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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I celebrate the progressive sweep of Vancouver council, but it is wildly undemocratic that ABC + TEAM will get 0-2/10 councillors, given the number of people who voted for those parties. Just as it was undemocratic that ABC had so many councillors last time. We have the dumbest ever electoral […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Very disappointing that Squamish didn't elect a Stoner

Election results for Squamish council, where Easton was elected mayor, beating Stoner

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The back of the bus has an ad for a driving school citing "another reason to learn to drive." The rest of the bus is plastered in ads for a crash repair shop - another reason not to learn to drive?

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

When Trump's finally gone, "How can our allies ever trust the US again?" will be a big question for #uspol #cdnpoli etc. A good start would be ratifying the Rome statute, repealing the Hague Invasion Act, and prosecuting American war crimes so the #ICC doesn't have to […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"AI is the enemy" Maga stooges 🤝 noai activists

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Harps are notoriously slow to tune and quick to go out of tune. Does anyone make a self-tuning #harp yet? Eg with a pickup on each string to check its pitch as it's played, and automatic devices to tune it

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

No car should be connected. All "smart" capabilities should be provided via a phone, and the APIs for that should be open. The car itself should not have internet access. Not only would this improve privacy and security, it would also mean that the "smart" functionality doesn't break when the […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

As BC's population grew over the last decades, why did we have a medical healthcare shortage but not a dental healthcare shortage? Did the number of practising dentists keep pace with population? Where did they come from (universities, immigration?) and why didn't the same happen for doctors? […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"Prime Minister Mark Carney said in July he doesn't "see the value" in using energy exports as a bargaining chip. Carney said being a reliable supplier is important." Yes it's important to be a reliable trading partner. But when the other country is breaking its trade agreements and openly […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Someone send Straya more big sticks, so they can keep punching on!

Australia news live: One fight
cancelled every three days due to staff
shortages

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Why is it the taxes and development fees that always need to drop, and not the price of the land? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colu… #bcpoli

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/117110106… In this brave new world of biotechnology, where we can program yeast like we program computers, how long until chain restaurants start quietly auctioning off "scent-placement" in their customers' flatulence, via customised food additives?

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Since the sexbots aren't going to be put to use as primary school teachers, could we repurpose them to walk confidently into problem crosswalks where drivers play chicken with pedestrians?

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

"labour disruption due to strikes or lockouts is considered to be outside the airline's control" Why? Whether they pay their staff is totally in their control... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/westjet-stri… #cdnpoli

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

YES! Let parents lock down their kids' phones to broadcast "I'm a kid" at any age gate. Anyone not broadcasting this is assumed an adult. Allows everyone to keep their IDs off the internet. First reason I've had to praise Google in a looong time. #AgeVerification […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Oh... oh no. I love mobi, but if: * You often can't get signal in the usual place and have to walk a few blocks to access it * You have to log in before finding out whether the network is down * Your QoS controls don't reliably put the brakes on your kid's downloads […] [Original post on pnw.zone]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@andymckay/11695484… "Hey Trump, you forgot to put a 50% tariff on Canadian oil, so we fixed that for you with a 50% export tax on it. You're welcome!"

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

'US defence secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X: “Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”' Imagine giving your life just to achieve what Hegseth's testosterone supplements couldn't...

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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“So, if #Canada now has money to invest, why sink it where the returns are comparatively poor? The #globaleconomy is #decarbonizing, all while diversifying away from #oil and #gas imports.” #pipelines www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/24ca038... 🧵📎

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Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’

Oil’s relative weight in the world economy diminishes with each passing year

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

#Firefox's new private browsing icon looks a lot like a bra... What are they trying to say about the usecase for private browsing?!

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

These fallen footballers writhing around on the ground are obviously in so much pain; it's almost inhumane not to amputate their catastrophically injured body parts.

