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Mikey of Yaletown

@hewhomikes.bsky.social
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Friendly millennial space worm, also dual citizen 🇺🇸 🇨🇦, YIMBY, some politics, enjoyer of all transit, baseball addict, moderately sane, he/him

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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
So I just saw Predator:Badlands…did anyone else think that to make Elle Fanning into the villain they just gave her the Kristen Bell hairstyle?
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wow I wonder how good these rookies Nathan Eovaldi and Carlos Rodón will be lol
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
TIL that Florida has a criminal charge on the books for “throwing deadly missiles” because of course it does
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Costco in Vancouver has had fire sales on KitchenAid products over the past few weeks, and I think I just realized why
A box for a KitchenAid product that says, dutifully in English and French, “An American Brand Since 1919”
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I’m always a little hopeful, but deep down I know Trump sees learning as beneath him and a job for other people - anyone following the war even casually would have realized no later than the day Prigozhin’s plane went down that Putin is on a one-way trip www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Amid plea to build bridges at papal funeral, Trump has a revelation – about Russia
US president’s epiphany that Putin may not want to stop Ukraine war follows ‘symbolic’ talk with Zelenskyy in St Peter’s Basilica
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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a man in a purple shirt is sitting at a table in a restaurant .
Alt: John Cusack is sitting in a restaurant booth making every facial expression imaginable in this scene from High Fidelity
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Whichever brain trust decided it was a good idea to all but shut down Granville St at the bridge on a Friday at rush hour deserves a good Karening or twelve
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In 2015 I wrote a blog saying that we should allow Uber to operate in Princeton because taxicab companies were totally ripping us off. We did allow Uber, and now, mysteriously, the fares charged by traditional taxicab companies have dropped a lot. Interesting!! walkableprinceton.com/2015/01/08/p...
walkableprinceton.com
Princeton Should Take A Light Touch On ‘Uber’-style Car Service
Since Uber quietly launched in New Jersey last year, an increasing number of local residents are finding that it offers a very interesting alternative to traditional cab companies. Users can reserv…
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
And I’m so happy that the First Nations involved have stuck with the plan through years of BS opposition (not a small amount of it coming from folks who virtue signaled about unceded land while also fighting essentially any use of this returned territory)
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Michael Bay is really leaning hard on those Family Guy manatees for new movie franchise ideas
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How sporting of cities to suddenly prioritize transit before a big event (In Canada, Edmonton LRT: ‘78 Commonwealth Games Vancouver SkyTrain: Expo ‘86 Canada Line: 2010 Olympics Montreal Metro: Expo ‘67/1976 Summer Olympics CTrain: Stampede/1988 Winter Olympics)
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Anyone else noticing that clips of The Majority Report are just one camera focused on Emma lately regardless of who’s speaking?
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I’m not a fan of Scheer or this ad, but I respect the director for correctly capturing that Scheer is a 6’4” man who desperately wants to wake up 5’5” one day
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I don’t know what corruption even means to these voters if the numbers aren’t over 90% all around
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I’m Gonna Be A Barley Boy🇺🇦 @crucialcaveat.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
How come no one asks these people what trade school their children and grandchildren are attending?
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Someone at Google is emphasizing the wipeout with long, relentless lines, and I’m 100% in support of that choice
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Turgid Jacobian @trgdjcbn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Instructions: taunt small child
Package of button cell batteries, with graphical "keep away from children" instruction that just looks like an adult holding a box out of reach of a child
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Seriously, if you live in Vancouver, please vote tomorrow…and please consider voting for Lucy, because we genuinely need progressive voices of reason on city council!
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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 04/04/2025
omg www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/...
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Idk AP… I think a 40-58 split on the economy is a clear enough unfavorable opinion for most people
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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Cackling madly at this
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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In the event y'all didn't know. The Canadian government buying billboard space in Florida. I've seen two of these in south Florida.
Sun-Sentinel headline: Canada-funded billboards warn Central Florida: ‘Tariffs are a tax’

<Photo of a Billboard>

Photo caption:

