Bill Tubbs
@billtubbs.bsky.social
Pedal-powered professional working on energy, climate change and clever machines (he/him).
I like Jesse Kleine’s Vancouver real estate analysis and takes. More honest and plausible than most realtors. jessekleine.substack.com/p/2025-was-t...
2025 was the most challenging year to sell listings
In my 9 year career, 2025 was the most challenging year to sell listings.
jessekleine.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I like Jesse Kleine’s Vancouver real estate analysis and takes. More honest and plausible than most realtors. jessekleine.substack.com/p/2025-was-t...
1-bed apartment prices in Vancouver are definitely back down to 2022 levels now, according to my on analysis.
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
1-bed apartment prices in Vancouver are definitely back down to 2022 levels now, according to my on analysis.
Check out these images from the current survey Nanaimo is doing regarding the Woodgrove area plan. Not a single car shown in the second set of images!
www.getinvolvednanaimo.ca/woodgrove/wo...
www.getinvolvednanaimo.ca/woodgrove/wo...
January 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Check out these images from the current survey Nanaimo is doing regarding the Woodgrove area plan. Not a single car shown in the second set of images!
www.getinvolvednanaimo.ca/woodgrove/wo...
www.getinvolvednanaimo.ca/woodgrove/wo...
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I know it can be hard to believe that people actually oppose childcare in their community (and that the city's planning department listens to them!), but it's true.
When I organized some pro-childcare pamphleteering in Douglas Park, an opponent interview bombed me!
When I organized some pro-childcare pamphleteering in Douglas Park, an opponent interview bombed me!
January 18, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I know it can be hard to believe that people actually oppose childcare in their community (and that the city's planning department listens to them!), but it's true.
When I organized some pro-childcare pamphleteering in Douglas Park, an opponent interview bombed me!
When I organized some pro-childcare pamphleteering in Douglas Park, an opponent interview bombed me!
I thought Republicans were all proud, smoke-breathing, pollutant-drinking Americans, glad of their freedom from rights, but this MAHA crowd seem to have gone full-woke and started calling for the dismantling of the EPA to be reversed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I thought Republicans were all proud, smoke-breathing, pollutant-drinking Americans, glad of their freedom from rights, but this MAHA crowd seem to have gone full-woke and started calling for the dismantling of the EPA to be reversed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...
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Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.
Maybe it's time to move back to the city. I left in October 2021 to save on rent but rates have come down a lot since the peak. This is my own analysis. Each point is based on ten listings on craigslist which meet my requirements in terms of location and quality.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Maybe it's time to move back to the city. I left in October 2021 to save on rent but rates have come down a lot since the peak. This is my own analysis. Each point is based on ten listings on craigslist which meet my requirements in terms of location and quality.
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Trump demands Ukraine to agree to his 28-point “peace plan”.
There is no sign of ceasefire preparations in Donetsk oblast. There is only raw, muddy and deadly war going on.
This is not peace and this deal won’t bring us peace. This is what Ukrainian soldiers think 🧵
There is no sign of ceasefire preparations in Donetsk oblast. There is only raw, muddy and deadly war going on.
This is not peace and this deal won’t bring us peace. This is what Ukrainian soldiers think 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trump demands Ukraine to agree to his 28-point “peace plan”.
There is no sign of ceasefire preparations in Donetsk oblast. There is only raw, muddy and deadly war going on.
This is not peace and this deal won’t bring us peace. This is what Ukrainian soldiers think 🧵
There is no sign of ceasefire preparations in Donetsk oblast. There is only raw, muddy and deadly war going on.
This is not peace and this deal won’t bring us peace. This is what Ukrainian soldiers think 🧵
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What is feedback, really? In this episode, we retrace its prehistory, revisit Black’s invention of the negative-feedback amplifier, and look at why feedback keeps reappearing in biology, strategy, behaviour shaping machines, organisms, and decisions.
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What is feedback, really? In this episode, we retrace its prehistory, revisit Black’s invention of the negative-feedback amplifier, and look at why feedback keeps reappearing in biology, strategy, behaviour shaping machines, organisms, and decisions.
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
'The whole front of the building is Sherry': Candlelight vigil held as search continues for missing Nanaimo woman cheknews.ca/the-whole-fr...
'The whole front of the building is Sherry': Candlelight vigil held as search continues for missing Nanaimo woman
Neighbours gathered for a candlelight vigil and potluck Saturday night to honour Sherry Shelley, the 65-year-old Nanaimo woman whose disappearance police are treating as highly suspicious.
cheknews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
'The whole front of the building is Sherry': Candlelight vigil held as search continues for missing Nanaimo woman cheknews.ca/the-whole-fr...
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We are living in a captured economy.
