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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After listening to his recent Ezra Klein interview, I'm convinced we're all going to die at the hands of AI.

Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I went to see the premiere of this new About Here video at VPL downtown last night, which is probably one of the most out-of-left-field but extremely thought-provoking urban planning videos I've seen in a while. youtu.be/EmLO69c_fyw

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How the Condo Killed the Club

YouTube video by About Here

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Jacob Loo Dawang @jacobdawang.com · 17/09/2026

I wrote an essay on how Edmonton seems to be an exception when it comes to good housing policy. In 2025, when housing progress stalled or reversed across Canada, Edmonton largely stayed the course. It took time, good leadership, data and a bit of luck. Read now 👇 2067journal.ca/the-edmonton...

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The Edmonton Exception

I moved to Edmonton in 2023, along with 100,000 others in two years, in the middle of a housing crisis engulfing much of Canada. It was a good year to be a housing advocate. Governments at every level...

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI as we know it through LLMs doesn't have a mind, and the calls for "slowing down" AI research by Altman et al seem much more like covering for the marginal possible improvements remaining with their products than saving the world.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It seems like the only way people will take certain threats seriously is to be forced to pay more for bad choices.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's funny how this was literally a plot point in Batman where one of his trusted associates deemed that he had gone too far.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very applicable to Washington State as well.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The only problem is the Trump coin being a collector's dream if a future administration declares it no longer legal tender Everything else should be ripped down while he's forced to watch

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anyone having even remote doubts about giving him a cold, rude reception will change their minds the second he opens his mouth. He's playing to an audience of one right now, and that audience isn't Canadian.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've been listening occasionally to City Cast on my trips to and from Vancouver and I don't know whether it's best described as "Hacks and Wonks But With Zero Hack and Wonk" or "Seattle Meh". I'm getting depressed that local news coverage is now down to only a handful of talented people.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think the comments and the main post highlight how a lot of people don't really grasp farmers, their business models, or their political interests... or how genuinely corrupt and propaganda-laden farming is in the US.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This from the d-bag that would be fired from a Wendy's with his work schedule

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If every election is "the most important in your lifetime" then there's a serious problem that the Democrats cannot fix (but their consultants will milk for money as long as possible).

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh even during The Real World when she was telling the one Black man on her cast how good Jack Kemp was it was plainly obvious that she was full of shit

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's beyond time to just cut MGP loose.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Oh, gerrymandering is fine! But nine justices is sacrosanct." One of the reason why we're so completely screwed is that it's plainly obvious that elected officials are gaming the systems instead of trying to achieve actual democratic reform. In this environment, what's the point?

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's like he's a space alien trying to human and failing horribly

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They're going to kill us all because they want things to never change

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He's just such a weirdo piece of garbage.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A car attack in Pike Place Market feels like a when-not-if event. Once that happens car access will be heavily restricted by necessity. It makes sense to just skip a step and do it now.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Newsom and Shapiro are such bad candidates because nominating them will ignore the main lesson from successful postwar elections: people love mavericks that enjoy what they're doing, not electeds that appear to feel like they're owed a promotion.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A lot of people are going to realize soon that the only way to prevent all this from happening again will be to intentionally hobble the federal government to prevent that power from falling into the wrong hands

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You couldn't design a better plan to destroy the infrastructure of the country than this.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Death seems to be missing the 80-year-old we want

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yeah, I'm starting to see the value of secession of blue states again, if only to permanently destroy the ability for the US to pull these kinds of stunts.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A massive export tax increase on potash, electricity, and crude oil would destroy the US economy. Scott Moe is probably the most important politician in North America right now, and I'd be very curious to see how the Carney government is trying to woo him right now.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't know what's worse the evil or the complete incompetence

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the interesting and strange pieces of world-building in Star Wars has been that after the Empire was overthrown a rather milquetoast republic was set up that couldn't really do much of anything.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Republicans are anti-democracy. Full stop.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've never wished violence on someone more than this garbage human.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm not usually one for security-focused thinking, but eleven people in Vancouver were killed in a targeted car attack last year during a street festival. PP is an informal shared street where someone could take similar action at any time.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Despite the claims at times that liberals "just don't understand economics", there's this weird modern conservative / libertarian disorder that seems to think that things just appear without the need to support the underlying systems.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So much of modern transportation policy in North America is done off vibes it's not even funny.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The US administration is a criminal syndicate.

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Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Stop blaming young people on the death of nightlife, blame urban planning. Excited to share About Here's latest video at the Vancouver Public Library on September 16th! Register here: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6a7ca...

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What's frustrating is that it was obvious that American tech companies had this capability... but this just turned into a PR nightmare for every American tech firm.

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honestly this and getting rid of the penny are the few cases where I think the unchecked power of a madman comes in handy Otherwise Seattle and Vancouver would be in a different timezone in less than a year

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Andrew B @andrewmb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026