One of the digital billboards paid for by the Canadian government protesting U.S. tariffs is displayed on U.S. 17/92 at Raven Avenue in Winter Springs, Fla., Friday, March 28, 2025. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The photos of Trump playing with the tariff chart are giving this (and are arguably even less serious)
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fun fact: Babe Ruth hit at least 11 inside-the-park home runs Yes, parks were bigger. Yes, gloves got better. But the fact remains that this big dude swinging a three-pound bat scored on a fair ball more often than Mantle, or Mays, or Rickey Henderson (who only hit one IPH in his career)
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Just in case this hasn’t been said 940,000 times already: the Trump admin made a deliberate choice to announce the tariffs tomorrow, not today, because the whole scenario sounds too much like an April Fool’s prank as it is
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w... Masterful gambit Mr. Trump
nytimes.com
Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away (Gift Article)
Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
TIL that the Mets scored 25 runs in its first three games of the season twice (‘95 and ‘04) and still lost two of the three games The Mets are also 1-2 so far this season, but in this case they’ve only crossed the plate five times
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Until AI cures cancer, we’ll have to settle for AI being our low-rent, personalized McSweeney’s
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
God you need GP referrals for everything these days
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Someone paid for this.
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The twist is that even though the diner makes Folgers the old-fashioned way, it’s only nine years old
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It sounds to this untrained ear like the US Secretary of Commerce is trying to unalive his mother in law (Sorry about everyone else who might die in the process, but)
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/missingm...
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Canada Needs to Build 3 Million Homes in 10 Years to Solve the Housing Crisis
This number is lower than previous estimates, due to recent immigration policy changes
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The New York City Subway is a backbone of the U.S. economy. 🚇 💼 3.5 million+ riders rely on it daily. 🌎 Without it, NYC, accounting for 7.4% of annual U.S. GDP, would grind to a halt. 🚇 The subway isn’t just a train system... it’s an engine of American prosperity.
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Since housing is on a lot of minds today, I’d like to add that 1. I will always be amazed that this is all Vancouver allowed on the Cambie corridor after years and years 2. When the MST First Nations put forth a more forward-thinking plan for its land, the inclination at City Hall was to fight it
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Eric Levitz is the only person for whom two impostor accounts followed me on the other site After this story I don’t think it matters anymore…not following any of them now
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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do not give them ideas
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My ex hated when I joked that Canada is a country that started as a department store But it really isn’t every day that a 354-year-old company closes its doors. Hell, the previous King Charles granted the royal charter
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Reasons Western Civilization died: 1. Spray-tanned septuagenarians with nuclear footballs 2. Unelected autocracy by manchild whose ancestors moved to South Africa because Canada wasn’t racist enough > > > 37,845. Pokémon Go 37,846. Rich a-holes divorcing
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times used a photo from Toronto’s airport to illustrate a story about the US travel ban - because NYC famously has no airports of its own
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I don’t know if it’s ironic (tell me what you think) or just messed up, but even though annexation would make my life so much easier in so many ways, this issue is not difficult for me. Rational people just don’t invade other sovereign nations without serious provocation
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I wonder if there’s a 28-acre plot of land that could have solved this problem when it was suggested in the 90s and again in 2005 Oh well, I guess NYC didn’t need the Olympics anyway
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just watched a YouTube video about how medieval knights didn’t really quest. I thought it was just common sense that Indiana Jones spent most of his time teaching…but I guess gaming is coloring historical perspective
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 09/03/2025
i made a map of every active major league #baseball team's relocation history. check it out!
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I was in Florida twice in January (my non-Canadian parents live there) and Ron’s take is complete desperate spin. Ron wouldn’t be so desanctimonious if he were honest about how many Canadian-plated cars were on the Turnpike or I-95 headed north in the middle of snowbird season
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Again, I love my city, and I think it’s hilarious that we now have to sink the Mark I trains as reefs or something, when Toronto easily could have picked them up for roughly $35 and a discounted subscription to Maclean’s
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I have given up on avoiding widows in my skeets - until Bsky lets you edit (and I’m fine if they don’t), you’re all going to have to deal with words dangling at the end. Believe me, this hurts me more than it hurts you
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What’s up babe? You’ve barely touched your Wrigley’s Lettuce Gum
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Mikey of Yaletown @hewhomikes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’m curious to know which borough most NY Times readers actually thought Wu-Tang came from, because 14%… are you kidding?
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