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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 11h

Interesting divergence. Wonder how much of that is due to Victoria's better network of bike infra

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 1d

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.
People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community.
The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 2d

Then use the cost threshold. The point is to keep money from distorting politics

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 2d

Nah, I'm ok with this. Not everybody has property with this kind of visibility. The easy way to fix is to set a price or a size cap - make it $50 and under you're allowed.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 2d

This is a staggering read and the parallels to Rob Ford are obvious (I'd actually argue Ford was a more successful mayor, and certainly more popular)

Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: I teamed up with @castanetkamloops.net to write this long in-depth account of Reid Hamer-Jackson's three years as mayor of Kamloops. I also talked to the unrepentant mayor for two hours.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee

Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

thetyee.ca

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 3d

I should also mention that I lead an org through a merger & a rebrand. Happy to chat offline about how we handled it

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. Random order is 100% the way here (surveys are my day job)

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 4d

Here's Hansard's draft transcript of the exchange
www.leg.bc.ca/hansard-cont...

Dallas Brodie: I have a point of order to raise.

I’m looking at section 40(2) and 40(3) of the standing orders. The first one is: “Disrespectful or offensive language forbidden.” That’s sub 2. “Irrelevance in debate.” That’s sub 3.

Sub 2 says: “No member shall use offensive words against any member of this House.” The Premier has repeatedly referred to me as being racist, denialist and hateful. Am I now allowed to use words like “stupid,” “incompetent,” “financially illiterate” and “anarchist”? How far does this go?

The second one is: “No member shall be irrelevant in debate.” He takes shots at me sideways whenever he can, and I’m not accepting it anymore. It’s unacceptable language in this House. I could call him lots of names — believe me — but I’m not taking this anymore.

Raising questions about public expenditures of money in this province is not against the rules. Anybody who takes public money is open to questioning, and you shouldn’t be questioned about whether you’re racist. If you want no questions, don’t take public money.

I would like a declaration from the Speaker about whether people can call each other names in this House anymore.

Hon. David Eby: I feel like I should be paying the member rent for the amount of space I’m occupying in her head.

Interjection.

The Speaker: Shhh. Please.

Hon. David Eby: In my answer, I was specifically referring to the staff member that was hired by the Leader of the Opposition who was fired recently for being a racist residential school denialist — properly fired, by the way. I congratulate him for taking that appropriate stand. A little late, but he did take it. I support it. You wouldn’t find me hiring people like that.

If the member thought I was talking about her, perhaps that’s her issue.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 5d

Cleaning survey comments is a bit similar, usually not as bad however. I feel for those who have to deal with this daily

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 5d

Shelbourne was another missed opportunity too

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🌈 (andy) @andrw.bsky.social · 6d

open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

open.substack.com

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 7d

This makes me feel crazy. Being aware of the speed limit is like step 1 for driving! "Stealing is illegal, sure, but how are people supposed to know which stores they can steal from without getting caught if the camera ones don't have giant 'NO STEALING' signs??"

www.thestar.com/news/gta/20-...

Chow is pushing for larger signage and changing Toronto’s program so that once a driver is fined for speeding the first time, they cannot be fined again for seven days. It gives drivers an opportunity to receive their fine in the mail and become aware of the camera’s location.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine failing to understand your mission this badly. Seriously, coding a social media site is trivial. Moderating is not & here's hoping they don't keep failing here

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 8d

I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.

Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 8d

I don't want to shock anyone, but I don't think that removing the bike lanes is going to improve congestion. The provincial government is putting people at risk for a few parking spots in midtown Toronto.

The documents also indicate that the government may reinstate on-street parking on Yonge Street, in the 400-metre section where the bike lane would be removed.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 7d

Also this bsky.app/profile/came...

Cameron Colony @cameroni101.bsky.social · 8d

As someone who does accounting and data validation, this would get me fired:

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

Been working on a rugby-style game loosely based on Aussie Rules, with a fantasy twist. My scotlings and bad bears held the lizards to a 3-3 draw tonight, as the whistle saved us (lizards had possession right on the goal line). Photos from my in-progress pitch

Lizards, scotlings and bad teddy bears playing fantasy rugby on an unfinished pitch. In the foreground there is a whole pile of players, some down, some up.

Close up of the prior picture. The big red teddy bear is down, as are a scotling and a lizard

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

But look at all those bike lanes blocking traffic in your pictures!

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

Oh its a mess out there today. Still backed up almost to our house on Colville

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

At some point, you have to blame the software

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

Oh no, I can absolutely hate the software. The number of messes I've had to clean up at work because of Excel

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 9d

I didn't think I could hate Excel more, but here we are

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 9d

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 9d

A more local example bsky.app/profile/leos...

Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 10d

Twin towers looming, Orwellian gag orders at town hall, and we’re all going to die in an earthquake if a development gets built

The Saanich NIMBYs are not ok

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 9d

These voters have moved from boringly-right-wing (cut taxes) to full-on 15 minute-city-WEF conspiracy theorists. There's no centre ground to be found there

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping increasingly nuts suburban voters out of city politics must be a core goal of urbanists in the next decade

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 9d

One overlooked aspect of this year's mayoral election is the hollowed out Boston media landscape. Yes, the Globe and Herald spent months smearing @wutrain.bsky.social in their reporting and editorials, but the Globe and Herald are written, edited, and mostly read by suburbanites who can't vote here.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10d

The geniuses of Boston real estate never considered that a very popular mayor would win her election.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10d

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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