iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The millennial urge to post no context song lyrics.

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Alyssa_Jayne @alyssajayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No Council change or bureaucratic overhaul is going to fix the structural problem that most efficient, timeline driven people cannot stand to work in civic government because of the pace and layers of bureaucracy that slow it down. You can’t just change policy, it’s an entire culture.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I chose my advanced voting station based on never having been in Templeton Secondary. It is a mix of 1920s and 1960s buildings that has been used in many TV and movie shoots. The gym has unique second floor bleachers. There was no voting wait.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Vancouver ballot is shorter than last time but still too large for the small booths. 😅

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The best, possibly only good part of this early election is that we'll be rid of Dallas Brodie.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to have Science Ball back to normal

Night view of Science World over False Creek.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TFW you’re just trying to get to the rail-facing alley of Gastown to take a drunk piss and there’s a whole film shoot with Christmas decorations on the pseudo-heritage street lights and piles of fake snow in September.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You wait so long to see what’s going to come to new development commercials spaces in your hood and of course the first one is a dentist office.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hell yes I want two elections in two weeks, the normies already conflate municipal and provincial jurisdiction anyway, nothing matters. Election parties two weeks in a row leading into Halloween on a Saturday hell fucking yeah dude.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Birthday to the person who might most help get Pete Fry elected mayor

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 17/09/2026

This is the main reason I think the anti-datacentre people are mostly wrong and counterproductive; local compute+storage capacity is necessary (not sufficient) to do more sovereign tech

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine a time zone pegged to whatever random offset the Steam Clock was on.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Randomly thought of this photo today taken by David Ley in 1974 of people protesting the construction of what would be the last mid-rise in Kitsilano before the downzoning. Apartments build in the 60s and 70s are now often celebrated as Vancouver's (relatively) affordable housing stock.

A bulldozer-blocking anti-high-rise protest in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano in 1974. Among the attendees, wearing a tie, is a city-paid community organiser. Photo: David Ley

Taken from https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2089031/david-and-goliath-priceless-vancouver-academic

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New polling presented at an event hosted by ResourceWorks showing British Columbians support for various hypothetical natural resource projects. It shows most are in conditionally in favour of Hydro/gas/oil. But they’re against AI data centres.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it gets crazier. even today some NIMBYs will defend the 9/11 attacks as an act of radical anti-development praxis

Environmental and Housing Justice At... ..•
@MaherJohn
Atta wasn't wrong as to urban planning and reform and he made the urban skyline and scalability much better for a few years as anyone who remembers walking between the two towers on winter day will tell you.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Vancouver Canadians baseball playoff radio broadcast has three different BC craft beer ads.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Responses to today’s developments validate that Cope supporters by and large have no respect or trust for OneCity so no “people’s primary” was ever going to work.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lime in Vancouver is approaching two years of operation and note the active station number of 246 because Mobi's number of stations is 260. Lime has been adding a few a week post-World Cup, while Mobi's growth has unfortunately stalled for years. So Lime may surpass them in the next month or two...

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Great record aside it’s just beautiful to see a near full lower bowl for random teams like Dallas. 25.4k attendance #vwfc

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Does anyone else fix their spelling in chatbot queries, even when you know you don't need to, because you don't want the AIs thinking you're of poor literacy?

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Great to be back in Canada’s best stadium

Supporters side view of BC Place, roof open

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2026 is the year of an Edmontonian on the Space Station

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

BC Day is the best stat holiday because we honour the superiority of BC to all other provinces.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Someone needs to get a Canadian Bananaball alternative going lol, they have too many college stadiums, they’ll never get up here.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A Manx cat is basically Jimothy

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A decade ago they had a debate where Geoff Meggs and Gordon Price argued against Adrienne Carr and Patrick Condon that a big involved packaged ‘City Plan’ would be a huge waste of time Congratulations to you two!

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Turns out people are a lot more fond of European-style mid-rises when they’re opposing high-rises — than when it’s actually time to broadly legalize mid-rises.

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 28/07/2026

Grab bag of thoughts re: the Villages I think the last few years have shown us that the wave of support for more housing was... not illusionary exactly, but people don't feel strongly enough about it to counteract very concrete+organized NIMBY opposition. Grim.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

As a side note, this may be one of the best passages Coyne has ever written, and articulates a more healthy form of patriotism for those who may feel hesitancy or skepticism of the concept.

You love your country, in the end, because it is your country. You love it out of gratitude for what has been handed down to us by our ancestors. You love it out of solidarity with those who are living here now. And you love it out of ambition for what it might mean to generations yet to Come.
That's not a moral obligation. It's just a healthier way of being.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

World Cup has had a lot of discourse around "this hype in North America for soccer is great but MLS sucks". Let it be clear that no one knows MLS sucks more than MLS team fans. But we wouldn't keep going if we didn't find joy in it. We're still at a high point for NA soccer.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I refuse to vote for anyone who holds lav mics in a video.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I share a birthday with Erling Haaland

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is my review of the McDonald's LTO item "Creamy Parmesan & Bacon QPC". I'm a man of simple tastes and ordinarily wouldn't pay $1.50 extra for bacon and a sauce. But it felt like a "treat yo self day" so it hit just right. Cassier McDonalds has the best record of not disappointing me.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m so FIFA cucked I’m already sad it’s almost over.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It was more or less inevitable that on a long enough timeline baseball would eventually produce a baseball Pope.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The maple leaf nonetheless forever

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Heartbroken for the Aussies, some of the best fans ever.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s 4am at Breka and there’s a guy using Apple Vision Pro

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The only thing that annoys me about being 40, almost 41, is that I didn’t just become neurotypical at some point.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I just want to say... Angine De Poitrine is overrated, Primus already exists and is more listenable.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Another beautiful day in paradise

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I genuinely didn’t expect this to be as controversial as it’s been. One thing I’m learning is that a ton of people have this conspiratorial view that gentrification is, like, a policy goal or plan that elected officials and/or private investors decide on: “Bwahaha, let’s target this neighborhood!”

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Wearing an Olympic 2010 volunteer jacket to World Cup 2026 fan fest is an A++ flex.

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

lol the solstice is ridiculous why is there first light at 3:20am

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ya’ll think world cup is exciting let me introduce you to the CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP. The tournament that decides who of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal is having the least bad year and you never know when a lower division CPL team will beat an MLS side that is much better paid.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

learning about Canada's rich cultural history

wikipedia page screenshot for Canadian tv personality "Ed the sock"

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Perspective trick sidewalk art near the Fan Festival

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Greg A @gregeh.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Leaving a full set of CPA accounting textbooks in a Little Free Library is sick behaviour but perhaps subversive or performance art.

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