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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or is it the populist bullshit he's been peddling? The unsold condo tax and the 30 cent gas price reduction, designed to harvest votes, but idiotic and ultimately counter-productive policy? I can't vote for this version of Eby, and I used to love the guy

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm sorry I caused all that cancer.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am grasping for candidates for two elections at the moment. The guy who I thought was a lock for the other one has turned to populist pandering, with policies that are going to result in less housing built, and subsidies for driving and less funding for transit. Hard times.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a corporation. He's an owner and an employee. You can 100% fire him

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you are in favour of more broadly-distributed wealth and better economic outcomes for more people, understand that you can't accomplish anything by ignoring how markets function and pretending the world is a socialist fantasy land. Use markets. Understand the levers. Avoid unintended outcomes.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

David, I think you're an awesome guy, but think this through: if developers build a condo development that doesn't sell well, they face the added risk of either facing an Unsold Condo Tax or having to get rid of the units in a fire sale. If that happened, who'd risk ever building another condo?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm thinking AI meat puppets

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cogito ergo sum, but what if you stop cogito-ing? Does that mean you stop sum-ing? Would anyone notice?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeesh. Where'd you get your hops from and why are they so late?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are currently losing 3 minutes and 36 seconds of daylight every day. By my calculations, we will have no daylight left by April 13, 2027. And that's optimistically assuming that the loss doesn't accelerate. In early August we lost less than 3 minutes a day. I fear all is lost. Hug your kids.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's wet-hopped but also can-conditioned, and that adds three weeks. It'll be ready on October 9th. The last of the year's wet-hopped beers.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The further tech infiltrates our lives, yes AI, but also phones, wearables, and soon implants, the more we're abdicating cognition; we'll just become meat puppets that the AI is wearing, unwilling and incapable of thinking for ourselves.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The meat pies and sausage rolls brexited in 2020, unfortunately. They still have real Belgian mayonnaise, though, and that's on my list. Also, where can I get some horse? We eat every other hoofed quadruped, why not horse?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That's Anvil island in the foreground, then. Man, Howe Sound, our own fjord. Tough to beat.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not a cynical use of public funds to position ABC on the right side of a wedge issue and turn out ABC's voters?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What happens with these results? Well, the civic government could do these things right now without needing the approval of a plebiscite, and we might decide not to do them even if the plebiscite passes. So what are we doing here? Wasting paper and pencils.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This one weird trick will save you hundreds of dollars

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just realized that my flight tomorrow is on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. I wondered why it was so cheap.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't know if I can vote for Pete Fry. I might just not vote for mayor. If you're securely housed and don't care about anyone who isn't, vote Pete Fry

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You can hear the orchestra swelling with imperial music when you look at it. I just want to choke that guy to death with the power of my mind.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That... doesn't make... sense. If your own federal bank doesn't lower the interest rate, you'll cut off trade with countries you have a trade deficit with? And that will help what exactly? This is why you elect a PhD in economics instead of an idiot. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7423991...

theglobeandmail.com

Trump threatens trade cut off with some countries if Fed doesn’t cut interest rates

‘We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World...,’ Trump said in a Truth Social post

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the best summary of the parties in the Vancouver civic election I've seen. And I will say, the only thing that houses people is housing.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did they have different meanings?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yes Norland Ave, I am subtweeting you.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here lies Ben Coli. He died doing what he loved: complaining about crappy bike infrastructure and inadequate construction detours.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I dunno Stephen, seems reflective of a value system that doesn't make room for neurodiversity and judges people on one narrow skillset. He can't sound out onomatopoeia, but can he parallel park without a backup camera? (For the record, I'd nail this test and be judged a worthy prospective mate)

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The trade war sucks, but at least this shitbag's pettiness is hilarious. “So, if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean. So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7423991...

theglobeandmail.com

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

Order comes just hours after Canada’s trade minister suggested a deal may still be possible

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Enchanted Forest vs Cathedral Grove is just too perfect a final to pass up. Which kind of forest do you prefer?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love bourbon. I looove it. Like maybe the only two things I love more are my wife and one of my two kids (jokes!) But I ain't touching the stuff. Not until the US is done being fascist.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The reality is that very little US-brewed beer was sold here even before this trade war. The enormous (mostly) foreign-owned breweries AB Inbev, Molson-Coors and Sapporo own Labatt, Molson. and Sleeman respectively, so they don't need to import Budweiser. They brew it here and take the profit there.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They won't build it because the owners of the houses on that street don't want a station entrance across the street Solution: up-zone the houses

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The brew today is Old Slang. A nice shoulder season beer for September, for when people are done with summer witbiers but not yet ready for winter stouts.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The mill is CRUSHING IT this morning

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some of our brewers are taking summer holidays, so I'm here making barley porridge for my yeasty boys

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Okay fine, I can get behind medium-rare. Nothing past that unless you get into falling off the bone territory.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As a general rule, meat should either be cooked just barely enough that it is not hazardous to your health, or have the hell cooked out of it until it is falling apart. I don't have a lot of time for medium-well.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So you're saying that the middle powers should hang together? Interesting. I'll mention it to Mark Carney, it's something he should think about.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You might ask why no other brewery makes cool beer like this anymore. It's because nobody buys it anymore. (Well, we hope SOME people buy it, because otherwise we're going to have to start homebrewing it, because we're not going to stop drinking it)

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're going to put 400L of this into a couple of barrels that Sheringham distillery gave us. They aged a bourbon-like whisky in them and then filled them with their Aqvavit. Should be pretty cool.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got to brew Lake City Farmhouse today! It's been 5 years since we brewed it. It's a spiced and herbed saison, made with fresh rosemary and sage from our own gardens. It'll be out just before Thanksgiving (the Canadian one, in October) and it's going to be a great turkey pairing.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The median age in 2024 was 49.9, the oldest in the world, apart from micro-states Monaco and St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are willing themselves out of existence.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In some ways, my body is like Michelangelo's David. Okay, it's just one way: flexibility. I am exactly as flexible as Michelangelo's statue of David.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's not as simple as non-Sim. Our politics are split left and right, but also pro-housing and anti-housing. Fry being left of Sim/Hardwick isn't enough for me if he's going to oppose housing at every turn.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was definitely on my mind. I wasn't trying to make a copy, though. Dageraad Blonde is its own beer

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I loved it 20-25 years ago, even with all the cars. I can't wait to see what it's like now

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Is it raining out your direction? No sign of it here.

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've seen apartments in dense cities in Europe and been jealous of how big the rooms are and how much space people have. What the hell are we doing to ourselves?

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Ben Coli @ben-coli.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Homelessness is obviously the worst impact of our artificially-caused shortage, then crowding, forced co-habitation, lack of labour mobility, so on and so on.. But also, wouldn't it be nice if we just had more space? A spare bedroom? Why is FSR so important? What about a basement, a storage closet?

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