Chris Usher

The Finch West LRT fiasco shows we need to be very careful about exactly what we get when people promise "LRT." While the CRD needs higher order transit, major infrastructure investment needs to result in fast, frequent, and reliable service.

I do not think the location is well thought out. Given how busy Douglas is, you are rarely going to get that view - most of the time it is going to be blocked by a bus

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! The Best Cycling City No One Talks About

The Best Cycling City No One Talks About

with (among many others) @burgundavia.bsky.social and @ryanjabs.bsky.social

Really not happy about having an oil pipeline forced down our throat here in BC

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After bussing for 165 hours, @desertbus.org has raised 1.05 million USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social #DB2025

Thank you again to everyone out there! Another year down, another million raised, and so many people who will be helped because of what you've done with us this year and every other! We couldn't do this without you, and through all the laughs and the tears, we wouldn't want it any other way...

Into the final hours of @desertbus.org now. After bussing for a bit over 162 hours, over 927 000 USD has been raised for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social

After bussing for 156 hours of at least 162, @desertbus.org has raised at over 845 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social #DB2025

After bussing for 141 hours of at least 160, @desertbus.org has raised over 745 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

YouTube video by DesertBusForHope DB2025 - Chrusher From the VST Explains the VST

I forgot to mention I visited the Moonbase to take part in @desertbus.org in person for a few hours Here I am explaining a bit about the @videostrike.team youtu.be/jYIXnuKMeug?... #DB2025

After bussing for 123 of at least 157 hours, @desertbus.org has raised over 624 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

After bussing for 94 of at least 153 hours, @desertbus.org has raised over 472 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

Key art for barrow Shows a girl with gardening equipment holding a plant gun facing a portal full of nature and demons

Introducing Barrow!

A Gardening FPS where your Grandma has opened a portal to a decaying underworld in her cottage town.

We were unable to secure funding but I'm excited to share what the team built.

bit.ly/43xLiXG
🎮 Pitch Demo
📄 Project History
🖼️ Gallery
🎶 Soundtrack
🫂Team Credits

After bussing for 75 hour of at least 148, @desertbus.org has raised over 340 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

After bussing for 69 of at least 148 hours, @desertbus.org has raised over 324 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

After driving 51 hours of at least 144, @desertbus.org has raised over 251 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! #DB2025

After bussing for 45 hours, @desertbus.org has raised over 217 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! Still at least 97 hours to go in this years event #DB2025

After bussing for 25 hours, @desertbus.org has raised over 113 000 USD for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social Still at 107 hours to go #DB2025

This year's edition of @desertbus.org has started again! After bussing for a bit more than 3 hours, over 37 000 USD has been raised for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social! This year I am helping out with the @videostrike.team, the group that archives the event.

If housing was cheap to build, it would not be so profitable to hoard it.

A large part of why housing is too expensive is that we make it too hard to build it where it is most in demand. A lot of that is zoning, and most of the blame for that falls on middle class home owners, not big corporations

Bond films largely did not care about continuity until the Craig era when the franchise started caring since a big part of the series has always been chasing the current trends in cinema

Not to say fragmentation does not have an effect but having the same political parties at all levels of government is a much stronger effect

If I can make a language suggestion, 2.2% grade is more idiomatic than 2.2% ramp

The flipside of this is local governments are relatively weak in most of Australia with the state government performing a lot of what municipal or regional government would do in other countries (New South Wales had about 8.1 million people in 2021 so Sydney dominates the state for example)

Also most Australian cities are extremely fragmented - the City of Sydney proper was only about 210 000 people in 2021 versus 5.2 million in Sydney as a whole.

Greater Vancouver is quite fragmented - the City of Vancouver is only 25% of the metro area population - but still gets right of centre mayors

The site managers and volunteers still have shifts, just not ones that line up with the main four shifts, right?

The Bus is coming! @desertbus.org 2025 is starting in a bit under 16 days. Again this year I will be helping out with the @videostrike.team