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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 2d

#EastVan

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 2d

Giant moonrise and sunset crows - right now! Go look

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1h

#sharedstair

Madness that this was illegal here until last year, still illegal nationally, and that BC’s municipalities recently voted to waste energy lobbying to make it illegal again, instead of getting on and zoning for it everywhere within a reasonable stroll of a bike lane or bus stop.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 1d

4 Storey Single Stair Flats could work well in most parts of the city, but - compared to a multiplex - the consultant and code requirements might add 100k and the elevator might add 200k.

With limited parking the sale price needs to be lower.

>> Simple zoning approval is needed to make it work.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 3h

We're obsessing over these details a bit too much, but once the CoV adopts their code updates next month we'll go back to posting more built-project updates.

Anyway, here's a detail for a 6 storey single stair core with the stair, landing/hall, and elevator, with weather cover / skylights.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 2h

perhaps @newwestminster.bsky.social will finally get around to adopting plex rules...

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1h

See you all there!

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 7h

Dear Vancouver,

Tonight is the night! Join us at the SFU Harbour Centre for the launch of “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”. After a presentation and panel discussion, we will be selling and signing copies of the book.

Remaining tickets: www.modacitylife.com/vancouver

A paperback book sits on a balcony in an alleyway in downtown Vancouver: “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation”.

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 3h

This a GREAT read.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

open.substack.com

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PRShots @prshots.bsky.social · 1d

IKEA has acquired US logistics technology firm Locus, the acquisition will simplify Ikea’s logistics and reduce its delivery expenses by an estimated €100m a year globally #retail #retailnews https://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Ikea-buys-us-logistics-tech-firm-locus-in-online-growth-push,1771494.html

IKEA buys US logistics tech firm Locus in online growth push

IKEA has acquired U.S. logistics technology firm Locus, the two companies said on Tuesday, a deal the Swedish furniture retailer said would make its deliveries to shoppers smoother and faster.

uk.fashionnetwork.com

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1d

SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse robotics and artificial intelligence.

SoftBank to buy ABB's robot business for $5.4 billion in push to merge AI and robotics

SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse robotics and artificial intelligence.

reut.rs

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 6h

I like this visualization from Vancouver's draft plan, especially in representing neighbourhood retail as a climate change strategy

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 1d

Is it my turn to pick out the canapés for this week’s Antifa meeting? Did people like that asparagus thing I brought last time?

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 17h

Born on this day in 1940: John Lennon #TheBeatles
Pics: Bettmann
youtu.be/AIB2nkUfeWw?si…

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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 14d

What happens when we give kids a smartphone — we ask the impossible. A wonderful PSA by Smartphone-Free Childhood US.

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KidsUnplugged Belgium @kidsunplugged-be.bsky.social · 16d

Brilliante video van Smartphone Free Childhood x US.

Putting an entire new spin on how kids should be resilient to stay safe online.
youtu.be/h_xwJ5u9I8o.

'Weerbaarheid' vragen aan kinderen is een getout clause geven aan big tech om weinig te moeten veranderen aan hun business model.

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 9h

@yvrshoots.bsky.social what was filming at Piva #newwest last night?

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C 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 @crouhana.com · 19h

Let the elections campaign begin....

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 19h

Vancouver council votes for 0 per cent property tax increase in 2026

Vancouver city council has voted to advise staff to prepare a draft budget for 2026 to identify around $120 million in savings in order to freeze property tax rates.

bit.ly

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 18h

Venez bavarder ce dimanche près de New West Stn meetu.ps/e/PB1vS/150Q... #paysbilingue #newwest

Bavardez le dimanche près de New West Stn, Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup

Come by and practise your French at this place on Sunday at 11:00am. Venez pratiquer votre français à ce restaurant le dimanche à 11:00 hrs du matin.

meetu.ps

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Alisa @alisambc.bsky.social · 20h

Thanksgiving salsa dance in #Vancouver this Sunday night
It's a clean event, friendly people who are actually there for the dancing

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 22h

The perfect warm up round the corner from @modacitylife.com book talk at 7!

Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social · 23h

The weather is cooling down, the leaves are falling, and the October Happy Hour with Abundant Housing Vancouver is coming up!

Thursday, Oct 9
Rogue Wetbar in Waterfront Station
Starting 5 pm

See you there!

Happy Hour with Abundant Housing Vancouver

Come meet your pro-housing neighbours at happy hour with AHV!

www.eventbrite.ca

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Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social · 23h

The weather is cooling down, the leaves are falling, and the October Happy Hour with Abundant Housing Vancouver is coming up!

Thursday, Oct 9
Rogue Wetbar in Waterfront Station
Starting 5 pm

See you there!

Happy Hour with Abundant Housing Vancouver

Come meet your pro-housing neighbours at happy hour with AHV!

www.eventbrite.ca

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Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social · Aug 7

Bro put the US zoning system under control of the Squamish Nation

Westside Backyard @westside-backyard.bsky.social · Aug 7

The entire substance of the Senakw zoning bylaw is less than half a page

partii-partiii.fng.ca/fng-gpn-ii-i...

SQUAMISH NATION SENAKW ZONING BY-LAW
(BYLAW NO. 2, 2021)

WHEREAS the Band Council of the Squamish Indian Band deems it to be in the best interests of the Squamish Nation to regulate the use of land within Kitsilano Indian Reserve #6.

NOW THEREFORE the Band Council of the Squamish Indian Band at a duly convened meeting of the Band Council assembled on the 29th day of October, 2020, hereby enacts, pursuant to section 81(1) of the Indian
Act, R.S.C. 1985, Chapter I-5, as a By-law the following:
1. Lands within Kitsilano Indian Reserve #6 may only be used for:
(a) a purpose that is consistent with any applicable designation under section 38(2) of the Indian Act, R.S.C. 1985, Chapter I-5; and
(b) high density residential, retail, commercial, including billboard and signage, office,
community/amenity and energy generation purposes, including all related infrastructure

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social · 1d

Preparing for tonight's Bend city council discussion about widening roundabouts

The "it might work for us meme" from Arrested Development. The text reads, "LOTS OF CITIES ADD LANES TO FIGHT CONGESTION. WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE CITIES? NO, IT NEVER DOES, I MEAN, THESE CITIES SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT... ...BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US."

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to distinguish messaging from practical effective policy. If saying that stuff gets good people elected, then great! Can always backtrack later and focus on the actually effective things.

neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1d

He said “slowest” twice, so I heard “dedicated lanes” and “signal priority”, and I missed the last word.

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point! I was focused on two other things: politician talking with people on the bus, and the fast part.

I still disagree with you and Assemblymember Mamdani that fare-free transit will cause a higher increase in ridership than those same funds paying more drivers.

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