Ian Patton
@pattoni.bsky.social
West Coast - spouse, parent, worker. he/him.
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the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
Shut up AI, you’re wrong.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Shut up AI, you’re wrong.
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Bingo.
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
Imagine if a Democratic politician said “a lot of people didn’t like him” with respect to that assassinated podcaster. Seriously.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bingo.
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend
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‘One of the people in the delegation was physically triggered listening to the question from Dallas Brodie, Harriott said. “It’s visceral. It’s not an intellectual exercise for us. These are our family members’ stories.”’ #bcpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
OneBC Leader’s Comments Drive Indigenous Delegation from Legislature | The Tyee
Dallas Brodie called reports of residential school graves the ‘worst lie in Canadian history.’
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
‘One of the people in the delegation was physically triggered listening to the question from Dallas Brodie, Harriott said. “It’s visceral. It’s not an intellectual exercise for us. These are our family members’ stories.”’ #bcpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
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The academic world has done an extremely bad job at making even the most basic things about how academics works publicly
understood.
understood.
There's no reason for most people to know anything about how academic grant making works, so no shade to anyone who doesn't.
And I also wish the whole thing was better understood bc misunderstandings about it lead people to inaccurately think faculty are rolling in dough as a matter of course.
And I also wish the whole thing was better understood bc misunderstandings about it lead people to inaccurately think faculty are rolling in dough as a matter of course.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The academic world has done an extremely bad job at making even the most basic things about how academics works publicly
understood.
understood.
My MLA having her Four Seasons Landscaping moment. She’s gotta go.
The story is actually that Dallas Brodie’s anti-Indigenous racism and generally antisocial politics aren’t welcome in Kamloops, and she was booted to the curb. Byyye. www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...
Venue cancellation forces OneBC leader to shift Kamloops event to street outside hotel - Kamloops News
www.castanetkamloops.net
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My MLA having her Four Seasons Landscaping moment. She’s gotta go.
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My full story on the “people’s filibuster:” how Ken Sim and the ABC councillors got an earful this week from people opposed to their zero tax increase budget. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee
Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My full story on the “people’s filibuster:” how Ken Sim and the ABC councillors got an earful this week from people opposed to their zero tax increase budget. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
This is good regarding the garbage Megyn Kelly spewed this week regarding Epstein. youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o
R. Kelly is not a p*dophile (technically speaking) | Gianmarco Soresi | Stand Up Comedy
YouTube video by Gianmarco Soresi
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is good regarding the garbage Megyn Kelly spewed this week regarding Epstein. youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o
Chocolate Guinness cake made by kid after I dropped a four pack on the front steps.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Chocolate Guinness cake made by kid after I dropped a four pack on the front steps.
I’m hoping @seanorr.bsky.social is at home now with his hands in a bucket of ice.
This is an incredible marathon of posting on Bluesky from a City of Vancouver Councillor. He’s documenting an unofficial filibuster at City Hall as over 600 people have signed up to speak at the budget hearing. Over 200 have said their piece so far. Follow along.
#democracy #bluesky
#democracy #bluesky
218: owns a home, born in saint Paul’s. Grumbles when he gets tax bill but then realizes it’s what makes our beautiful city. Most concerned with cuts to sustainability department. Son asked once, will we drown when sea level rises. So I’ve dedicated life to climate solutions. Reconsider thus.
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I’m hoping @seanorr.bsky.social is at home now with his hands in a bucket of ice.
