Was fun to participate in that today. Love the new record. Looking forward to the physical LP coming out next month. In the meantime there is digital, fortunately :)

Soft Cell's Dave Ball Has Died, Aged 66 | The Quietus Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell made iconic synth-pop hits like ‘Tainted Love’ and ‘Bedsitter’, has died at the age of 66. Representatives for the artist said he “passed away peacefully in his...

now blasting This Last Night... In Sodom, such an astonishing album, how the noisy chaos of Slave To This goes into twinkling pop and then perv goth show tunes Murder My Angel and L'Esqualita, absolutely magnficent. One of the best records of the 80s. RIP.

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So often I’ve wished there was something like this at events here in Vancouver. I know we have something every now and again, but it seems more rare than it should be.

Any idea @kylalee.ca if these people have the legal authority to ticket like this? I kinda assume there is some weird thing one accepts by parking on their property, but I don’t know….

YouTube video by TEDx Talks A Love Poem to Our Earth | Lindi Nolte | TEDxBearCreekPark

Less than 9 minutes to help remind us to pay attention to that which matters more than the madness surrounding us these days. youtu.be/rWR86_YODaU?...

We moved to Fastmail a while back. They made it easy. They have some good migration tools.

I’ve covered events in this city for 20 years. They have ruined one of the best parts of the holiday season in Vancouver.

- Removed an accessible, affordable holiday attraction (site entry always by donation)
- Removed funds from 2 local charities that relied on this year-end boost
- Funding JK

Harry Potter™: A Forbidden Forest Experience coming this fall to Stanley Park September 3 2025 – The Vancouver Park Board is pleased to announce that a new special event is coming to Stanley Park this fall. For the first time in Canada, Harry Potter Fans™ of all ages will have an opportunity to explore a spellbinding illuminated trail inspired by the iconic Forbidden Forest.

I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the government’s decisions match the city’s values.

Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.

Wow. This makes my Monday. Thanks. 😎 so fun.

seabus memes has gone too far

I tried to figure it out, but so far it eludes me.

It’s weird. All the monitoring stations around us say Low risk 3 but the northwest one that you and I are looking at say high risk. 9
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Modo and Evo will take you far.

Here's my video on why Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner ruled that Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver councillors violated the city's code of conduct

also i got some sun on grouse mountain yesterday and didn't go to our makeup studio before filming hahahaha whoops

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

Genius.

The cost of just one of the new highway overpasses exceeds everything ever spent on bike lanes in Victoria.
#yyj

What a nice page showing you how to move your newsletter off substack: leavesubstack.com

100% agree. Vancouver seems to be completely unable to address its car addiction. Hopefully a different council will see this differently one day.

Congratulations!

the only place the city of vancouver announced they approved 230 rental units of housing last night is on a website where the chatbot calls itself mechahitler

Ken Sim’s Love of Bitcoin Makes Critics Nervous | The Tyee ‘The mayor is talking about economics and doesn't seem to understand what he's talking about,’ says a UBC professor.

I took a look at some of the YouTube interviews Vancouver’s mayor has been doing on Bitcoin, and what he says is pretty wild.

When I asked an economist about these theories he said, “This is not economics, this is — I don’t know what to call it.”
#vanpoli
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Disappointing. They could at least deprioritize X and only use it along with other services only for essential/emergency communications and use services like Bluesky for day-to-day communication. I wouldn’t have any problem with that even if I would wish they just dump it all together.

A map of Vancouver showing a 2km exclusionary zone around BC Place Stadium. Most of the downtown peninsula and the Broadway corridor are included.

Today the CBC is reporting that FIFA requires "no public food sales" in a 2km exclusionary zone from BC Place stadium

That's most of the city. They're not sure if restaurants are "public food sales". 😲

'Such a tragedy': Cycling community grieves after three deaths in one week The local cycling community is grieving after three cyclists died following collisions with vehicles on B.C. roads.

The local cycling community is grieving after three cyclists died following collisions with vehicles on B.C. roads.
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Traffic enforcement in Vancouver seems nonexistent. Certainly not around my neighborhood.

Oh FFS

Over 600,000 near-miss incidents with pedestrians, cyclists recorded at intersections across Canada One in every 770 pedestrians and one in every 500 cyclists experience a high-risk or critical near-miss at intersections across Canada, according to a new study commissioned by CAA.

"[The study] logged over 600,000 near-miss moments, indicating that at least three serious incidents occur at a single location every day." 🫨

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Read it as an e-book not long ago and really enjoyed it. The older I get the more I realize that the reality of moments in time fade and are so heavly impacted by the culture of the moment - and of the future. This book helped to highlight that. Thanks for uncovering so many interesting storys.