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Since my name keeps getting called out here, I thought it would be useful to take a look at Greenpeace's analysis here.
A quick thread:
A quick thread:
He's done so by ignoring long-term costs, the precedent it sets federally and the very real risk to frontline communities. I find it irresponsible and I'm hoping through this back and forth that the full story (and its impacts) behind this political betrayal can be brough to light.
Did someone say MOU? Reading between the lines of Mark Carney’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast - Greenpeace Canada
The Carney government's MOU with the Government of Alberta to build a new tar sands pipeline rolls back key climate policies and attacks Indigenous rights.
www.greenpeace.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Since my name keeps getting called out here, I thought it would be useful to take a look at Greenpeace's analysis here.
A quick thread:
A quick thread:
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The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
Let’s gooooo
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Let’s gooooo
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Got to say, I don’t feel it is my duty to prop up a platform owned by a fascist who promotes his fascism there…
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Got to say, I don’t feel it is my duty to prop up a platform owned by a fascist who promotes his fascism there…
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full toon (from Jan 25)
![Elderly lady: Electric scooters should be illegal
Man on scooter: Well they're not
EL: I don't like your pants
Guy on street: So what, deal with it
EL: [at neighborhood mtg, into mic] We should get to decide what other people do with their property
Concerned neighbors: "Great point! She's right! Hear hear](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreigikh2cyh3nryt6egt27k2g4tjgkggrey5lig6pd5usxf5rogm24e@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
full toon (from Jan 25)
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cookie monster, crying, as the body of christ just crumbles and falls from his mouth
the line is actually "no JESUS for us meeses," an oblique reference to the fact that, as muppets are unable to take communion, they are forbidden from entering the kingdom of god
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
cookie monster, crying, as the body of christ just crumbles and falls from his mouth
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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If this proposal becomes reality, international conferences in the US will become a thing of the past.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
If this proposal becomes reality, international conferences in the US will become a thing of the past.
This is genuinely super exciting and great news for Vancouver
A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is genuinely super exciting and great news for Vancouver
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Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States,
generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
www.pnas.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Strange how the Trump campaign going all-in on patriarchy and misogyny is missing in many of the election post-mortems condemning the supposed 'identity politics' of the Harris campaign
You'd think the nomination of a pack of rapists to the Cabinet would remind elected Dems, columnists, etc
You'd think the nomination of a pack of rapists to the Cabinet would remind elected Dems, columnists, etc
i look at this incoming government and all i can see is rape.
November 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Strange how the Trump campaign going all-in on patriarchy and misogyny is missing in many of the election post-mortems condemning the supposed 'identity politics' of the Harris campaign
You'd think the nomination of a pack of rapists to the Cabinet would remind elected Dems, columnists, etc
You'd think the nomination of a pack of rapists to the Cabinet would remind elected Dems, columnists, etc
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$13.4 million.
But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."
But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
$13.4 million.
But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."
But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Elon Musk is a Nazi and if you drive a Tesla you're inside a Hitler mobile
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.
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You think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.
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A monstrous parallel for him to draw clearly. But "Patrick Condon thinks buildings have the moral standing of people" would explain a lot actually.
one of the most prominent voices in Vancouver's housing discourse
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A monstrous parallel for him to draw clearly. But "Patrick Condon thinks buildings have the moral standing of people" would explain a lot actually.
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“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
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Yet another reason why this should pass. So that we don’t have to go through the same stupidity every time we rezone one social housing project at a time. (Also, spot zoning one project at a time is no way to run a city.)
Guy at public hearing right now opposes social housing because it might shadow solar panels and destroy our power grid.
Can't make this up
Can't make this up
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Yet another reason why this should pass. So that we don’t have to go through the same stupidity every time we rezone one social housing project at a time. (Also, spot zoning one project at a time is no way to run a city.)
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Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.