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Riding bikes, reading books, petting dogs, trying to improve the world in Victoria, BC. Proofreader and editor. Past lives in law and QA. Swearmonger.

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omg this is what 1999 sounded like for me

09.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is fascinating. The actual study is here: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10..... Note that "Women had a significantly lower probability of having zero hasslers than men and, correspondingly, had higher expected counts of hasslers." Hmmm, why could that be?

09.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn’t it cool that we have to live like this just so we can sell plastic to each other in a variety of ways

01.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Liv Cafe and Bistro Victoria’s quaint neighbourhood, Liv is an ingredient-driven restaurant, founded by Chefs Louise Lu and Milton Rebello. Both Louise and Milton have earned his stripes in kitchens across the globe, and...

After stopping by the ocean, we had yummy brunch on a sunny patio at Liv in Oak Bay. My first time there; I was impressed! #YYJ www.livcafeandbistro.ca

08.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy international womens day!

08.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
sun in a blue sky glittering on blue ocean with an island on the horizon

sun in a blue sky glittering on blue ocean with an island on the horizon

I never get tired of this blue. #YYJ

08.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

Good news! Drax to stop clearcutting BC forests for wood pellet power in UK (which is worse for our climate than coal, and diverts wood from other uses that provide way more jobs & value per tree). But Drax may try to export to other countries! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bcpoli #axedrax

08.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.

08.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

It's what the AI was trained on, so...

08.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The bus looks drunk

08.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OK the consensus is it's A, which is of course the correct answer. Yet somehow I've birthed and raised two people who both for no apparent reason have formed the opinion that a face cloth is a tiny, face-specific towel.

08.03.2026 07:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah this seems like a bait and switch that would invalidate the signatures

08.03.2026 07:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
brick wall background with neon sign of the word "HIRING"

brick wall background with neon sign of the word "HIRING"

hey #yyjbikes we have an opening for a full time experienced bike mechanic/sales associate, seasonal with part time hours available in the winter. Hourly rate $25-28 depending on experience. Email your resume to Jeremy at bicycleitis@gmail.com and please help us spread the word!

08.03.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Footloose - Oak Bay High School

I attended the fabulous production of Footloose at Oak Bay High. It was the final performance tonight, otherwise I'd recommend everyone go see it! oakbay.sd61.bc.ca/news-events/...

08.03.2026 06:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah those are thing too, but these are people all riding the exact same bike, obviously provided by a tour group

08.03.2026 06:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll take that as an "A"

08.03.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Handsome fella!

08.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

I'll just leave this here so everything's in one place: thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

08.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll put you down as "A" because of your #2 and because "B" doesn't fit any of your uses

08.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GULVIAL washcloth, turquoise, 30x30 cm (12x12") GULVIAL washcloth, turquoise, 30x30 cm (12x12") Soft and fluffy GULVIAL towel in turquoise is medium-thick (500 g/mΒ²) and made of 100% cotton which makes it durable, absorbent and ideal for everyday u...

Poll: What do you, random Bluesky user, think is the intended primary purpose of a face cloth (smallest item in a bath set, often called a "wash cloth," as here: www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/gulv...)?
A: To scrub/wash the face and other body parts.
B: As a towel to specifically and only dry the face.

07.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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David Eby, on camera, admits that he axed the carbon tax because of corporate lobbying. Cutting it made life more expensive for workers and cheaper for big polluters.

He says BC is too dependent on resource extraction - and yet their plan is to triple down on American-owned gas projects.
#bcpoli

04.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 21648 πŸ” 6511 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 159
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

07.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 5708 πŸ” 1942 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 70

The ones I've seen have been adults. Maybe conventioneers?

07.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We've moved so far beyond satire, you guys

07.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The emperor has always been naked

07.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

07.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 1080 πŸ” 577 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 260
Peace through strength - Wikipedia

Also interesting to look up "peace through strength" and see that it was made a foreign policy slogan by... Neville Chamberlain, famously not good at maintaining peace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_t...

07.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone β€” we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

07.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 1176 πŸ” 350 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 43
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Trump's war on Iran hasn't altered Canada's cost of making gas β€” at all. So why are we being hosed at the pumps? Policy choices, not market forces of a war halfway around the world, explain the spike in prices, writes Jim Stanford, leading to unnecessary economy-wide inflation and higher interest rates.

As you fill up with gas that's now up 20c/litre in a week, remember who profits. Cdn oil companies made $150b after-tax profit after the last oil spike (2022). An excess profit tax redistributed to consumers would ease the pain. My take in @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/business/opi...

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