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

In honour of our neighbour's "Freedom 250" celebrations, North Vancouver has resurfaced its famous Defecating Pool, to turn its water American Flag Blue. #ReflectingPool

North Vancouver sewage treatment plant, with a long channel of water that's a similar shade of "American Flag Poo" to the water in the Reflecting Pool

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

I'm prompting Claude to refine a prompt for Claude to write a series of prompts for ChatGPT 🤦. How's your day going?

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Any etymologists care to explain why an octopus's appendages are called "tentacles" not "eightacles"?

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

After experiencing Greenland Shark (fermented in its own piss to preserve it and leach out its mercury), I've been imagining other desperation foods in inhospitable places... "Yeah these aggressive desert ants have a nasty bite and a poisonous body, but you can slice off the legs and grind them […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

"If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on." arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617

felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Every conservative that defects to the Liberals moves both parties further rightwards... #cdnpoli #WillRogersPhenomenon

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Guardian liveblog typo that grimly works on several levels...

"The Israeli military told people in the areas affected by the incoming missile warnings to seek safety in bomb."

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Set reminder for two weeks before easter: poster the neighbourhood, inviting families to an Easter Dog Egg hunt on the streets around the dog park

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

eSafety saying that non-intrusive age verification is easy for big tech, sounds a lot like Trump saying it's easy to reopen the strait of Hormuz as he begs allies to take the fall for his mess […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I use an email protection feature that generates a unique email address to give to any organisation that demands my email. So when I get a polling email from main street research purportedly on behalf of the BC Conservatives, at an email address that I only ever gave to the federal Liberals, I […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

"Don't scare them away [from murdering you], put them away [for murdering you]." What an obnoxious slogan for a "security company". Do your part for the carceral state by becoming a victim!

Ad for security company with a bad slogan and some rueful-looking crims

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

The first (early 2000s 70s-revival)-revival band I've seen. Can tell they're legit because everyone in the crowd was either 40 or 70.

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

RE: mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116217460239016742 Awesome! Reading over the last few years about the crane incidents, I was repeatedly disappointed that they didn't seem to be leading to safety improvements. Glad to see they're in the works, and it's a good sign that the union's on board with […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Mt Seymour doing winter tire checks at the top of the hill just before the carpark. Mother nature doing winter tire checks on the hill itself. Both check sites are seeing plenty of failures...

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

93% in favour of year-round daylight savings time? I wonder how much that will drop once we all get up an hour earlier in the winter. Will more people decide it's the short days not the time shift that's the problem? […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

If "good characters" can no longer expect a discount on their sentence when committing crimes, then can we maybe give them a discount on their income taxes instead? Otherwise, with no incentive to be "good", some of these characters before the courts might turn "evil"! […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Driving on a dark highway in sleet, whenever i wasn't being blinded by headlights I could barely make out where the road went, so I slowed down and acquired a line of cars behind me. Finally we got to a passing lane. I moved over and slowed down even more, to let people through. Zero takers! […]

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

It's 2026, and if you hit ctrl-z too many times in a Microsoft Sharepoint Word doc, then it will delete that comment you spent 5 min writing, and won't let you "redo".

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Overheard: "We need infrastructure for pets, and infrastructure for... humans." Err, I think you mean "for humans with pets" and "for humans who seek to avoid pets". Bit rude to dehumanise pet owners and presumptuous to imply all non pet owners dislike off leash hiking trails...

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

"Word of mouth" is when people recommend your business to their friends. When they talk shit about you, that's "turd of mouth"

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Dear sound guy: It may be a good cover, and from a distance its clubby ambience is a nice transition from the artist's final encore. But for earworm reasons alone, don't start playing tatu before the main artist has even left the stage.

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

I'm announcing we've reached the framework of a deal, by which Trump will step down and the US government will immediately release the rest of the Epstein documents. In return, I will throw the ball to my dog repeatedly for the following 5 minutes. I assume that my dog has consulted with Trump […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.

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felix @felix.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

It's 2025, and I can't type at normal speed in a Word/sharepoint document in a web browser, without it reliably deleting the last half of my paragraph when I hit enter. Gobsmacked. How do people use this trash?!

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