environmental Defence Statement from Sam Hersh, Clean Transportation Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Cutting $5

A liberal government with the former TransLink Mayors' Council chair at the helm of infrastructure dollars proceeds to cut long-awaited and long-promised public transit capital investment.

What a boneheaded move for a government trying to address cost of living and economic productivity.

consider switching providers, but they're all bad in this area =(

How is #Rogers support so bad? My data keeps dropping so I tried calling. Attempts: 1: queue full 2: on hold for 2 hrs, agent immediately hang up 3: on hold for 2 hrs, agent says replace SIM (replace SIM at store) 4: queue full 5: agent says to do things I already tried, hangs up Result:

gao~

Gaokun is wondering whether this cross-poster works... #Gao~

“BC Liquor Stores aren’t restaurants” only maybe makes the top 3 of the list of the funniest things about this sign.

Who the heck did their redesign? I bet it’s someone who has never actually uses their bank website.

I know this is the wrong crowd for this but, I have an important test that I apply to new technologies that people think are going to fix everything. I ask "how does this help with the housing crisis?"

Invariably (so far) it does not.

What have I missed?!
I admittedly have not signed into the revised website yet.