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Adding alt text for screenshots is super easy! On iOS:
1: attach pic to skeet
2: tap “+ALT”
3: find the button with horizontal lines inside four corners. That’s the OCR—tap it
4: text will light up. Press on it and a menu will appear
5: tap “select all” then tap “copy”
6: paste into alt text box
1: attach pic to skeet
2: tap “+ALT”
3: find the button with horizontal lines inside four corners. That’s the OCR—tap it
4: text will light up. Press on it and a menu will appear
5: tap “select all” then tap “copy”
6: paste into alt text box
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Adding alt text for screenshots is super easy! On iOS:
1: attach pic to skeet
2: tap “+ALT”
3: find the button with horizontal lines inside four corners. That’s the OCR—tap it
4: text will light up. Press on it and a menu will appear
5: tap “select all” then tap “copy”
6: paste into alt text box
1: attach pic to skeet
2: tap “+ALT”
3: find the button with horizontal lines inside four corners. That’s the OCR—tap it
4: text will light up. Press on it and a menu will appear
5: tap “select all” then tap “copy”
6: paste into alt text box
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as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
Oh wow, I almost forgot about this. A serious city government would have called the VPD out on this obvious overreach.
the budget makes a choice between preventing vs reacting to harm
Nov 9, 2022
the absurd thing to me was the VPD calling this all a SOCIAL SAFETY NET when its clearly the lack thereof that endangers everyone
vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/11/09/v...
Nov 9, 2022
the absurd thing to me was the VPD calling this all a SOCIAL SAFETY NET when its clearly the lack thereof that endangers everyone
vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/11/09/v...
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Oh wow, I almost forgot about this. A serious city government would have called the VPD out on this obvious overreach.
I dropped a 4-pack of non-alcoholic stout on the front steps so my kids making a Guinness cake!
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I dropped a 4-pack of non-alcoholic stout on the front steps so my kids making a Guinness cake!
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Nan Gregory, an older Point Grey resident, voiced what she wants her city to be. She’s opposed to the proposed property tax freeze, as all speakers so far have been.
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Nan Gregory, an older Point Grey resident, voiced what she wants her city to be. She’s opposed to the proposed property tax freeze, as all speakers so far have been.
Somehow respondents may have conspired to skew the results of the budget survey? Has Montague ever tried to organize people from Vancouver to get together for drinks?
Montague asking if budget survey could be filled out multiple times by one individual; that there may be an organized effort to manipulate the results. Asks what a fully funded VPD looks like
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Somehow respondents may have conspired to skew the results of the budget survey? Has Montague ever tried to organize people from Vancouver to get together for drinks?
I don’t believe in astrology but, when I cut six squares of cheddar and the open sleeve of premium plus I grab from the cupboard has half a dozen crackers remaining, I know the universe is unfolding as it should.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I don’t believe in astrology but, when I cut six squares of cheddar and the open sleeve of premium plus I grab from the cupboard has half a dozen crackers remaining, I know the universe is unfolding as it should.
So glad I took the time to fill out this survey so our civic government could hear and act on my input.
Oh, right, I forgot Sim and ABC govern on vibes.
Oh, right, I forgot Sim and ABC govern on vibes.
42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
but wait there’s more
a lot more
1/?
council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So glad I took the time to fill out this survey so our civic government could hear and act on my input.
Oh, right, I forgot Sim and ABC govern on vibes.
Oh, right, I forgot Sim and ABC govern on vibes.
This is pretty terrible. Really not great to hear about an open resurgence of Nazism in your town the day before Remembrance Day. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is pretty terrible. Really not great to hear about an open resurgence of Nazism in your town the day before Remembrance Day. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is one of those rare covers that is as good as (or better) than the original.
The clock just ticked over to Edmund Fitzgerald day. Here are the Rheostatics.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Rheostatics - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is one of those rare covers that is as good as (or better) than the original.
I hope the people who buy this house don’t do anything terrible to it. Looks like a real treasure. I also remember taking our kids to Moderne Burger when they were little and the owner was just the nicest guy. vancouversun.com/news/for-sal...
For sale: A mid-century modern Vancouver gem with all mod cons, circa 1957
Designed by the renowned architectural firm Thompson Berwick and Pratt in 1957, the house has a sunken living room and an original tiki bar.
vancouversun.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I hope the people who buy this house don’t do anything terrible to it. Looks like a real treasure. I also remember taking our kids to Moderne Burger when they were little and the owner was just the nicest guy. vancouversun.com/news/for-sal...