Reposted by Anna RoikJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/10/2026Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can 553659840
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you have someone in your life who takes transit but DOES NOT own headphones, please buy them some asap. No one knows (or cares) TransLink has a rule about audio not being audible to everyone. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 12/10/2026TransLink forgot the turn on the heat in this SkyTrain. Usually it is stifling. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Voted! Also tried the Novel Library for the first time. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Alert. The egg nog has arrived at Safeway. I saw xmas magazines at Sav-On yesterday. Sigh. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How many people in BC make over $1million pa anyway? 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Anyone in New West NOT get woken up at 3.15am by that DEAFENING train whistle? Currently considering voting for anyone who says they will work to silence train whistles (again). I'm desperate to sleep through the night. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Back on the 410 bus dark and early. A bus driver going to the depot is listening to phone videos with sound on. FFS. Also, I paid $12 to taxi here one station stop because SkyTrain starts at 7.10am for no good reason. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is the 410 bus route infuriatingly slow, or is it just me. I swear it is slower than ever. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 26/09/20266.59am Saturday bus from 22nd St Stn was standing room only and has only got more crowded as we go. It is also way overheated. FML. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@stevestonships.bsky.social Ferry still seems to be at the Brunette-Fraser confluence. Took this today. 120
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Compass card check at the SkyTrain today by staff. First time for me in at least two years and I take transit daily & everywhere. 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Another busy as morning and evening rush hour train heading to Surrey...at 10.40pm. standing room only & barely. More trains, more often, please. 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Queen of Burnaby. You can see it riding the SkyTrain to Sapperton Station. 130
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The LAST thing I want to do today is prepare lunches for this week. The task is time-consuming, and inhaling meal-prepped lunches at worked is unenjoyable. I'm over it. 110
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's an old BC Ferries ferry docked on the Fraser near the new bridge. Wonder which one it was? 101
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Pretty sure someone is hammering on one of these two worksites well before the allowable 9am noise start time. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It happened today. I am done. It's what, 99 days from today? 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If the 112 bus is on diversion and not servicing Bay 10 at New West Station, WHY WAS THERE NO SIGN? Now I am on a bus up 6th and have to walk to 12th. For 8pm. I will be late. Thanks, TransLink. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Shoutout to admin for moving me to a classroom on the side of the Massey Theatre reconstruction. Now I get NO REPRIEVE from hammers and saws and drills by coming to work. I am being punked for sure. 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The City of New West cannot just close Front Street and divert all trucks into Royal without controlling the aggressive driving of those people who forget they are adding to the traffic chaos. Agnes, 10th, Carnarvon & Columbia Square are DANGEROUS right now! 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There do seem to be a lot of "medical emergencies" closing SkyTrain stations recently. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I opened my work email and read things. I also got out my work keys & fob. That's it, right? I'm ready for everything now? 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I have to open my work email today and it is causing my heart to race just thinking about it. I cannot believe I once thought email was fun and entertaining. 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If the construction site starts running the elevator at 6.45am & opening gates & "organizing", and I can hear it through my open windows, does that break the bylaw of working hours being between 7am and 8pm? 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The funny thing is that this annoying tall tower going up next to me was estimated to have been finished in spring of this year. Now it & the park being built next to it will take until summer 2027 or later! 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am so done with this. The single day of no noise in a week is not enough. I hate being at home. 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I am starting to feel like I have a cold coming on. Or worse. Please, no. 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 08/08/20263 separate days of call outs to get my Telus Fibre installed and now I have no internet connection. Starting the process now to get that resolved. Aren't computers supposed to make life easier? Lololol. 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's nearly 30c and sunny today. I am on a bus, looking at multiple people in long pants, sweaters, jackets. Are we experiencing the same weather? I'm in shorts & a tank top and sweltering. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Paperless utility and credit card bills are ableist. If I cannot see the bill on paper, I forget it exists. Visa has NERVE charging $2.25 to mail out my bill! 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What it sounds like from INSIDE my home. I am about 12 floors up from the ground. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 06/08/2026On a Mark I and it's a disgusting sauna. Thank gawd I only go one stop. 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 04/08/2026So, is that smoke out there? Environment Canada weather says "hazy" but that is different, isn't it? 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Something was so different about today at home. I could think, and enjoy activities. Can't quite put my finger on it... 110
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Halloween chocolate spotted TODAY at Safeway. The orange foil pumpkin chocolate balls amongst other things. STOP RUSHING THINGS! Fyi @pennydaflos.bsky.social 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Still sitting around waiting for the Telus person to arrive and start working. I guess I am stuck inside all day since the work could take up to a couple of hours, apparently. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Even though bylaws say no noise from construction sites until 7am, it actually starts at 6.45am when workers arrive on site: gates opening, elevators starting, moving supplies, etc. Stop it. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Heaven forbid I want to sleep past 7am on a weekday. Hammer hammer hammer. For 7 years my summer sleep schedule has been dictated by construction noise. I envy anyone who can sleep through it. 100
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Trying to decide how to spend the next few hours of the only construction-noise-free day of the week. First, open all windows. 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The increase in the number of people playing sounds on their phones on transit is going to drive me back to earbuds and some music streaming service, isn't it? 000
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This double rainbow was popping tonight in New West from the top of 12th Street. 010
Anna Roik @c-anna-da.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Construction site has been spending hours daily making the jangling drilling noise. This is one of the stages that makes me absolutely want to lose my mind and forces me out of my home for hours every day. Seventh summer in a row. Sigh. 000
