@xemoka
I’m a Vancouver Islander, a GIS nerd and a web geek—working as a developer at Sparkgeo, building web interfaces for spatial software. #gis #javascript #python #postgresql #3dPrinting #3dModelling #otters Posts are my own opinions, as poor as they are.
NEW: In my first piece for @breachmedia.ca, I go through the Carney government’s militarist policies and how legacy media has been faithfully pushing for more recruits every step of the way. Get ready, because if they had their way, you’ll be 1A tomorrow.
A spaceship flies over an alien world with two suns, stacked towers of stones, and a steaming lake, while a voice from the ship yells "Prepare for set-down!" It's all in bright day-glo colors.
A 1971 greeting card from Marvel comics
Disappointing & discouraging to see BC gvt committing to provide public electricity to proposed Ksi Lisims LNG plant. If completed, this US-owned LNG facility (backed by some of Trump's largest donors) would claim half the power produced by Site C. 🧵...
vancouversun.com/business/ene...
I really don't think Carney has ever actually used AI products. None of this has been actually shown to be true, validated, nor put into action effectively. He's parroting the talking points of those trying to sell it. This is ridiculous.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
It's cool Carney said some nice words. He's selling the country. Don't give me any shit about this not being him, cabinet members literally have a veto on these sort of sales.
I don't know guys, I'm kind of confused by a Carney speech talking about boldly naming realities when he's been so mealy-mouthed whenever anything actually goes down. I always like his speeches, but his actual choices moment to moment don't seem to align. We'll see I guess.
Not really, he's out here saying pretty words.
Austerity isn't good for Canadians. Cutting federal budgets for services isn't good for Canadians. Ignoring First Nations while planning for the future of their lands isn't killing it for Canadians.
I'm over Canadians not caring about those things.
Looks like more extraction economy: we provide the raw inputs (labour, taxes, consumers) and they get the high-value resource (IP, control, revenue). The commodity changed, the dynamic did not. Will we ever find our way out of this?
I'm guessing these shots are from the Heritage auction in 2023? Some more great photos of it in there: entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...
My thoughts exactly. It doesn't stir _anything_ in me in any way. The original was maybe the second (Coraline was the first IIRC, I still look back fondly on it) film I saw in 3D, and it was okay, but the projection ruined it (muted colours and other issues, but that's on the theatre).
Smells like they don't understand that people have mailing addresses with "Victoria, BC" in them that don't _live_ in Victoria and don't contribute to StatCan population counts; they should be using CMA population count. I strongly doubt 1 in 5 residents have contributed to a GoFundMe in 2025.
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
Like what the hell is wrong with some people, eh? They see any little bit of personality and expression and freak out about it if it doesn't fit their little "approved" boxes.
elizabeth may saying she can vote for the budget because mark carney said he’s committed to the paris climate targets even as he guts climate policy and pushes a wave of massive fossil fuel projects is laughable.
the longer she stays, the more of a laughing stock the green party becomes.
Freedom? Small government? No, conservatives love governments interfering in the most personal aspects of your life, so long as you belong to a group they don't like, whether it's trans people or women or people with disabilities.
Alberta is just going to use the notwithstanding to bulldoze worker’s rights and the safety of trans children. And no one with the power to intervene will say a thing.
While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry.
Tech expert @scanthehorizon.bsky.social writes that the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canadians.
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-ma...
He also seems to not actually understand Cory Doctorow's meaning of "Enshitification", it isn't just degradation, we already have terms for that. It's the process of platform lock-in and the squeezing of both the audience and the contributors resulting in a poor UX; not just the erosion of service.
When Avi says "Canada Post should be a *public company* that actually provides the essential service of 21st century digital connection among Canadians" I'm assuming he's using a different definition of "public company" than the rest of us use, right? It's _already_ a crown company...
Both the #NDP and the #Conservatives "voted no" but both arranged abstentions so the Budget vote was guaranteed to pass against 170 liberal 'yes's.
Yep, this is great politics. Love it. /s
This is interesting, something to watch...
Some more reporting from TechDirt that actually has some precedent discussion about the Equustek v. Jack. 2017 SCC case with a Google removal req.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/x...
"The ... government has produced no plan to justify this dramatic change. It has not said what strategy the extra money will be meant to implement, nor what weapons ... the money will be used to produce. What is all this money meant to do? We do not know. For there is no plan. None at all."
I was looking for tax increases on billionaires but doesn't seem to be happening.
Communities on Vancouver Island have been asking for changes to how privately managed forests work for years. The BC government confirmed to CNO that those changes are not coming.
For the past four years Suncor, Imperial, CNRL, etc. have all posted quarter after quarter after quarter of record profits while announcing share buybacks and increasing shareholder dividends.
CNRL has increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Why the fuck should I be making sacrifices?
Thinking ahead to tomorrow's federal budget and all the talk of Canadians needing to make sacrifices, I can't help but wonder when the wealthiest few might be asked to do that.
Unfortunately I don't think that's part of the plan.
Wait, you want consistency from our government? The winds blow, the NDP adjusts its sails.
New blog post, and it's a long one: all about the fossil record and evolution of "eared seals" - or, the fur seals and sea lions. I review their anatomy, current and former diversity, phylogeny, macroevolutionary patterns, and sexual dimorphism. 🦖🦑🐬🧪 #marinemammals #paleontology #evolution