Another great must-watch video by @justineunderhill.bsky.social
10/10
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Another great must-watch video by @justineunderhill.bsky.social
10/10
youtu.be/_MPE3gIg-nU?...
Why Everything Is So Freaking Expensive
YouTube video by Justine Underhill
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November 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
We are living in a captured economy.
Another great must-watch video by @justineunderhill.bsky.social
10/10
youtu.be/_MPE3gIg-nU?...
Another great must-watch video by @justineunderhill.bsky.social
10/10
youtu.be/_MPE3gIg-nU?...
This information from Kamala Harris is astonishing. I would have assumed there were numerous, long, heated internal discussions between the president and numerous party figures about whether he should resign. Is this saying it was left to him? www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This information from Kamala Harris is astonishing. I would have assumed there were numerous, long, heated internal discussions between the president and numerous party figures about whether he should resign. Is this saying it was left to him? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven.
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Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven
Half a century after Scientific American first declared the bicycle 'the most efficient form of human transport.'
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October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven.
momentummag.com/bicycle-stil...
momentummag.com/bicycle-stil...
Interesting podcast discussion on emergent order in Tokyo. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)
Podcast Episode · EconTalk · 2025-10-13 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Interesting podcast discussion on emergent order in Tokyo. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e...
Important life skill here.
Was gonna watch a YouTube video called "Anchors don't work the way you think," but then I realized I'm happier in my ignorance than I'd ever be if I knew the truth.
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Important life skill here.
It took decades but City of Vancouver planners finally realised Robson St could be an attractive and popular shopping street instead of a place to drive cars.
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It took decades but City of Vancouver planners finally realised Robson St could be an attractive and popular shopping street instead of a place to drive cars.
Huge upset in international rugby. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
Canada shock New Zealand to make Rugby World Cup final
Canada inflict New Zealand's first defeat in 11 years at the Womens' Rugby World Cup as a sensational performance books their place in the Twickenham final.
www.bbc.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Huge upset in international rugby. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
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The CBC did a story on the NIMBYs fighting the rezoning for the elementary school in the Olympic Village. I'm happy with the quote I got in at the end!
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Olympic Village school project faces community backlash
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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September 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The CBC did a story on the NIMBYs fighting the rezoning for the elementary school in the Olympic Village. I'm happy with the quote I got in at the end!
youtu.be/Z8j56MEne0c?...
youtu.be/Z8j56MEne0c?...
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High rises are a pretty rare type of building in Seattle but yes you can also have good tree canopy with them if you design the street well:
Vancouver has streets with FIVE layers of trees 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 (📸 of Richards Street if you want to look for yourself).
Street trees can create places where tree canopy AND density coexist, but many “tree advocates” don’t actually want to solve that challenge they just want to stop more homes being built.
Street trees can create places where tree canopy AND density coexist, but many “tree advocates” don’t actually want to solve that challenge they just want to stop more homes being built.
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
High rises are a pretty rare type of building in Seattle but yes you can also have good tree canopy with them if you design the street well:
I admire the efforts of the Free Palestine protesters here in Nanaimo but today they added a new chant “It’s not complicated, … must be liberated” and I think that might be going too far.
August 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I admire the efforts of the Free Palestine protesters here in Nanaimo but today they added a new chant “It’s not complicated, … must be liberated” and I think that might be going too far.
Nanaimo is upgrading its only high street but keeping it car dominated. I spoke to the project manager who said he would have liked it car free but local businesses wanted to keep it that way. Is there an argument that city officials are better able to act in peoples' interests than they are?
August 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Nanaimo is upgrading its only high street but keeping it car dominated. I spoke to the project manager who said he would have liked it car free but local businesses wanted to keep it that way. Is there an argument that city officials are better able to act in peoples' interests than they are?
I'm not a customer experience expert but can anyone else see how this phone answering system could be improved?
August 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm not a customer experience expert but can anyone else see how this phone answering system could be improved?
Over hearing conversion at Victoria bus station: “Vancouver Island has been promoted to death. It’s wrecked. It’s too much… oh did you see the fireworks last night? I loved it… our house is too big so we’re selling it to my son. He drives a rickshaw around town.”
August 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Over hearing conversion at Victoria bus station: “Vancouver Island has been promoted to death. It’s wrecked. It’s too much… oh did you see the fireworks last night? I loved it… our house is too big so we’re selling it to my son. He drives a rickshaw around town.”
This level of understanding of what government does is probably what lead to the MAGA disaster.
I mean he’s not wrong. Though a lot comes from how little the government does for the modal American - unless you’re very poor or very rich, you get little other than bad schools and a Ponzi scheme pension program unless you’re skilled at grifting.
June 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This level of understanding of what government does is probably what lead to the MAGA disaster.
Today: Bike lanes. Sometime soon: Car lanes.
June 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today: Bike lanes. Sometime soon: Car lanes.