Jen Eggleston

City Council meeting today at 5pm.

Agenda includes:
✔️ PROCLAMATION: Heritage Week - February 16 to February 22, 2026

For full agenda and to watch the meeting from the comfort of your home, visit portcoquitlam.ca/council. Link in bio.

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Found a kindred spirit in @janeaugust.bsky.social!

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Screenshot of text by librariana10: "This ChatGPT prompt on Instagram is bleak. People proudly posting how well ChatGPT "knows" them like besties that's your private data. ChatGPT isn't your artist friend making a fun portrait of you, that's a tech company with your private info, including your children. It's bleak. Bleak, I say."

Posting this one picture on FB has got more reaction from family

They don't let her eat 💀

Oh, it’s moved over here too.

Why do you want to know how much information ChatGPT has scraped about you? And why do you want to use a tool that has stolen from artists? And wastes water?

And makes me wonder if the rest of your work is AI-generated too?

A family of papercraft ducks in a tissue paper pond

A museum display case, including a family of papercraft ducks

Come down to the @pocoheritage.bsky.social museum in Port Coquitlam and meet our duck family!

A new addition to the Creatures of Blakeburn Lagoons exhibit 🦆

Does anyone have a good article that explains why not to use AI?

Specifically if it addresses the “trends” that suddenly fill FB and IG, like “Ask ChatGPT to create a caricature based on everything you know about me” 🤦‍♀️

I’ve tried personally telling people, but I feel like I need backup.

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: “In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

The City of PoCo and PoCo Heritage would really appreciate your vote!

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Also, even if the work *is* crappy, your humanity shines through and is so much more pleasing to the eye than a “perfect” piece done by AI

Poster for An Evening at the Museum with Cassandra Cake Co. Bakery

Heritage Week's theme this time is 'Stir the Pot' which looks at how food brings us together.

@pocoheritage.bsky.social have invited Cassandra from Cassandra Cake Co to share her story!

6.30-7.30pm on Tuesday Feb 17 at the museum

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Holy shit. I’ve never seen a Kickstarter pledge counter melt before

It’s Groundhog Day! Vancouver Island Violet has made her prediction! Six more weeks of winter! This was confirmed by her mate Phillip who also got in the weather prediction action. Watch here:

It shouldn't be my favourite.

Best in Show is the first one I saw, filmed in Vancouver and packed with dogs. Waiting for Guffman brilliant and a totally accurate portrayal of amateur dramatics. But...

A Mighty Wind is just perfection. I love everything about it and will be rewatching it tonight.

❤️

Someone said "It's like Canada's Mom just died."

And it's true.

I'm still crying.

Another Vancouver plaque project is celebrating a big birthday!

a group of people sitting around a table with a sign that says hooray on it Alt: Gif from The Comic Strip Presents Five Go Mad in Dorset. The Famous Five eating a slap-up feast, saying "hooray!"

I am, but only for the Comic Strip's version. Now I'm off for lashings of ginger beer

Page from The Twits by Roald Dahl: "Why would that happen? I'll tell you why. If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945.

City Hall will be lit up 🟡 tonight to remember the victims and in support of all who have been affected by the Holocaust.

I still want a spin off movie about the Native Americans who sensibly left them to it at sunset

Map of Vancouver with markers showing all the Places That Matter plaques

I may treat myself to a giant paper map of Vancouver this weekend.

My Google map of the 1986 plaques is fine (www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...) but there’s something very satisfying about seeing all those little markers set out together

Hand holding a Places That Matter pamphlet and sticker

Spent the evening with other plaque enthusiasts, celebrating 15 years of Places That Matter (the blue ovals dotted around Vancouver, commemorating the people, places and events that are often overlooked)

And got a sticker 😎

VOTE for Inspiring Local Champions! Our exhibit at Port Coquitlam Community Centre is nominated for Heritage BC Canada Awards 2026. Inspiring Local Champions celebrates hometown hero Terry Fox and Port Coquitlam’s history of local champions and community builders.

Vote ➡️ https://ow.ly/67GZ50Y0ph8

And there’s a talk on the Places That Matter plaques tomorrow!

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I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Antique dealer / prison guard = would like to work in a shop, but doesn’t want to talk to people, and is very bossy.

I’m got antique dealer or prison guard!

Going multiple days, but only cosplaying on Saturday 💎
#FanExpoVancouver

Forever home unveiled for Cosgrove Hall Films’ iconic animation collection at the newly refurbished Sale Library New permanent free exhibition opens in January 2026

Cosgrove Hall Films Archive exhibition at Sale Library is open to the public! Here's a story we posted earlier: downthetubes.net/forever-home...