Blake Laven
@blakelaven.bsky.social
Urban planning professional from beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.
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No helmet or hi viz and you have headphones on?!! What's wrong with you? You should really wear proper cycling attire whenever you ride a bike!
Also, you look absolutely ridiculous in your proper cycling attire, it’s not the f'ing Tour de France.....
Also, you look absolutely ridiculous in your proper cycling attire, it’s not the f'ing Tour de France.....
July 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No helmet or hi viz and you have headphones on?!! What's wrong with you? You should really wear proper cycling attire whenever you ride a bike!
Also, you look absolutely ridiculous in your proper cycling attire, it’s not the f'ing Tour de France.....
Also, you look absolutely ridiculous in your proper cycling attire, it’s not the f'ing Tour de France.....
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Happy World Bicycle Day.
June 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy World Bicycle Day.
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Item 1:
A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc....Approved!
Item 2:
A 3km mobility lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg..Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc....Approved!
Item 2:
A 3km mobility lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg..Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
May 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Item 1:
A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc....Approved!
Item 2:
A 3km mobility lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg..Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc....Approved!
Item 2:
A 3km mobility lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg..Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?
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Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
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Would be cool if my body understood the difference between watching playoff hockey and getting chased through the forest by a bear
April 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Would be cool if my body understood the difference between watching playoff hockey and getting chased through the forest by a bear
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Programming note: from 10pm to 2am, CBC's nationwide election special will happen from our Vancouver newsroom!
Which means I'll be on air with Gloria Macarenko, Michelle Eliot and others, showing results, maps, and CHARTS.
It'll be fun to inform a national audience, and I hope you'll tune in!
Which means I'll be on air with Gloria Macarenko, Michelle Eliot and others, showing results, maps, and CHARTS.
It'll be fun to inform a national audience, and I hope you'll tune in!
April 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Programming note: from 10pm to 2am, CBC's nationwide election special will happen from our Vancouver newsroom!
Which means I'll be on air with Gloria Macarenko, Michelle Eliot and others, showing results, maps, and CHARTS.
It'll be fun to inform a national audience, and I hope you'll tune in!
Which means I'll be on air with Gloria Macarenko, Michelle Eliot and others, showing results, maps, and CHARTS.
It'll be fun to inform a national audience, and I hope you'll tune in!
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Earth is so pretty.
April 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Earth is so pretty.
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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil
April 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." — Simone Weil
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I just watched the Minecraft Movie and it is extremely good and the theater was the exact right amount of rowdy and kids were doing callbacks to the screen and singing along with Jack Black.
The whole theater yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” alone was worth the price of admission.
The whole theater yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” alone was worth the price of admission.
April 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I just watched the Minecraft Movie and it is extremely good and the theater was the exact right amount of rowdy and kids were doing callbacks to the screen and singing along with Jack Black.
The whole theater yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” alone was worth the price of admission.
The whole theater yelling “CHICKEN JOCKEY” alone was worth the price of admission.
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If global warming was fake it would be such a dope conspiracy theory.
April 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If global warming was fake it would be such a dope conspiracy theory.
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I’m not sure what is getting scraped off the bottom of the barrel in the phrase “scraping the bottom of the barrel” but my instincts tell me it might actually be the best part.
April 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m not sure what is getting scraped off the bottom of the barrel in the phrase “scraping the bottom of the barrel” but my instincts tell me it might actually be the best part.
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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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Carney: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will
April 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Carney: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will
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I love having a small car so much…the world is full of parking spots no one else can park in.
April 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I love having a small car so much…the world is full of parking spots no one else can park in.
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Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
March 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
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Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance.
Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...
Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...
March 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance.
Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...
Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...
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Last night Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson discussed their new book Abundance with a packed theater in SF.
Dems yearn for a way forward.. and I believe an Abundance agenda is that way. We need to BUILD the better future we want, not just say 'no' to things we don't want.
www.google.com/books/editio...
Dems yearn for a way forward.. and I believe an Abundance agenda is that way. We need to BUILD the better future we want, not just say 'no' to things we don't want.
www.google.com/books/editio...
Abundance
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of li...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Last night Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson discussed their new book Abundance with a packed theater in SF.
Dems yearn for a way forward.. and I believe an Abundance agenda is that way. We need to BUILD the better future we want, not just say 'no' to things we don't want.
www.google.com/books/editio...
Dems yearn for a way forward.. and I believe an Abundance agenda is that way. We need to BUILD the better future we want, not just say 'no' to things we don't want.
www.google.com/books/editio...
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Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you.
March 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Your standards are for you.
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A lovely remembrance of parking reform pioneer Donald Shoup, whose tireless work to reform costly parking mandates was instrumental in passing AB 2097, a landmark 2022 law that is already helping to make housing more affordable throughout California. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
Donald Shoup, renowned parking guru and UCLA professor, dies at 86
Considered the preeminent scholar of a mundane but everyday issue, Donald Shoup left a legacy of persistence and influence
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February 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A lovely remembrance of parking reform pioneer Donald Shoup, whose tireless work to reform costly parking mandates was instrumental in passing AB 2097, a landmark 2022 law that is already helping to make housing more affordable throughout California. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
